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UI

Browser

• What are the limits to rendering in the browser?
  • number of nodes in a graph
  • fidelity of PDF rendering (for display and printing)
• Can DOM nodes be cloned by the browser engine and rendered in a new window?

Desktop

• How difficult is it to make changes to the UI when developing on the desktop?

• How can the application be distributed on multiple platforms easily?

Mobile

• Where will the documents be stored?

• How to reduce and measure energy consumption?

• How to reduce and measure data consumption?

e-ink

• How to manage UI in the absence of window manager?

Text-based and command line

• What would it take to build a system for reading on the terminal?

• How can it be integrated with a user's editor (such as Vim, Emacs, Notepad++).

Text-to-speech

• How to translate document structure into speech? Related to [[feature/speech-synthesis]]
  • Mathematical equations
    • https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37640/are-there-good-resources-for-converting-tex-type-files-to-spoken-word
    • https://github.com/tvraman/aster-math
      • http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/aster/aster-toplevel.html
    • https://mathjax.github.io/MathJax-demos-web/speech-generator/convert-with-speech.html
    • other way: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153129/what-research-exists-on-speech-to-latex-mathml
  • Block quotes
  • Citations
  • Abbreviations
  • Table of contents
  • Figure captions
  • Tables
    • extract table labels
    • also useful for fixed/sticky table headers such as in HTML with position: sticky pattern:
      • https://css-tricks.com/position-sticky-2/,
      • https://orangeable.com/css/fixed-table-headers,
      • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook/Sticky_footers.
  • Index
  • Glossary

Metacognition

Discussion of metacognitive strategies that could have computer aides.

• During writing, indicators for reading level, sentiment analysis, use of metaphor:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability
    • algorithm: readability metrics
    • possible use: prompt reader to rewrite an idea using their own simpler language to show they understand
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
    • possible use: during conversations, use this to avoid "heated" language or filter out "heated" conversations. Relatedly: http://cognitionandculture.net/blogs/hugo-mercier/why-assholes-are-more-likely-to-be-wrong/.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
    • algorithm: etymology?
      • http://etym.org/
• Discuss phenomenon in terms of statistical distributions:
  • Make note of how frequent a phenomenon occurs. A particular phenomenon could be important in terms of its effects, but rare. For example, a [[disulfide bridge (SS bond)|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfide]] between cysteine (Cys) amino acids is important for the stability of proteins, but per analysis of a H. sapiens proteome DB in [[Cysteines and Disulfide Bonds as Structure-Forming Units: Insights From Different Domains of Life and the Potential for Characterization by NMR|https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191308/]], Cys is found in 97% of proteins, but disulfide bonds are only marked in 18% of proteins, but there is also another effect of protein length that is correlated with the presence of a disulfide bond. Further information on this:
    • [[Frequency of cysteine residue in proteins - Human Homo sapiens - BNID 103538|https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=2&id=103538]]
    • [[Occurrence of protein disulfide bonds in different domains of life: a comparison of proteins from the Protein Data Bank - Protein Engineering, Design and Selection - Oxford Academic|https://academic.oup.com/peds/article/27/3/65/1518881]]