JP2996583B2 - Document processing apparatus and document processing method - 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 processing apparatus having an automatic number adding function and a document processing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document processing apparatus of this type, when performing auto numbering processing on a document shown in FIG. 4A, as shown in FIG. Insert an autonumbering command with arguments, eg {autonum roman}. Here, “￥ autonum” indicates an auto numbering command, and “roman” indicates an argument to the auto numbering command. Here, it is assumed that the auto numbering is indicated by Roman numerals. Thus, the typesetting result of the document into which the auto numbering command has been inserted is as shown in FIG.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional document processing apparatus, the indent position of the paragraph in which the automatic number is inserted is not fixed as shown in FIG. The output will be bad. For this reason, the operator is forced to perform an operation of correcting an insertion position deviation, for example, an operation of inserting a space or setting an indent to keep the indent position constant while checking the result of automatic number insertion on the screen, thereby reducing document processing efficiency. There were problems such as lowering.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and has been made in view of a document in which all numeric paragraphs inserted according to an auto-numbering command inserted in edited document information can be formatted from the same indent position. It is an object to provide a processing device and a document processing method.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a document processing apparatus comprising: an insertion unit for inserting an auto numbering command which is replaced with a numeral at the time of typesetting into a document being edited; and an auto numbering inserted by the insertion unit. Setting means for setting each attribute for a number to be replaced by a command, and a number increasing in a fixed increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document for the auto numbering command inserted by the inserting means. Number calculating means for calculating, width calculating means for calculating the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set for each number calculated by the number calculating means, and typesetting of each number calculated by the width calculating means Typesetting means for formatting an automatic number from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the maximum typesetting width.

In the document processing method according to the present invention, an auto numbering command which is replaced with a number at the time of typesetting is inserted into a document being edited, and each attribute for the number which is replaced with the inserted auto numbering command is set. For the inserted auto numbering command, calculate a number that increases in a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document, and follows each attribute set for each calculated number. The typesetting width of each number is calculated, and an automatic number is typeset from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the calculated maximum typesetting width of each number.

[0007]

According to the document processing apparatus of the present invention, the width calculating means calculates the typesetting width of each number according to the attribute set for each number calculated by the number calculating means, and sets the typesetting of each calculated number. The automatic numbering is formatted from the indent position of the paragraph where the formatting means is determined based on the maximum formatting width of the width, so even if the number of digit numbers of the inserted numbering increases, the numbers always look good from the same indent position. It is possible to do.

In the document processing method, an auto numbering command that is replaced with a number at the time of typesetting is inserted into a document being edited, and each attribute for the number that is replaced with the inserted auto numbering command is set. In response to the given auto-numbering command, a number that increases in a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document is calculated, and each of the numbers according to each attribute set for the calculated number is calculated. Calculates the typesetting width of the numbers, and sets the automatic number from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the calculated maximum typesetting width of each number, so even if the number of number digits of the inserted numbering increases In this way, it is possible to always typeset the numbers from the same indent position with good appearance.

[0009]

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

Referring to FIG. 1, a central processing unit 11 controls document information input from an input device 14 based on a document processing program including a control program shown in FIG. The edited document information is formatted and displayed on the display device 13 in accordance with the electronic formatting rules. The storage device 12 has an input / output processing program that processes font information of characters to be displayed on the display device 13 and outputs to the display device 13 as an input and output device from the input device 14 and to a printer device (not shown). Is also stored.

In the document processing apparatus configured as described above, the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set for each number calculated by the central processing unit 11 is calculated, and the typesetting width of each calculated number is calculated. The automatic numbering process is performed on the storage device 12 from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the maximum typesetting width of the paragraph, so that even if the number of digits of the inserted numbering increases, the numbers always appear from the same indent position. It is possible to typeset well.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the transition of the auto numbering processing state displayed on the display device 13 shown in FIG. 1, wherein (a) corresponds to a document input screen and (b) is an auto numbering command insertion screen. , And corresponds to the auto-numbering typesetting display screen, and (c) corresponds to the typesetting result.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a document processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In addition, (1)-
(5) shows each step.

