| 摘要 |
A method for controlling a document creation apparatus creates documents in accordance with an open document architecture. The documents contain one or more pages, with each of the pages containing one or more layout components. The method of the invention comprises the steps of selecting one page from a document being created; selecting a layout component from that one page in the document, the selected layout component forming a hierarchical component for the one page of the document; examining whether or not the selected layout component has a relationship with respect to another layout component; and setting a predetermined character string indicative of the relationship such that the predetermined character string is set in an attribute of the selected layout component in a form that may be read by a user, when the relationship exists. The steps of examining the relationship of the selected layout component with respect to another layout component and setting a predetermined character string in an attribute of the selected layout component are then repeated for all other layout components in the one page of the document; and then repeated for layout components in all other pages of the document. A layout component selected to be edited is then edited in accordance with a content of that layout component's predetermined character string.
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