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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst
From: |
Janne V. Kujala |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:50:52 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Changes by: Janne V. Kujala <address@hidden> 03/02/13 07:50:52
Modified files:
xupdf : article.rst
Log message:
hemppah's fixes
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.78&tr2=1.79&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.78 manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.79
--- manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.78 Thu Feb 13 07:16:24 2003
+++ manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst Thu Feb 13 07:50:52 2003
@@ -102,30 +102,30 @@
In many hypertext systems today, following a link means a disruptive change
in the user's workflow, replacing the current context with an
entirely different one.
-This is possibly because most systems still use the paradigm developed in 70s
-at Xerox PARC [XXXref] with
+The reason for this is that most systems still use the paradigm
+(developed in 70s at Xerox PARC [XXXref]) of
overlapping, rectangular, *independent* viewports to paper-like documents ---
A link operation can only create a new window or switch the contents of an
existing window.
-Alternatives, e.g., replacing part of text (XXX antont's reference)
-are not very popular and not so intuitive... [XXXref]
+Alternatives, such as replacing part of text (XXX antont's reference),
+are not very popular nor intuitive... [XXXref]
There have been much work on improving user orientation.
One approach is to embed information about the destination in the links.
-Link titles are now a standard HTML feature (at least since 2.0) and
+Link titles are now a standard HTML feature (at least since version 2.0) and
fluid links [zellweger98fluid]_ take the concept further by
-allowing a user to see gradually more and more target context
-before following a link.
+allowing the user to see gradually more and more target context
+before following a specific link.
Hypercept [milgram99hypercept]_ provides a cue of local structure
-by animating the transition from current document to a linked
+by animating the transition from the current document to a linked
document in different ways depending on the structural relationship
exemplified by the link.
.. XXX: behaviour, structural role
Another approach is to show the context directly in the view layout.
-Focus+context views of the web as proposed by Mukherjea and Hara
-[mukharjea97fcwww]_ provide overview diagrams of the linking strucure
+Focus+context views of the web, as proposed by Mukherjea and Hara
+[mukharjea97fcwww]_, provide overview diagrams of the linking strucure
of web pages with important nodes emphasized.
The Pad++ browser [fc-zooming]_ records history of the visited pages
as a tree with nodes showing complete pages.
@@ -171,22 +171,23 @@
and local spatial structure is approximately maintained in transitions.
The interface requires less rigid structure of the view than
-earlier interfaces. Only the relevant fragments of connected documents
-can be shown to be able to show all connected information.
+earlier interfaces.
+To be able to show all the connected information near the focus,
+only the relevant fragments of the linked documents can be shown.
Therefore, we must be able to fluidly animate a fragment to
a whole document.
-The new visual tecniques include buoys, link targets
-floating around the focus, break lines, a way of showing
-and animating a document fragment as a torn-off piece of the whole,
+The new visual tecniques include link targets
+floating around the focus called *buoys*; *break lines*, a way of showing
+and animating a document fragment as a torn-off piece of the whole;
and unique background textures for visualising the identity
of the documents.
We present an example application that shows PDF documents
with connections and annotations using the new techniques.
-The application is based on xanalogical structure and,
-orthogonal to it, on a spatial canvas structure that allows user to
+The application is based on a xanalogical structure and,
+orthogonal to it, on a spatial canvas structure that allows the user to
enter annotations and transclusions from the documents
-on a virtual canvas. Xanalogical links are allow the user
+on a virtual canvas. Xanalogical links allow the user
to connect associated parts of documents.
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@
.. In this article, we ask what could be gained by using
-In the following sections, ...
+In the following sections, we ...
User-interface techniques enabled by fast hardware
==================================================
@@ -658,7 +659,13 @@
Acknowledgments
===============
-The authors would like to thank Tuukka Hastrup for discussions.
+The authors would like to thank Tuukka Hastrup and
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+ Hermanni Hyyti\"al\"a
+
+for discussions regarding this manuscript.
.. bibliography:: gzigzag
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/02/12
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/12
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/02/12
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/12
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Matti Katila, 2003/02/12
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst,
Janne V. Kujala <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Asko Soukka, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Janne V. Kujala, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Matti Katila, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Matti Katila, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/02/13
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/02/13