Selections

Component/part description

Make text selection of transcription

To look into https://github.com/timdown/rangy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection

Related projects

Hyperaudio, palestinian remix

Implementations Options considered

Palestinaian remix drag and drop

Palestinaian remix drag and drop

Other

How to do text selection for highlight paper cuts. Currently in transcription show it traverse the DOM to update those.

Eg see selecting words function. That recognises uses selection.

https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/blob/paperedit/lib/app/views/transcription_view.js#L488

And this function to update the dom with selections.

https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/blob/paperedit/lib/app/views/transcription_view.js#L91 There might be a better way to do this? Using rangy ?

Current implementation

What needs refactoring