(under subclass 517) Subject matter wherein perimeters of geometric subsets of a presentation surface within documents or document subsets (e.g., flow of text, figures, column or page balancing) are specified, modified or controlled.
(1) Note. The layout of elements around other elements whose location has been prespecified (e.g., a method in which a set of figures flow around a geometrically locked figure), methods for flowing text around figures, or methods for handling text across boundaries, such as line breaks or column breaks, is classified herein.
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525, for the layout of elements on a particular page and placement of page breaks in which the processing depends upon the size of the output medium.
