JP2000250904A - Device and method for document creation and recording medium where program for document creation is recorded - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the need for document format modifying operation or the like after substitution even when the number of lines of document data increases by providing a means or the like for putting all document data in a page after the document data that one page contains before substitution have a character string replaced. SOLUTION: A document format modifying means 6 recognizes how many lines exceed one page after substitution. Then the line spacing of the page before the substitution in document format information stored in a document format storage buffer 4 is read in by a document format information read means 7 and divided into ten. Namely, the line spacing between two lines is divided into 1st to 10th divided lines. The document format modifying means 6 shortens each line spacing width in the page by one division line on the basis of the start line of the page after the substitution as a reference point and confirms the number of lines which are put in the page after the substitution as a result of the shortening of the line spacing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document creation device such as a word processor, and more particularly to a document creation device having a function of replacing a specific character string in document data with another character string.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional document creation apparatus, a character string to be replaced (character string after replacement) is replaced with a character string (character string before replacement) as a result of replacing a character string in document data. When the number of lines of the document data increases because the length is longer than the length, a character string is replaced by inserting a line.

[0003]

However, in the conventional technique of inserting a line when replacing a character string as described above, when a document is printed, one line is inserted before the character string is replaced.
There was a problem that a document that was contained within a page could be printed on multiple pages after character string replacement. In order to avoid such a situation, extra work such as changing the document format to match the number of printed pages before replacing the character string and modifying the table of contents of the document occurs after replacing the character string. There was a problem.

An object of the present invention is to change a document format after replacement even if the number of lines in the document data increases because the replacement character string is longer than the replacement character string as a result of replacing the character string in the document data. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device, a document creation method, and a recording medium that records a document creation program that does not require any operation.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document creating apparatus which replaces an arbitrary character string in the document data with the document data in the page containing the replaced character string. Means for determining whether the document data does not fit within the page, and when the first means determines that the document data no longer fits on the page, the line spacing in the page is reduced to replace the character string. There is provided a second means for ensuring that all the document data obtained by performing the character string replacement on the document data previously stored in the page fits in the page.

[0006] The second document creation device of the present invention comprises the first document creation device.
The second means of the document creation device of the above, divides the line spacing in the page into a fixed number of divided lines, and replaces the character string with the document data stored in the page before the character string is replaced. Is performed, by removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after the document data can be accommodated in the page, thereby reducing the line spacing.

[0007] The third document creation apparatus of the present invention comprises the second document creation apparatus.
Wherein the second means of the document creation apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention leaves a fixed number of divided lines between the lines when removing the divided lines.

[0008] A first document creation method according to the present invention is to determine whether or not document data in a page containing a replaced character string by replacing an arbitrary character string in the document data does not fit in the page. And if it is determined in the first step that the document data no longer fits within the page, the line spacing in the page is reduced and the The second method is to ensure that all the document data after performing the character string replacement on the contained document data fits in the page.
Steps.

The second document creation method according to the present invention is characterized in that
In the second step of the document creation method, the line spacing in the page is divided into a certain number of divided lines, and the character string is replaced with the document data stored in the page before the character string is replaced. Is performed, by removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after the document data can be accommodated in the page, thereby reducing the line spacing.

A third document creation method according to the present invention is characterized in that
In the second step of the document creation method described above, when the divided lines are removed, a fixed number of divided lines are left between the lines.

A first recording medium according to the present invention determines whether or not document data in a page including a replaced character string by replacing an arbitrary character string in the document data does not fit in the page. A first process for determining, and when it is determined that the document data does not fit in the page in the first process, the line spacing in the page is reduced,
And performing, on the computer, a second process for ensuring that all the document data obtained by performing the character string replacement on the document data stored in the page before the character string replacement fits in the page. The program to be executed is recorded.

In a second recording medium according to the present invention, the program recorded on the first recording medium divides a line spacing in the page into a fixed number of divided lines in the second processing, Removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after the character string is replaced with the document data contained in the page before the character string is replaced is contained in the page; Thus, a process of narrowing the space between lines is executed.

