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# Line 1107  Work on structure-based focus+context vi Line 1107  Work on structure-based focus+context vi
1107  general was  general was
1108  more popular with semantic networks in the late '80s, for  more popular with semantic networks in the late '80s, for
1109  example in the Cyc  example in the Cyc
1110  SemNet (XXXCite)  SemNet (`Fairchild et al 1988`_)
1111  projects, which allowed the user  projects, which allowed the user
1112  to navigate through the graph locally, with one node as the *focus*,  to navigate through the graph locally, with one node as the *focus*,
1113  and showing the neighbouring nodes as context.  and showing the neighbouring nodes as context.
# Line 1123  One of the most important things that is Line 1123  One of the most important things that is
1123  presented in this article and the ones for example shown in  presented in this article and the ones for example shown in
1124  (`Utting and Yankelovich 1989`_) is that icons are not used  (`Utting and Yankelovich 1989`_) is that icons are not used
1125  to represent the neighborhood of an item or a document.  to represent the neighborhood of an item or a document.
1126  In FenPDF, the academic articles are never represented by  In FenPDF, the articles and the canvases are never represented by
1127  anything other than their image - no file icon, no title  anything other than their image - no file icon, no title
1128  but just the text image itself. With the unique backgrounds, which  but just the text image itself. With the unique backgrounds, which
1129  allow the user to recognize fragments from articles they  allow the user to recognize fragments from articles they
1130  know well, this  know well, this
1131  yields in our experience an extremely comfortable system to use,  yields in our experience an extremely comfortable system to use,
1132  avoiding the representational complexity of the icons.  avoiding the level of indirection inherent in the icons.
1133    This is made possible by the huge advances in the power
1134    of OpenGL graphics systems.
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