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;
thereafter automatically creating a heading 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. Margins may be set by drawing vertical arrows to the top of a text object, causing a horizontal margin line to be rendered spanning the top of the text object. The arrows may be dragged horizontally to change the margins of any selected text.
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53 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; thereafter automatically creating a heading wherever said at least one alphanumeric character appears at the beginning of a line in said text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a method for creating margins in a text object displayed on the screen, including the steps of:
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first, drawing at least one margin-creating graphic entry vertically downwardly to the topmost line of said text object; second, recognizing the margin-creating graphic entry and its context and replacing the margin-creating graphic entry with a machine-rendered margin indicator and a margin line extending horizontally and spanning the top of said text object, said margin indicator defining one side margin of said text object; said margin indicator being horizontally moveable along said margin line to alter said one side margin of said text object. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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