JP2639797B2 - Document creation and editing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document creation / editing apparatus, and more specifically, to a document creation / editing apparatus for creating a target sentence corresponding to an input original sentence.

2. Description of the Related Art Such a document creation and editing device includes, for example, an automatic translation device and a document creation device. In particular, in pre-editing (pre-editing) and post-editing (post-editing) of those devices, it is required that the user can easily grasp whether or not an appropriate object sentence is created.

For this purpose, it is desirable that the object sentence be output in a form as compact as possible, that is, for example, displayed on a CRT display device or printed out by a printing device. Taking a translation device as an example, for example, figures, tables,
If frames or lines, such as columns, are included in the translated document, if the parts corresponding to those frames, lines, etc. are left blank or output as they are, including frames, lines, etc. May interfere with proper understanding. Therefore, it is desirable to output a simple translated document.

Further, the operator is required to clearly grasp the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence when processing the sentence. Therefore, it is desirable that the original sentence and the translated sentence have a clear correspondence with a simple operation, and that the translated sentence is displayed in the same order as the order of the sentences in the original document.

Object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and to provide a document creation / editing apparatus in which a target document is output in a simple form and a correspondence relation with an original document can be grasped by a simple operation. And

Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides at least one
Input means for inputting data of an original document including one frame, conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in frames, lines, etc., and storage means for accumulating data of the original document and data of the target document. Output means for outputting the original document and the target document, and control means for controlling the conversion means, the storage means, and the output means in response to the input means. This is stored in the storage unit, the original sentence is sent from the storage unit to the conversion unit in units of frames, the conversion unit performs conversion processing in units of frames, creates an object sentence, stores the object sentence, and stores it in the storage unit. It is characterized by a document creation / editing device for outputting to an output unit in frame units. Hereinafter, a specific description will be given based on an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment in which a document creation / editing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation apparatus. This embodiment is a Japanese-English automatic translator that translates a Japanese sentence input as an original sentence into a target sentence, in this example, an English sentence. This basically includes a translator 10 for executing the translation function, an editor 12 for editing a document, an image scanner 14 and a keyboard 16 as input devices of the system, an input controller 18 for controlling the input device, and image information. The processing system includes a display device 20 for performing visual display, a display control unit 22 as a control device thereof, a document file storage unit 24, and a translation temporary storage unit 26.

The scanner 14 is a scanning device that is connected to the input control unit 18 so as to be controllable, optically reads image information stored in a document 28, and inputs image data to the system. This image data is input to the system in the form of data representing pixel dots.

The keyboard 16 is also connected so as to be controllable by the input control unit 18, and is an input device having character keys 52 such as kana, alphanumeric characters and symbols, and control keys, as shown in FIG. It accepts a character string in the form of a character code by operating a character key 52 and a control command in the form of a control code by operating a control key.

Character keys 52 include a space bar 52a. The control keys include ordinary function keys 54 such as a shift key, a page move key 56, a sentence selection cursor key 58, a character selection cursor key 60, a translation execution key 62, and the like.

The page move key 56 is a control key for giving an instruction to scroll the page of the document displayed on the display screen 50 of the display device 20. A sentence selection cursor key 58 controls a sentence selection cursor for specifying an original sentence in the original document or a target sentence in the target document displayed on the display screen 50, and is displayed on the display screen 50 of the original document or the target document. By moving the position where the value of the sentence selection cursor possession flag in the other document is on in the frame content record 40 described later in conjunction with the movement of the sentence selection cursor in the other document, the display screen 50 When the document displayed on the other document is switched to the other document, the sentence selection cursor is placed on the sentence of the other document corresponding to the sentence where the sentence selection cursor was placed on the previously displayed document, and the other This is a cursor control key having a function of displaying a document. Character selection cursor key 60
Is a control key for moving a cursor that indicates a position for inputting and operating a character such as insertion or overstrike. The translation execution key 62 is a control key for instructing the translation of the original text to be translated.

This keyboard 16 differs from that of a normal document editing device in that it has a translation execution key 62 and a sentence selection cursor key 58. In this embodiment, a mouse 64 is connected to the keyboard 16 in order to create graph data by a simple operation.

In this embodiment, other input devices such as a communication circuit 30, a floppy disk device 32, and a magnetic tape device can also be connected to the input control unit 18.

