摘要 |
<p>An electronic text handling apparatus, wherein a source document is constituted as a bare text (24), consisting of the subject-matter of the document free from text formatting instructions, and mark-up codes (23), specifying the text format to be applied to the subject-matter, distinguished from the bare text (24). The apparatus includes processing means (2, 4), having a store holding a mark-up code dictionary defining interpretations of the mark-up codes for specifying text format, able to process the bare text in accordance with the mark-up codes. The source document can be accessed (25) with the bare text formatted according to the interpreted mark-up codes.</p> |