Methods involving text attribute recognition

1. A method for displaying formatting of text, the method comprising:

receiving an input, wherein the input is a selected range of text;

determining a formatting attribute of the selected range of text;

displaying the determined formatting attribute;

determining an amount of text having the formatting attribute in the selected range of text relative to a total amount of text in the selected range of text;

marking the formatting attribute displayed with a non-textual indicator;

marking the determined formatting attribute with a second type of indicator operative to indicate the amount of text having each of the formatting attribute in the selected range of text relative to the total amount of text in the selected range of text;

marking text in the selected range of text with the non-textual indicator corresponding to the formatting attribute of the text in the selected range of text.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-textual indicator includes:

color;

pattern; and

animation, wherein animation includes:

changing patterns;

changing colors; and

flashing.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second type of indicator comprises text sizes of the displayed determined formatting attribute.