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Appearance and positioning annotation text string and base text string specifying a rule that relates the formatting annotation, base text characters

  • US 6,332,148 B1
  • Filed: 05/30/1997
  • Issued: 12/18/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method to embellish text in a document, comprising:

  • setting composite text properties for formatting a composite text unit, the composite text unit including an annotation text string and a base text string, wherein the annotation text string includes one or more annotation characters and the base text string includes one or more base characters, the set of composite text properties defining and linking the appearance and the positioning of the annotation text string and the base text string including specifying a rule that relates the formatting of the annotation characters to the formatting of the base characters, where an appearance composite text property defines a font to be used for both the annotation text string and the base text string and the rule specifies a relationship between a font size of the annotation text string and the base text string;

    selecting text in a displayed text document as the base text string for the composite text unit;

    generating text as the annotation text string for the composite text unit; and

    displaying the composite text unit in the document in accordance with the composite text properties.

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