JP2505735B2 - Document processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] When a document is edited by a word processor, a document page portion intended for retrieval of each page input so far is displayed on the screen of the word processor to facilitate retrieval of a required page. did.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a significant page partial search method for a word processor, and more particularly to a significant page partial search method for a word processor for displaying a significant portion of each page.

The word processor is equipped with various processing functions. These functions include a document edit processing function. In this document editing, it is important to know the contents of each page easily in order to perform the editing quickly. This means that the more pages available for editing, the greater the demand for it.

[Conventional technology]

In the page content search as described above, there is a technique of performing the search using a character to be searched. In addition, a primitive method of displaying each page on the screen, visually recognizing the page, and performing the search can also be adopted.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

According to the former technique described above, the character to be searched is required, and thus it is not suitable to perform the search with a rough estimate. Further, even when trying to overview the entire document, the burden on the operator becomes excessive when the number of pages is large and the page screen scrolls in, which hinders page retrieval.

The present invention was created in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object thereof is to provide a significant page partial search method of a word processor that can easily search a necessary page.

[Means for solving problems]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. In this figure, reference numeral 1 is a document processing apparatus, and the present invention is provided with the following main structure. Retrieval means 2 for retrieving a normal character that appears first from the beginning for each page of a document including control characters such as a line feed symbol, a space, and normal characters other than those, and a normal means for each searched page. Page portion extracting means 3 for extracting documents after the characters, and display control means 4 for displaying a list of the extracted documents for each page on the screen.
, And are configured.

[Action]

When the document is edited by the document processing apparatus 1, the retrieval means 2 retrieves whether or not there is a significant character, that is, a character other than the blank / margin among the ordinary characters that first appear from the beginning for each page. If there is a significant character in the search, the content is extracted by the page part extracting means 3, and if not, a required blank is output from the page part extracting means 3. In this way, the contents of the page portion are displayed on the screen of the document processing apparatus 1 under the control of the display control means 4, and the document is edited by the operator's visual confirmation.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG.
Reference numeral 10 denotes a document floppy of the document processing apparatus 1, in which documents to be subjected to the processing of the present invention are stored. Reference numeral 11 is a work file. The registered document data in the document floppy 10 is expanded into the work file 11 under the control of the file management program 12, and the document data is stored in the document floppy 10. Further, the document data expanded in the work file 11 is processed page by page under the control of the file management program 12, and is stored in the memory 14 via the function program 13 used in the present invention, and the contents thereof are displayed. apparatus
Displayed on 15 screens. The display device 15 is provided with a keyboard having function keys for entering the execution of the function program 13. Further, the function program 13 of the present invention also performs a function of activating the hard copy program 16 as necessary to make the soft copy displayed on the screen of the display device 15 into a hard copy by the printer 17.

When the operator hits the function key for the present invention on the keyboard to start the above-mentioned function program of the present invention (step S1 in FIG. 3), the data displayed on the screen is saved in the work file 11 and the screen is displayed. Is cleared (step S2). Then, the processed page is set to the first page (step S3). Next, the top of the page to be processed is found through the file management program (step S4). Characters other than control symbols such as blanks, margins, line feed symbols, page break symbols, and page suppression symbols are searched from the beginning of the page (step S5).

If a character is searched (Y in step S6), 40 characters are extracted from the searched character (step S7) and displayed on the screen (step S8) (see FIG. 4). If no character is retrieved (N in step S6), a blank line is created (step S9) and displayed on the screen (step S8).

In extraction after the search for the first character, white space is a valid character.
However, the margin and the like are skipped and extracted. Also, 40
If the processing page ends before the character extraction is completed, the rest is left blank.

When the processed page is not the end page of the sentence (N in step S9),
It is determined in step S1 whether or not the display has reached the last line of the screen.
Made with 0. If not, the processed page is incremented by 1 (step S11), that is, the processed page is updated and the process returns to step S4 to repeat the above-described processing steps.

When the display is at the last line of the screen (see the left side of FIG. 4), it waits for key input (step S12), and if neither the end key on the keyboard, the page designation key nor the execution key is pressed (step S12). N of S13, S14, S15), step S12
Returning to idling is continued idling, and if the execution key is pressed, the screen is cleared (step S16) and the process proceeds to the next page.

When such processing progresses and the processed page reaches the end page of the sentence (Y in step S9), "Complete processing of all pages" is displayed on the screen (step S17), and the screen is returned to the document creation screen (step S18). Perform processing.

If the end key is pressed before the processing reaches the end page of the sentence (Y in step S13), the process immediately proceeds to step S18 to perform the processing. When the page designation key is pressed (Y in step S14), the designated page is displayed (step S19).

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the above-mentioned file management program does not operate, that is, when the document is not being created or updated. As in the embodiment of FIG. 2, the working file and the file management program are not used, but the present invention is used. A document page selection processing unit is added to the function program of (13 '). As described above, the cutout of the processing page by the file management program is performed except that the function program of the present invention is taken out from the document floppy 10. Since the processing in the example is the same as that in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, its details are omitted.

Instead of displaying the processing result on the display device 15, it is also possible to output it via the printer 17 in the form of document list printing.

Further, the object to be searched for each page is not limited to only the required part from the first character to be searched.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since a significant portion for each page search is extracted and displayed on the screen, the operator is provided with the judgment material as to whether or not the page is a page necessary for editing the document. Therefore, it is possible to easily search for a page required for editing.

[Brief description of drawings]

 FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the processing flow of the embodiment of FIG. 2, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a document processing device 1, 2 is a search means, 3 is a page part extraction means, 4 is a display control means, and 5 is a CRT.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. Retrieving means for retrieving a normal character that appears first from the beginning for each page of a document including control characters such as a line feed symbol and white space and normal characters other than those, and each searched page. A document processing device, comprising: a page portion extracting means for extracting a document after each normal character for each; and a display control means for displaying a list of the extracted documents for each page on a screen. 2. A means for designating a desired page from each page displayed in a list, and when the desired page is designated, the display control means causes the document of the designated page to be displayed on the screen. The document processing device according to claim 1, wherein