METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMED CONTROL OF COMPUTER GENERATED GRAPHICS LAYOUT

A method and system providing high-level control of the layout of computer-generated graphs which adjusts detail design parameters specifying layout attributes of a graph. The adjustments are done automatically in response to values of design control parameters selected by a user to effect choices made by the user regarding the layout design of a graph. For a graph being designed, the selected design control parameter values control the selection, from tabularized groups of graph detail design parameters, of specific detail design parameter values. The selected graph detail design parameter values are provided to a graph production process to enable it to control an output device used in producing a graph which is laid out according to the user's choices.