Comments system

[jacknoutch]

A new comments system is required.

It should:

• allow for easy entry of new comments
• allow for multiple comments per word
• have a better, more "readerly" design
• comments should allow for interaction, e.g. hyperlinking to other parts of the poem, other resources, other comments
• comments should allow for basic formatting, ideally class setting, e.g. to mark certain words as Latin, Greek etc.
• comments should allow unicode

When a word is selected, the info card should display the relevant comments which include that word.

When a comment is selected, all the words which are included in that comment should be given focus. (The word originally clicked should itself be highlighted in some other, distinctive way.)

Further possible enhancements:

• a user may change his settings to see only certain kinds of comments by default
• a user may add custom comments

[jacknoutch]

If comments are to include hyperlinks to other parts of the poem, then the site will need to resolve URLs that point to various resources, such as other comments.

An alternative method would be not to use hyperlinks proper, but a JS function which does something more custom dynamically.

The first of these is the cleaner for writing comments. However, even in that instance, it seems likely that some preprocessing will need to take place in order to convert .md files to properly actionable XML. Probably this will include some custom processing of markdown to convert the links into something more substantial than the writer of the comment has set out.

[jacknoutch]

🐞 Words with multiple comments will not work - the function only gives the first entry found.

[jacknoutch]

When there are multiple comments, a suitable means should be chosen for presenting the most relevant first.