JP2671598B2 - Document processing device - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus for creating and editing a document, and more particularly to a document processing apparatus having a frame-drawing function for arranging figures and tables in a document. .

"Prior Art" When a document processing device such as a word processor creates or edits a document, a chart such as an illustration or a graph is often inserted into the document. In such a case, a so-called frame area is usually set as an area therefor. The frame area is set by, for example, using a mouse or the like and designating the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the frame area on the display screen.

There are usually two types of frames, a fixed frame and a floating frame. Of these, the fixed frame is a frame whose position does not move even if data such as a character string or a number string (hereinafter referred to as text) is edited such as inserted or deleted, and the floating frame is a text frame. This is a frame whose position moves with editing. Which of these frames will be used will be decided depending on the situation. However, in the conventional document processing device,
Once the frame type was set to one of the types, it could not be changed to another type, so the following problem may occur.

That is, when the editing work is completed and the editing work such as inserting or deleting text is performed again on the document whose layout is fixed, explain the fixed frame in this document and the charts in this fixed frame. Sometimes the text is separated. Therefore, further editing work is required to match the positional relationship between the text and the fixed frame.

On the other hand, it is convenient to use a floating frame that moves with the editing work during rough editing, but if the frame is aligned at the bottom right of the page in the final document layout stage, care should be taken after that. The frame may be moved due to unnecessary editing and the layout may be disturbed. Therefore, even in this case, there is a disadvantage that the relayout editing is required.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, in the conventional document processing apparatus, since it is not possible to change the type of the frame in the already created document, the position of the fixed frame generated by the text editing is changed. Re-editing to correct the deviation and re-layout work at the final stage of editing were required. Therefore, there is a disadvantage that the operator is burdened with a great deal and the editing efficiency is poor.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of changing from a fixed frame to a floating frame as needed.

"Means for Solving the Problem" In the invention according to claim 1, (a) a display for displaying text data as a character string or a number string and a frame for inserting a chart or a headline, and (b) starting point coordinates Frame designating means for designating a fixed frame having these points as diagonal lines by designating two points of the end point coordinates, and (c) starting point coordinate storing means for storing the start point coordinates of the fixed frame designated by the frame designating means,
(D) Paragraph mark retrieval means for retrieving the paragraph mark added to the beginning position of each paragraph of the text data, and (e) Paragraph position storage for storing the position of each paragraph mark retrieved by this paragraph mark retrieval means. Means, (f) a frame type change request input means for inputting a change request from the fixed frame designated by the frame designating means and displayed on the display, and (g) a frame type change request input means When a change request is input, the distance between the starting point coordinates of the fixed frame and each paragraph mark stored in the paragraph position storage means is calculated, and each time the minimum distance is set to the position of the paragraph mark. And (h) all paragraph marks are fixed based on the position of the paragraph mark set in the register when the calculation process of the distance from the starting point coordinates of the fixed frame is completed. A floating frame location coordinates setting means floating frame that has changed from frame to set the position coordinates of the floating frame so as to be positioned between the two paragraphs including paragraph of this paragraph mark,
(I) The document processing apparatus is provided with a redisplay means for setting the floating frame at the position coordinates set by the floating frame position coordinate setting means and for redisplaying the temporarily saved document around the floating frame. .

That is, in the invention according to claim 1, when there is a request to change the fixed frame displayed on the display to a floating frame, the paragraph mark added to the beginning position of each paragraph and the fixed frame as the change target. The position of the paragraph mark with the minimum distance is set in the register, and the position coordinate of the floating frame is set so that it is located between two paragraphs including the paragraph of this paragraph mark. I am going to set it. Then, the document is redisplayed around the upper and lower sides of the floating frame.

"Example" Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 shows a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. A system bus 11 is provided in this device, and various device circuits described below are connected thereto.

(I) CPU (Central Processing Unit) 12: Performs information processing such as document creation / editing and controls the operation of the entire device.

(Ii) Main memory 13: Random access memory (R
AM) and stores the control program read from the hard disk 21, the document data created and edited on the bitmap display 15, and the like. Further, an attribute table is provided in the main memory 13 so that various attribute data relating to the frame and various attribute data necessary for other control are stored.

(Iii) Memory control unit (MMU) 14: Controls reading data from the main memory 13 and transferring the data to the system bus 11, or conversely storing data in the main memory 13.

