A basic concept of displaying electronic text with seamless pages: Wheel Action for Reeling Paragraphs (WaRP) in the MaSSTExt

This paper describes a new additional function for enhanced viewing of electronic text by using the “Magnifying And Simplifying System for Text EXTension (MaSSTExt)” that we had already proposed. The MaSSTExt has the operational feeling like a map system displayed on a web browser. No link buttons are used for changing to other pages in this system because it is created by using Ajax. So, it allows us to display long text files in only a window with seamlessly expansion/reduction and display/not-display from index to body or annotation data. Using this system, footnotes, references, tables and figures on a document can be located at optimal positions. However, there is a problem that two distant paragraphs cannot be placed side by side for comparing them. To cope with the difficulty, a new function “Wheel Action for Reeling Paragraphs (WaRP)” is added in the MaSSTExt. Using the WaRP, reading users can set a fixed paragraph and can reel other distant paragraphs located at the upper or lower part of the fixed paragraph. As a result, two distant paragraphs can be placed side by side easily. Simulation software the MaSSTExt with the WaRP and the effectiveness of our research are shown.