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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Overfull annotations
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:11:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570D72AA.7010201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01bc01d194fc$e0086110$a0192330$@tosovsky@email.cz>

On 4/12/2016 10:49 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> On 2016-04-12 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 4/12/2016 9:11 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
>>>
>>> But to be honest, the best for me would be PDF annotations
>>> (rectangles) placed to that occurrences. In Acrobat Reader
>>> you can easily list them and automatically navigate to the
>>> target location (and then jump to the prev/next).
>>
>> \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality]
>> \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow]
>>
>> \starttext
>>       \hsize 8cm \input tufte
>> \stoptext
>>
>
> Nice. But..
>
> My use case is 300+ pages book with several occurences. If those red rectangles were provided as annotations, I could efficiently jump from one to another, without browsing all the book (thanks to the special Annotation pane).
> http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/chapter09_0321751256/elementLinks/rc_13.jpg
>
> Both searching occurrences (in PDF) using the line number of the original source or visually by looking for red rectangles is IMHO inefficient.
>
> However, I agree there are more important features to implement.

indeed ... also, i consider it featurecreep

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-12 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <017901d194ef$2c180000$84480000$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-12 20:07 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-12 20:49   ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]   ` <01bc01d194fc$e0086110$a0192330$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-12 22:11     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-04-12 19:11 Jan Tosovsky

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