(Iv) Bitmap display 15: connected via the display control unit 16 and displays document data or graphic data input from the keyboard 17 or mouse 18, or document data or graphic data read from the hard disk 21. Various messages from the CPU 12 are also displayed.

(V) Display control unit 16: Controls the bitmap display 15.

(Vi) Keyboard 17: Used to input commands, document data, etc. for executing various processes to the CPU 12.

(Vii) Mouse 18: Having a plurality of button switches, used for moving the graphic cursor on the screen of the bitmap display 15, specifying the start and end points of the frame, specifying the coordinates for the input graphic, selecting the processing items, etc. To be

(Viii) Keyboard / Mouse Control Unit 19: Monitors the keyboard 17 and the mouse 18, and controls the transfer of various input data to the system bus 11.

(Ix) Hard disk 21: A control program for this document processing apparatus is stored, which is stored in the main memory 13 to control each section of the apparatus. Document data and graphic data are also stored.

(X) Disk controller 22: Controls the hard disk 21.

FIG. 2 shows the appearance of the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, a bitmap display 15 is placed on the main body cabinet 25, and is connected to the main body cabinet 25 by a dedicated cable 26. In the main body cabinet 25, device circuits (FIG. 1) such as the CPU 12, the main memory 13, the hard disk 21, etc. are housed. The keyboard 17 and the mouse 18 are connected to the main body cabinet 25 by dedicated cables 27 and 28, respectively.

A processing menu 33 is displayed at the top of the screen 31 of the bitmap display 15, and the desired processing item is selected by operating the mouse 18 to move the graphic cursor 32 and clicking the mouse button. Has become. Here, it is assumed that the window 34 has already been opened on the screen.

A change processing operation from the fixed frame to the floating frame of the document processing apparatus having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to FIG. Here, as shown in FIG. 8, it is assumed that the third page of the document is displayed in the window 34, and further, in this page, the text block 53 including the first paragraph 51 and the second paragraph 52 is displayed. It is supposed to be displayed. Of these, the first paragraph
A fixed frame 54 is arranged in the 51. Further, paragraph marks 55 and 56 are added to the head positions of the paragraphs to indicate the head positions of the paragraphs.

The operator selects the item "frame attribute" from the processing menu 33 shown in FIG. 4 with the graphic cursor 32 (step in FIG. 3). This allows the CPU12 (Fig. 1)
Recognizes that "frame attribute" setting and change are selected,
The display control unit 16 (Fig. 1) is controlled to display the pull-down menu 35 as shown in Fig. 5 in the lower area of the item "frame attribute" (step).

Next, when the item "frame type" is selected, as shown in FIG. 6, a pull-down menu 36 consisting of the selection items "fixed frame" and "floating frame" is displayed in the adjacent area (step). By selecting one of the two modes with the graphic cursor 32 (step), the code information indicating the corresponding frame type is displayed in the main memory.
Stored in the attribute table in 13 (step).

FIG. 7 shows the contents of the attribute table in the main memory 13 (FIG. 1). In this table, the storage area 37 is an area for storing various attribute data regarding the frame, and various attribute data as described below are stored at predetermined addresses.

(A) Frame type 41: Code information indicating the type of frame to be set, which indicates either a fixed frame or a floating frame.

(B) Frame display switch 42: Switch information indicating whether or not to display a line indicating a frame area (hereinafter simply referred to as a frame line). When this switch is on, the frame line is displayed and off. In this case, the frame line is not displayed and only the frame area is secured.

(C) Frame line type 44: Code information indicating the line type of the frame line, which includes types such as a solid line and a broken line.

(E) Frame line width 45: This is information indicating the line width of the frame line.

(F) Frame line color 46: Code information indicating the color of the frame line.

(G) Frame start point coordinates 47 and frame end point coordinates 48: Information indicating the coordinates of the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the set frame, respectively, which are designated by the graphic cursor 32.

When changing the frame line type of (c) among these frame attributes, the item “frame line type” is selected by the graphic cursor 32. As a result, a pull-down menu (not shown) including selection items “solid line”, “dashed line”, “dash-dot line”, etc. is displayed in the right area. Then, for example, when the item "broken line" is selected, the code information indicating "broken line" as the frame line type is stored in the attribute table in the main memory 13, and the frame line is changed to the broken line. Other attributes are set / changed in the same manner.

