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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2008
David K. Mcknight, Toronto, CA;
Eduardus A. T. Merks, North York, CA;
David K. McKnight, Toronto, CA;
Eduardus A. T. Merks, North York, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of using an example document to create another document with the same style. The style is determined by examining the example file for syntax patterns that are required in a document of this type. Each pattern is used to create a section template (a sub-template for a larger template). After all the required sub-templates have been defined, by examining the example, we have a document template that may be used to format new documents. Along with user-specific content, a document generator uses the captured document template to generate sections of a new document. When a section of a document is generated, the sub-template that corresponds to that section of a document is inserted with user-specific content. The generated file ends up with the same kind of text spacing and positioning, ordering of sections, presence of annotations and other nonfunctional attributes as the example.