[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/09/18 09:19:18

Modified files:
        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

Log message:
        annotative views into note

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst.diff?tr1=1.95&tr2=1.96&r1=text&r2=text

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Index: manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst
diff -u manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.95 
manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.96
--- manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.95    Thu Sep 18 09:16:26 2003
+++ manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst Thu Sep 18 09:19:18 2003
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 for **specific kinds of information**.
 For example, a historian might want to mark places on a map,
 connecting them to the events that have taken place there,
-and they might want to show the events on a zoomable timeline.
+and they might want to show the events on a zoomable timeline. 
[#annotating-views]_
 
 The content of a document or e-mail is shown when the user clicks
 on it. Similarly, the map or timeline would be shown when the
@@ -199,10 +199,6 @@
 help us to **organize our thoughts**.
 
 
-- user interface toolkit / protocol to allow fluid co-operation between 
applitudes
-
-- "annotations"
-
 Under the hood: Hyperstructure
 ==============================
 
@@ -773,6 +769,23 @@
    
    It would be possible to show and hide each type of relationship
    independently, by selecting or deselecting it on a list.
+
+.. [#annotating-views] There may also be views that add information
+   about items shown in arbitrary other views. For example,
+   we might construct a view that, whenever we are looking
+   at an event, shows our expenses for that event in small red
+   numbers under the event. It could do this whether we are
+   looking at the event in a timeline view, in a map view,
+   or simply in the network of items.
+
+   To allow such *annotations* to be added to a view,
+   this view must expose to the system which items are
+   shown where on the screen. An *annotating view* can then
+   show additional information next to it.
+
+   The view that shows items' connections to other items--
+   for example, the connection between places on a map
+   to events in a history-- is one such annotating view.
 
 .. [#views-are-f+c] Like the visualizations of the basic
    network of items, this is a focus+context view.