JP2670469B2 - Document processing method - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing method in which format information can be easily created and registered using both sides of a display. 2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the advancement of the technology of word processing systems, word processing functions have been considered in which not only the input of characters but also the layout and the like are taken into consideration. Therefore, it has become possible to define not only the number of characters and the character pitch, but also the format including the number of columns and the column width. However, for such text formatting, it was necessary to individually create and change the values such as the number of steps and the step width by inputting numerical values from the keyboard, which is a man-machine interface. Therefore, it is easy to make mistakes in creating mistakes,
It took time and skill to make a well-formed text. Especially in the case of formatting, it is difficult to imagine the entire format from the set of individual numerical parameters, and it is necessary to make corrections many times, resulting in low efficiency of use of the device or system and excellent function. It had the drawback of not being able to use it sufficiently. (Object) In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to make a relative display image of a document area range and a paper layout frame display image based on format information including paper size information and line feed information. The step of visually displaying the format information in the form of an image representing the display positional relationship, and the step of visually displaying, the desired format information displayed in the form of the image is designated using a pointing device. A step of designating format information corresponding to the designated image, and a formatting step of formatting the created document information as document information over a plurality of pages based on the format information corresponding to the designated image, It is to provide a document processing method having. Further, an object of the present invention is to register various balanced formats in advance, and only specify which format to use for formatting, and format and output according to that format. It is to provide a possible image processing system. It is another object of the present invention to provide an image processing system capable of directly selecting and correcting each format while observing the format information regarding the sheet information and the format.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an image processing system having a man-machine interface for improving the efficiency of use of a system having advanced functions and sufficiently utilizing the functions. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image processing system including a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a CRT display unit used in a raster scan display system, 2 is a video RAM (VRAM) for storing display pattern information for one screen, 3 is writing of pattern information corresponding to VRAM 2 and reading to a CRT. It is a display control unit for controlling. Reference numeral 4 denotes a microprocessor (MPU) having a main memory 5, which performs main control of the personal computer and main control of the display device of the embodiment.
A keyboard 8 for inputting character data and commands is connected to the MPU 4. Reference numeral 6 denotes a disk device in which a set of various character patterns called a font file is stored. Each of these constituent blocks is connected by the I / O bus 7, and it is possible to form a network having a plurality of similar systems.
In FIG. 1, a reader and a printer may be further provided. Among the functions of the image processing system including the document information according to the present invention in the system having the above-mentioned configuration, particularly the document processing is related to the following format in addition to the normal document input / edit function. Have a function. (1) Registration of format, (2) Partial modification of registered format, (3) Formatting of document, (4) Partial modification of document format First, the above (1) to (4) Format data will be explained before the explanation. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of the data stored in the disk device 6 shown in FIG. A format file table 9 is a table that determines which file of the format file 10 is selected. The text file 11 includes a text part 12 in which the document data is actually stored and a format part 13 in which a format corresponding to the text is stored. Determines whether to select a format. Next, the format data stored in the format file 10 shown in FIG. 2 will be described. The format definition is
It consists of the following three record parts. That is, << a >> format definition header record section, << b >> one body definition record section,
<< c >> A plurality of peripheral definition record parts. << a >> manages the number of format definitions, but details are omitted. Further, << c >> is a definition of a page number (page number), a pillar (heading of the margin), etc., but details thereof are omitted here. << b >>
Has a definition of text and columns, and has a structure as shown in FIG. 3, for example. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of parameters (terms) related to a format. FIG. 4 shows the CR shown in FIG.
It shows the position of the printing plate which is a place for inputting and editing a document or the like on the paper displayed on the display unit 1 such as T.
I is called “heaven” and “throat”, and
The position of 6 is determined. The number of columns indicates the number of columns, and is two in the case of FIG. The column alignment is to align the lower column of the column as shown in III. The line length indicates the line length of the column and is indicated by IV, and the number of lines indicates the number of lines in the column. Furthermore, since the number of steps is two in the case of FIG. 4, it indicates the interval (V) between the steps. The above is the data related to the column definition shown in FIG. 3. Regarding the definition of the text, the font of the character, the number of dots, the size and the character spacing,
It has data such as paragraph indentation and color information. Next, the functions related to the above-described format will be described in detail. (1) Registration of Format FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of registration. First, of the various functions of the WS (workstation) including the display unit 1 and the keyboard 8, when a command for registering a format is input, a registration routine is started. And step 1 of FIG.
In, input information such as the size of the paper, the direction in which the paper is placed, and vertical / horizontal writing. Next, in step 2, with respect to the stage format as shown in FIG. 4, the input is performed, for example, in the flow of display as shown in FIG. That is, as shown in FIG. 6A, the plate surface 6 in the paper 5 is determined by inputting two points, for example, X marks, by a pointing device (PD) such as a trackball. Then, in (2), the number of steps is input (two steps in the figure), and in (3), the keyboard or P. For example, the X mark point is designated by D, and the step width and the step distance are designated. After the column definition as described above, in (4), the text definition such as font, dot, size is further performed. Therefore, by looking at (4) in FIG. 6, the number of rows and the layout can be intuitively understood. Then in step 3,
In addition, the number of pages (number of pages), columns (headings of margins), and headings are defined. This operation can be input intuitively while looking at the WS image, so that the format can be set very efficiently. The format set as described above is registered in step 4 of FIG. 5, and A of the format file 10 shown in FIG.
