Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

The invention relates to a method and device for generating and presenting an image on a visual display unit or some other display member. The image is composed, for example by an operator via a keyboard, of a plurality of symbols defined in advance in a symbol memory, which are placed on the image adjacent to each other. Each symbol is associated with at least one predetermined entry point and at least one predetermined exit point. When creating the image, a symbol is placed so that an entry point of that symbol is located immediately adjacent to an exit point of a previously displayed symbol.