Column balancing control
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1. In an information processing system for displaying a data stream of encoded data in more than one column, a method for dividing said data into a plurality of columns comprising:
- referring to a stored page model which describes areas in which said data is to be displayed;
identifying in said page model a plurality of column balance set areas into which said data is to be evenly distributed;
detecting a balance column command associated with said data; and
evenly distributing said data among said identified column balance set areas in response to the detection of said balance column command.
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Abstract
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 of columns of substantially similar size. This allows facing pages in a book to be balanced, selected text data on a page to be either balanced or not balanced, and text data associated with logical document constructs (e.g., chapters) to be independently balanced.
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1. In an information processing system for displaying a data stream of encoded data in more than one column, a method for dividing said data into a plurality of columns comprising:
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referring to a stored page model which describes areas in which said data is to be displayed; identifying in said page model a plurality of column balance set areas into which said data is to be evenly distributed; detecting a balance column command associated with said data; and evenly distributing said data among said identified column balance set areas in response to the detection of said balance column command. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In an information processing system for displaying a data stream of encoded data in more than one column, a system for dividing said data into a plurality of columns comprising:
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means for referring to a stored page model which describes areas in which said data is to be displayed; means connected to said means for referring for identifying in said page model a plurality of column balance set areas into which said data is to be evenly distributed; means connected to said means for identifying for detecting a balance column command associated with said data; and means connected to said means for detecting for evenly distributing said data among said identified column balance set areas in response to the detection of said balance column command. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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