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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4891771 | Column balancing control A text editor provides the capability of balancing data for different sets of identified columns within the same page and across multiple imaged pages. Column balancing, as used herein is the technique of dividing an entity to be displayed into a number o... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4829470 | Text flow around irregular shaped graphic objects An improved mixed object editor flows text around and into irregularly shaped graphic objects on a page so that all the "white" space on the page is filled. An irregularly shaped window which generally conforms to the shape of the graphic object is first ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4823288 | Document processor A document processor having a keyboard, a displaying apparatus for displaying inputted characters and symbols on a display and a control device for controlling the displaying apparatus, there is provided an improvement that permits the moving of an inputt... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4802104 | Dual screen document processing system A document processing system includes a display unit having a first display for displaying document information and a second display for displaying layout information representative of the output form of the document information displayed on the first dis... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4755955 | Document creating apparatus A document creating apparatus allows the insertion of strings of characters within a display area of a boundary figure to have good balance. The display area of the strings of characters is compared with that of the boundary figure. The strings of charact... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4723217 | Apparatus for outputting a character composed of basic symbols A character composed of basic symbols such as a Korean character is outputted by an apparatus so as to adjust to an outputted design or outputted design alteration. The apparatus includes an input device for inputting a plurality of binary codes, each bin... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4723209 | Flow attribute for text objects 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 dat... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4723210 | Superblock structure in a multiple in a data editor 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 dat... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4723211 | Editing of a superblock data structure Improvements in an application composite eidtor 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 dat... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4710885 | Generating figures in a document formatter directly from a declarative tag A method for generating a graphical figure in a textual markup language used for document composition. A special tag in the mark-up language calls a procedure. The procedure consists of drawing a series of contiguous rectangular boxes, of very small exten... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4608664 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are justified along one physical dimension to a predetermined line of justification. A plurality of physical parameters are employed in the justification, each of the parameters is assigned a compression and an expansion adjustment ratio... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4608662 | Method for editing document A method of editing a document comprises displaying a text sentence on the screen of a display unit, bounding an area partly removed of the displayed text sentence and reserved for the display of a figure, calculating a configuration which the bounded are... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4591999 | Method and apparatus for automatically spacing characters during composition In a computer implemented system for composing lines of text the spacing between each adjacent pair of characters is uniquely determined by processing, in accordance with a pregiven program, a number of digital "space" values related to the shapes of the ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4575813 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are recursively (includes iteratively) distributed among a set of balanceable columns capable of receiving text and graphics. The recursive distributions are at successively varying columnar depths (all columns in each recursion have a c... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4463442 | Emulation of data processing display terminals of variable screen size on the display of a text processor An improvement is provided to a text processor having an interactive display terminal. The improvement provides for a combination of said text processor with a data processor and means for conducting data processing sessions utilizing the data processor b... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4225943 | Display system for horizontally segmenting text A display system for horizontally segmenting text made up of varying width characters and spaces. When a text measure is wider than the width of a display device, only a portion of the text can be displayed at one time. By dividing the text into segments,... | 09/30/1980 |
| 3987415 | Determination and printout of reference line In the IBM Mag Card II, data read from the cards into the shift register buffer can be scanned without printing the data out and rerecorded on a magnetic card with proper pagination decisions made based on an operator entered line count. A system is provi... | 10/19/1976 |
