JP2681627B2 - Document creation and editing device - Google Patents

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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 these devices, it is required to be able to easily grasp whether or not an appropriate object sentence has been created. For that purpose, it is desirable that the target sentence is output in the same manner as the original sentence, that is, it is displayed on a CRT display device or printed out by a printing device. Taking the translation device as an example, for example, when the original document includes frames, lines, etc. of figures, tables, columns, etc., the parts corresponding to those frames, lines, etc. in the translated document become blank, frames, lines, etc. If it is output in the form where is omitted, it may interfere with the quick understanding of the content of the translated document. Therefore, it is desirable that the translated document be output in a format corresponding to the original 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. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and to provide a document creation / editing apparatus capable of outputting a target document in a format corresponding to an original document and grasping the correspondence relationship with the original document by a simple operation. With the goal. Configuration In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention has at least one
Input means for inputting data of an original document including one frame, conversion means for creating an object sentence corresponding to the original sentence included in the frame, storage means for accumulating the data of the original document and the data of the object document, and the original document And output means for outputting the target document, and control means which responds to the input means and controls the conversion means, the storage means and the output means, and the control means stores the original document data when input. The original sentence is sent from the storage unit to the conversion unit in frame units, the conversion unit performs conversion processing in frame units to create object sentences, and the object sentences are accumulated in the storage unit according to the frames. It is characterized by a document creation / editing device for outputting to an output means in a format corresponding to an original document according to a frame. 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 controllably connected by the input control unit 18 and optically reads image information recorded on 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. The sentence selection cursor key 58 controls the sentence selection cursor that specifies the original sentence in the original document displayed in the display screen 50 or the target sentence in the target document, and is displayed in the display screen 50 of the original document or the target document. By moving the position where the value of the sentence selection cursor ownership flag in the other document is ON in conjunction with the movement of the sentence selection cursor in the other document, the display screen 50 is moved. When the document displayed in is switched to the other document, place the sentence selection cursor on the sentence in the other document that corresponds to the sentence in which the sentence selection cursor in the previously displayed document was placed This is a cursor control key that has the function of displaying the 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 line 30, a floppy disk device 32, and a magnetic tape device can be connected to the input control unit 18 in addition to the above. 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 document data, one document, that is, a document includes one or more chapters or chapters, each chapter includes one or more pages, and each page includes 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 characters, images, and graphs, or a combination of two or three of them. Type 1 is a frame with only the character (C), type 2
Is a frame containing only the image (I), type 3 is a frame containing only the graph (G), type 4 is a frame containing C and I, type 5 is a frame containing I and G, type 6 is a frame containing C and G, 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 shows the position (coordinate), size, type, and frame number (N
o.). An example is shown in FIG. The frame profile table 38 has a page list 124
The frame information and the contents can be accessed using the frame number (ID) as a key. In the frame profile table 38, "Attribute of parent and child"
Indicates that "0" indicates that the frame has no child 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 points of the character font 102a at the beginning 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 20 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. 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. 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 the document chapter page information table 36 and the frame profile table 38 of the original document file are copied (262). Therefore, the cursor in the frame content record 40 of the original document file is copied while replacing the original sentence in the frame content record with the translated sentence (264). Details of this processing are shown in FIG. Referring to FIGS. 8A and 8B, first, the frame number pointer 231 is set to "0" (265), and the pointer 231 is set.
Data of the frame type is taken out from the frame profile table 38 instructed by (266). The types are 1, 4,
If it is 6 or 7 (267), the record pointer is set to the first record, that is, "0" in the work area secured in the memory of the editor for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document (268), and the step Move to 269. In step 269, the flag field of the frame content record 40 in the work area is set to "0" (Fig. 12), the starting point information of the translated sentence is calculated and set from the starting point information of the original sentence, and the first character code of the translated sentence is set. Set the font type in the character code field. Next, the record pointer of the work area for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document is incremented (27
0), the character code of the translated text is not the end code (27
1) Set the flag field of the frame content record 40 of the work area to "1", put the next character of the translated sentence in the character code field, and set the pitch and font type (27
2). If the character code of the translated text is the end code and there is a translated text in the frame (275), the next "0" is searched for in the flag field of the frame content record 40 of the original document (27
6) and returns to step 269. If there is no translation in that frame, that frame is the end, so the flag is set to 1, the start point field is set to hexadecimal "FFFF", and the contents of the work area are written into the document file of the target document (27
7), search the next frame (273). If the frame type is not 1, 4, 6 or 7 in step 267, the frame content record of the frame pointed to by the frame number pointer is copied into the document file of the target document (278) and the next frame is searched. To (273). In this way, the process of creating the target document and storing it in the document file 34 is advanced by stepping the frame number pointer for each frame (273, 274). In this way, the translated sentences are sequentially stored in the frame content record 40 for each frame included in one chapter. In this embodiment, the position coordinates (X, Y) of the start point of such a translated sentence are set as follows. For the abscissa X, the original sentence is set as it is for the first sentence in the frame of the translated sentence. 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 this value exceeds the right edge of the frame, a line feed is performed. The ordinate Y is set to that of the original sentence as it is for the sentence on the first line in the frame of the translated sentence. In the present embodiment, regarding lines on and after the second line, the ordinate of the sentence on that line is the ordinate on the ordinate of the sentence on the previous line Y1.
