Notes2 Design NoteAnchor

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Summary

The Note Anchor is the element which marks the reference position of the Note Data in the Document.

Rationale

For improved clearness, the Notes Data is not displayed inside the Document. Consequently, an Anchor is necessary to indicate the reference position.

Assumptions

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Proposed Designs

Proposal "Triangle (Note Anchor Point)"

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Proposal "Double Arrow (Note Anchor Point)"

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Proposal "Simple Brackets (Note Anchor Area)"

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Proposal "Boxes (Note Anchor Area)"

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Proposal "Resizing (Note Anchor Area)"

This proposal extends the proposal "Boxes".

The proposal includes some ideas how to make the Note Anchor Area resizable after it's inital creation. Due to the fact that this (at least cool) feature is not planned in the near future, it will not be discussed in depth. At this point it is important to get an idea how this could look like.

Some ideas for the visualization of Anchor Area

The image shows some ideas for the visualization of Note Anchor Areas. It contains: a group of Note Anchor Areas next to each other a very small Note Anchor Selection of one character some grips to resize the Note Anchor Areas by using the mouse a Note Anchor Area which was created by block selected text

Selected Design

• The selected design for the Note Anchor Point is "Double Arrow".
• The selected design for the Note Anchor Areas is "Boxes".

Implementation

At the moment it is not possible to draw elements behind the text. The graphical Note elements in the Writer document window can only be displayed on top of the document. Therefore the background can not be implemented until Writer provides this capability.

Code Changes

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Outstanding Issues

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