A document is stored in a storage device 12 such as a memory and displayed on a display device 13 such as a CRT and a liquid crystal by a central processing unit 11 such as a CPU (see FIG. 2A). , An auto-numbering command using the input device 14 including a pointing device (mouse or the like), for example,
n}, the central processing unit 11 causes the storage device 1
2 stores the information, and the central processing unit 11 inserts and displays the information on the display device 13 as shown in FIG. 2B (1). Next, the input device 14 is used to input an attribute for a number to be replaced during typesetting. These attributes are stored in the storage device 12 through the central processing unit 11 (2). Central processing unit 11 using input device 14
, The central processing unit 11 searches the storage device 12 for the auto numbering command inserted in step (1) from the beginning to the end of the document, and sets an arbitrary initial value (in this embodiment, "1"), and the numbers increasing in a certain increment ("1" in the present embodiment) are made to correspond, and the correspondence is stored in the storage device 12 (3). Next, the central processing unit 11 searches the storage device 12 for the auto numbering command inserted in step (1) from the beginning of the document to the end of the document, and stores the corresponding number obtained in step (3) in the storage device 12. From the storage device 12, read the attributes specified in step (2) from the storage device 12, obtain the typesetting width of each numeral using those attributes, and store the maximum typesetting width in the storage device 12 ( 4). Finally, the maximum typesetting width obtained in step (4) is read from the storage device 12, and the central processing unit 11 performs typesetting of the document using the indent position of the paragraph in which the auto numbering command is inserted as the maximum typesetting width. As shown in FIG. 2C, the typesetting result is typeset and displayed with the indent position where the number is to be inserted fixed (5), and the process ends.

As described above, the auto numbering command that is replaced with a number at the time of typesetting is inserted into the document being edited, and each attribute for the number that is replaced with the inserted auto numbering command is set, and the inserted auto numbering is set. For the command, calculate a number that increases by a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document, and set the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set for each calculated number. Is calculated, and the automatic number is formatted from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the calculated maximum formatting width of each number, so that even if the number of digit numbers of the inserted numbering increases, the same number is always used. Numbers can be formatted with good looking from the indent position.

Although the above embodiment has been described with respect to the case where the numbering direction increases in the positive direction, that is, from 1, the present invention can be applied to the case where the numbering direction is the negative direction, that is, the countdown direction. No.

In this embodiment, as an auto numbering command having an argument, for example, ｛￥ autonum roman
Although the description has been given of the case where｝ is inserted, other commands may be used, the arguments may have other attributes, and the present invention can be applied to a case where a plurality of attributes are provided.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
For each number calculated by the number calculation means, the width calculation means calculates the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set,
Since the automatic formatting is performed from the indent position of the paragraph determined by the formatting means based on the calculated maximum formatting width of each number, the same indenting is always performed even if the number of digit numbers of the inserted numbering increases. Numbers can be typeset with good looking from the position.

According to the document processing method, an auto numbering command that is replaced with a number at the time of typesetting is inserted into a document being edited, and each attribute for the number that is replaced with the inserted auto numbering command is set. For the inserted auto numbering command, calculate a number that increases in a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document, and follows each attribute set for each calculated number. Since the typesetting width of each number is calculated and the automatic number is typeset from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the calculated maximum typesetting width of each number, the number of number digits of the numbering inserted is increased. Also, it is possible to always typeset the numbers from the same indentation position with good appearance.

Therefore, it is possible to form all the numeric paragraphs inserted according to the auto numbering command inserted into the edited document information from the same indent position.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an auto numbering process state transition displayed on the display device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a document processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an auto-numbering processing state in a conventional document processing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Central processing unit 12 Storage device 13 Display device 14 Input device

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An inserting means for inserting an auto numbering command which is replaced by a number at the time of typesetting into a document being edited, and a setting means for setting each attribute for the number which is replaced by the auto numbering command inserted by the inserting means. And a number calculating means for calculating a number that increases in a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document with respect to the auto numbering command inserted by the inserting means, and the number calculating means Width calculating means for calculating the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set for each calculated number, and a paragraph determined based on the maximum typesetting width of the typesetting width of each number calculated by this width calculating means A typesetting means for typesetting an automatic number from the indent position of the document. 2. An auto numbering command to be replaced with a number at the time of typesetting is inserted into a document being edited, each attribute for the number to be replaced by the inserted auto numbering command is set, and the inserted auto numbering command is set to On the other hand, calculate the number that increases by a certain increment while having an arbitrary initial value from the beginning to the end of the document, and calculate the typesetting width of each number according to each attribute set for the calculated number. A document processing method for formatting an automatic number from the indent position of the paragraph determined based on the calculated maximum formatting width of each number.