Raymond Albert Hebert

US Patent:

44418299, Apr 10, 1984

Filed:

Sep 24, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/305253

Inventors:

Raymond A. Hebert - Austin TX
Lewis J. Levine - Austin TX
Kenneth O. Shipp - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines - Armonk NY

International Classification:

B41J 346

US Classification:

400 63

Abstract:

An improved method in an interactive text processing system for creating/revising documents by adding a multi-page insert of text data at a specified location in the document comprising displaying the document, signalling to the system the location within the document into which the text data is to be copied, specifying to the system the identification and location within the document into which the text data is to be copied, specifying to the system the identification and location of the insert text data, scanning the insert text data for INCLUDE instructions, resolving the INCLUDE instructions prior to adding the text data into the document, and copying the specified text data into the document at the signalled location. In a specific embodiment, text data up to ten pages can be copied and up to five levels of nested INCLUDE instructions can be resolved.