In a third recording medium according to the present invention, when the program recorded on the second recording medium removes the divided lines in the second processing, a predetermined number of divided lines are inserted between the lines. It is characterized in that a process for leaving the image is executed.

The recording medium group of the present invention includes the first to third recording media.
The program recorded on any one of the recording media is divided into a plurality of portions, and the plurality of portions are respectively recorded on a plurality of recording media.

[0015]

Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, according to a first embodiment of the present invention, a document input means 1 for reading a document to be subjected to character string replacement, an input buffer 2 for storing the read document, and an input buffer Format reading means for reading format information such as the number of pages of a document stored in the buffer 2, the start line, end line of each page, line width, page break information, the number of characters per line, and paragraph information in a page. 3 and a document format information storage buffer 4 for storing the read format information.
, A character string to be replaced, a character string to be replaced, a character string replacing means 5 for comparing the number of characters of these character strings, and performing character string replacement, and each format information stored in the document format information storage buffer 4. , A document format changing unit 6 for changing the document format based on each of the read format information, a work buffer 8 used for the change work, and a document format changing unit 6 And a document output means 9 for outputting the document changed in step (1).

Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, the document input means 1
Reads the document (including document format information) to be subjected to character string replacement into the input buffer 2 (step A1).
The document format information reading means 3 reads, from the input buffer 2, the number of pages of the document, the start line, the end line, the number of lines, the line width, the line width, the page break information, the number of characters per line, the paragraph information in the page, etc. Is read and stored in the document format storage buffer 4 (step A2).

Next, the character string replacing means 5 inputs a character string to be replaced (step A3). Let A be the number of characters in the character string to be replaced. Further, the character string replacing means 5 inputs a character string to be replaced (step A4). Let B be the number of characters in this replaced character string. Then, the character string replacement means 5 checks which page in the document read in the input buffer 2 contains the character string to be replaced, and checks the line of the page where the character string to be replaced exists. Check the number. Further, the character string replacing means 5 includes a character number A and a character number B.
Are determined to be equal (step A6). If the number of characters A is equal to the number of characters B, the character string is replaced (step A7), and the document output means 9 outputs a document.

When the number of characters A and the number of characters B are not equal,
It is determined whether the number of characters A or B is larger (step A8).

In step A8, the number of characters A is changed to the number of characters B
If it is determined that it is smaller than the above, the operation is performed in accordance with the flowchart of FIG.

First, the character string replacing means 5 replaces the character string to be replaced with a character string to be replaced (step A9). However, since the number of characters A of the character string to be replaced is smaller than the number of characters B of the character string to be replaced, in the replaced document, the length of the difference between the number of characters A and the number of characters B is unnecessary to the right of the replaced character string. A string results. Therefore, the character string replacing means 5
Deletes this and shifts subsequent documents to the left (step A10). Further, a character string having the same number of characters as the character string deleted here is cut out from the left head of the next line and inserted into the right of the line above (step A11). Thereafter, it is determined whether or not it is the last line of the paragraph (step A12), and if not, the process returns to step A11. Repeat this until the end of the paragraph.

FIG. 4 shows the character string replacement process at this time. FIG. 4 shows an example in which the character string “aa” is replaced with the character string “b”. In the figure, "S" indicates the start position of the paragraph, "E" indicates the end position of the paragraph, and the numbers schematically indicate the movement of characters.

Next, the character string replacing means 5 determines whether or not the number of lines in the paragraph has decreased at the time when the processing is completed to the end (step A13). If the result of this determination is that the number of lines has not decreased (NO in step A13), the document output means 9
To output the document. If the number of rows has decreased (YES in step A13), the operation according to the flowchart in FIG. 8 is performed.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step A8 of FIG. 2 that the number of characters A is larger than the number of characters B, the operation is performed according to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the character string replacing means 5 inserts a space having a difference length between the number of characters A and the number of characters B after the character string to be replaced (step A14). Next, a character string having the same length as the inserted space is cut from the right side of the line where the space is inserted, and stored in the work buffer 8 (step A15), and the character string is replaced (step A16).
Further, a character string having the same length as the character string stored in the work buffer 8 is cut from the right side of the next line and stored in the work buffer 8 (step A17). Further, the character string stored in the work buffer 8 in step A14 is inserted at the head of the next line after the replacement (step A1).
8). Here, it is determined whether it is the last line of the paragraph (step A19), and if it is not the last line, the process returns to step A17. This is repeated until the last line of the paragraph.

