
Thanks to those that are looking at the editor. There seems to be some interest so here are the first reports and my comments. 1. "requires a huge screen to be feasible." Yes, it does. I played around with a two-pane version, just the edit panel and the analysis panel. Those are the important pieces. Then I added the image panel to the right. Having the image right there allows the user to quickly scan the original to see if there are missing paragraph breaks, or poetry that wasn't indented. I found that for every page I edited, I was looking at the page image, so I felt it had to be there. The alternative is a pop-up, on demand. Perhaps it makes sense to have a two-panel version with a pop-up for the image for those that don't have large screens. My thought was that most people had larger monitors these days and that the added functionality of a third pane, holding the image, would be worth it. 2. "the image to the right is very small and ... not useful" I tried one version of this software using a image pane the same size as the edit panes. That made the footprint even larger, too large for a laptop screen of 1440x900 pixels. The way it is now, with the smaller image, users click on it to examine fine detail. I'd like to use a magnifying mouseover for this eventually to avoid opening a separate window. 3. "page numbers not synced to image." This is a creature comfort issue and I'm glad a user brought it up. For this to be useful to the widest user base, they should not have to know what a PNG file is and certainly should not have to deal with a PNG number representing a different physical page number. I have reloaded the database to resolve that inconsistency. 4. "it doesn't work in IE6." No surprise there. The application is built with HTML5. There are probably techniques I could use to make this work with older browsers, but that would be far down the road after this editor proves its worth. 5. "text is truncated on my screen." The application is supposed to be able to resize. If your monitor is too small for the application as it is presented, try reducing the geometry. On the Mac, that's with command + minus keys. Not sure on Windows. That may make the editor too small to be unusable. If this is reported many times, then perhaps I should revisit the two pane version of the editor. 6. "no way to save the current page without asking for the next page" Good point. It's not clear how to do that. One way is to use the GOTO button to go to a new page. That saves the one being edited. Another way is to use the exit button. That saves it also. Still, this is confusing. Seems there should be several buttons to make this more intuitive. 7. feature request: feedback to appear in real time as you type That would be ideal. That won't happen for several reasons. First, I am an amateur programmer at best and event-driven programming in a browser is beyond me. My head is already spinning keeping track of all the traffic between the client and server sides and the backing database at the page level for this application. Second, I've learned a lot about real world limitations of servers. I believe that what you're asking for could only happen in a standalone application on the user's machine. This same functionality in a standalone package might be very useful, but we're back to the old problem of the user having to install Python or Ruby and then keeping up with revisions of the program, etc. An always up-to-date online version, even if limited in real-time response, seems a better solution. Thanks again to everyone who has sent me reports on this. --Roger