Nice dreams, Fralippo.
Of course, I agree with all of your suggestions (in the other thread, too), but they've already been made in years past, as far back as in 2011 when Marvin 1.0 first came out, but as you can see, nothing in terms of annotations syncing has happened since then. So, the situation doesn't look very optimistic. (You can examine this thread for potential reasons why; and nope, it ain't the bitching of certain MobileRead users.)
As to marking the presence of an annotation in a highlight, that's one of the features we lost during the transition from Marvin 2 to Marvin 3. This used to be indicated in Marvin 2 with a dotted underline. Again, this was pointed out as a missing/lost feature when Marvin 3 was released a couple of years ago, but the feature (and others that got lost) hasn't been restored so far.
You can always try and email Kris at
hello@appstafarian.com. He's an extremely friendly and forthcoming person, but it just appears that developing Marvin hasn't been his priority in recent years. More like a side-project, tweaked on an occasional basis, by the looks of it. That's real life, we must accept that and bear no grudges.
By the way, the first sign of this shift in Kris's focus (to pwalker8, in particular, be it said) came when Kris, suddenly, instead of developing Marvin further, started releasing other apps such as Gerty and Sift which never met with a fraction of the positive echo that Marvin encountered, I'd venture to say. Obviously, when a developer starts developing other apps in addition to the original one, the original one will suffer – a day only has 24 hours. The birth of Gerty and Sift was the very start of Marvin's... well, I'm not gonna say "downfall", but of the current
stagnant situation, most definitely. And, pwalker8, you can hardly seriously blame user feedback on Kris's decision to develop other apps instead of improving Marvin, right?
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Problem is: no reader can give me (without manual tweaking) no indent in first line after chapter AND separator scene, that I like, so although the ereader gives you all the formatting in the world, it cannot do that.
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That's only temporary, Terisa, because this could certainly be programmed in a way that would satisfy you. It appears that not many users are desiring that formatting feature, or it would already have been implemented by Marvin and other e-readers, I suppose. I confess that I, too, consider this a negligible, cosmetic matter (I mean, compared to the non-availability of annotations syncing, something like a superfluous first-line indent strikes me as a bug of microscopic proportions). Naturally, you are perfectly correct in posing this as a user request because that would be, indeed, the proper and professional formatting.