The input control unit 18 is a control device that is connected to the editor 12, identifies and organizes input data received by these input devices, and sends the input data to the editor 12.

The display device 20 is connected to the display control unit 22 and has a display screen 50 (FIG. 2) for visually displaying image information including characters (characters) and graphics (images, graphs, etc.). A device is advantageously used.
The display control unit 22 is a control device that controls the display device 20, receives texts, images, graphs, and the like from the editor 12, and displays them on the screen 50. Thus, in the present embodiment, a bitmap display is possible. Text is code data composed of character codes, and images are
The data represents pixel dots, and the graph is image data created by the graph creation function of the editor 12, for example.

In addition to the display device 20 and the display control device 22, a printing device for printing out a target document and its control device are edited by an editor.
You may comprise so that connection to 12 is possible. Further, a target document may be output to a file storage device such as a floppy disk or a magnetic tape, or to a communication line.

The editor 12 is a document editing device that responds to an operator's instruction command input from the keyboard 16.
This creates the document file 34,
Data such as text, images, and graphs transferred from 18 are stored in the document file storage unit 24, the contents are updated, and the target sentence text stored in the translation temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the frame content record of the document file 34. House in 40.

The translation unit 10 is a functional unit serving as a center of the present apparatus. The translation unit 10 is connected to the editor 12 and has a translation function of converting an original text received from the editor 12 into a target sentence text and returning it to the editor 12. This embodiment has a Japanese-English translation function for converting the original sentence Japanese into the target sentence English.

Stored in the document file storage 24 is a document file 34, which includes a document chapter page information table 36, a frame profile table 38, and a frame content record 40.

Here, referring to the structure of the document data, one document or document is composed of one or more chapters or chapters, each chapter is composed of one or more pages, and each page is composed of one or more frames. A “frame” includes one of a character (character), an image, and a graph, or a combination thereof, and is a single unit of processing in the present apparatus. Therefore, one page itself constitutes one frame. Also, part or all of the frame may be included in another frame.

There are seven types of frames, types 1 to 7, depending on any one of a character, an image, and a graph, or a combination of two or three of them. Type 1 is a frame of only character (C), type 2 is a frame of only image (I), type 3 is a frame of graph (G) only, type 4 is a frame containing C and I, and type 5 is a frame of I and G Type 6 is a frame including C and G, and Type 7 is a frame including C, I and G.

An example of the original document is shown in FIG. 3. Frame 0 is of type 1 and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. Frame 1 is of type 2 and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. This is image data, and pixel dots are shown in an array of hexadecimal numbers.
Further, frame 2 is of type 7, and an example of the frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.

The document chapter page information table 36 contains document information such as the total number of chapters of the document, the number of pages for each chapter, and the number of frames for each page. An example is shown in FIG. Document Chapter Page Information Table 36 is for Document Descriptor 12
0, a chapter list 122 and a page list 124.

The document descriptor 120 includes document information such as the number of chapters, the total number of pages, and the number of frames, and a pointer of a chapter list. The pointer specifies the chapter list 122.

The chapter list 122 is prepared for each chapter,
Information on all chapters in the document, and a page list
Contains 124 pointers. The page list 124 is designated by this pointer.

In the page list 124, information of all pages of each chapter and a pointer of the frame profile table 38 are recorded.

The frame profile table 38 contains frame information such as the position (relative coordinates), size, type, and frame number (No.) of each frame. Example 11
Shown in the figure. Frame profile table 38, page list
Pointed by pointer 124, frame number (No.)
Can be used to access frame information and contents.

In the frame profile table 38, "Attribute of parent and child"
Indicates that "0" indicates that there is no child frame of the frame, and "1" indicates that there is a child frame. Also,
“Type” indicates the type of the frame described above. “Position / size” indicates the start and end points of the frame in millimeters. The “frame line attribute” indicates the attribute of the line forming the frame, 1 is a standard solid line, 2 is a thick solid line, 3 is a very thick solid line, 4 is a thin solid line, and 5 is a standard broken line.

The frame content record 40 contains data on the contents of the frame such as a cursor possession flag, a flag, a starting point, a pitch, a character code, and font information for each frame. The original sentence and the purpose sentence are also stored in this.
An example is shown in FIG. This illustrates frame 0 shown in FIG. 3, which is a type 1 frame.