It is stored in B, C ... This can be registered by specifying the name shown in FIG. A plurality of formats can be registered by the above means. The numerical data indicating the format may be displayed in accordance with the image indicating the format set as described above. (2) Partial correction of registered format A case will be described in which the registered format is called and corrected by the procedure described in (1). FIG. 7 shows a drawing (hereinafter referred to as a window) in which a format menu for calling the registered format is displayed on a part of the display screen. FIG. 8 shows a flowchart for partially modifying the registered format file. First, in step 1, the WS displays a menu as shown in FIG. For example, (B) is an "article", which is A4 (size of paper), 10 pages (size of character), and 1 stage (number of stages). Next, in step 2, the P. The cursor (arrow 17 in FIG. 7) is moved by D, and the P.P. When the D key is turned on, the format contained in the format file A of FIG. 2 is selected by the format fill table 9 and displayed on the CRT display unit 1 of FIG. 1 as shown in FIG. Then, in step 3, the parameter such as the line length of the column described in FIG. The correction is performed by deforming the image numerically or intuitively with D. Then, the modified format may be rewritten in the format file shown in FIG. 2 or newly written and registered. (3) Writing to Document When a command for formatting the document is input by WS, the diagram shown in FIG. 7 is displayed as in the case of (2). Formatting here means deciding how to arrange characters based on the above-mentioned format information and document information, or creating a format corresponding to the actual print result. Also referred to as formatting. This screen is superimposed and displayed on the screen even if a document is currently being processed on the screen. Also, □ at the bottom right of FIG.
You can change the size of the window according to the movement of the cursor by pointing with the cursor ↑. The entire window can be moved by pointing and moving the "format file" portion of the title. Therefore, of course not only when the text screen is not displayed, but even when the text screen is displayed, the window shown in FIG. 7 is moved or scaled to be displayed in an empty space on the text screen, and the window in the window is adjusted according to the text screen. The desired format can be easily selected.
FIG. 9 shows a flowchart for formatting a document. now,
The document of the data n ₁ of the document section 12 shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the screen. Then, in step 1 of FIG. 9, the window of the column of the format file shown in FIG. 7 is called at an arbitrary position on the screen by key input from WS. The above-mentioned P. With D and the cursor 17, a desired format, for example, '(A) is selected. Then, the format file A in FIG.
Is selected, and the format A is copied in step 2 to the portion a corresponding to n ₁ of the format section 3 in the format file 11 of FIG. As a result, the format of the document is deleted during the current processing. Since the formatted output of the document is performed while formatting the sentence according to the new format in the document, the document being processed by the above process is output in the completely new format. Incidentally, regarding the formatting of the document, when supplementing the heading, the information specifying the character string to be the heading may be stored in the document file, or the document information in the document file may be sequentially formatted and the The character string at the position corresponding to the headline information may be treated as a headline. It may be considered that this is reflected in FIG. (4) Partial modification of document format Next, a case will be described in which a part of the created document format is modified by the procedure as described in (3). First, a case where a document is called on the display screen will be described. FIG. 10 shows a flowchart for partially changing the format of a document. In step 1, the document file 11 including the format section and the text section 12 shown in FIG. 2 is read out by the document file table 14, and the display section displays the document in that format. Next, in step 2 in FIG.
If the parameters relating to the format such as the number of columns, the column set, the line length, and the column spacing are corrected in the same manner as described above, and if they are desired to be registered in step 3, they may be newly or re-registered in the document file 11 of FIG. Good. As described above, according to the present invention, a format can be registered in a system for processing image information including document information, and the registered format is simply displayed as a simple image such as a frame or a picture. Therefore, it is possible to select intuitively. Further, the selected format can be easily modified and changed by transforming the numerical data or the image such as a frame or a picture showing the format according to the desired format, and the registered format can be further registered. According to the present invention, the format is set to P. Since it can be set visually using D or the key, most of the formatting is done by the image information without setting all the complicated numerical values as in the past, so it can be set very easily. . Further, according to the present invention, the format of the document currently being processed can be easily changed based on the selected format by simply selecting the desired format from the format file. As described in detail above, according to the present invention, based on the format information including the paper size information and the line feed information,
The format information is displayed in the form of an image by the step of visualizing the format information in the form of an image showing the relative display position relationship between the display image of the document area range and the paper layout frame display image, and the step of displaying the format information. Specifying the desired format information using a pointing device to specify the format information corresponding to the specified image; and creating the document information corresponding to the specified format information of the image. It is possible to provide a document processing method having a formatting step of formatting as document information over a plurality of pages based on the document information.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image processing system, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a part of data stored in a disk device 6, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the format, FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the format registration, FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the input related to the style, and FIG. [FIG. 8] FIG. 8 is a flowchart for partially modifying a registered format file; [FIG. 9] is a flowchart for formatting a document; [FIG. 10] is a flowchart for partially modifying the format of the document; [Explanation of symbols] 1 Display unit 6 Disk unit 4 MPU 5 Main memory

   ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page    (72) Inventor Hiroshi Takakura               3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo               Non Corporation                (56) References JP-A-57-182835 (JP, A)                 JP-A-59-69837 (JP, A)                 JP-A-60-184629 (JP, A)                 JP 59-71528 (JP, A)                 JP 59-24336 (JP, A)                 "8010-J Star Reference               Guide "(1982. November)               P. 7-1 to 7-11

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(57) [Claims] A step of visually displaying the format information in the form of an image representing a relative display positional relationship between the display image of the document area range and the display image of the paper layout frame based on the format information including the paper size information and the line feed information; Specifying the format information corresponding to the specified image by using a pointing device to specify the desired format information displayed in the form of the image in the step of displaying the image, And a formatting step of formatting the document information to be processed as document information over a plurality of pages based on the format information corresponding to the specified image.