JP3350936B2 - Document creation device and document creation 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 creating apparatus and a document creating apparatus for selecting a plurality of sentence examples prepared in advance and creating a final document while modifying the selected sentence examples. About the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, documents such as letters for ceremonial occasions, business sentences, and speech manuscripts have many fixed portions, and anyone can easily process sentences prepared in advance according to the purpose. Documents of a certain quality can be created. In consideration of this, in a document creation device such as a so-called word processor, a plurality of sentence examples classified according to the use or the like are prepared in advance, and the sentence examples are searched and called according to the purpose. It has been attempted to provide a function of creating a final document by making corrections such as filling in necessary items and deleting, rewriting, and adding unnecessary portions.

[0003] More specifically, each of the plurality of text examples is individually filed as a document file (text example file) and recorded on a floppy disk or the like, and a so-called directory is formed to manage these files. Are also recorded in a predetermined area such as a floppy disk. This directory is equivalent to a table of contents of a book, and is hierarchized into large items, medium items, small items, and the like as necessary to facilitate a search. This is a so-called hierarchical directory having a tree structure. A document creation support system including a document file corresponding to a plurality of text examples, a directory for file search, a search program, and the like is supplied in a form recorded on, for example, a floppy disk or the like.

[0004] By the way, while such a program of the document creation support system is being executed, it is usually impossible to modify or rewrite a document basically. Even if the contents can be changed, it is only necessary to select one of several candidates prepared in advance for each character string (for example, phrase etc.) having a predetermined unit in the sentence example. When the user wants to rewrite, for example, the document creation support program is temporarily terminated, and the process returns to a general word processor program.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

[0005] However, when inputting characters in a part where the entry part is predetermined (undetermined part), such as entry of the date, or entry of a proper noun such as a personal name, etc.
In many cases, it is more convenient to be able to do this while the program of the document creation support system is being executed. In particular, if the final document can be created simply by writing necessary items in a prepared example, the document creation support program The operation of switching to the document creation mode of the word processor after the completion is complicated, and it takes time and effort.

Here, it is conceivable to enable free character input even during execution of the program of the document creation support system. However, when the number of input characters is increased, a necessary part in the original sentence (rewriting is unnecessary) Portion) may be rewritten, and the document creation may be terminated without noticing it, or it may be difficult to restore the original sentence even if it is noticed, which is not preferable. If a character input function equivalent to that of a word processor is provided, the program of the document creation support system becomes enormous.

[0007]

A document creation apparatus and method according to the present invention select one of a plurality of sentence examples recorded on a recording medium, read out the selected sentence example, and display it on a display means. When creating a document based on the displayed sentence example, each of the above sentence examples is divided into units of a character string composed of meaningful units, and when there is an undetermined part in the above character string, In response, a character input window is displayed to shift to a character input mode. In the character input window, an input part in a character string including an undetermined part and a fixed phrase are separated and displayed, and a message in the character input window is displayed. In the display line, display information in which the remaining part of the input content information is added to a part of the input content information corresponding to the input location, or display a sentence for general-purpose input, and store the input character data. By storing in, to solve the problems described above.

The present invention has been proposed in view of such circumstances. When a character string including an undetermined part is selected during execution of a program of the document creation support system, the character string containing the undetermined part is selected. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device and a document creation method that can easily and reliably input characters.

[0009]

A document creation apparatus and a document creation method according to the present invention select one of files corresponding to a plurality of sentence examples recorded on a recording medium and read out the selected sentence example. In the document creation apparatus and the document creation method for creating a document based on the displayed sentence example on the display means, each sentence example is divided in units of a character string of a predetermined length, and the character string is not included in the character string. When there is a confirmed portion, a character input window is displayed according to the operation, the mode is shifted to a character input mode, information for specifying the content to be input is displayed in the character input window, and the input character data is stored. The above-mentioned problem is solved by storing in the.