As shown in FIG. 13, the starting point coordinates of a sentence in one frame are the starting point of the character font 102A at the head of the sentence.
Described in millimeters by the ordinate of the frame 106 relative to the starting point 100 of the frame. Also font 102
The pitch 104 between them is also described in millimeters. Note that the number of dots may be specified instead of the millimeter unit. In this embodiment, the dot density is 12 dots per 1 mm. The starting point and the maximum of the pitch are "FE". Also 16
The hex code "FFFF" indicates the end of the character.

The translated sentence temporary storage unit 26 is a storage device that temporarily stores the target sentence text sequentially transferred from the translation unit 10 under the control of the editor 12. The content is ultimately transferred to the document file storage and the frame content record
Stored in 40.

The operator operates the keyboard 16 to input an original document according to the operation flow shown in FIG. First, an original document is defined by inputting data defining the original document, such as giving the name of the original document (200). Next, define chapters, pages, and frames according to the above-mentioned rules (202, 204,
206), enter the original text. Thus, frames, pages, and chapters are sequentially input, and one original document is completed. In accordance with this, the editor 12 creates a document file 34 for the document and registers it in the storage unit 24. The input original text is temporarily stored in the frame content record 40. In addition, as will be described in detail later, it is displayed on the display screen 50 in response to an instruction from the keyboard 16.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the original document thus input. As can be seen, in the original document 140, one page constitutes frame 0, which includes original sentences 1 to 9. The frame 0 further includes an image frame 1, a graph / image frame 2, and original texts a to c.
Is included. In this embodiment, these frame numbers indicate the priority of the frames as well as the identification of the frames.

When the translation execution key 62 is operated, the editor 12 executes the translation process in accordance with the operation flow shown in FIG. The translation processing is sequentially performed on the character strings included in the frame in accordance with the priority order (23).
4,236). The frame pointer 231 (FIG. 10) indicates a frame to be translated (230, 232, 242, 244).

First, the editor 12 extracts a character portion from the original document of the frame content record 40, and transfers the character portion to the translation unit 10 together with the frame number in text units (238, 240). The translation unit 10 sequentially translates the text sent from the editor 12 and returns it to the editor 12 as a target sentence. This object sentence is temporarily stored in the translated sentence temporary storage unit 26 by the editor 12. When all the text in one frame is transferred to the translating unit 10, the next frame (24
2), the next page (246,268) and the next chapter (270) are sequentially transferred.

As described above, in the present embodiment, only the text of the original document is sent to the translation unit 10 and converted into the target document. Therefore,
As shown in an example of the target document 142 in FIG. 4, the target document includes only the text of the translated sentence, and has no frame or line. This will be described later in detail.

The target document in the translation temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the document file 34 by the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIG. In this flow, a target document, that is, a translated document is defined (260), and then chapters and pages are defined (262,264). The translated sentence, that is, the target sentence is stored in the area where these are defined (266).

Here, the entire page is regarded as one frame of the type 1 described above, and each page is regarded as consisting of only one frame, and the translation is stored in the frame content record 40.

In this embodiment, the position coordinates (X, Y) of the start point of such a translated sentence are set as follows. The abscissa X is set to a predetermined constant value for the first sentence of the translated sentence page. For the second and subsequent sentences, the value is set to the value of the abscissa of the last character of the preceding sentence plus the width and pitch of that character. However, if the value obtained by adding the width of the first character of the sentence to the value exceeds the right end of the frame, a line feed process is performed. The ordinate Y is set to a predetermined low numerical value for a sentence in the first line of a translated sentence page. In the present embodiment, the ordinate of the sentence on the line relative to the ordinate Y1 of the sentence on the previous line is used for the sentence in the second and lower lines.
The ordinate Y2 is set so that the difference Y2-Y1 of Y2 is 1 / 1.58 times the difference between those ordinates in the corresponding original text.

The pitch of the characters in the translation is set to satisfy the following equation.

(Average value of character width in font type used in translated text + Pitch of translated text) = (Average value of character width in font type of original text + Pitch of original text / 1.58) In this embodiment, the value of this conversion coefficient 1 / 1.58 is an empirically chosen value that takes into account the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese into English, so that the translated text is contained in a format that is about the same size as the original text. In some cases, the translated page contains about 2.5 times as many characters as the original page.

