At 12:51 AM 1/31/2003, you wrote:
I made an inquiry on URW's web site yesterday, and received a response today. The short story is that what I had inferred from the postings on other lists is correct: the patent to hz-program is now owned by Adobe, and is probably the basis for their paragraph-level formatting in InDesign. So to summarize:
I'm puzzled how they can own a patent on an algorithm stated years ago and summarized in a european student's thesis. But then I don'w know about these things ;-)
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