[0010]

In the selected and displayed sentence example, when a character string having an undetermined portion is selected, a character input window is opened to display input content information and switch to a character input mode. When the character input is completed, the input character data is stored in the storage means.

[0011]

FIG. 1 shows a schematic hardware configuration of an embodiment of a document creation apparatus and a document creation method according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a sub CPU 12 is connected to a main CPU (central processing unit) 11, and controls the key input from a keyboard 13, the generation of a buzzer sound, and the like by the sub CPU 12. Main C
RAM (random access memory) 15, program ROM (read only memory) 16, type font ROM 17, dictionary ROM 18,
An SIO (serial interface) 19, an expansion connector 20, an LCD (liquid crystal display) controller 21, and the like are connected. The LCD controller 21 controls the display of the LCD 23, which is a two-dimensional screen display unit, while reading and writing display data from and to a V (video) RAM 22. A gate array 24 having functions such as a timing generator and an address decoder is connected to a bus line of the main CPU 11, and a timing signal and an address signal from the gate array 24 are transmitted to the LCD controller 2.
1, the LCD 23, the VRAM 22, etc., and the scanner connector 25 is connected to the gate array 24. A disk controller 26 is connected to a bus line of the main CPU 11, and the disk controller 26 transfers data to and from a floppy disk device 28 while reading and writing data from and to an S (static) RAM 27. Further, the main CPU 1
To one bus line, a printer connector 30 is connected via a buffer 29, and a card connector 31 is connected.

Here, the floppy disk drive 28
As a floppy disk to be attached to the, a disk for the document creation support system as described above is prepared,
On this disc, a plurality of sentence examples such as a letter for a ceremonial occasion and a business sentence are recorded as a data file having a unique data structure. In addition, in order to facilitate retrieval of the data files of the plurality of examples, a hierarchical directory, a retrieval program, and the like are recorded on the disk for the document creation support system. In the embodiment of the present invention, the hierarchical directory has a structure in which a branch from a plurality of nodes in an upper layer is recognized for one node in one layer, and a plurality of paths are set for one example sentence. I'm trying to get.

FIG. 2 shows a list of selection items at the highest level of such a hierarchical directory, that is, a so-called menu. After the reading of the disc for the document creation support system is completed, the LCD ( This is displayed first on the display screen of the liquid crystal display device 23.
The choices on this first menu are:
Items according to a large classification such as “ceremonial occasion” and “news”, so-called large items, are displayed. In the large item menu 34 on this display screen, the large item 35 whose characters are inverted indicates the item that is currently provisionally selected. This temporary selection item position can be moved by operating the so-called up / down / left / right cursor keys, and the selection item can be moved by pressing an enter key, for example, a YES key in a temporary selection state in which a desired item is highlighted. Can be determined. For example, if a YES key (generally, an enter key) is pressed in a state in which the large item of “Grand funeral” is highlighted as shown in FIG. 2, as shown in FIG. "Wedding festival" is selected, and the corresponding menu 36 is displayed.

FIG. 3 shows a state in which a large item of the above-mentioned "ceremonial occasion" is selected, and a menu 36 in which the middle items serving as selections in the large item "ceremonial occasion" are displayed. I have. In the middle item menu 36, items according to the medium classification such as “every celebration of life”, “award and medal”, and “marriage” are listed. The fact that the highlighted middle item 37 of the menu 36 indicates the tentative selection state and that the reversed display position can be moved by operating the cursor key is the same as in the case of FIG. 2 described above. Here, pressing the YES key (enter key) in the state shown in FIG.
Is selected, and the next menu 38 appears as shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 shows a small item menu 38 in which the more detailed items (small items) of the selected middle item "marriage" are described. Specific examples of the small items in the menu 38 include "notice of engagement", "information for wedding", "invitation for reception" and the like. Item 39 is tentatively selected and highlighted. When the YES key (enter key) is pressed in this state, a specific sentence example corresponding to the selection item "reception invitation" is read out and displayed as shown in FIG.

