Intentional Software Corporation

Alexander K Horton

Charles Simonyi

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Andras Nagy

Nicholas J Wilson

Jeremy M Price

Pontus E Andersson

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.

Linking visual layout nodes of a visual layout tree using positioning pointers

Layout engine for creating a visual layout tree for a document

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Alexander K Horton