JP2995720B2 - Document editing method and document creation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing method and a document creating apparatus for creating and editing a document including a sentence, a table, a graphic, or the like by an easy operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A document creation apparatus has various editing functions for easily modifying and editing a created document. Hereinafter, a device (hereinafter, referred to as a document editing device) related to an editing function of a document creation device will be described in this document. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional document editing apparatus. In FIG. 5, reference numeral 21 denotes a document storage unit which holds the contents of a document to be edited. Reference numeral 22 denotes an input unit for inputting an instruction for editing, characters, and the like. 2
Reference numeral 3 denotes an area movement instructing unit that instructs to perform area movement. Reference numeral 24 denotes a rectangular area designating unit for designating two points on the diagonal of the area to be moved in order to designate the area to be moved. 2
A destination designation unit 5 designates a destination of an area to be moved. Reference numeral 26 denotes an area moving unit which stores the contents of the document storage unit 21 so that all the contents included in the area specified by the rectangular area specifying unit 24 are moved to the area specified by the destination specifying unit 25. To change. A control unit 27 controls operations such as activation and termination of each component in the apparatus.

[0003] The operation of the document editing apparatus configured as described above will be described. For example, in a case where a text area and a table area are included in a document, the position of the table is to be moved to the beginning of the line by two characters. First, the operator instructs the area movement instructing unit 23 to move the position of the table included in the document stored in the document storage unit 21 to the beginning of the line by two characters. Then, the control unit 27 activates the rectangular area designation unit 24 in order to cause the operator to specify the area to be moved. The operator specifies two diagonal points in the table in order to specify an area to be moved. Further, the control unit 27 activates the destination designation unit 25 to cause the operator to specify the destination of the table area. The operator specifies a point on the upper left corner of the table at the beginning of the two-character line in order to specify the destination. Further, the control unit 27
The region moving unit 26 is activated, and the table region specified by the rectangular region specifying unit 24 is obtained by moving the table such that the point specified by the destination specifying unit 25 is located at the upper left corner of the table. Is changed to the contents of the document storage unit 21. By a series of these operations, the table in the document is moved to the beginning of the line by two characters.

[0004]

However, in the above-described configuration, in order to move an area such as a table or a figure while editing a document, it is necessary to specify an area move, a rectangular area, and a destination. Had to do. Therefore, when the moving distance is very short, there is a problem that the operation is felt relatively complicated. Furthermore, among the editing functions, when moving a character string, there is no consistency with the simple operation method of moving by inserting or deleting a blank character at the beginning of the line of the character string to be moved. However, there is a problem that the user feels inconsistency in the man-machine interface. The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem.When a non-character area such as a table is moved in a horizontal direction in a line, the non-character area is automatically changed in response to an input in which the number of characters increases or decreases at the beginning of the line where the area exists. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document editing method and a document creation device for moving an area in a desired manner.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in a document editing method, in a document having a character area and a non-character area in the same line, a non-character area is moved in the line. And the following steps. First, input information for increasing or decreasing the number of characters in a character area located at the beginning of a line in a non-character area is provided. Next, it is recognized whether or not the input information corresponds to an instruction to move the non-character area. Further, a non-character area to be moved is extracted. Further, the destination of the non-character area is determined. Then, the non-character area is moved to a predetermined destination, and the document is edited.

In the document editing method according to the second aspect of the present invention, after the input step, it is possible to selectively set to recognize that the input information does not always correspond to an instruction to move the non-character area. A movement instruction recognition inactivation setting step is provided. According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document creation apparatus which is capable of moving a non-character area in a line in a document having a character area and a non-character area in the same line. When an input unit for inputting information and character information for increasing or decreasing the number of characters in a character region located at the beginning of the line of the non-character region from the input unit, the character information corresponds to an instruction to move the non-character region A move instruction recognizing unit for recognizing whether or not a non-character area is to be moved, an area extracting unit for extracting a non-character area to be moved, a destination determining unit for determining a destination of the non-character area, And an area moving unit for moving.

The document creation device according to the fourth aspect of the present invention can further selectively set that the character information input from the input unit is not always recognized as an instruction to move the non-character area. A movement instruction recognition inactivation setting unit is provided.

[0008]

According to the first and third aspects of the invention, in order to move a non-character area such as a table or a figure in the horizontal direction in the line, the operator increases or decreases the number of characters in the character area located at the head of the line from the input unit. Such input may be given. Then, the document creation device captures the input from the operator, the movement instruction recognition unit determines whether the input or deletion of the character is an area movement instruction, and further, the area extraction unit extracts the area to be moved, The destination determining unit determines the destination of the area, and changes the contents of the document storage unit so that the area moving unit moves the area.

