International Business Machines Corporation

Gerald E Hayes

Hira Advani

William C Cason, Jr

James Newman Chen

Johnny G Barnes

A word processing system is provided with an interactive display terminal for displaying by character generation a data stream representative of alphanumeric characters to be printed on a document together with means for printing the characters on the document. The processing system integrates into the data stream, data representative of graphics and converts such integrated graphic data into graphic display characters whereby the graphics may also be displayed through character generation. When printing of the graphics and alphanumeric information to produce documents is required, the data in the data stream representative of alphanumeric characters is applied to the printing means resulting in the printing of the characters and the data in the data stream representative of the graphics is applied to apparatus for producing the graphics such as a plotter to produce the graphic content of the document.

Word processing system based on a data stream having integrated

A method is disclosed for assisting the operator of an interactive text processing system in the interactive selection of text processing tasks from a combined program/work diskette. The method involves displaying to the operator a 'special' menu which is dynamically developed from information obtained during the creation of the combined program/work diskette, which menu reflects text processing task programs that have been combined on a combined program/work diskette. The combined program/work diskette is created by transferring to a diskette sets of programming modules where each set represents a different text processing task and originates from a different program diskette that is selected interactively by the operator during the creation of the combined program diskette. The special menu informs the operator what specific text processing tasks out of a large group of text processing tasks have been combined on the diskette and are now available to the operator for execution.

Method for displaying selected text processing task options

A method is disclosed for improving the efficiency of an operator of an interactive text processing system in which a plurality of different text processing task programs are each stored on a different single-sided, single-density (1S1D) diskette so that in the creation and use of a text document involving several different tasks, the operator's efficiency is decreased due to the time involved in inserting and removing each required diskette. The method involves creating a combined program diskette on a two-sided, double-density (2S2D) diskette by sequentially transferring program modules for interactively selected text processing task programs from corresponding 1S1D diskettes under the control of a 'Combine' program. The method provides one 2S2D combined text processing program diskette containing all the programs necessary to create and use a specific text document by means of the selected tasks.

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Gerald E Hayes