Numberplay Commenting Enhancer

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Click it when you're reading Numberplay and it will enhance the comment interface ...Change 12 Aug: Need to hit the "Enhance!" button to number the comments after loading the tool. This allows a direct link to the fix to go into the Numberplay postings.

Current enhancements include:

• Numbering each comment
• Auto-loading of all comments to make the rest of this useful (really, really works now)
• Search-as-you-type comments
• Filter by recommended comments
• Autolinking references (e.g., #35) to the referenced comment
• Autolinking back-references New September 12!
• Some simple navigation of linked comments Improved! September 11
• User-contributed images - just paste a link to your image into the comment. Links with

  .gif

  ,

  .jpg

  ,

  .png

  are automatically recognized. Add

  #img

  to the end of the link otherwise (e.g.,

  http://bit.ly/abcd#img

  )
• Chronological ordering of comments
• Complex equations via TeX:
  1. Just surround your TeX like this

     $e=mc^2$

     (for inline)
  2. Just surround your TeX like this

     \[
     e=mc^2
     \]

     (for display).

     Now improved! - courtesy of MathJax. Click on equations to zoom, right click to do other things.

  3. Or include a link to an image as above
• Preview your Tex!New October 19
• Force-directed graph of comments (click "Grph")
• Stacked-chart of comments quantity by commenters over time (click "Chrt")

More ideas are welcome. Comment in Numberplay or e-mail me: my first name {at} my domain name, which is garyhewitt.net so you can figure it out even if the spammers can't.

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