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DISSINET / InkVisitor

An open-source, browser-based front-end application for the collection of complex structured data from textual resources in history and the social sciences into a RethinkDB database for further analysis.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Annotator: font and vertical space #2076

Open davidzbiral opened 4 months ago

davidzbiral commented 4 months ago
  1. To improve legibility, use the normal font of the application, not Courier.
  2. With align to the left, there is unclarity where is or isn't a paragraph break. Solve this with a small vertical space between lines after paragraph break.
adammertel commented 4 months ago

@davidzbiral unfortunately, this is a bit complicated. We need to use a monospaced font to be able to calculate coordinates for each letter. If you agree, I will move this to 1.4.2 so we can revisit this issue once the annotator is more stable.

davidzbiral commented 4 months ago

@adammertel Not sure whether counting coordinates is a stable and good approach, I experienced errors where e.g. the last letter failed to be selected while it seemed selected. And I have seen annotation tools where text selection was more secure. But I agree to move this to 1.4.2 - you did already.

Nevertheless, in a maximalistic future, also annotation of image polygons, manuscript lines recognized from image, and PDF lines and words in lines could be requested, and then, I concede, coordinates would be indispensible.