If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
A new idea for WYSIWYG rich text editors
"Klaus Linke" wrote:
Though it may be a bit dangerous to "misuse" track changes for making annotations. I routinely "accept all changes" when I get documents from others, because many people forget to do that. This would turn the "comments" into regular text. Well, I'm not all that sophisticated a user, and neither are my students, so none of us had ever heard of Accepting Track Changes, so it was okay. But I found that Track Changes mode encouraged me to *rewrite* a student's paper, and decided I prefer using Comments, and highlighting to flag typos. Very hard to underline a phrase and note "unclear" using Track Changes. However, since Track Changes already exists, I wonder how hard would it be to create a Pen Mode that is essentially Track Changes with the ability to Accept them disabled? But that sure seems like an unnecessary bell and whistle. I should think a note in the covering email would prevent the Accept All problem. Dayo "Dayo Mitchell" wrote: I could see "Pen Mode" being useful, but I think we kinda already have it--if you turn on Track Changes and type in the text, all annotations will show up in a different format. There's no reason the person being reviewed can't just read that and skip the Accept/Reject changes part. I've commented papers that way before, and students were fine with it. But maybe I'm missing something? I'm coming late to this discussion. DM "Booted Cat" wrote: Hi, "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Hi Yao, If you insert an annotation (= comments) anywhere, Word will automatically apply the "Comment Text" style. So it already works as you propose? Word's Insert|Annotation command inserts annotations on the right side of the original document, so it isn't very intuitive. And it isn't a formatting tool. And to insert an annotation you have to choose the menu or do some shortcut, not very convenient for frequent annotation insertions. If you don't want to use Word's annotation mechanism, you can use your own character or paragraph style for annotations, and assign a keyboard shortcut for it. Even one extra keystroke seems wasteful before inputting each new annotation. Not that I don't understand your "pen mode" concept, but I think it would be confusing. If I put the cursor somewhere in some text, I expect that what I type will appear in the style that's applied to that text. Pen Mode is mainly intended for annotating on someone else's work, so it's not very likely that modifying existing text is needed. Regards, Klaus Anyway, I've submitted it as a new feature to OpenOffice's bug report system... "Booted Cat" wrote: Hello All, When I loaded a document to OpenOffice Writer and wanted to add annotation text immediately after some words, I found it difficult to easily insert annotation text with another formatting to multiple positions of the original text. Suppose the original text is formatted with Times New Roman, Unbold: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg hhh iii jjj kkk. And I want to append annotations "123", "456", "789" formatted with Arial Bold to the words "bbb", "ddd", "fff" in the original text, to make it like this: aaa bbb [123] ccc ddd [456] eee fff [789] ggg hhh iii jjj kkk. Here [ ] means the enclosed text is formatted with Arial Bold, a different formatting from that of the original text. In practice I want to annotate for much more words than the above simplified example. What makes my task difficult is that all WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) rich text editors (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, Wordpad, etc.) apply the formatting of the current selection point as you type. To change the formatting of the current selection point, you have to do extra clicks or keyboard shortcuts. And when you move the selection point to another position, the current formatting automatically changes according to the new position. This behavior may be useful in general, but I suggest rich text editors to allow a new formatting mode - that is to say, once you choose a formatting, all subsequent inputs will use this formatting, regardless where you input. I call this new mode "Pen Mode", because it is like choosing a new pen of another color/size and writing anywhere in the document without having to reset to this formatting again and again. Best Regards, Yao Ziyuan http://babelcode.crazylife.org |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
A new idea for WYSIWYG rich text editors
Dayo Mitchell wrote:
Comments, but not inline: What about (mis-)using footnotes ...? [..] Because every doc I edit has footnotes already! Touché! ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|