Superblock structure in a multiple in a data editor
US4723210A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 30, 1984 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 30, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/131
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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…
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