layout ideas

[ian]

I think something like a three pane side-by-side layout would be ideal
for going back and forth between the various formats. Something like:
http://groups.google.com/group/moz-hocr-edit/web/hocr-alternate-layout.png
would be a great way to take advantage of all the widescreen monitors
people are getting.

But, regardless of how you arrange the panes, you're right that
multi-page documents are difficult to preview with the RC1 release.

I'm curious about the logic that loads the right full page image and
text/line segment images for each page. Is there a way to tell that to
only load the single page's worth of formatted text preview? Since the
full document preview doesn't let you jump to other pages, you don't
really need more preview than you have loaded page image.

[Jim Garrison]

ian wrote:
> I think something like a three pane side-by-side layout would be ideal
> for going back and forth between the various formats. Something like:
> http://groups.google.com/group/moz-hocr-edit/web/hocr-alternate-layout.png
> would be a great way to take advantage of all the widescreen monitors
> people are getting.

I like it on a wide screen, but I don't think it scales down to, say,
800 or 950 pixels.

>
> But, regardless of how you arrange the panes, you're right that
> multi-page documents are difficult to preview with the RC1 release.
>
> I'm curious about the logic that loads the right full page image and
> text/line segment images for each page. Is there a way to tell that to
> only load the single page's worth of formatted text preview? Since the
> full document preview doesn't let you jump to other pages, you don't
> really need more preview than you have loaded page image.

Sure, it's possible. But right now I am targeting a use case where you
just walk through the preview pane, reading the document, and anytime
you see something fishy you select the portion of text that you want to
edit, and the editor jumps to that location. (In other words, it's the
use case suggested by Mishi, but you have to be viewing the document in
the editor before you are able to choose what to change.)

[ian]

Jim Garrison wrote:
> ian wrote:
>> I think something like a three pane side-by-side layout would be ideal
>> for going back and forth between the various formats. Something like:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/moz-hocr-edit/web/hocr-alternate-layout.png
>> would be a great way to take advantage of all the widescreen monitors
>> people are getting.
>
> I like it on a wide screen, but I don't think it scales down to, say,
> 800 or 950 pixels.

Agreed. Though the vertical layout doesn't scale down to that very well
either. If you could choose the size of the individual frames, as you
can currently change how large the preview pane is, people might be able
to choose some combination of window sizes that works for them.

The same would be true of the current vertical layout if the full page
page image were in a separate, re-sizable, pane, but I think there will
frequently be an advantage to having the panes side-by-side since that
is the only way you can align horizontal text that lets you scan from
line segment to full page to preview on along the same line of text.

When they are all next to each other we have 1) the posibility of being
able to have multiple page-sized elements, like the full page image or
full page preview, next to each other, which we're never realistically
going to get with the 1200-max vertical dimension on a monitor, and 2) a
collection of elements that naturally scroll together as you move
through the document. I don't know if that leads to better automatic
re-positioning when you select certain text, but it certainly makes
manual repositioning easier.