> For the first time the rst3 chapter > http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/rstplugin3.html > has a proper introduction. Comments about the overview and tutorial > are welcome now.
I've recreated my feedback notes using the online service Diigo. Here's a link to see the highlights and sticky notes: http://diigo.com/0c9u2 This is an experiment as I've been researching Diigo-like services for about a week, and would like to know if this would be an acceptable method when there are lots of things to be commented on for Leo's web pages. Otherwise I would do email when there are only a few comments. When you go to the link, you'll see pink highlighted text, with a small icon in the top left of each text "piece" with a number. Hover over it to cause the sticky note to be displayed. The number represents the number of comments entered on the sticky note. Usually when I'm highlighting edits to be made (like in Acrobat), I only highlight the specific word or punctuation that needs attention. With Diigo, there are two problems: a) there seems to be a minimal number of characters that need to be highlighted before you get an option to add a sticky note, and b) Diigo appears to "remember" the location of highlights/stickies based on where the text first occurs on the page. If you highlight text halfway into the document that also appears at the beginning of the document, reloading the web page causes your highlight to "move" without warning to the beginning of the document. This took a while for me to realize, because I'd keep redoing highlights, not knowing I was spinning my wheels. (I don't know what will happen to these annotations if Chapter 14 is changed and reuploaded. Probably it will still "find" the highlighted text that hasn't changed and be able to show the sticky notes.) The solution to both issues is to highlight more text than you want, and make sure it's enough text to identify its location uniquely on the web page. I noted in the sticky note where extra text highlighting was done, eventually saying I did it due to a Diigo bug. You do NOT need to sign up for Diigo to see the edits, but there are two benefits I can see for collaborating on web pages. If you had an account (and you can use your Google account, like I did), you could: 1) Add comments to the comments I've made. Without an account, when a sticky note is displayed, it acts like you could type in a comment and click on Post. But when you click on Post the comment is not saved anywhere, and there's no message that it was sent to /dev/null. 2) Navigate easier through the list of annotations, if you also install the Diigo toolbar. There's a "Comment" button that when clicked opens up a side bar listing all annotations. The biggest feature I wish Diigo had was an easy way to go to the previous/next annotation to be sure I see them all. 3) Create the first sticky note for highlighted text that Diigo has trouble dealing with: Text highlighted at the very beginning of the line causes the icon to appear at the very end of the line above it. The problem is, you need to hover over the highlighted text to cause the icon to appear that allows adding the sticky note. But you can't move the mouse fast enough :) from the highlighted text to the icon at the end of the line above it. The solution is to sign in to your Diigo account, go to My Library, find your highlighted text and choose the "Add Sticky Note" link. Phew, been working on this and the Chapter 14 edits for hours. Time to take a break. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
