Dear @bcrane, @eastgate, @mwra and @PaulWalters,
I finally got my laptop back (thank you for your kind words, @mwra), and I was able to test all your very helpful suggestions, for which I thank you very much.
@eastgate:
I suspect we are talking about different things when we write that the Roadmap view does or does not update; here is what I mean (please see attached screenshots). When I select a note (Note 3 in the attached screenshot) and open its Roadmap view, I can see a list of all the inbound and outbound links for that note; if I then select a different note (Note 6 in the attached screenshot), the Roadmap view, irrespective of whether I had detached it from its location, fails to update its content to the list of all the inbound and outbound links for that newly selected note.
@PaulWalters, @mwra:
You are of course right, when you write that a pie chart would lose its usefulness when applied to a document/container with many notes, which is indeed my case; however, I do not need to work with all my notes at all times: for any given manuscript, I will only work with a subset of them, in which case I could collect that subset in a container – though I think it would be better if I collected aliases, as opposed to original notes, so that the same note (by means of multiple aliases) could simultaneously be used for multiple containers (I am always working on multiple manuscripts at the same time).
At any rate, I was able to replicate all you did – thanks to your sample document and your clear instructions! – (please see attached file and screenshot), but I could not figure out how you rounded the RNO and NRNO… I had been looking for a way to do that for a while because an NRNO rounded to two decimal places is sufficient to me; could you please be so kind to point me in the right direction?
Plotted Latin Normalized Relative Note Order.tbx (72.6 KB)
On a related note, I read in aTbRef that pie charts can be applied not only to notes in containers but to notes in documents, i.e. notes that are not part of a container; however, I was unable to figure out how to do so. Once again, I was wondering whether someone could be so kind to point me in the right direction?
@bcrane, @mwra, @PaulWalters:
Thank you also for the suggestion to use Treemaps. However, if I use size to encode the NRNO in a Treemap, the difference between the notes’ NRNO becomes more difficult to visualize – at least to my eyes – because the NRNO is displayed as a continuous variable – which it is – as opposed to a discrete one, into which my color-binning transforms it; therefore, I encoded the NRNO as color in a Treemap (please see screenshot and attached file). I used black and white as start and end color, respectively, because we are able to recognize more shades of gray than of any other color.
In a first attempt I assigned NRNO=0 to the start color; 0<NRNO≤0.2 to a color that is 20% of the way along the linear gradient between the start color and the end color; 0.2<NRNO≤0.4 to a color that 40% of the way along the linear gradient; 0.4<NRNO≤0.6 to a color that is 60% of the way along the linear gradient; 0.6<NRNO≤0.8 to a color that is 80% of the way along the linear gradient; and 0.8<NRNO≤1 to the end color:
if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder=0){0}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.2){0.2}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.2 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.4){0.4}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.4 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.6){0.6}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.6 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.8){0.8}else{1}}}}}
In a second attempt, I combined size and color to encode NRNO. Because notes with NRNO=0 are assigned size 0, I could divide the linear gradient in 25% steps, as opposed to the 20% steps of the previous example:
if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.2){0}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.2 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.4){0.25}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.4 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.6){0.50}else{if($NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder>0.6 & $NormalizedRelativeNoteOrder<=0.8){0.75}else{1}}}}
Latin Normalized Relative Note Order with Treemaps.tbx (74.4 KB)
Of course it would be better if those colors were the same as in my other views, but at least I was able to turn a continuous linear color gradient into a set of six discrete, though related, colors.
Thank you very much for your continuous help and encouragement.
Best regards,
Enrico