Annotating a multiblock selection (Re: msevior - r24029 - abiword/trunk/src/text/fmt/xp)

Very good discussion - debugging a feature specification and debating
whether it is desirable at all.

I suggest to approach the question also from the following point of
view:
Are there any use cases, in which it is desirable to annotate a
multi-block selection?

Even if there are such use cases (and at the moment I have no idea what
they could be), is it possible to handle them with a pair of
annotations:
1. "Annotation N: " + Annotation text + " P.S.: this is beginning of the
relevant text"
2. "This is end of the text relevant to annotation N"
(actual text can be different/binary/hidden if so desired; N is a
running annotation ID number)

                                         --- Omer

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 21:56 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Yes. It is. This can be fixed sometime later. But there will be
> corner cases to deal with. I suspect sum1 will have a lot of fun
> crashing abiword with various weird annotation combinations until we
> get them all fixed.
>
> Then we also have to work out what our export formats can handle. We
> don't want to accidentally create invalid documents.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:19 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:05 +0200, cvs@abisource.com wrote:
> >> Author: msevior
> >> Date: 2008-05-25 12:05:18 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008)
> >> New Revision: 24029
> >>
> >> Modified:
> >> abiword/trunk/src/text/fmt/xp/fv_View.cpp
> >> Log:
> >>
> >> Limit annotations to be applied with on block even if the selection spans
> >> many blocks. Annotate the block with the most selected text.
> >
> > Is it technically possible in some way in the future to make an
> > annotation span more than 1 block?

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