| | Formatting text/graphics using plural independent formatting mechanisms - Patent 4539653 |
 | | When formatting text and graphics to a named area, the formatting operation ignores the depth parameter, i.e., the named area is virtually bottomless for receiving an indeterminate extent of text and graphics. |
 | | When a named area is being formatted, the formatting functions outside of the named area on the given page of text are interrupted and preserved such that, upon completion of the formatting to the named area, either implicitly or explicitly, such interrupted formatting functions are automatically resumed. |
 | | In a similar manner, formatting to a named area terminates formatting to a text float or keep and is interleaved with the formatting areas outside the named area the same as footnote formatting is interleaved with other formatting. |
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