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A method of editing compound documents containing both text and non-text components, such as image, graphics or digital-audio objects. The method transforms a compound document in modified revisable form architecture to an internal editing format. In the transformation process, non-text components a

A method of editing compound documents containing both text and non-text components, such as image, graphics or digital-audio objects. The method transforms a compound document in modified revisable form architecture to an internal editing format. In the transformation process, non-text components are recognized and catalogued in a component index generated for the compound document in the internal editing format. The component index contains information on the characteristics of the non-text components and describes the size, location and type of each non-text component. A reference or referencing control to the non-text component is placed in the text at the location the user wishes to print or display the non-text component in the final document. Through the invention, it is possible to represent and display a single non-text component multiple times within the compound document while storing only a single physical representation of the non-text component within the document. The method also provides a improved means of displaying the characteristics of the non-text component to the user, particularly where an alphanumeric display is used.

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A text processing system for constructing a compound document which includes both alphanumeric text and a non-text component comprising: a random access memory connected to a system bus; means to organize a database representation of said compound document resident in said random access memory, said

A text processing system for constructing a compound document which includes both alphanumeric text and a non-text component comprising: a random access memory connected to a system bus; means to organize a database representation of said compound document resident in said random access memory, said compound document to include an alphanumeric text portion and a non-text component; means to construct a component index resident in said random access memory, said component index including an index entry associated with said non-text component of said document database; means to place a referencing control in said alphanumeric text resident in said random access memory; a central processing unit connected to said system bus where said central processing unit operates on said means resident in said random access memory to organize said database representation of said compound document containing said component index and said referencing control; and, a display device connected to said system bus, said display device for displaying a representation of said document database as an alphanumeric display which includes a place marker icon corresponding to said non-text component positioned in said document to indicate an intended location of said non-text component in said document.