- From: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
- To: Jeroen Wouters <address@hidden>
- Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: facilities to comment documents
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:21:46 +0100
Dear all,
this is very interesting feedback, thanks to all.
I would like to keep track of the discussion and not pollute further the
mailing list. I think the error was mine to begin.
Maybe a sensible way to prompt long discussion is to post them on the forum
and then send a small "heads up" also on the mailing list, for those who are
interested in partecipating.
So I will copy my initial message on the mailing list, and you can add your
contribution there. At some point we can come up with a design for this
features and prepare a working code.
Best
Max
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On 4. Dec 2020, at 16:08, Jeroen Wouters <address@hidden> wrote:
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Hi all,
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I use the following to add short comments:
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<assign|comment|
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<macro|body|thecomment|
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<surround||<flag|comment|green>|
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<with|visited-color|<value|color>|locus-color|<value|color>|
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<mouse-over-balloon|
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<arg|body>|<arg|thecomment>|left|Bottom>>>>>
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Mouse-over-balloon changes the color of the body text to indicate a
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link, hence I'm resetting the visited-color to the default text color.
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I'm also inserting a flag to show that there is a comment, otherwise
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you only see it on mouse-over.
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Best,
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Jeroen
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On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 09:10 +0000, Frank wrote:
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> Hi max and all,
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> Joris answered my question before. This could be implemented by a
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> macro like
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> (show-comment "body") = body
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> (hide-comment "body") = empty
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> and use an if branch to detect whether the boolean variable draft-
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> mode is true or not, and then return show-comment or hide-comment
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> macro.
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> There is a disadvantage of this implement: when I set draft-mode to
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> be false, there will be an extra empty line. I don't know how to
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> suppress it.
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> Meanwhile, you can add comments to
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> http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/tricks-for-drafts/199/4
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> then somehow export it to wiki.
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> Best,
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> Frank
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> 于 December 4, 2020 9:04:00 AM UTC, marc lalaude-labayle
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> <address@hidden> 写到:
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>> To be precise, since I just used it : what I use is called
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>> "etiquette"
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>> in
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>> the french texmacs version ; these are obtained with Alt+! on my
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>> ubuntu
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>> machine.
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>> Marc
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>> Le ven. 4 déc. 2020 à 09:58, marc lalaude-labayle
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>> <address@hidden>
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>> a écrit :
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>>> Hi.
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>>>
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>>> I do need some of these features for my files. I use the label
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>>> flags
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>> and
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>>> write what I need, which is barely longer than 10 words. I do
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>>> like to
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>> have
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>>> the comments accessible within my file : these files are for my
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>> teaching
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>>> and I keep tracks of their origins.
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>>>
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>>> I don't use the versioning markup, but the possibility to open a
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>> small
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>>> window with all the texmacs features by a simple click on a flag
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>>> (for
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>>> example) could be really helpful when I do share my files for
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>> exercise or
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>>> exams with my colleagues.
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>>>
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>>> So I do really prefer your first proposal too.
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>>>
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>>> Marc
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>>>
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>>> Le ven. 4 déc. 2020 à 08:08, Massimiliano Gubinelli
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>> <address@hidden>
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>>> a écrit :
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>>>
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>>>> Dear all,
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>>>> discussing with some friends I became aware of some advantage
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>>>> of
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>>>> unstructured editing for which we should provide some
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>>>> alternative.
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>> This is
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>>>> the possibility (common in programming, but also in some
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>>>> research
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>> workflow)
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>>>> to add comments on a document which will not appear in the
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>>>> final
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>> version
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>>>> (i.e. in the PDF, on in the HTML or LaTeX export -- In some
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>>>> sense,
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>> the dual
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>>>> of literate programming, maybe we can call it co-literate
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>>>> editing
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>> :)).
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>>>>
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>>>> These comments can be parts of the document one do not want to
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>>>> make
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>> to
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>>>> the final version, or just reminders to explore some
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>>>> directions, or
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>> parts
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>>>> one has to cut because of editorial constraints or referees
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>> comments, but
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>>>> anyway one wants to keep in place and not just delete them
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>>>> (because
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>> maybe
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>>>> the paper has a short and long versions). These comments can
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>>>> also be
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>> simply
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>>>> discussion between various co-authors, so it would be nice if
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>>>> they
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>> carry
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>>>> tags, like the name of the author. And then have a macro
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>>>> facility to
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>> view
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>>>> only certain subclasses of comments and make them invisible
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>>>> (i.e.
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>> just
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>>>> leave a flag or some other indicator which do not modify the
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>> typesetting)
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>>>> if the user wants. This should not be difficult to code, is
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>> something
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>>>> similar to the versioning markup we already have, but I think
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>>>> it
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>> would be a
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>>>> useful addition to everyday workflows.
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>>>> It could also be a way to edit the metadata in the document.
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>>>>
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>>>> Of course one has (at least) two options to design such a
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>>>> facility:
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>> make
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>>>> the additional content editable as part of the document (as in
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>>>> the
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>> proposal
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>>>> above), or keep it in the document as always invisible and make
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>>>> it
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>> editable
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>>>> only via some separate GUI element, i.e. a dialog with an
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>>>> embedded
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>> editor
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>>>> (like we have now for search and replace, for example, or for
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>>>> the
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>> macro
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>>>> editor). I think I would prefer the first approach, though.
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>>>>
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>>>> Thoughts, ideas, comments, on such a facility?
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>>>>
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>>>> Max
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>>>>
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>>>> ps: on a similar direction a document can have a "draft" mode
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>>>> where
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>>>> markups like \todo or these comments are visible and a "final"
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>>>> mode,
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>> where
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>>>> they are invisible.
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>>>>
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>>>>
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