Method and apparatus for electronic literary macrame component referencing
OwnerDana W. Paxsoninventor
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Abstract
An expansion of the construction and organization of the electronic literary macramé (ELM), the knowledge transfer tool (KTT), or any document of similar type to enrich the connections and associations for their readers, providing for manual author- or editor-defined links and directives for hypertext handling and navigation, easy-to-use indexing capabilities, structuring and presentation of information in a visually-organized form such as a table, list, matrix, tree, pyramid, or other two-dimensional arrangement, with all features integrated into an unobtrusive, and enriched referencing mechanism to assist authors, editors and readers of an ELM, KTT, or other electronic document of similar type.
Claims53
An apparatus for enhancing a reader's use of references in an electronic document, comprising:
- a computer system, further comprising one or more processors, a user display interface component, one or more user input interface components, and one or more memory components for holding an operating system, one or more software applications, and one or more electronic documents each comprising a plurality of components;
- a first software application for generating and installing one or more hypertext link anchors in one or more of said components of each said electronic document;
- a second software application for generating and installing one or more hypertext links to said link anchors, in one or more of said components of each said electronic document;
- a third software application for generating one or more lists of said hypertext links;
- a fourth software application for defining, generating, and installing one or more indices in one or more components of an electronic document;
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- a fifth software application for defining and installing hypertext links between said indices and one or more components of an electronic document.
A method for enhancing a reader's use of references in an electronic document, comprising:
- generating one or more lists of hypertext links to one or more components of an electronic document;
- generating and installing one or more hypertext links in one or more components of an electronic document;
- generating and installing one or more hypertext link anchors in one or more components of an electronic document;
- defining, generating, and installing one or more indices in an electronic document;
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- defining and installing links between the one or more indices in an electronic document and one or more other components of the electronic document.
A method for inserting hypertext anchors, links, and other directives in an electronic document, comprising the steps of:
- establishing an anchor list for storing names and locations of symbolic anchors for the electronic document;
- establishing a link list for storing names and locations of symbolic links and the associated anchors for the electronic document;
- prompting a user editing an electronic document text for the name of a symbolic anchor;
- comparing the user's response to the entries in the anchor list to insure that the anchor name entered by the user is distinct from all anchor names in the anchor list;
- storing the symbolic anchor in the electronic document text at a point determined by the user;
- adding the symbolic anchor's name and location to the anchor list;
- prompting a user editing an electronic document text for the name of a symbolic link and its associated anchor;
- comparing the user's response to the entries in the link list to insure that the link name entered by the user is distinct from all link names in the link list;
- storing the symbolic link in the electronic document text at a point determined by the user;
- adding the symbolic link's name, location, and the name of the associated anchor and the anchor's location to the link list;
- converting the symbolic links in the electronic document text to hypertext links distinguishable from other types of hypertext links in the electronic document;
- converting the symbolic anchors in the electronic document text to hypertext anchors distinguishable from other types of hypertext anchors in the electronic document;
- prompting a user editing an electronic document text for the name of a file to be included in the electronic document text;
- storing a directive to include the named file in the electronic document text at a point determined by the user;
- producing from the anchor list a report showing the complete list of user-created symbolic anchors and their locations;
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- producing from the link list a report showing the complete list of user-created symbolic links, their locations, their associated symbolic anchors, and the locations of the associated symbolic anchors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.