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    公开(公告)号:DE3586273T2

    公开(公告)日:1993-02-11

    申请号:DE3586273

    申请日:1985-08-06

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Improvements in an application composite editor for compound documents containing not only text but also graphics and tables facilitate the manipulation of object sets in the formatting algorithm. The editor works with a page layout philosophy wherein data objects reside on the page and data resides in the data objects. All pages reside within a document object, and some data objects may have additional objects within them. Objects are data-specific entities that the user can manipulate on the page. All objects exist within a specified boundary on the page, and this boundary is defined as an object set boundary. Object sets may be moved into positions on the page such that more than one object set is occupying a single displayable area on the page. Such an arrangement of objects creates a structure called a superblock. A superblock is any displayable area containing two or more object sets positioned so that the object sets overlap one another, reside side-by-side or extend above or below one another. A text object set may not be overlapped by any other object set. Although the superblock is itself a complex structure, the creation of this structure by the editor greatly simplifies integration of different data types on the page for the user and allows the user to manipulate a group of object sets within a single displayable area on the page with relative ease. Moreover, formatting of the document is facilitated by the editor since the superblock is treated as an object set without taking into consideration the complexity inside the superblock stucture except when a page end decision must be made.

    34.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE3586274D1

    公开(公告)日:1992-08-06

    申请号:DE3586274

    申请日:1985-08-06

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Improvements in an application composite editor for compound documents containing not only text but also graphics and tables facilitate the manipulation of object sets in the formatting algorithm. The editor works with a page layout philosophy wherein data objects reside on the page and data resides in the data objects. All pages reside within a document object, and some data objects may have additional objects within them. Objects are data-specific entities that the user can manipulate on the page. All objects exist within a specified boundary on the page, and this boundary is defined as an object set boundary. Object sets may be moved into positions on the page such that more than one object set is occupying a single displayable area on the page. Such an arrangement of objects creates a structure called a superblock. A superblock is any displayable area containing two or more object sets positioned so that the object sets overlap one another, reside side-by-side or extend above or below one another. A text object set may not be overlapped by any other object set. Although the superblock is itself a complex structure, the creation of this structure by the editor greatly simplifies integration of different data types on the page for the user and allows the user to manipulate a group of object sets within a single displayable area on the page with relative ease. Moreover, formatting of the document is facilitated by the editor since the superblock is treated as an object set without taking into consideration the complexity inside the superblock structure except when a page end decision must be made.

    35.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE3682809D1

    公开(公告)日:1992-01-23

    申请号:DE3682809

    申请日:1986-02-11

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A computer based word processor or text editor is provided with a technique for defining line unit spacing which is particularly useful in a multi-font environment. A pop-down panel showing a miniature vertical scale line is displayed for the user. Adjacent the scale line is a handle which the user can select with a cursor. When the handle is selected, it may be moved up or down the scale line to the desired line unit spacing, at which time the handle is deselected. A numeric display of line unit spacing is also provided, and this display is continuously updated as the handle is moved. If the handle is moved to the top or bottom of the scale line, the scale line is moved up or down.

    37.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:BR8902639A

    公开(公告)日:1990-09-04

    申请号:BR8902639

    申请日:1989-06-06

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Electronic creation, modification and presentation of composed documents containing mixed document type characteristics is specifiable in a single data stream definition. This eliminates the proliferation of different architecture protocols that describe the various states of a document and reflects the natural condition of a composed document with some sections being in revisable state while other document sections are completed and therefore suitable for presentation. In addition, this data stream definition functions in an interchange environment and is therefore "self-contained" and capable of containing all the resources (e.g., fonts for text data, etc.) required for complete document composition fidelity.

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