Margin Notes

[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: gene o'regon <ge...@sqn.com>

hello -
is there software out, or in the works, that would allow me to make
"margin notes" alongside the text i'm reading on the screen? i'm referring
to on-line course readers and like materials. some opinions have suggested
printing the material out, but that might violate copyrights, and anyway -
the point is to able to do this on the computer.
thanks,
gene
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[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: Nexus User fjames <fja...@nexus.edu.au>

gene o'regon <ge...@sqn.com> posted

>hello -
> is there software out, or in the works, that would allow me to make
>"margin notes" alongside the text i'm reading on the screen? i'm referring
>to on-line course readers and like materials. some opinions have suggested
>printing the material out, but that might violate copyrights, and anyway -
>the point is to able to do this on the computer.

I would really like to read some information about this, as I have found it
a major problem to distinguish 'margin notes' from the original text of
something that I have read with approval, and put aside for later
reference.

Clearly copyright can become a problem, but so is fairness in citing
contributions to discussion lists and original authors of ideas that get
communicated by email.

regards
Frank JAMES in Adelaide, South Australia email fja...@nexus.edu.au

[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: William Klemm <WKL...@VETMED.TAMU.EDU>

The shareware version of FORUM allows a user to make hyperlinked
margin notes on any text that is either created in the FORUM text editor (a
MS Windows-based text editor) or text that is imported as an ASCII file.
Currently the document length is limited to only a few pages of standard
text, but if there is enough interest, we can create a shareware version
that will accommodate longer documents.

The new version of FORUM will use RTF as the text editor and will have
unlimited document lengths. .... due later this Fall.

See our Web site for download. http://www.ForumInc.com. If you have
download problems, try direct ftp to ftp://www.cvm.tamu.edu (file is
suforum.exe, located in the /pub/klemm directory).

Bill Klemm

[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: pfl...@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu (Patricia F. Lewis)

I'm new to this thread, so maybe someone has already mentioned this -- Adobe
Acrobat allows you to post "sticky notes" (they even look like them!) on
peoples' documents. They show up as little yellow squares. People then
click on them to read the comments.

Patty

>From: Nexus User fjames <fja...@nexus.edu.au>
>
>gene o'regon <ge...@sqn.com> posted
>
>>hello -
>> is there software out, or in the works, that would allow me to make
>>"margin notes" alongside the text i'm reading on the screen? i'm referring
>>to on-line course readers and like materials. some opinions have suggested
>>printing the material out, but that might violate copyrights, and anyway -
>>the point is to able to do this on the computer.

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