Patent ID: 7739612

Claim:
A method comprising: associating a first literal property value with a property indicator and with a single displayed object, wherein the first literal property value does not depend on a surrounding environment of the first literal property value or on other sources other than a data store storing the literal value; receiving a modification of the first literal property value; determining that the modification comprises changing the first literal property value to a non-literal property value, wherein the non-literal property value represents a property type comprising an object width and is based at least in part on one or more other property types of an object other than the single displayed object, wherein the one or more other property types are different than the property type and comprise at least one of: a height, a font size, or a fill color of the object other than the single displayed object; indicating to a user that the non-literal property value is non-literal with a non-literal cue, wherein the non-literal cue is derived from the single displayed object and not from any other displayed object and is presented with the non-literal property value, and wherein the non-literal cue includes an indication of instructions or an expression for calculating the non-literal property value based on the one or more other property types.