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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsCharles Simonyi, Andras Nagy
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A layout engine generates a visual layout tree for a visual description tree of a document whose content is to be rendered in one or more display areas. A visual description tree describes the content of a document along with formatting and logical arrangement the content. Visual description nodes of a visual description tree represent the organization of the constituent elements a document hierarchically. A visual layout tree defines the layout of a document within one or more display areas. Visual layout nodes of a visual layout tree represent the layout of the content of a document hierarchically. The layout engine receives as input a visual description tree and generates the corresponding visual layout tree. A rendering engine then inputs the visual layout tree and generates a graphics buffer containing the pixels representing the layout of the document as defined by the visual layout tree.
A method performed by a computing device for generating visual layout nodes for a visual layout tree for use in rendering content of a document, the document being represented by a visual description tree having visual description nodes, the method comprising processing a visual description node of the visual description tree by:
A computing device comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions comprising instructions that:
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