Although this embodiment is a Japanese-English translation device, when performing translation between other languages, the initial coordinates and pitch of appropriate values are set according to the rate of change in the number of characters in the conversion in the initial setting of this device. Select and set the conversion coefficient of.

The target document is displayed on the display screen 50 by giving an instruction from the keyboard 16. At that time, the line spacing of the target sentence is, as described above, 1 /
Displayed at 1.58 times. An example of this target document is shown in FIG. The target document 142 includes the original sentences 1 to 9, the translated sentences 1 to 9 corresponding to the same a, b, c, and the same a, b, c in an area corresponding to the frame 0 in FIG. . In addition, characters “sales” and “month” corresponding to the characters “sales” and “month” in frame 2 of the original text are included. However, there are no frames or lines.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 is operated,
In response, the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 move the sentence selection cursor in the document displayed on the display screen 50. When the original document is displayed on screen 50,
This is switched to the display of the target document. At this time, the target sentence corresponding to the original sentence indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the original document displayed on the screen 50 is indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the target document newly displayed on the screen 50.

Similarly, when the target document is displayed on the screen 50,
This is switched to the display of the original document. At this time, the original sentence corresponding to the target sentence indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the target document displayed on the screen 50 is indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the original document newly displayed on the screen 50.

The movement of the sentence selection cursor when the original document is displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 8A to 8D.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 is operated (302), if it is the cursor up key (304), it is displayed on the display screen of the frame containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently placed. It is checked whether a sentence prior to the sentence exists in the part where it exists (306, 307). If the previous sentence does not exist, it is determined whether there is an earlier frame (308), and if the result is affirmative, the cursor which is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the original document and the target document is determined. The owner flag (FIG. 12) is turned off, and in the frame group of the original document displayed on the display screen, the display in the frame content record 40 of the frame immediately before the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is positioned is displayed. Turns on the cursor possession flag of the last sentence displayed on the screen, and turns on the cursor possession flag of the sentence corresponding to the newly turned on cursor possession flag in the frame content record of the target document. (314). Next, the cursor possession flag of the frame content record 40 of the original document is "1".
The cursor is displayed at the position indicated by the start point information of the line (322).

In steps 306 and 307, if it is determined that the previous sentence exists, the cursor-owned flag of the sentence immediately before the sentence whose cursor-owned flag is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the original document and the target document is turned on, The cursor possession flag which has been on until then is turned off (318), and the routine goes to step 322.

Similarly, if the operation of the sentence selection cursor key 58 instructs the cursor to move down in step 304, the part displayed on the display screen of the frame containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently placed is displayed. Check if there is a sentence after that sentence in (310, 311). If there is no later sentence, it is determined whether there is a later frame (308), and if the result is affirmative, the cursor which is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the original document and the target document is determined. The owner flag is turned off, and in the frame group of the original document displayed on the display screen, the frame displayed in the frame content record 40 of the frame immediately after the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is positioned is displayed on the display screen. Turn on the cursor possession flag of the first sentence, and turn on the cursor possession flag of the statement corresponding to the sentence whose cursor possession flag is newly turned on in the frame content record of the target document (316); Move to 322.

In steps 310 and 311, if it is found that a later statement exists, the cursor ownership flag of the statement next to the statement whose cursor ownership flag in the frame content record 40 of the original document and the target document is currently on is turned on. The cursor possession flag, which was on, is turned off (320), and the process proceeds to step 322.

The movement of the sentence selection cursor when the target document is displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 9A to 9C.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 is operated (332), if it is the cursor up key (334), the frame content record 40 of the frame of the first page of the pages currently displayed on the display screen at that time. Check the cursor ownership flag in the first statement of (336). If it is off, it is checked whether the statement whose cursor possession flag is on is the first statement in the frame (340).
If it is the first sentence, in the frame content record of the frame of the page before the page containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently located among the pages displayed on the display screen of the target document, Turns on the cursor-owning flag of the last statement and turns off the cursor-owning flag that was on previously. Also, in the frame content record of the original document, the cursor-owning flag of the statement corresponding to the statement whose cursor-owning flag is newly turned on is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag that has been on is turned off (344). . Next, the cursor is displayed at the position indicated by the start point information of the line in which the cursor possession flag of the frame content record 40 is "1" (352). At step 340, if the sentence whose cursor possession flag is on is not the first sentence in the frame, one of the sentences whose cursor possession flag is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the target document and the original document.
The cursor-owning flag of the previous statement is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag that has been on is turned off (348), and the routine goes to step 352.