According to the second and fourth aspects of the present invention, the operator can select whether or not the above-described automatic area moving / editing function of the non-character area is set.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A document editing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document editing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a document storage unit which holds the contents of a document.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a document display unit for visualizing and displaying the contents stored in the document storage unit 1. A character input unit 3 receives a character input from an operator. As the character input unit, a key board, a pointing device, a character recognition device, or the like is used.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a character deletion instruction input unit for receiving a character deletion instruction from an operator. As the character deletion instruction input unit, a deletion key, a reverse key, a pointing device, and the like are used. Reference numeral 5 denotes a cursor movement instruction input unit which receives an instruction to move a cursor, which is a character input position, from an operator. A cursor key, a pointing device, and the like are used as the cursor movement instruction input unit.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a movement instruction recognizing unit which recognizes whether an input from the character input unit 3 or an input from the character deletion instruction input unit 4 becomes an area moving instruction. Reference numeral 7 denotes a destination determining unit which determines a destination of an area to be moved. Here, when it is determined that the input from the character input unit 3 is an area movement instruction, it is determined that the area at the end of the line by the number of input characters is the movement destination. On the other hand, when it is determined that the input from the character deletion instruction input unit 4 is an area movement instruction, it is determined that the area at the beginning of the line by the number of deletion characters is the movement destination.

An area extracting unit 8 extracts an area to be moved from the document storage unit 1. As an extraction method, for example,
First, all the area boundaries between the character area and the non-character area on the same line as the cursor position and at the end of the line after the cursor position are extracted, and each area boundary is traced to form a closed area surrounded by the area boundary. Then, of all the closed regions, the one having the largest area is extracted as the region to be moved.

Reference numeral 9 denotes an area moving unit which changes the contents of the document storage unit 1 so that the area extracted by the area extracting unit 8 is moved to the destination determined by the destination determining unit 7. I do. It should be noted that, in addition to these, various components such as components for realizing various editing functions such as copying and deleting of document contents are required, but description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the operation of the document editing apparatus according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing the operation of the document creation device. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a sentence display showing a state of a document including a character region and a table region before and after the region is moved. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state of the document including a character region and a graphic region before and after the region is moved. It is a schematic diagram of a sentence display showing "." 3 and 4, reference numeral 31 denotes a document creation area, and 32a,
32b, 34a, and 34b indicate character areas before and after the area moving operation, 33 indicates a table area or a graphic area, and 35 indicates a cursor.

First, an example of moving a non-character area to the end of a line will be described with reference to FIGS. (1) Now, it is assumed that the document shown in the upper part of FIG. 3 is recorded in the document storage unit 1, and the operator attempts to move the table area 33 in the document storage unit by one character to the end of the line. (2) The operator moves the cursor 35 to the left side of the table using the cursor movement instruction input unit 5, and then inputs one blank character using the character input unit 3. (3) The movement instruction recognition unit 6 recognizes whether or not this blank character input is an area movement instruction. In this case, the movement instruction recognition unit 6 determines the document data at the end of the line after the cursor position and recognizes that a ruled line exists at the end of the line. Then, the ruled line is determined as a boundary line with the table area, and the existence of the table area 33 is recognized. Further, it recognizes that one or more spaces exist in the character area 34a at the end of the line. By recognizing the table area at the end of the line, it is determined that the blank character input corresponds to the area movement instruction. (4) The destination determining unit 7 determines where the destination of the table area 33 is. In this case, since one character is input at the beginning of the line, the table area 33 is shifted to the end of the line by one character.
Is to be moved. (5) The area extracting unit 8 extracts an area to be moved. That is, as described above, the ruled line is traced as a boundary between the character region and the table region, and all closed regions surrounded by the ruled line are obtained.
The largest area is extracted as the table area 33 to be moved. (6) The area moving unit 9 changes the contents of the document storage unit 1 so that the table area 33 extracted by the area extracting unit 8 is moved to the destination determined by the destination determining unit 7. . In this case, the contents of the document storage unit 1 are changed so that the entire table is moved to the end of the line by one character. As a result, the contents of the document storage unit 1 are as shown in the lower part of FIG.

Next, the case where the non-character area is moved to the beginning of the line will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 4. FIG. (1) Now, it is assumed that the text shown in the upper part of FIG. 4 is recorded in the document storage unit 1, and the operator intends to move the entire graphic area 33 in the document storage unit 1 to the beginning of the line by two characters. (2) The operator moves the cursor 35 to the left of the graphic area 33 using the cursor movement instruction input unit 5,
An instruction to delete two characters is input using the character deletion instruction input unit 3. (3) The area extracting unit 8 extracts an area to be moved. Here, the entire graphic area 33 on the right side of FIG. 4 is extracted. The existence of the graphic area is detected by detecting boundary information between the character area on the end of the line from the cursor 35 and the graphic area. (4) The movement instruction recognition unit 6 recognizes whether or not the character deletion input is an area movement instruction. In this case, since there is a figure at the end of the line at the cursor position and in all lines including the figure, there are two blank characters at the beginning of the figure, so it is determined that the instruction corresponds to the area movement instruction. (5) The destination determining unit 7 determines where the destination of the graphic area 33 is. In this case, since the character deletion instruction input of two characters has been performed, it is determined that the area should be moved to the beginning of the line by two characters. (6) The area moving unit 9 changes the contents of the document storage unit 1 so that the graphic area 33 extracted by the area extracting unit 8 is moved to the destination determined by the destination determining unit 7. . In this case, the contents of the document storage unit 1 are changed so that the entire graphic area 33 is moved to the beginning of the line by two characters. As a result, the contents of the document storage unit 1 are as shown in the lower part of FIG.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the character input unit 3 and the character deletion instruction input unit 4 receive an input from the operator, and the movement instruction recognition unit 6 determines whether the input is an area movement instruction. If it is determined that the instruction is to move the area, the destination determining unit 7 determines the destination, the area extracting unit 8 extracts the area to be moved, and the area moving unit 9 moves the area. The contents of the document storage unit 1 are changed to a state. Thus, when the non-character area is moved in the horizontal direction, simply input or delete characters at the beginning of the line where the area to be moved exists, and the entire area is moved by an amount corresponding to the increased or decreased number of characters. be able to. Therefore, the operation of the operator can be simplified, and the correction time can be shortened. By realizing the same simple operation method as in the case of moving a character string, it is possible to provide a man-machine interface with a sense of unity for the operator.

