A Study of Displaying Electronic Text with Seamless Pages –Magnifying And Simplifying System for Text EXTension (MaSSTExt)–

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new system for enhanced viewing of electronic text. It is named “Magnifying And Simplifying System for Text EXTension (MaSSTExt)”. This system for displaying text has the operational feeling like a map system displayed on a web browser. No link buttons are used for changing the other pages in this system because it is made by using Ajax. So, it allows us to display huge text files in only one window or seamlessly display/not-display from index to body or annotation data. Using this system, footnotes, references, tables and figures on the text can be located at optimal positions. Comparing simultaneously two different texts is easy to read. Understanding a whole text with both a bird’s-eye view in its totality and a detailed view can be easy. Simulation software “MaSSTExt” of our prototype system is introduced and the effectiveness of our research is shown.