When the frame type is set in the attribute table in this way, the CPU 12 (FIG. 1) searches for the first paragraph mark existing in this page (step), and the position of the obtained paragraph mark 55 is registered in the register R. Set to ₁ (step).
Here, the paragraph mark is a mark for indicating the start position of each paragraph, and is stored in a predetermined area in the main memory 13. The CPU 12 further searches for the next paragraph mark (step), and sets the obtained paragraph mark 56 in the register R ₂ (step; Y, step). Then, the frame start point coordinates 47 are read from the attribute table (FIG. 7), and based on this data and the values of the registers R ₁ and R ₂ , the distances D ₁ and D ₂ between the frame start point 58 and the paragraph marks 55 and 56 are determined. Calculate each (step,). As a result, when D ₁ is smaller (step
; Y) Search the next paragraph mark as it is (step), and if D ₁ is larger (step; N) register R ₂
After setting the value of to the register R ₁ (step),
Find the next paragraph mark (step).

In this way, the paragraph mark search and distance calculation processing are sequentially performed (steps ~), and when the processing for the final paragraph mark is completed (step; N), the register
The position of the paragraph mark closest to the frame start point 58 is set in R ₁ .

Next, the CPU 12 calculates the number of lines L ₁ of the text 61 existing on the upper side of the frame on this page by counting the number of lines from the top line of the page to the line before the starting point position of the frame (step). Further CPU12 serves to set in the register R ₃ searches the paragraph mark located next paragraph mark register R ₁ (step), reads the frame end point coordinates 48 from the attribute table. Then, based on the frame end point coordinates 48 and the value of the register R ₃ , the line number L ₂ of the text 62 existing under the frame in the paragraph 51 is calculated (step), and the frame start point coordinates 47 of the attribute table are calculated. (L ₁ + L ₂ +1) is added to the row coordinates of and the row coordinates of the frame end point coordinates 48 (step,). As a result, new position coordinates as a floating frame are set in the attribute table.

The CPU 12 temporarily saves the data after the frame in the work area in the main memory 13 (step), and then re-displays the changed document (step). As a result, the layout of this page becomes as shown in FIG. That is, the floating frame 63 changed from the fixed frame 54 is the paragraph 51 and the paragraph 52.
Will be placed between. At this time, the main memory
Paragraph / frame order information indicating that the order relationship of display positions on this page is the order of paragraph 51, frame 63, and paragraph 52 is stored in a predetermined area of 13. As described above, in the floating frame, the relative positional relationship between the frame and the paragraphs before and after the frame is important, and the process of moving the position of the floating frame is performed only when the paragraph before the floating frame is edited. Further, in the floating frame, since the distance from the head position of the page is used as the start point coordinates and the end point coordinates, the page head position is always the reference.

The above-mentioned processing is similarly performed when the fixed frame 54 is arranged over a plurality of paragraphs 65 to 67 as shown in FIG. That is, the paragraph mark 68 located at the shortest distance from the frame start point is searched, and as shown in FIG. 11, immediately after the paragraph 65, that is, in the line direction frame so that the frame start point 58 is located in the line of the paragraph mark 69. The move is done.

Further, as shown in FIG. 12, the same applies when one page is composed of a plurality of text blocks 71 to 73 and the fixed frame 54 extends over these text blocks. However, in this case, as shown in FIG. 13, a process of setting the margin area 75 over the entire width of the page in the row direction is performed, and the floating frame 63 is arranged in the margin area 75. The position of this arrangement is selected from centering, right alignment, and left alignment according to an operator's instruction.

Next, the operation of changing the floating frame to the fixed frame will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 15 shows a state in which the first page to the third page of the document are displayed in the windows 76 to 78, respectively. As shown in this figure, a page format symbol 79 is set at the beginning of the first page. This symbol is information indicating the format such as how many text blocks form the page, and is actually stored in a predetermined area of the main memory 13 in association with the page number. However, when the format of a page is the same as the format of the immediately preceding page, the page format symbol does not exist at the beginning of the page. In this case, since the first to third pages have the same format, this symbol does not exist at the beginning of the second and third pages.

First, when it is necessary for the operator to change the floating frame 63 to a fixed frame, the operator performs a frame type changing operation with the graphic cursor 32 (FIG. 5) (steps from FIG. 14). Since this processing is similar to the processing of steps from FIG. 3, description thereof will be omitted here.

