Method for formatting text by hand drawn inputs
First Claim
1. In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a method for creating headings in text displayed on the screen, including the steps of:
- drawing a staircase object having at least one vertical segment joined to at least one horizontal segment to define at least one step;
recognizing the drawn staircase object;
entering at least one alphanumeric character adjacent to said at least one step to define a heading style for said at least one step and create a staircase formatting object;
substituting a graphic object for said at least one alphanumeric character;
thereafter automatically creating a heading having said graphic object wherever said at least one alphanumeric character appears at the beginning of a line in said text.
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Abstract
A method for text editing includes drawing a staircase object which is recognized by the software and replaced by a machine rendered staircase object. The user places alphanumeric characters adjacent to each step of the staircase object, the font, case, style, color and punctuation indicating the format of the heading of each step. An arrow is drawn from the staircase object to a text object to apply the heading formats. A graphic object such as a bullet may be assigned to any staircase heading and thereafter appear whenever the heading is evoked.
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8 Claims
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1. In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a method for creating headings in text displayed on the screen, including the steps of:
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drawing a staircase object having at least one vertical segment joined to at least one horizontal segment to define at least one step;
recognizing the drawn staircase object;
entering at least one alphanumeric character adjacent to said at least one step to define a heading style for said at least one step and create a staircase formatting object;
substituting a graphic object for said at least one alphanumeric character;
thereafter automatically creating a heading having said graphic object wherever said at least one alphanumeric character appears at the beginning of a line in said text. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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2. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of substituting includes placing said graphic object onscreen, and drawing an arrow from said graphic object to said at least one alphanumeric character of said staircase formatting object.
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