Newspaper automated intelligent layout system for electronic publishing of electronic and print media e.g. newspapers, magazines and computer text systems

摘要

The present invention has application in electronic and printed media such as newspapers, magazines and computer text systems. The present invention relates to a mechanism by which text and images for publishing can be prepared and/or edited. The invention has particular application in the layout of newsholes. The present application discloses an electronic media publishing system comprising a data base in which there is stored, inter alia, a layout style, a layout family, layout children and layout cousins. There is also disclosed a method of preparing a layout of information in which a newshole is selected and resized if necessary in accordance with user definable rules.