Patent ID: 6457013
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:a property information array stored in association with a program module stored on the computer-readable medium, the property information array comprising values corresponding to formatting information for altering an appearance of data elements on one of the video output and printer output device, the data elements being contained in a computer file upon which the program module is operative for manipulating; a data element structure for storing data elements, said data elements including text; a property modifier structure for storing data formatting property modifiers and arguments operatively linked to respective data formatting property modifiers, each data formatting property modifier containing encoded formatting-related information corresponding to the data elements, each data formatting property modifier comprising an index field containing an index into the property information array associated with the program module, each data formatting property modifier comprising a size field containing information indicating the size of argument for the data formatting property modifier, said size field enabling said program module to skip over a respective data formatting property modifier and its argument if unrecognized by said program module.