On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:27 PM, James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Trying to select a specific text passage from one column of a multi-
> column paper is a common annoyance with PDF files. Skim does pretty
> well by allowing option-drag to select a block of text from one column
> (for example, for a highlight note) and then allowing the note text to
> be edited in the side bar to cut out extraneous start and end words in
> the selected text block.
>
> These are very minor issues, but the process would feel smoother for
> the very useful highlight notes...
>
> 1. If there was a way to display the entire note text in editable form
> so that the initial and final text could be adjusted. Currently it's
> easy to trim the start of the notes using the single line editable box
> in the side bar. Trimming the end is a bit awkward, though by setting
> the table font size small enough so that the full width of a typical
> column can be displayed in the side bar without making it too wide
> allows you to hop through the lines using the down arrow, until you
> reach the end.
Have you tried auto-sizing the row height from the contextual menu?
> 2. If the note highlight in the document could adjust to match the
> edited text. I understand that users can edit the note text to be
> anything, so I guess I'm recommending that if the note's edited text
> completely matches a substring of the initially-selected text, only
> that substring be highlighted. Otherwise highlight the entire initial
> selection.
>
That would be incompatible with the current bahavior. The text of the notes
is not required to be synchronized with the selected text. Moreover it
would be very difficult (you'd need to smartly find the text and figure out
the location, that is far from trivial). We're certainly not going to do
this.
>
> I understand that this may not be possible given the limitations of
> PDFKit and it shouldn't be a major priority, but I thought it worth
> mentioning.
>
> Jim Harrison
> UVa
Are you aware you can join selections? This is the workflow:
1. Highlight the first partial line
2. Highlight the main body using the Option key, and Shift-click the
previous highlight
3. Highlight the last partial line and Shift-click the previous highlight
Christiaan
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