Here, the sentence example selected by selecting each small item in the menu 38 in FIG. 4 can be searched through another path (selected path) depending on the contents. For example, a large item of "guidance" in the large item menu 34 in FIG. 2 is selected, a middle item of "marriage" is selected in the next displayed middle item menu, and a small item displayed next. By selecting a small item of "reception" in the menu,
The example sentence of FIG. 5 can be called. Also, for example, a sentence example called by selecting a small item of “marriage celebration” in the small item menu 38 of FIG. 4 displayed through the respective selection procedures of FIGS. Item menu 3
4. Select the large item of "Celebration" in 4, select the middle item of "to individual" in the next middle item menu, and select the small item of "marriage" in the next small item menu. be able to.

By setting a plurality of paths (selection paths) for one sentence example in this way, the original classification items can be directly reflected in the directory structure, and a menu of small items is reached as in the conventional case. A complicated trial-and-error operation such as returning to the middle item menu or the large item menu when the target sentence example is not found at the stage can be avoided, and the search becomes easy.

That is, FIG. 6 shows a specific example of the hierarchical directory, and immediately after the reading of the program from the disk for the text creation support system is completed, the top block address As of the hierarchical directory file in FIG. Is read, and the data of the head block BL ₀ at this address As is read. This head block B
In L ₀ , initial data for generating the large item menu 34 shown in FIG. 2 is written. First, character data of “menu selection” which is the title of the large item menu 34, and then the large item menu 34 The file number data NF indicating the number (the number of files) is written in the order of the head address data Af of the file group (data block group), the head address data Ap of the parent directory, and finally. In the example of FIG. 2, the number NF of large items is 14. There are provided 14 files (data blocks) BL ₁ , BL ₂ ,... Corresponding to each of these large items, and the head address is specified by the head address data Af of the block BL ₀ . Each of the blocks BL ₁ , BL ₂ ,... Corresponding to each of the above-mentioned large items includes, in order from the top, character data such as “ceremonial occasion”, which is the name (title) of the large item.
File type data FT indicating whether the item corresponding to the block (file) is a directory or a file, and head address data Ad of the data of the content of the item are written. Here, since the file type of each large item is a directory, the file type is FT (D) indicating the directory. A series of menus for generating a menu for each selected large item (for example, the middle item menu 36 in FIG. 3) based on each head address data Ad in each of these large item blocks BL ₁ , BL ₂ ,. The start position of the data is known.

The data structure for generating a medium item menu indicating the contents of each of these large items is the same as that of the large item menu. Character string data indicating the title of the middle item menu (for example, “ceremonial occasion”), file number data NF, head address data Af of the file group,
And the head address data Ap of the parent directory. The data blocks corresponding to the respective middle items are, in order from the beginning, character data such as "marriage" indicating the name of the middle item, and file type data FT indicating the directory.
(D), and the start address data Ad of the data that is the content of the item. A series of data for generating a small item menu as shown in FIG. 4, for example, can be read from each of these start address data Ad. The data for generating the small item menu has the same structure as the data for generating the large item and the medium item. However, since each small item corresponds to a file (a data file having a unique structure), The file type data FT (F) shown is used, and the start address data Ad indicates the start address of the data file DF corresponding to each of the above sentence examples. The data file DF is composed of a file header FH at the beginning and document data DD of the body.

FIG. 7 shows a data file DF corresponding to a sentence example.
Indicates the data structure or file format of the file header FH. 7, a file header size FHS, a document type DT,
The heading type HT, Notes data number NR, safety greeting data number NA, and thank greeting data speed NG is arranged by one byte each, then N ₁ byte of Notes data RD, N ₂ bytes of safety data AD, Finally, N ₃ bytes of appreciation data GD are arranged to form a file header FH. The 6 bytes from the beginning of the file header FH are always necessary areas, and the data thereafter is variable depending on the data file corresponding to each sentence example.

