klauberpilot / fromthepage

FromThePage is a wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents.
http://beta.fromthepage.com
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Feature: Handle blank titles better #7

Closed benwbrum closed 13 years ago

benwbrum commented 13 years ago

Perian writes: That also brings to mind if there’s a way to let a user know what particular page they’re on. If the page is titled, that’s all well and good,but there are some pages that don’t have clear titles, nor do I know which order the page is in (see, for example, http://fromthepage.balboaparkonline.org/display/display_page?ol=p_nav_next&page_id=1375#page/n0/mode/1up – I don’t know which page in the journal it is, so if I wanted to reference it, I’m having a hard time knowing how to direct individuals there).

Ben responds: untitled pages were never envsnd in my orig plan, so are new idea. Suggest approach of titling them automatically with function of position within book(ie "Untitled (23) or (xxiii) or "leaf 23 (untitled)" or ?? What do you think?

benwbrum commented 13 years ago

I've added some very flexible code that can handle untitled pages. Whenever I see a blank page title, I replace it with "untitled page N" instead (where N is the numeric position of the page within the book). Modifying the "untitled page" part or converting N into roman numerals or something is only the matter of 5 minutes work