FIGS. 6 and 7 show the character string replacement processing at this time. FIG. 6 shows an example in which the character string "aa" is replaced with a character string "bbb", and FIG. 7 shows an example in which the character string "aa" is replaced with a character string "bbbb". is there. In the figure,
"S" indicates the start position of the paragraph, "E" indicates the end position of the paragraph, and the numbers schematically indicate the movement of characters.

Next, the character string replacing means 5 determines whether or not the number of lines in the paragraph has increased at the time when the processing is completed to the end (step A20). If it has not increased (Step A
(NO at 20), and outputs the document using the document output means 9. If it has increased (YES in step A20), the process shown in FIG.
The operation according to the flowchart of FIG.

Next, processing when the number of rows is reduced will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the document format changing means 6 confirms how much the number of lines has been reduced in the replaced page (step A21). Let M be the reduced number of rows. A blank line of M lines is inserted next to the last line of the page whose number of lines has been reduced (step A22).

Next, the processing when the number of rows increases will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the document format changing means 6 checks how many lines cannot be accommodated in the replaced page (step A23). Let L be the number of lines that no longer fit within this page (increased number of lines). The number of lines in the replaced page before replacement is checked (step A24). The number of rows before the replacement is performed is LA.
The line spacing of the page before replacement in the document format information stored in the document format storage buffer 4 is read by the document format information reading means 7 and divided by 10 (step A2).
5). That is, as shown in FIG. 10 (A), the space between the line “Aioeo” and the line “Kakikukeko” is
The first divided row is divided into the tenth divided row. The document format changing unit 6 narrows the line spacing in the page by one division line with the top line of the replaced page as a reference point (step A26). By this processing, the line spacing in the above example becomes as shown in FIG. Next, the document format changing unit 6 confirms the number of lines that can be accommodated in the replaced page by reducing the line spacing (step A27). At this time, the number of lines that can fit within the page is LB. In addition, a counter for determining how many line spacings are reduced is incremented by 1 (step A28).
Here, the counter has an initial value of 1 and a maximum value of 9.
The reason why the maximum value is 9 is that it is very difficult to see a document having no line spacing at all, so that at least one divided line is left with a space between lines. It is determined whether the counter is 9 or less (step A2).
9) If it is 9 or less, it is determined whether (L + LA) is equal to LB (step A31). If L + LA and LB are equal, it means that the document after replacement fits on the same page as before replacement, and the document is output using the document output means 9. If they are not equal, it means that the document after replacement is not included in the same page before replacement, so the process returns to step A26, the line spacing is reduced by another division line, and LB
Is obtained, 1 is added to the counter, and the determinations in step A29 and step 31 are performed. In this case, the line spacing in the above example is as shown in FIG. If the counter becomes larger than 9 in step A29, an error message indicating that the page cannot be entered is displayed (step A30).

With the above, the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention ends.

In the above-described embodiment, the line width is divided into ten divided lines. However, the line width is not necessarily limited to ten, and may be divided into any number of divided lines. Good. Also, when reducing the line spacing,
In the above-described embodiment, at least one divided line is separated from each other, but the minimum line spacing is not limited to one divided line, and may be any number of divided lines.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

Referring to FIG. 11, according to a second embodiment of the present invention, a document input unit 11 for reading a document to be subjected to character string replacement, an input buffer 12 for storing the read document, Format reading means for reading format information such as the number of pages of a document stored in the buffer 12, the start line and end line of each page, line width, page break information, the number of characters per line, and paragraph information in a page. 13, a document format information storage buffer 14 for storing these read format information, a character string to be replaced, a character string to be replaced, and a character string for comparing the number of characters of these character strings and performing character string replacement Replacement means 15 and document format information storage buffer 1
A document format information reading unit 17 for reading each format information stored in the storage unit 4; a document format changing unit 16 for changing the document format based on the read format information; Buffer 18 and document output means 19 for outputting the document changed by document format changing means 16
And a recording medium 20 on which a program for document creation is recorded. Here, the recording medium 20 may be a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, or another recording medium, and the document creation program may be divided and recorded in a recording medium group including a plurality of recording media.

