[Xerte-dev] Re: Marking up sections of text in editor

[Pat Lockley (Pgogy)]

Custom Editor button?

On 2015-09-30 06:39, Fay Cross wrote:
> I'm working on some new page types that will involve highlighting
> different sections of text at different points. There are a few ways
> that we want the highlights to work, e.g. clicking on sections of the
> text to bring up more info (similar to hotspot image but with text),
> selecting a section of text to answer a question (similar to
> interactive diagram) and a slideshow style one where you click buttons
> to go through several highlights and present info about each section.
> 
> Making the page models will be fine but I can't work out the best way
> to get authors to mark up what text they want to be highlighted for
> each part of the page. It couldn't really work like the synched media
> pages where the text is broken up over nested pages as then you
> couldn't do things like highlight a whole paragraph with some info
> about it and then go within that to highlight a single sentence. Some
> kind of mark section (like in gap fill) could possibly work but would
> it be too fiddly to expect the author to add an id of some kind to the
> marked section?
> 
> Does anyone have any bright ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Fay
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