System and method for editing a structured document to modify emphasis characteristics, including emphasis menu feature

Patent 5293473 Issued on March 8, 1994. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 20, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Application

No. 031052 filed on 04/20/1993

US Classes:

715/529, Text attribute715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)715/523, Format transformation715/810Menu or selectable iconic array (e.g., palette)

Examiners

Primary: Bowler, Alyssa H.
Assistant: Shah, Alpesh M.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Hoel; John E.

International Class

G06F 015/00

Abstract

A data processing system and method are disclosed for editing a text document stored as an alphanumeric string of structured document text and displayed as WYSIWYG text. The invention enables changing emphasis characteristics of a marked area of the WYSIWYG text located within a parent structure of the document. The method displays an emphasis menu of the valid emphasis types for the particular parent structure, indicating which ones of the emphasis types are present in the marked area. The method enables deleting an emphasis type from the marked area and will then remove the displayed present indication in the emphasis menu corresponding to the emphasis type deleted from the marked area. The method also enables adding an emphasis type to the marked area and will then display a present indication in the emphasis menu corresponding to the emphasis type added to the marked area.