The document creation program recorded on the recording medium 20 is loaded into a computer including the above-described units,
Each unit performs the same operation as that of the first embodiment under the control of the loaded program.

Conventionally, when replacing a character string in a document, if the number of lines is increased by the replacement process when the character string to be replaced is longer than the character string to be replaced, the document format information is reviewed for all pages. Corrections had to be made as needed. In addition, if the document has a table of contents and the like, the page number in the table of contents must be corrected. According to the first and second embodiments of the present invention, since the above-mentioned operation is not required, the operation at the time of document proofreading is reduced.

[0039]

As described above, according to the present invention, even when a character string in a document is to be replaced, even if the number of lines is increased by the replacement processing, the replacement character string is longer than the replacement character string. There is an effect that style change work and the like become unnecessary.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for specifically explaining an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for specifically explaining an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for specifically explaining an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for specifically explaining an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1,11 Document input means 2,12 Input buffer 3,13 Document format reading means 4,14 Document format information storage buffer 5,15 Character string replacement means 6,16 Document format changing means 7,17 Document format information reading means 8 , 18 Work buffer 9, 19 Document output means 20 Recording medium

Claims (10)

[Claims] A first means for judging whether or not document data in a page containing a replaced character string by replacing an arbitrary character string in the document data is no longer contained in the page; If it is determined by the first means that the document data no longer fits in the page, the line spacing in the page is reduced, and the character data is added to the document data contained in the page before the replacement of the character string. A second means for ensuring that all document data after column replacement fits within the page. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second means divides a line spacing in the page into a fixed number of divided lines, and replaces the character string with the document data stored in the page before the character string is replaced. 2. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the line width is reduced by removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after performing the above operation is included in the page. 3. The document creation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second unit leaves a fixed number of divided lines between the lines when removing the divided lines. 4. A first step of determining whether or not document data in a page that includes a replaced character string by replacing an arbitrary character string in the document data does not fit in the page. If it is determined in the first step that the document data no longer fits in the page, the line spacing in the page is reduced, and the text data contained in the page before the replacement of the character string is replaced with a character. A second step of ensuring that all the document data after the column replacement fits within the page. 5. In the second step, the line width in the page is divided into a fixed number of divided lines, and the character string is replaced with the document data contained in the page before the character string is replaced. 5. The document creation method according to claim 4, wherein the line width is narrowed by removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after performing the processing is contained in the page. 6. The document creation method according to claim 5, wherein in the second step, when the divided lines are removed, a fixed number of divided lines are left between the lines. 7. A first process for determining whether or not document data in a page including a replaced character string by replacing an arbitrary character string in the document data does not fit in the page. If it is determined in the first processing that the document data no longer fits in the page, the line spacing in the page is reduced, and the text data contained in the page before the replacement of the character string is replaced with a character. A recording medium characterized by recording a program for causing a computer to execute a second process for causing all the document data after column replacement to fit within the page, and a computer. 8. The program according to claim 2, wherein, in the second processing, the line width in the page is divided into a fixed number of divided lines, and the document data stored in the page before the replacement of the character string is processed. A process for narrowing the line width by removing the divided lines one by one until all the document data after the character string replacement fits in the page is executed. Item 8. The recording medium according to Item 7. 9. The program according to claim 8, wherein, in the second processing, when the divided rows are removed, a process for leaving a fixed number of divided rows between rows is executed. recoding media. 10. A recording medium group obtained by dividing the program according to claim 7 into a plurality of parts and recording the plurality of parts on a plurality of recording media.