When the content of the frame type 41 in the attribute table (FIG. 7) is set to “fixed frame” by the frame type changing operation by the operator, the CPU 12 (FIG. 1) stores the data in a predetermined area of the main memory 13. First, reset the paragraph / frame order information
Invalidate the order relationship of the display devices of paragraph 51, floating frame 63, and paragraph 52 on the page (step). CPU12
Searches for the page format symbol immediately before the frame start point 58 of the floating frame 63 (step), finds the distance between the detected page format symbol 79 and the frame start point 58, and the page format symbol 79 and the frame end point 59.
After calculating the distance to (step,), these values are stored as the frame start point coordinates 47 and the frame end point coordinates 48 of the attribute table (step). This makes the floating frame
63 is a fixed frame 54, which is fixed at an absolute coordinate position based on the page format symbol 79 of the first page. Therefore, thereafter, even if the text area before the fixed frame 54 is edited, the fixed frame 54 does not move, and the distance from the page format symbol 79 is always kept constant.

Further, as shown in FIG. 11, also in the case of the floating frame 63 hanging over a plurality of paragraphs, the fixed frame 54 as shown in FIG. 16 is changed by similar processing. After this change, for example, if you edit by inserting a few lines of text in paragraph 65,
The fixed frame 54 does not move, and only the text is advanced. This causes part of paragraph 67 to be sent to the next page, as shown in FIG.

[Advantages of the Invention] As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, not only the fixed frame displayed on the display can be easily changed to the floating frame, but also when the fixed frame is changed to the floating frame. Detect the paragraph mark at the beginning of each paragraph,
By sequentially comparing these positions with the starting point coordinates of the fixed frame, the position of the paragraph mark having the minimum distance is found, and the positioning is performed so that the floating frame is arranged between two paragraphs including the paragraph of this paragraph mark. Since this is done, there is an effect that the floating frame can be set at a position easily visible in the document.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 to 17 are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a document processing apparatus, FIG. 2 is an external view of the document processing apparatus, and FIG. Is a flow chart for explaining the changing process from a fixed frame to a floating frame, FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a screen state in the step of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a screen state in the step of FIG. , FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the screen state in the step of FIG. 3, FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the attribute table, FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a page including a fixed frame, and FIG. Is an explanatory view showing a state after the fixed frame in FIG. 8 is changed to a floating frame, FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing an example of a fixed frame arranged over a plurality of paragraphs, and FIG. 11 is FIG. Fig. 12 is an explanatory view showing the state after changing the fixed frame of to a floating frame, Fig. 12 is a fixed frame arranged across multiple text blocks Explanatory diagram showing an example,
Figure 13 is an explanatory view showing the state after changing the fixed frame in Figure 12 to a floating frame, Figure 14 is a flow chart for explaining the process of changing from a floating frame to a fixed frame, and Figure 15 is a page format symbol. And Fig. 16 is an explanatory view showing the positional relationship between the fixed frame and Fig. 16, Fig. 16 is an explanatory view showing the state after changing the floating frame arranged over a plurality of paragraphs to a fixed frame, Fig. 17 is the fixing of Fig. 16 It is explanatory drawing which shows the state when edit is added to the paragraph before a frame. 11 …… System bus, 12 …… CPU, 13 …… Main memory, 14 …… MMU, 15 …… Bitmap display, 16 …… Display control block, 17 …… Keyboard, 18 …… Mouse, 21 …… Hard disk .

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A display for displaying text data as a character string or a number string and a frame for inserting a chart or a heading, and a fixed frame for diagonally connecting these points by designating two points of start point coordinates and end point coordinates. Frame specifying means for specifying, start point coordinate storing means for storing start point coordinates of the fixed frame specified by the frame specifying means, and paragraph mark searching means for searching a paragraph mark attached to the head position of each paragraph of the text data And a paragraph position storing means for storing the position of each paragraph mark searched by the paragraph mark searching means, and a change request from the fixed frame designated by the frame designating means and displayed on the display to a floating frame. Frame type change request input means, and when the frame type change request is input from the frame type change request input means, the starting point coordinates of the fixed frame and the step A register that calculates the distance of each paragraph mark stored in the position storage means and sets the position of the paragraph mark with the minimum distance each time, and the start point coordinates of the fixed frame for all of the paragraph marks. The floating frame changed from the fixed frame based on the position of the paragraph mark set in the register when the distance calculation process is completed is positioned between two paragraphs including the paragraph of this paragraph mark. A floating frame position coordinate setting means for setting the position coordinates of the floating frame, and a floating frame is set at the position coordinates set by the floating frame position coordinate setting means, and the temporarily saved document is placed around this floating frame. And a redisplay unit for redisplaying the document.