Returning to FIG. 5, the screen 40 of FIG. 5 shows a display screen of a two-dimensional display means, for example, the LCD (liquid crystal display) 23 of FIG. This display screen 40
Above, the selected sentence example is displayed in the text window 41, and when correcting the sentence example, a character string called a predetermined phrase is collectively used as a unit of correction. In general, one meaningful group of character strings is regarded as a phrase, and the portion 42 highlighted in the body window 41 is referred to as a phrase of interest. The inverted display position can be moved by operating the cursor keys up, down, left, and right, and the phrase to be corrected is highlighted (edited as the above noted phrase) for editing. The path (selected path) is displayed at the upper left position of the text window 41 in the screen 40. In the lower part of the text window 41, various examples related to a sentence example and the current state are displayed.

If the user presses the YES key (or the enter key or the like) in the state of FIG. 5, the candidate group of the highlighted phrase 42 is displayed in the candidate window 43 as shown in FIG. Is highlighted. The candidate window 43 is displayed in the body window 41 at a position above or below the phrase of interest 42. When the phrase of interest 42 is located above the text window 41, the candidate window 4
3 is displayed at the lower position, and when the phrase of interest 42 is located below the text window 41, the candidate window 43 is displayed.
Is displayed in the upper position. In this state, the inverted display position can be moved up and down by operating the up and down cursor keys, and at the same time, the attention phrase in the text is switched to the inverted candidate phrase.

While the candidate window 43 is displayed, the target phrase can be switched by a predetermined switching operation, for example, by operating the left and right cursor keys while pressing the shift key, and at the same time, the target phrase corresponding to each target phrase can be switched. The displayed candidate window is also switched. This specific example is shown in FIGS. In other words, A, B, and C in FIG. 9 indicate that the phrases “for your ladies and gentlemen”, “two young people”, and “in the beginning of” are sequentially highlighted and switched to the above noted phrase. Each state is shown. In FIG. 9A, “for everyone in the classroom” is the attention phrase 42A, and a phrase group of four candidates is displayed in the candidate window 43A. When the right cursor key is pressed while pressing the shift key in this state, the phrase "Young two people" is highlighted and becomes the attention phrase 42B as shown in FIG. 9B, and the candidate window is located above the attention phrase 42B. 43B
Is opened and the corresponding candidate phrase group (three candidates) is displayed. Further, when the right cursor key is pressed while holding down the shift key, the phrase “On the way out” is highlighted as shown in FIG.
And the corresponding candidate window 43C (two candidates) is displayed. When the left cursor key is pressed while pressing the shift key in the display state of FIG. 9C, the state shifts to the state shown in FIG. 9B. Further, when the left cursor key is pressed while pressing the shift key, the state shown in FIG. 9A is displayed. Move to the display state.

As described above, by performing a key operation of one predetermined operation (for example, operating the left and right cursor keys while pressing the shift key), the above noted phrase and the corresponding candidate phrase group can be switched and displayed. Since it is possible to compare candidate groups before and after a predetermined phrase in a sentence, it is easy to select an appropriate candidate while considering the connection before and after the sentence. Further, when it is desired to check whether a specific keyword or the like is included in the text, all candidates can be easily viewed.

Next, in FIG. 10, in the character string in which □ is described in the sentence (the above phrase), the portion of □ is undetermined, and it is necessary to input a character. The phrase including the undetermined portion is highlighted and displayed as described above,
When the YES key is pressed, the candidate window 43 opens as described above, and when the YES key is further pressed, the candidate phrase is determined, and a character input window 45 as shown in FIG. 11 appears. In this character input window 45, character input locations (three in the illustrated example) in the phrase of interest 42
The character input marks 46 are displayed on one line for each character, and characters can be input only at the positions of these character input marks 46. The mark 46 at the current character input position (the bottom line mark 46p in FIG. 11) is periodically or intermittently highlighted (so-called blink display), and the current character input position is operated by operating the up and down cursor keys. By doing so, the switching can be changed.

