[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst

[Janne V. Kujala]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Janne V. Kujala <address@hidden>        03/02/13 07:50:52

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        xupdf          : article.rst 

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        hemppah's fixes

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.78&tr2=1.79&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.78 manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.79
--- manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.78  Thu Feb 13 07:16:24 2003
+++ manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst       Thu Feb 13 07:50:52 2003
@@ -102,30 +102,30 @@
 In many hypertext systems today, following a link means a disruptive change
 in the user's workflow, replacing the current context with an
 entirely different one.
-This is possibly because most systems still use the paradigm developed in 70s 
-at Xerox PARC [XXXref] with
+The reason for this is that most systems still use the paradigm 
+(developed in 70s at Xerox PARC [XXXref]) of
 overlapping, rectangular, *independent* viewports to paper-like documents ---
 A link operation can only create a new window or switch the contents of an
 existing window.
-Alternatives, e.g., replacing part of text (XXX antont's reference)
-are not very popular and not so intuitive... [XXXref]
+Alternatives, such as replacing part of text (XXX antont's reference),
+are not very popular nor intuitive... [XXXref]
 
 There have been much work on improving user orientation.
 One approach is to embed information about the destination in the links.
-Link titles are now a standard HTML feature (at least since 2.0) and
+Link titles are now a standard HTML feature (at least since version 2.0) and
 fluid links [zellweger98fluid]_ take the concept further by
-allowing a user to see gradually more and more target context 
-before following a link. 
+allowing the user to see gradually more and more target context 
+before following a specific link. 
 Hypercept [milgram99hypercept]_ provides a cue of local structure 
-by animating the transition from current document to a linked 
+by animating the transition from the current document to a linked 
 document in different ways depending on the structural relationship
 exemplified by the link.
 
 .. XXX: behaviour, structural role
 
 Another approach is to show the context directly in the view layout.
-Focus+context views of the web as proposed by Mukherjea and Hara 
-[mukharjea97fcwww]_ provide overview diagrams of the linking strucure
+Focus+context views of the web, as proposed by Mukherjea and Hara 
+[mukharjea97fcwww]_, provide overview diagrams of the linking strucure
 of web pages with important nodes emphasized.
 The Pad++ browser [fc-zooming]_ records history of the visited pages
 as a tree with nodes showing complete pages.
@@ -171,22 +171,23 @@
 and local spatial structure is approximately maintained in transitions.
 
 The interface requires less rigid structure of the view than
-earlier interfaces. Only the relevant fragments of connected documents 
-can be shown to be able to show all connected information.
+earlier interfaces. 
+To be able to show all the connected information near the focus,
+only the relevant fragments of the linked documents can be shown.
 Therefore, we must be able to fluidly animate a fragment to
 a whole document. 
-The new visual tecniques include buoys, link targets
-floating around the focus, break lines, a way of showing
-and animating a document fragment as a torn-off piece of the whole,
+The new visual tecniques include link targets
+floating around the focus called *buoys*; *break lines*, a way of showing
+and animating a document fragment as a torn-off piece of the whole;
 and unique background textures for visualising the identity
 of the documents.
 
 We present an example application that shows PDF documents
 with connections and annotations using the new techniques. 
-The application is based on xanalogical structure and,
-orthogonal to it, on a spatial canvas structure that allows user to
+The application is based on a xanalogical structure and,
+orthogonal to it, on a spatial canvas structure that allows the user to
 enter annotations and transclusions from the documents
-on a virtual canvas. Xanalogical links are allow the user
+on a virtual canvas. Xanalogical links allow the user
 to connect associated parts of documents.
 
 
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@
 ..  In this article, we ask what could be gained by using 
 
 
-In the following sections, ...
+In the following sections, we ...
 
 User-interface techniques enabled by fast hardware
 ==================================================
@@ -658,7 +659,13 @@
 Acknowledgments
 ===============
 
-The authors would like to thank Tuukka Hastrup for discussions.
+The authors would like to thank Tuukka Hastrup and 
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+   Hermanni Hyyti\"al\"a
+
+for discussions regarding this manuscript.
 
 .. bibliography:: gzigzag