JPH01100667A - Contents forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To form the contents of a document by designating a line head form defined to be the index of the contents, extracting a character string starting in the line head form coinciding with the designated line head form and storing the extracted character string and a corresponding page number in a contents storing means. CONSTITUTION:At the time of depressing the contents forming key 2 of a keyboard 1, the line head form designating picture of the index of the contents is displayed on a display 3. The line head form designated by an operator is stored in a form accumulating memory 7 by a form input processing part 6. A heading extracting part 8 extracts the character string starting in the line head form coinciding with the designated line head form to calculate the page number in which the extracted character string is present by a page number calculating part 9. The extracted character string and the corresponding page number are written in a contents file 5 and the contents of the file 5 are displayed on the screen of the display 3 through an editing control part 11. In such a way, the contents can be automatically formed from the document.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a table of contents creation device for creating a table of contents of a document in a word processor or the like.

(b) Conventional technology As disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-117059, when creating a conventional table of contents using a word processor, when inputting a document, the operator selects a character string in the document that is to be used as a heading for the table of contents. After adding the control hood and inputting the document,
This was done by extracting a character string with a control code added along with information about the page where this character string exists.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention In conventional table of contents creation, an operator visually searches a document for a character string that he or she wants to use as a heading for a table of contents, and then adds a control hood to that character string using an input means such as a keyboard. The work was troublesome because it had to be done.

Further, in a specialized machine for document creation, it is easy to define and use a control code independently, but in a general-purpose machine such as a personal combination coater, defining a control code independently is not preferable because it loses its versatility.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a specifying means for specifying a heading format to be used as a heading in a table of contents, and a determination unit for determining whether or not the heading format in a document matches the specified heading format. and a table of contents storage means for storing the extracted character string and the corresponding page number. The table of contents of the document is created by storing the information in the document.

(e) Effect In the present invention, the beginning of the character string to be extracted as a heading of the table of contents by the specifying means Y/! ! can be specified freely, and the table of contents heading can be automatically extracted from the document by the extraction means without the need for an operator to add a control hood.

(v) Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, in which (1) is a keyboard equipped with a table of contents creation key (2);
3) is a display as a display means, (4) is a document file that stores documents, (5) is a table of contents file that stores a table of contents, and (6) is a heading format for a table of contents specified by the keyboard (1). , form storage memory (7)
(8) is a form storage memory (
7) is a heading extracting section that extracts the character string starting with the head of line format stored as a heading; (9) is a calculating section that calculates the page number on which the extracted heading exists; (10) is a section that is specified by the keyboard (1). A page number storage unit stores the number of excluded pages, and (11) is an editing control unit.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of this embodiment, and the following description will be made with reference to this flowchart.

First, when you press the table of contents creation key (2) on the keyboard (1), the display (3) will show the following as shown in Figure 3.
A screen for specifying the heading format of the table of contents heading is displayed, and the operator can input the heading format of the heading to be extracted by inputting the heading format such as "Chapter X, J + 'Part X" from the keyboard (1). It can be specified freely.

The specified line head format is sequentially stored in the format storage memory (7) by the format input processing section (6). For example, 3rd U
If a designation such as fA is made, the contents of the form storage memory (7) will become as shown in FIG.

Here, in order to make the character string variable, numbers are represented by "X", alphabetic characters are represented by "Y", and katakana are represented by "rz".If you specify r This means that the starting character string is specified as a heading.

After specifying the heading format in this manner, the document for which the table of contents is to be created is specified, and then the number of excluded pages is specified. The number of excluded pages is the number of pages that indicates whether there are any pages from the first page of the document that should not be assigned a page number. For example,
If the specified document has a cover page as shown in Figure 5,
In order to exclude this cover page, it is sufficient to input the page number r1, and the specified page number is stored in the page number storage section (10).

After specifying the number of pages to be excluded, when you press the execution key, the heading extraction unit (8) first deletes the blank space at the beginning of each line of the specified document from the processing target, and then displays the actual character string form as the beginning of the line. , determines whether it matches the line head form in the form storage memory (7), and if it matches, 1 starts with that form.
A line of character strings is extracted as a heading and stored in the table of contents file (5). Next, when the heading character string is extracted, the page number calculation unit (9) is activated, calculates the page number of the page where the extracted character string exists, and adds the page number calculated in correspondence to the extracted character string to the table of contents. Write to file (5).

Further, the contents of the table of contents file (5) are displayed on the screen of the display (3) via the editing control section (11).

By the way, in the process in the page number calculation unit (9), first, the page number of the extracted character string on the document file is calculated based on the number of lines on one page, and the number of excluded pages is subtracted from this page number to find the correct page. A number is calculated.

The above processing is sequentially executed for all lines of the specified document, and the table of contents of the document is created in the table of contents file (5). for example,
If the contents of the form storage memo 1 buff) are as shown in Figure 4 and the specified document is the document shown in Figure 5, the table of contents as shown in Figure 6 has been created in the table of contents file (5), and this table of contents is displayed on the display (3) screen.

Sometimes some sentences are incorrectly extracted, but if you look at the table of contents after creating it, its validity will be clear, so you can delete it using the deletion function of the editing control section (11). If there are any other inappropriate items, you can use other editing functions to correct them so that they are correct. Further, the table of contents file (5) may be created separately from the document file (4), or may be added to the document file as the first or last page of each document.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, headings can be automatically extracted without the need to add a control code to the character string that is to be used as a heading in the table of contents during document creation, so the operator is free to use negative input. can be specified, so it can be used to create a table of contents for any document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of this embodiment, and FIG.
The figure shows a display example showing a specification screen for specifying the header format of a heading, Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the format storage memory, Figure 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of a document file, and Figure 6 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of a table of contents file. It is an explanatory diagram showing the contents. (1)...keyboard, (2)...display,
(3)...Document Faino Tweet (4)...Table of contents file, (7)...Form storage memory, (8)...Heading extraction unit, (9)...Page number calculation unit, ( 10)・
...Page number storage section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A specification means for specifying the heading format to be used as a table of contents heading, determining whether the heading format in the document matches the specified heading format, and extracting a character string that starts with the matching bullet format. and a calculation means that calculates a page number on which the extracted character string exists, and stores the extracted character string and the corresponding page number in a table of contents storage means to create a table of contents of the document. A table of contents creation device featuring: