Re: Bit of a request/idea for comments/annotations

On (08:32 17/11/08), Martin Edmund Sevior <martines@unimelb.edu.au> put forth the proposition:
>
> Hi Dave,
> Are running AbiWord built from TRUNK?
> If you goto tools->annotations and click on "show annotations", all the annotations are diplayed colour coded at the bottom of the page like footnotes.
>
> I agree displaying annotations in the side margin would make them easier to read though. I'll think about doing that for version 2.10.

I'm using 2.7.0 from svn at the moment. It would be great though if you
could do that.

Cheers

>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-abiword-user@abisource.com on behalf of Dave Wood
> Sent: Mon 11/17/2008 3:15 AM
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Bit of a request/idea for comments/annotations
>
>
> On (15:59 16/11/08), Dave Wood <dave@unrealize.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
> >
> > Don't know if this is the right place to put this idea forward, but I
> > really like the way that OO.o shows comments/annotations by the side of
> > the page and wonder if perhaps Abiword could have this as an option.
> >
> > I have just had a heavily commented piece of work back and find it hard
> > work to read all the comments. The tooltip only shows the start of the
> > comment and to read the whole comment one needs to right-click - edit
> > annotation. Also it is easy to miss the dashed underscore. When I saved as
> > open doc format and opened in OO.o I found many comments that I had
> > previously missed.
>
> I have also found that saving in odt seems to lose my tutor's additions to
> the text. They show as bright red in the original but are just bold in
> odt. I guess I should enter this as a bug.
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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