JP2953875B2 - Format change method in document creation or editing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for creating or editing a document, and more particularly, to a format changing method in a system for displaying a large character size.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a next page is created by overflowing characters from a current page, the next page is created in the same format as the current page. Therefore, if the size of the input character does not fit in the current format, the input character is regarded as overflowing to the next page, and nothing is displayed on the screen. In addition, in order to change the format once determined in a conventional document creation or editing system, the user of the system had to explicitly change the format.

[0003]

When a character of a size that does not fit in the current format is entered, nothing is displayed on the screen. Also, since the next page is created in the same format, the characters cannot be displayed on the screen.

For this reason, in the above-described conventional document creation system or editing system, characters of a size that does not fit in the current format cannot be displayed on the screen unless the user of the system explicitly changes the format. Further, there is a problem that editing of the document data cannot be continued.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to automatically maximize the format of a page to be created next when characters of a size that cannot be displayed on the screen exist in the input document data. Is displayed, the above drawbacks are resolved, and even if characters of a size that does not fit in the current format are entered, the user can continue editing the document data by simply turning the page without changing the format. An object of the present invention is to provide a format changing method in a creating or editing system.

[0006]

A format change method in a document creation or editing system according to the present invention is instructed by a screen display means for displaying a character on a screen when a character is input. Display character deciding means for deciding whether or not to be displayed on the display, and a sentence instructed and input by the display character deciding means
A display character presence / absence search means for comparing the character size with the current format to determine whether or not there is a character to be displayed on the screen in the input document data; and a display character presence / absence search means When a character is not found , the current
Format maximization checking means for checking whether there is a character of a size that does not fit on the page in the format of the above, and when there is a character that cannot be displayed in the current format by the format maximization checking means, the current format is changed. Maximize and control the next page on the screen display
Format maximizing means for passing control, and display coordinate calculating means for determining where on the screen the character should be displayed when there is a character to be displayed in the input document data,
Page correction means for adding a page when there is a character overflowing when the next page of the input document data is displayed.

[0007]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a format changing method in a document creating or editing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of displaying characters input by the format changing method of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of displaying characters after a page is turned by the format change method of this embodiment.

In FIG. 1, a screen display means 101 actually displays characters on a screen.

The display character determination means 102 receives control from the screen display means 101 and determines which character is to be displayed on the screen.

The display character presence / absence search means 103 receives control from the display character determination means 102, compares the current format with the size of the input character, and if there is a character to be displayed on the screen, displays the screen display means. 101, and when there is no character to be displayed, the format maximization check means 104 is called.

The format maximizing check means 104 is controlled when the character to be displayed is not found by the display character presence / absence searching means 103, and checks whether there is any character which cannot be displayed in the current format. If the character cannot be displayed because the character size is too large, the format maximizing means 105 is called.

The format maximizing means 105 receives control when there is a character which cannot be displayed in the current format in the format maximizing checking means 104, and actually maximizes the format.

The display coordinate calculation means 106 receives control when there is a character to be displayed, and determines at which position on the screen the character is to be displayed.

The document file access means 107 receives control from the character coordinate calculation means 106 and
Read various character information from 0.

The character input means 108 writes the character input by the user into the document file 110 through the document file access means 107.

The page correction means 109 receives control when displaying the next page, and adds a page when there are overflowing characters.

The dotted line in FIG. 1 indicates the flow of control, and the thin line indicates the flow of data.

In this embodiment, A4 size (vertical length: 29
600 points (vertical length: 211.7 mm, horizontal length: 211.7 mm) in a format of 7 mm, horizontal length: 210 mm
As an example, when a character "A" having a size of
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When a 600-point character is input in the A4 format (step 201), the character input unit 108 passes the character code and attribute of the input character to the document file access unit 107. The document file access unit 107 writes the input character information into the document file 110.

Next, the display character determining means 102 is called in order to obtain information on the character displayed by the screen display means 101. The display character search unit 103 is called to check whether there is any character that can be displayed by the display character determination unit 102. The display character search means 103 compares the current format with the character size (step 202). At this time, if the character size is smaller than the horizontal size of the format, the display coordinates of the character are calculated (step 203), and the input character is displayed (step 204). However, the process ends without displaying anything because the character size is larger than the horizontal size of the format (step 205).

Next, when a page turning operation for displaying the next page is entered (step 301), the page correcting means 108 searches the display character presence / absence search means to check whether there are any characters which are not yet displayed. Call 103. The display character presence / absence search unit 103 detects that the 600-point character "A" is not displayed, and notifies the format maximizing unit 104 (step 302, Yes). Then, the format maximizing unit 104 checks the cause of the absence of the character "A" (step 303). If the character size is not displayed because it is too large, the format maximizing means 105 is called to change the current format to A3 size (420 mm × 297 m).
m) (step 304). Thereafter, display coordinates are calculated (step 305).

Thus, the character "A" of 600 points
Is displayed on the screen (step 306). Then, the process ends (step 307).

If it is determined in step 302 that there are no characters already displayed (step 302, N
o), and the process ends (step 307).

[0025]

As described above, the format change method in the document creation or editing system of the present invention is applicable to a case where there is a character of a size that cannot be displayed on the screen in the input document data. By automatically maximizing the format of the page to be created and displaying characters on the screen, even if characters that can not be displayed because they are larger than the current format are entered, they will be displayed on the screen by turning the page and explicit This has the effect that editing can be continued without changing the format.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a format change method in a document creation or editing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of displaying characters input by a format change method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of displaying characters after a page is turned by the format change method according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 screen display means 102 display character determination means 103 display character presence / absence search means 104 format maximization inspection means 105 format maximization means 106 display coordinate calculation means 107 document file access means 108 character input means 109 page correction means 110 document file

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Osamu Igarashi Niigata Nippon Electric Software Co., Ltd. 4-27, Bandai 4-chome, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G06F 17/21-17/28

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] When a character is input , a character is displayed on a screen.
A display character determining means for determining whether to display which characters on the screen are indicated on the screen display means for performing, the display character determination
The size and the current format of the character entered according to the instructions
A display character presence / absence search means for determining whether or not there is a character to be displayed on the screen in the input document data, and when the display character presence / absence search means does not find any character to be displayed , Fit in page in current format in text
And formatting maximization test means to check whether or not a character of no size, in the format maximization test means in the current format and up <br/> the current format when there is a character that can not be displayed A format maximizing unit that transfers control of the next page to the screen display unit, and a display that determines a position on the screen when a character to be displayed is present in the input document data. Coordinate display means, and page correction means for adding a page when there is a character overflowing when displaying the next page of the input document data.
A format change method in a document creation or editing system.