Patent ID: 7039862
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for adjusting spacing between characters in a line of text, comprising: receiving, in an desktop publishing system, input from a user of the system specifying a character classification that defines a plurality of character classes, each character class in the plurality of character classes including one or more individual characters as members of the class, wherein at least one character is a member of more than one character classes in the plurality of character classes; determining whether a character of a pair of characters in a line of text is a member of only one character class or more than one character class in the plurality of character classes; if the character is a member of only one character class, assigning the only one character class to the character of the pair of characters in the line of text; if the character is a member of more than one character class, assigning exactly one of the more than one character classes to the character; and adjusting spacing between characters of the pair of characters based on the character class assigned to a first character, a second character, or both characters of the pair of characters.