Re: Initial comments

[Justin Ross <justin ross gmail com>]

I think it's worth pointing out that there are other, possibly better,
ways to handle the endnotes case.  A transient tooltip-like thing
containing the endnote text?  I think endnotes are at the end just
because books aren't dynamic.

(Now, is it practical to treat an endnote as a hidden paranthetical? 
That depends on how PDFs work, and I don't know.)

Justin

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:18:42 +0100, Ralph Aichinger
<ralph mail pangea at> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:34 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> 
> > I think that we might as well go with the "browser" metaphor here, where
> > there are history buttons, but not necessarily up/down buttons.  What do
> > you think?  (I rarely, if ever, use either...),
> 
> Well I am a mere user, but to me both paradigms ("paging" like in a book
> or in less, as well as "hypertext-browsing" like in the web with
> forward, back and history) make sense, but with different types of
> documents.
> 
> For documents with a strong structure and many hyperlinks, the
> hypertext-metaphor makes a lot of sense: There is a endnote in
> the text, you klick on the endnote to follow it (I wish this
> was possible on paper), read it, and press the back button.
> Pretty much anything made with pdfTeX and maybe some docbook
> generated PDFs are of this type. Academic/technical stuff.
> 
> On the other hand in a completely linear text the forward and
> back (in history) buttons confuse me. I just want to physically
> page through these documents. I don't care where I was before,
> I just want to go to the next page in reading order (like in
> a novel). Anything without structure, like most advertising,
> promotion materials or non-academic/non-technical texts
> is in this category for me.
> 
> Even though I know this distinction, I frequently use the
> wrong button in xpdf or Acrobat.
> 
> I think it would be cool to have a epiphany-like toolbar
> where people could choose what buttons they want with
> only one choice made default (I really don't know what
> is more common) so it does not confuse people too much.
> 
> /ralph
> 
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