Text editor for multidimensional or multidirectional text
CA 1290855 C · Owner: Hom, Peter J. · Inventors: Makus, Peter M.; Morrison, William R.; Sanchez, Esther Mary
Overview
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Methods and apparatus for creating and editing multidirectional or multidimensional text including a string of codes defining a text and a parser means responsive to operation of the editing means for reading the codes of the string and parsing the codes into encoded units, wherein each encoded unit is comprised of a group of codes defining a group of one or more characters that are positioned in an expression as a unit. The codes in the string of codes representing a text include character codes representing the characters of symbols of the text and operator codes defining properties of the text. Operator codes include structural operators defining organizational relationships between the …
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- Granted October 15, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 15, 2008.
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