At the predetermined position in the character input window 45, for example, the top line, the current character input position (mark 46
Information (input description text) 47 indicating the content to be input according to p) is displayed. The input content information 47 is recorded in association with data of each phrase in the file of the above sentence example. When the input window 45 is actually generated, the number of input position information (characters indicated by □) included in the character string (phrase) information is counted, and the input position and the fixed phrase are separated. Generate At the time of inputting / editing, the input content information 47 corresponding to the input location where the inputting / editing work is currently being performed is displayed on the message display line (the uppermost line in the illustrated example) of the character input window 45. Here, only the "product name" is recorded in the sentence example file, and the remaining part "Please enter" is automatically added and displayed by the program when the input window 45 is generated. Requires less capacity.

FIG. 12 shows a specific example of a data structure recorded on a medium of a phrase (the attention phrase 42 in FIGS. 10 and 11) including the undetermined portion (portion requiring character input). In FIG. 12, the character input phrase recording data is composed of three lines corresponding to three candidate phrases. For example, a one-byte input code IN is arranged at the head of the first of these three lines, and then two separators SP, SP are arranged one byte at a time. ), A character string with "product name" is arranged, the input code IN is arranged again, and the first candidate phrase "Well, □□ sent on □ month □ date," And the string with
This line ends with the candidate end code SE. The two separators SP, SP in this line indicate that there are three character input positions in the candidate phrase, and since there is no input content information at the position before each of these separators SP, the When entering characters in the two places (each of the character entry places of "□ month □ day"), do not display the explanation of the input contents, or simply enter the data.
Is displayed, asking for a general purpose input. At the third input location, a character string "Please enter" is added to the character string "Product name" and displayed by a program. In the next line, a character string of (part of) the input content information “product name” is immediately arranged starting from the input code IN, and the next candidate phrase “previous, The character string □□, which was ordered from us, is placed and ends with the candidate end code SE. In the next line, a character string of another candidate phrase “a product that was sent by your company the other day,” which is another candidate phrase, is arranged immediately from the beginning and ends with the phrase end code PE.

Based on such a data structure, when this phrase is a target phrase (reverse display), a predetermined operation is performed (for example, pressing the YES key) to open the candidate window 43 as shown in FIG. Then, the above three candidate phrases in FIG. 12 are read out and displayed, and further perform a predetermined operation (press the YES key).
As a result, a character input window 45 is opened as shown in FIG.
Is displayed.

The input data on which such character input has been performed is sent to and stored in a memory such as a RAM when the character input window 45 is closed, for example. The data of the phrase selected and confirmed from the candidate group is also stored in the memory. For the document editing data stored in this memory, after terminating the document creation support program and switching to a general word processor program, the document data is called to arbitrarily modify or rewrite,
Of course, it can be printed out or saved on a floppy disk. Here, when terminating the document creation support program and returning to the word processor program, it is possible to select between terminating with the document written in the memory as described above and terminating with clearing the document. . The document creation support program itself may have a function of writing to a floppy disk, a function of printing out, and the like.

The input / edit operation using the character input window 45 as described above is performed, so that a fixed phrase input operation for writing individual items such as a date, an individual name, a product name, an address, etc. can be performed by the Japanese word processor function. This is convenient without switching. This is because the switching operation to the Japanese word processor function requires a waiting time for reading the program and the like, and since the entire sentence can be easily rewritten in the state of switching to the Japanese word processor function, the above-mentioned individual items are written. Considering that there is a risk of rewriting other parts, the use of the character input window 45 makes it possible to easily write individual items without the need for troublesome work such as program switching.
In addition, necessary parts (parts to be left) are protected without being rewritten. Therefore, anyone can easily input a fixed sentence without any doubt.

