JPH01116757A - Document forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily retrieve plural editing parts having different characters by extracting the character to be edited according to a retrieval in which an attribute added to the character is defined to be a key word. CONSTITUTION:A keyboard 2 for applying an instruction for inputting or editing the character, a display device 3 for displaying the character, a guide message etc., a random access memory 4 for storing a program or document data, an attribute retrieving mechanism for retrieving the attribute and an attribute equipped character editing mechanism 6 for editing an attribute equipped character are provided. Accordingly, the character to be edited is extracted to edit by retrieving the attribute added to the character in the document as the key word. Thereby, when there are the plural parts to be edited, even if the characters of the respective parts to be edited are different, the same attribute is added thereto, thereby, all of them can be retrieved without changing the key word.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device for creating Japanese documents, English documents, and the like.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional document creation devices search for characters to be edited in a document using the character code of the character input from the keyboard as a key. This method is.

Although it is possible to easily perform similar editing processing on multiple identical character strings, it has the restriction that each search character string and the content of the change must match. This is suitable for cases where the document creator notices corrections while creating a document and changes the contents, but it is difficult to change documents such as standard documents where corrections can be predicted in advance. It contained.

For example, in the case of a document as shown in FIG. 6, the parts other than the shaded parts are standard parts, and by modifying the shaded parts, it is possible to create a document suitable for the recipient. If this is done using a conventional device, the document creator must remember the correction points. This results in increased effort for document creators as the amount of documents and revisions increase.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The conventional device described above searches for a specific character using a character code as a keyword. Therefore, if the character strings in multiple editing (correction) locations are different, a keyword must be input each time, resulting in poor operability. The problem was that it was bad.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to enable a document creation device of this type to easily perform a search even when the character strings at a plurality of edited locations in a document are different.

[Means for solving problems]

The above purpose is to provide a means to add the same type of attribute in advance to characters that may need to be modified during document creation (input) and to be able to modify them, and to add this attribute when searching for a target character string for modification. A method for extracting correction points by searching for character strings as keywords, and adding +I to the searched character strings.
This is achieved by providing a means to enable collection.

[Effect]

By searching for an attribute added to characters in a document as a keyword, characters to be edited are extracted and can be edited.

Therefore, even if there are multiple locations to be edited and the characters in each location are different, if the same attribute is added to these locations, all of them can be searched without changing the keyword.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained in detail below.

FIG. 1 shows the hardware configuration of a document creation device according to the present invention, and 1-1 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that controls the entire device.

Reference numeral 1-2 denotes a keyboard for giving instructions for inputting and editing characters, and its key layout is shown in FIG.

1-3 is a display device for displaying characters, guide messages, etc.; 1-4 is a random access memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) for storing programs and document data; 1-5 is an attribute for searching attributes. The search mechanism 1-6 is an attribute-attached character editing mechanism that edits attribute-attached characters.

In Figure 2, 2-1 is an execution key, 2-2 is a cancel key, 2-03 is an attribute search start key, 2-4 is a numeric keypad, 2-5 is a character key, and 2-6 is a cursor movement key. .

The processing flow of the apparatus when performing editing work will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3-1 and 3-2. 3rd-
Figure 1 is a processing flowchart of the attribute search mechanism 1-5;
Figure-2 is a processing flowchart of the attribute-attached character editing mechanism 1-6.

When the CPU 1-1 receives the input of the attribute search start key 2-3 from the keyboard 1-2, it moves to step 311 in FIG. 3-1. Step 311 is for selecting the type of attribute to be processed.

This selection has three attributes (underline,
(double-width, shading) is displayed, and this is done in correspondence with the numeric keypad. An example of the display at this time is shown in FIG. The correspondence between the numeric keypad and the matrix is as follows: 7, 8, and 9 of the numeric keypad 2-4 correspond to underlining, 4, 5, and 6 correspond to double angle, and 1, 2, and 3 correspond to shading. (The correspondence between the matrix and the numeric keypad described below is the same.) In step 312, the C
The PU 1-1 checks the validity of the input key, and if the key corresponds to the attribute selection, the process proceeds to step 313, and if it is the cancel key, the function ends. In step 313, it is determined whether the input is an attribute selection using a numeric keypad or a cancel key, and if the input is an attribute selection, step 31
4, and if it is the cancel key, return to step 311.

The detailed process of step 314 is shown in FIG. 3-2. In step 321, the document is searched for the target attribute and the cursor is moved to the search position. In step 322, a matrix is displayed that allows the user to select whether or not to continue this process. An example of the display at this time is shown in FIG. Also, the search character is saved in the editing buffer and displayed in the character editing area. In step 323, the input keys are checked, character keys 2-5, cursor movement keys 2-6, .
2-7, the process proceeds to step 324, and if the matrix is specified, the process continues to step 327, and the process is terminated by completion. Step 324 is performed manually using the character keys, and step 325. This is the process of proceeding to step 326 using the cursor movement key. In step 325, the characters in the character editing area are replaced with input characters, and in step 326, the cursor in the character editing area is moved. In step 327, the characters in the character editing area are replaced with the attribute-added characters searched in step 321, and then the process returns to step 321. An example of the display at this time is shown in FIG. [Effects of the Invention] Since the present invention can extract characters to be edited by searching using attributes added to characters as keywords, it is possible to easily perform a search even when there are multiple editing locations with different characters. Become.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of the document creation device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a keyboard key arrangement diagram, Fig. 3-1 is a processing flowchart of the attribute search mechanism, and Fig. 3-2 is character editing with attributes. FIG. 4 is a diagram of a matrix display screen for selecting a search target attribute, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are diagrams of an attribute-added character editing process screen. 1-1...Central processing unit (CPU), 1-2...
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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a document creation device equipped with a keyboard for inputting characters and editing instructions, a display device for displaying characters, a memory for storing programs, etc., and a central processing unit for controlling these, means for modifying characters with attributes. 1. A document creation device comprising: an attribute search means for searching a document for a character string modified with an attribute; and an attribute-added character editing means for editing the searched character string.