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 sentence + pitch of translated sentence) = (average value of character width in font type of original sentence + pitch of original sentence) /1.58 In this embodiment, the value of this conversion coefficient is 1 /1.58 is a value that has been empirically selected so that the translated text can be accommodated in a format that is approximately the same size as the original text, taking into consideration the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese into English. So in this case, the translated frame is about 2.
Holds five times as many characters. 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 frames 0 to 3 in FIG.
Includes frames 0-3 in the same appearance or style and arrangement corresponding to, and includes original sentences 1-9 and translated sentences 1-9 corresponding to a, b, c, and a, b, c. There is. Also,
The characters “Sales”, “Month”, etc. corresponding to the characters “sales”, “month”, etc. in frame 2 of the original text are included, and the same image and graph as the original text are included. 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 in the original document 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 9D. 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 there is no previous sentence, it is determined whether there is an earlier frame (308), and if the result is affirmative, the cursor that is currently on in the frame content record 40 for the source document and the target document. Turn off the ownership flag (Figure 12),
On the display screen in the frame content record 40 immediately before the frame in which the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the frame group of the document currently displayed on the display screen 50, either the original document or the target document. The cursor ownership flag of the last displayed sentence is turned on, and the cursor ownership flag of the statement corresponding to the newly turned-on statement in the document which is not currently displayed is turned on (314). Next, for the displayed document, 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" (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 the latter sentence does not exist, it is judged whether or not there is a later frame (312), and if the result is affirmative, the cursor that is currently on in the frame content record 40 for the original document and the target document is determined. In the frame content record 40 next to the frame in which the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the frame group of the document currently displayed on the display screen 50 among the original document and the target document with the ownership flag turned off. The cursor-owning flag of the first sentence displayed on the display screen is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag of the sentence corresponding to the newly-turned-statement in which the cursor is currently turned on is turned on in the document that is not currently displayed. Then (316), the process proceeds to step 322. If it is found in steps 310 and 311 that the previous sentence exists, the cursor-owning flag of the sentence following the sentence in which the cursor-owning flag in the frame content record 40 of the original document and the target document is currently on is turned on, until then. The cursor ownership flag that was on is turned off (320), and the process proceeds to step 322. As described above, according to the present embodiment, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including the frame and the line, and the display of the original document and the target document is switched to each other. Since the original text and the target text that are being displayed can be specified by the sentence selection cursor, it is easy to associate the original text with the translated text. In addition, graphic information such as figures and graphs included in the original document is output to the target document together with the translation of the original language related to them. Therefore, the target document corresponding to the original document is obtained. Effect According to the present invention, since the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document and including the frames and lines, it is easy to associate the original sentence with the translated sentence. Further, the figures and graphs included in the original document are output to the target document together with the translated words of the original language related to them. Therefore, the target document corresponding to the original document is obtained.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a document creating / editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a target document applied to the embodiment, and FIGS. FIG. 9D is a flow chart showing an example of the operation flow in the same embodiment, and FIGS. 10 to 15 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of the document file in the same embodiment. Explanation of main part code 10 …… Translation unit 12 …… Editor 20 …… Display device 22 …… Display control unit 34 …… Document file 50 …… Display screen 56 …… Page move key 58 …… Sentence selection cursor key 60 ...... Character selection cursor keys

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(57) [Claims] Input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame, conversion means for creating an objective sentence corresponding to an original sentence included in the original document, and storing the data of the original document and the data of the objective document. The storage unit has a storage unit, an output unit for outputting the original document and the target document, and a control unit that responds to the input unit and controls the conversion unit, the storage unit, and the output unit, and the frame is a sentence. When the data of the original document is input, the control means stores the data in the storage means, and the graphic is added to the data of the original document stored in the storage means. Even when a frame including a frame is included, only the sentence in the original document stored in the storage unit is sent to the conversion unit in frame units, and the conversion unit performs the conversion process only on the sentence. Then, the target document containing only the sentence is created, and the target document containing only the sentence created by the converting means is added with a graphic similar to the graphic included in the original document in the same format and stored in the storage means. A document creation / editing apparatus, which outputs the target document accumulated in the storage means to the output means in a format corresponding to the original document. 2. In the apparatus according to claim 1, the control means gives priority to the frames of the original document, sends only the sentences in the original document to the conversion means in frame priority order frame by frame, and A document creation / editing apparatus for outputting a target document accumulated in a storage means to an output means in frame priority order for each frame. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means includes display means for selectively visually displaying the original document and the target document, and the input means controls display of sentences on the display means. The control means displays the other of the original document and the target document corresponding to the one that was previously displayed on the display means in response to the operation of the operation means. A document creation / editing device characterized by: 4. In the apparatus according to claim 3, when the display means selectively and visually displays the original document and the target document, the positions of the original sentence in the original document and the target sentence in the target document corresponding to each other. A document creation / editing apparatus characterized in that a cursor is displayed on the screen.