FIG. 13 is a flow chart for explaining a series of operations related to the display of the input window. At the start of the operation in FIG. 13, the candidate window 43 including the candidate phrase having the input portion (undetermined portion) as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed. With this candidate window 43 displayed,
At step S1, key input is waited, and at step S2, it is determined whether or not there is a key input. If NO (no key input), the process returns to step S1. YES in step S2
If it is determined that (there is a key input), step S3
Then, it is determined whether or not the input key is a key for selecting and confirming a candidate (for example, the above-mentioned YES key). When YES is determined in this step S3 (which is a candidate selection key), the process proceeds to step S4, and it is determined whether or not there is an input portion (undetermined portion) in the selected candidate phrase. When NO is determined in these steps S3 and S4, the process proceeds to step S5 to perform a normal key input process. If YES in step S4 (when a phrase having an input portion is selected),
Proceeding to step S6, the input message, that is, the input content information is read. This is specifically described in FIG.
Read a part of the input content information (the main part such as the name) arranged between the input codes IN in the sentence example file 2 and add a fixed part such as "Please input" by the program Is the final input content information. Next, proceeding to step S7, a process of displaying the character input window 45 as shown in FIG. 11 is performed.

While the character input window 45 is displayed, the process waits for a key input in steps S8 and S9, and performs each process according to the key input. In the next step S10, it is determined whether or not the end instruction key has been input. If the answer is NO, a process corresponding to each input key is performed in step S11, and the process returns to the key input waiting state in step S8. YE in step S10
If it is determined that S (the end instruction key has been input), the process proceeds to step S12, where it is determined whether or not there has been data input (the character input). If YES, the edited data (character input data) has been input. After the data is transferred to a memory such as a RAM, the process of closing the character input window (the process of closing the window) is performed in step S14.
1, the process returns to the key input waiting state of S2. If NO is determined in the step S12, the process directly proceeds to the step S12.
Going to 14. Thus, the character input using the character input window 45 is performed.

Next, FIG. 14 shows a screen on which an additional information window 49 in which a so-called “point of writing” is described as additional information corresponding to, for example, a currently called sentence example. The “point of writing” described in the additional information window 49 is advice for finishing the called sentence example, and different advice is prepared for each sentence example. If the prepared advice does not fit in the additional information window 49, the user can scroll up and down by operating the up and down cursor keys. In order to open the additional information window 49, for example, a dedicated additional information display key may be provided and operated. However, in order to prevent an increase in the number of keys, for example, a pop-up menu displayed by pressing a function key is displayed. , The item of “writing style” may be selected (eg, the YES key is pressed in the highlighted state). This additional information
It can be displayed in the text window 41 of the screen at any time during document creation and can be confirmed. Note that the additional information data may be indirectly held, for example, instead of being directly held for each sentence example data.

Thus, when creating a target document, it is not necessary to use a reference document, a book, or the like at the same time, and the additional information (points of writing) corresponding to the currently called sentence example can be used as needed. Etc.) can be displayed on the screen and confirmed, and information on peripheral knowledge useful for document creation can be easily obtained.

FIGS. 15 and 16 show screens on which a selection item for information retrieval and specific contents of the selected item are simultaneously displayed. These FIGS. 15 and 1
6, for example, a display window 51 of honorific and modest names
Are opened above the display of the large item menu 34.
The display window 51 includes a title column 52 in which the name (title) of the window is displayed, a selection item column 53 in which a plurality of selection items are displayed, contents of the selected item among these selection items, In other words, it is composed of content display fields 54 and 55 in which the honorific name and the modest name are displayed, respectively. The currently selected item is an inverted display portion 56 displayed in reverse (reverse). The display window 51 of the honorific and humorous names can be called at any time while the document creation support system is read and the program is running.

In the state where the display window 51 for honorific and humorous is open, if the cursor key is operated to move the reverse display portion 56 to switch the selection item, the content (honorific name) display field 54 displays the selected item. The honorific name, which is the content of the item, and the humorous name are switched and displayed in the content (humiliative name) display column 55. Therefore, by arbitrarily switching and selecting an item in the selection item column 53, the content is automatically switched and displayed in the content display columns 54 and 55, so that each content can be checked quickly. Become. this is,
Conventionally, one of the selection items is operated by a cursor key operation or the like.
Considering that it was necessary to switch the screen by pressing the enter key after selecting one on the screen and displaying the contents, switching to the content display mode became unnecessary and the labor was reduced by half. In particular, the operation procedure for successively viewing the contents of the plurality of selection items is greatly simplified.

