APPEARANCE AND POSITIONING ANNOTATION TEXT STRING AND BASE STRING SPECIFYING A RULE THAT RELATES THE FORMATTING ANNOTATION, BASE TEXT CHARACTERS

A computer-implemented method to embellish text in a document by setting composite text properties for formatting an annotation text string and a base text string in a composite text unit, selecting text in a displayed text document as the base text string for a composite text unit, generating text as an annotation text string for the composite text unit, and displaying the composite text unit in the text document in accordance with the composite text properties.