New strux and field elements for Annotations.

Hi everyone,
            Over the last two days I have committed code to the riverae
branch of abiword for annotations.

We need a new type of field and a new type of strux for annotations.

The new field is PTO_Annotation in the piece table. In the formatter it is
a subclass of the fp_HyperlinkRun. The idea is to reuse the code we have
for hyperlinks to markup a region of annotated text.

It will share a lot of the code with hyperlinks but the decoration will
look different. We haven't decided yet what this will be but I'm thinking
turning text green and placing a broken greenline line underneath.

The name of this field when written to *.abw is "ann"

I've also defined a new pair of struxes for Annotations. These these are:
PTX_SectionAnnotation and PTX_EndAnnotation.

They are very similar to footnotes in that the content of the annotation
is buried inside paragraphs, just link footnotes and endnotes.

The new element written to the *.abw file format is "annotate".

So a typical annotation written to *.abw will look like:

<ann Annotation:123><annotate Annotation:123><b style:normal>Some text</b>
</annotate></ann>

At this point all this code is in riverae branch. When we're happy we
haven't caused regregressions, we'd like to merge it into trunk with UI
hidden behind DEBUG directives.

Cheers

Martin
Received on Tue Jul 24 02:46:25 2007