In this embodiment, the movement instruction recognizing unit 6 is activated when character input or character deletion is performed and the number of characters in the character area at the beginning of the line is increased or decreased. Other operations, such as string movement,
The operation may be performed when the number of characters in the character area is changed by performing an operation that causes a change in the character string in the document storage unit, such as a character string copy or a character string deletion.

In this embodiment, the destination determining unit 7
Determines that the increase or decrease in the number of characters due to character input is the movement amount of the area, but not only when the increase or decrease in the characters is simply used as the movement amount, It may be determined. For example, if the amount of movement of the character is moved as a movement amount, a part of the contents of the text storage unit is overwritten, and a part of the document contents is lost, or the destination is set in advance as a format. If the number of characters per line exceeds the limit,
Automatically determine and move to a movable area,
An appropriate destination may be determined as necessary.

Further, in the present embodiment, the region extracting unit 8
Extracts all the area boundaries on the same line as the cursor position and at the end of the line, finds a closed area by following each area boundary,
After that, we decided to extract the one with the largest area among all those closed areas as the area to be moved,
In the case of combining with another method, for example, a document creating apparatus that manages a document by dividing it into a plurality of blocks such as character strings, graphics, tables, and images, the extraction is performed by using the layout information of each block. Or another method.

Further, for the document editing apparatus of this embodiment,
A movement instruction recognition deactivation setting unit that allows an operator to select whether or not to perform the above-described area movement processing may be provided. Then, before performing the area move edit of the non-character area,
By selecting the area moving operation method, it is possible to use the conventional area moving operation.

[0024]

As described above, the document creation apparatus of the present invention is provided with an input unit for inputting / deleting a character, a movement instruction recognition unit, a destination determination unit, an area extraction unit, and an area movement unit. Therefore, when the non-character area is moved in the horizontal direction, it is possible to move the non-character area by an amount corresponding to a predetermined moving amount only by increasing or decreasing the characters at the beginning of the line where the area to be moved exists. Can be. Therefore, the operation can be simplified and the editing time can be shortened. Further, by realizing the same simple operation method as in the case of moving a character string, it is possible to provide a man-machine interface with a sense of unity for the operator.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing an operation of the document editing apparatus in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of contents of a document storage unit before and after the area is moved in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing another example of the contents of the document storage unit before and after the area is moved in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional document editing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 document storage unit 2 document display unit 3 character input unit 4 character deletion instruction input unit 5 cursor movement instruction input unit 6 movement instruction recognition unit 7 destination determination unit 8 area extraction unit 9 area movement unit

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document editing method for performing in-line movement of a non-character area in a document having a character area and a non-character area in the same line, wherein the character located at the beginning of the line of the non-character area An input step of providing input information for increasing or decreasing the number of characters in an area; a movement instruction recognition step of recognizing whether the input information corresponds to an instruction to move the non-character area; An area extracting step of extracting, a destination determining step of determining a destination of the non-character area, and an area moving step of moving the non-character area to a predetermined destination and editing the document. Document editing method. 2. The moving instruction recognition method according to claim 1, further comprising, after the inputting step, further selectively setting that the input information does not always correspond to an instruction to move the non-character area. The document editing method according to claim 1, further comprising an inactivation setting step. 3. A document creation device capable of moving a non-character area in a line in a document having a character area and a non-character area in the same line, wherein a document storage unit for storing the document and character information are input. An input unit, when character information for increasing or decreasing the number of characters of the character region located at the beginning of the line of the non-character region is input from the input unit, the character information corresponds to an instruction to move the non-character region A move instruction recognizing unit for recognizing whether or not to perform the operation; an area extracting unit for extracting the non-character area to be moved; a destination determining unit for determining a destination of the non-character area; And a region moving unit for moving the document to a destination. 4. The movement which can be selectively set to recognize that the character information input from the input unit does not always correspond to an instruction to move the non-character area. The document creation device according to claim 3, further comprising an instruction recognition inactivation setting unit.