[0037]

According to the document creating apparatus and method of the present invention, one of a plurality of sentence examples recorded on a recording medium is selected, the selected sentence example is read out, displayed on a display means, and displayed. When creating a document based on a sentence example, each of the above sentence examples is divided into units of a character string composed of meaningful units, and when there is an undetermined part in the character string, Display the character input window and shift to the character input mode. In the character input window, the input part in the character string including the undetermined part and the fixed phrase are separated and displayed, and the message display line of the character input window is displayed. At the same time, displays information obtained by adding the remaining part of the input content information to a part of the input content information corresponding to the input location, or displays a sentence prompting general-purpose input, and stores the input character data in storage means. This eliminates the need to switch to the word processing mode of the word processor after terminating the document preparation support program, which saves time and effort, and allows clear confirmation of the input location and what to input. Can be done easily. In addition, since the character input portion is specified using the character input window, a portion that can be rewritten is limited, and a problem that a necessary portion (a portion that does not need to be rewritten) in the original sentence example is rewritten can be prevented. Furthermore, by separating and managing the input position and the input content on the data, it is easy to dynamically generate an input screen (character input window) suitable for various input content and the number of input locations, An input screen close to a specific format corresponding to each input content can be obtained while maintaining versatility.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a large item menu for selecting items on an initial display screen in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a middle item menu on a display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a small item menu on a display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a sentence example display state on a display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific example of the structure of a hierarchical directory according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of a file header of a text example file according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state in which a candidate group of attention phrases in a display sentence example in the embodiment is displayed.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a candidate group is switched and displayed in accordance with switching of a phrase of interest in a display sentence example in the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state in which a candidate group of noticeable phrases including a character input portion in a display sentence example in the embodiment is displayed.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a character input window is opened by selecting a candidate including a character input portion of a candidate group of a target phrase in a display sentence example in the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a data structure of a phrase in the sentence example file of the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations related to the character input operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state in which a writing point, which is additional information corresponding to a display sentence example in the embodiment, is displayed.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a state in which a selection item for information search and the content of the selected item are displayed in the embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state in which a selection item for information search and the content of the selected item are displayed in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 ... CPU 13... Keyboard 23... LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) 28... Floppy disk device 34. ······································································································ Display screen・ ・ ・ Body window 42 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Phrase of interest 43 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Candidate window 45 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Character input window 46 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Character input Mark 47 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Input content information 49 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Additional information window 51 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Honorific / modern display window

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(57) [Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of sentence examples recorded on a recording medium, reading out the selected sentence example, displaying the selected sentence example on a display means, and creating a document based on the displayed sentence example. Each of the above sentence examples is divided in units of a character string composed of meaningful units. When there is an undetermined part in the above character string, a character input window is displayed according to the operation and the character input mode is set. Move to the character string including the undetermined part in the above character input window
The input part and the fixed phrase are displayed separately.
Enter the entry in the message display line of the
Of the input information corresponding to the
A document creation apparatus characterized by displaying information to which a part is added or displaying a sentence prompting a general-purpose input, and storing the input character data in a storage unit. 2. A document creating method for selecting one of a plurality of sentence examples recorded on a recording medium, reading out the selected sentence example, displaying the selected sentence example on a display means, and creating a document based on the displayed sentence example. Each of the above sentence examples is divided in units of a character string composed of meaningful units. When there is an undetermined part in the above character string, a character input window is displayed according to the operation and the character input mode is set. Move to the character string including the undetermined part in the above character input window
The input part and the fixed phrase are displayed separately.
Enter the entry in the message display line of the
Of the input information corresponding to the
A document creation method characterized by displaying information to which a part is added or displaying a sentence for general-purpose input, and storing the input character data in a storage unit.