Live documentation (lido)

A method to divide a textual document D to successive textual units U1, U2, . . . Un, where a textual unit is a word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, or several paragraphs, and such that each textual unit expresses a printable message (the payload), and associated meta data comprised of values of q attributes A1, A2, . . . Aq, where attribute i (i=1, 2, . . . q) has one of vi possible values;

• and where document D is associated with document meta data written in part of D where the document meta data zone is specified, and where the reader, or writer or editor, (referred to as ‘the consumer’) can forward Terms of Display (ToD) to the software package that processes D for human display (the LiDo package), to display or print D according to the values specified in the meta data for each textual unit, and where the writer and editor of D can input certain values of the attributes specified in the meta data per each textual unit, and the LiDo package writes those values into the textual units meta data.