| 摘要 |
<p>A method of preparing data in an electronic publishing system that results in more rapid transmission in a network (26) and provides a method wherein published pages can be displayed on a variety of destination devices in a form most resembling their original publication. According to the method of the present invention, a host computer is programmed with sub-routines (80) for automatically laying out articles in specified fields according to selected templates (11 or 22) to conform to the requirements of the destination display/device (28, 30 or 32). Each sub-routine (80) is programmed for activation upon receipt of relatively brief instructional data, refered to as 'tags' (46, 48 and 50) and 'meta data'. The tags (46, 48 and 50) are inserted along with the original data files (40, 42 and 44) to instruct the destination/host (28, 30 or 32) to activate the corresponding sub-routines (80). For example, the host computer, loaded with the required program, automatically lays out the text in fields according to pre-selected templates (11 or 22) for a particular size of paper.</p> |