At step 334, if the operation of the sentence selection cursor key 58 indicates that the cursor should be moved down, the last sentence of the frame content record 40 of the last page frame of the page currently displayed on the display screen at that time. The cursor possession flag in is examined (338). If it is off, it is checked whether the statement whose cursor possession flag is on is the last statement in the frame (342). In the last sentence,
Turns on the cursor possession flag of the first sentence in the frame content record of the frame of the page following the page containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently located among the pages displayed on the target document display screen And turn on the cursor-owning flag that had been on until then, and in the frame content record of the original document, turn on the cursor-owning flag corresponding to the statement for which the new cursor-owning flag was turned on. The cursor possession flag which has been turned on is turned off (346). The cursor-owning flag of the statement following the statement whose cursor-owning flag is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the target document and the original document is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag that has been on is turned on (350). Move to step 352.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the target document has no frames or lines, and therefore, a space that would otherwise occur due to the present situation such as frames or lines in the original document does not occur. The target document is displayed in the form. Also,
In the processing that does not include a frame or a line in the target document, the processing program is simplified only for the sentence, and the execution speed of the processing is increased. Furthermore, the arrangement of each sentence in the target document corresponds to the order of the frames in the original document, and when switching the display between the target document and the original document, the corresponding original text and target sentence are written. Since it can be specified by the selection cursor,
The correspondence between the sentences in the original document and the sentences in the target document can be easily grasped.

The above-described compact document display provides a simple target document in which figures and graphs included in the original document are omitted. Further, the target sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the target sentence are displayed in a clear correspondence with a simple operation.

Effects According to the present invention, the target document has no frames or lines, and therefore, there is no blank space that would otherwise be caused by the presence of the frames or lines in the original document, and the object document has a compact form. The target document is output. Further, the target sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the target sentence are displayed in a clear correspondence with a simple operation. Therefore, the target document is output in a simple form, and the correspondence with the original document can be grasped by a simple operation.

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FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a document creating and editing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translator, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a target document applied to the embodiment, FIGS. 5 to 9A, 9B and 9C. Is a flow chart showing an example of an operation flow in the embodiment. FIGS. 10 to 15 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of a document file in the embodiment. Explanation of Signs of Main Parts 10 Translation Translator 12 Editor 20 Display 22 Display Control 34 Document File 50 Display Screen 56 Page Move Key 58 Sentence Selection Cursor Key 60 …… Character selection cursor key

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] An input unit for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame; a conversion unit for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the original document; and data of the original document and the target document Storage means for accumulating data, output means for outputting the original document and the target document, and control means for controlling the conversion means, storage means and output means in response to the input means, The frame includes at least one of a sentence and a graphic. When the data of the original document is input, the control unit stores the data in the storage unit, and stores the original data stored in the storage unit. Even when the document data includes a frame including a graphic, only the sentence of the original document stored in the storage unit is sent to the conversion unit in units of frames, and the conversion unit performs a conversion process. , Accumulated in the storage means by creating a target document of statement only, the document creation and editing apparatus characterized by outputting the target document stored in said storage means to said output means in units of frames. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means assigns priorities to frames of the original document, and converts only the sentences of the original document in frame priority order on a frame-by-frame basis. A document creation / editing apparatus which outputs a target document including only the sentences stored in the storage unit to the output unit in frame priority order on a frame-by-frame basis. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said output means includes a display means for selectively and visually displaying said original document and said target document, and said input means comprises a document on said display means. Operating means for controlling the display of the original document and the target document corresponding to one of the original document and the target document which has been displayed on the display means in response to the operation of the operating means. A document creation / editing device characterized by displaying the other. 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display means selectively displays the original document and the target document in a visual manner, by selectively displaying the original document and the target document in the target document. Wherein a cursor is displayed at a position corresponding to each other.