JPH01149165A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily select a format, which is used by an operator quite often, by equipping a format displaying order learning means to execute the learning and storing of the format, which is selected and set by a format selecting means, and to execute a successive display from the format to be recently selected on a format displaying means in order. CONSTITUTION:A format displaying means C reduces the format in document edition and displays it to a display device B in plural numbers. A format selecting means D selects and sets the format, which the operator selects by the operation of an input device A, out of the plural formats to be reduced and displayed by the format displaying means C on the screen of the display device B. A format displaying order learning means E learns and stores the format, which is selected and set by the format selecting means D, and the successive display is executed in order to the format displaying means C from the format to be recently selected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a document processing device such as a word processor or a data processor having document creation and editing functions.

In document processing devices such as word processors and data processors that have a document creation function, characters are generally entered and edited after selecting the format for each page or for the entire document.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the selection of the format, there is a system in which a plurality of formats are displayed in a reduced size and the user is allowed to select from among them.

However, even if you reduce the size, not all formats can be displayed at the same time, so the format you want may not always be on the first page. In that case, it is necessary to scroll or display the next page, so it may take time to select the format.

Furthermore, when it is desired to select a format by default, it is most preferable to default to the first format, but this has been difficult to achieve with conventional mounting devices.

This invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to make it easier for an operator to select a frequently used format when selecting a document format in a document processing device such as a word processor.

In order to achieve the above object, this invention includes an input device for inputting various characters, a display device for displaying the input characters, and a plurality of reduced formats in text II editing on this display device. In a document processing device comprising a format display means for selecting and setting one of the formats displayed by the format display means, the document processing device learns and stores the format selected and set by the format selection means. The present invention is provided with a format display order learning means for displaying formats in order starting from the most recently selected format the next time the format is displayed in reduced form by the format display means.

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example of a word processor which is a document processing device embodying the present invention.

This word processor includes a keyboard 1 for inputting various character information, document registration instruction information 2 document update instruction information, and a pointing device 2 as input devices.
and an image scanner 3 for reading documents and the like.

It also includes a CRT display device (hereinafter simply referred to as rcRTJ) 4 as an output device for displaying various information, and a laser printer 5 as a printing device for printing out various information.

Furthermore, a floppy disk is installed in the main body 6 as a storage device! (FDD) 7 and hard disk device (HDD)
It is equipped with 9.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the control section of this word processor.

Microprocessor (CP tJ) 1 of this control unit 10
1 is composed of a 16-bit microprocessor including, for example, a CPU, ROM, and RAM.

This microprocessor 11 is in charge of controlling the entire word processor, and executes various display controls, printing controls, input control 1 document creation/editing control, format reduction display control, etc. according to programs stored in the main memory 12.

The main memory 12 is stored in a floppy disk device t at startup.
! (FDD) 7 or hard disk device (HDD) 9
A system area (resident area) that stores resident programs such as an operating system loaded from the computer, a non-resident area that stores non-resident programs, and a data area that stores various data.

R that configures the working area for program execution
Consists of AM, etc.

A keyboard interface (I/F) 1'5 controls input of key information from the keyboard 1.

Pointing device interface 14 receives the X pulse from pointing device 2.

The moving direction, moving amount, and moving speed are detected based on the Y pulse. Note that the keyboard/Fls and pointing device I/F 14 can also be configured together as an input controller.

The scanner interface 15 is responsible for inputting read data from the image scanner 3.

The CR'r controller 16 has a built-in bitmap memory, and is configured to take in both display data such as characters stored therein and image data stored in a bitmap memory 20 (to be described later) and display it on the CRT 4. to control.

The printer controller 17 controls the printer 5.

A floppy disk controller (FDC) 18 controls data writing and reading with respect to the floppy disk device (FDD) 7.

The hard disk controller (HDC) 19 is a hard disk device! (HDD) 8 controls data writing and reading.

The bitmap memory 20 receives image data from the image scanner 3, develops it into a bitmap, and stores it.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic functions of an embodiment of the present invention.

A is an input device corresponding to the keyboard 1 or pointing device 2 in FIGS. 2 and 3.

B is a display device equivalent to CRT4.

The format display means C has a function of reducing formats in document editing and displaying a plurality of formats on the display device iB.

The format selection means has a function of selecting and setting a format selected by the operator by operating the input table fi2A from among a plurality of formats reduced and displayed on the screen of the display bag UB by the format display means C.

The format display order learning means E has a function of learning and storing the formats selected and set by the format selection means and causing the format display means C to display the formats in order from the most recently selected format.

The functions of these format display means C2, format selection means, and format display order learning means E are executed by the microprocessor 11. in FIG. Main memory 12. and CRT controller 1
It is fulfilled by the 6th prize.

Format selection according to this embodiment is performed by the following operations.

When the word processor shown in Figure 2 is turned on, the C
A menu as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the screen of RT4. In other words, the following four functions can be selected.

1. Create a new document, print a new 20-sentence document.

4. Auxiliary Functions Among these functions, only 1, the new document creation function, is related to this invention. Now, when the operator inputs 1 from the keyboard or clicks on the "11 new document creation" section with the pointing device, a reduced screen with different formats 1 to 2 appears, as shown in FIG. 5, for example.

In FIG. 5, a total of six formats are displayed, but this number depends on the size of the display screen.

In this embodiment, six elements will be used to simplify the explanation.

At this time, for example, if you input 1 from the keyboard, the format of ■ is selected and set. The format marked ■ becomes the format of the first page of the document. If the desired format does not exist among these six formats, the next six formats are displayed and can be selected by scrolling or pressing the next page key.

The format represents the paragraphs and margins in the document, and in the case of reduced display, it is displayed as shown in FIG. 6, for example.

This FIG. 6 is a reduced display of a three-column vertical format. Other formats are also reduced in size, so the characters cannot be displayed as they are, so there are methods to represent paragraphs with thin or broken lines as shown in Figure 6, and methods to represent the equivalent of one character with dots as shown in Figure 7. etc. are known.

Once a format is selected in this way, the selected format will fill the entire screen (now at full size, not reduced), a cursor will be displayed, and characters can be entered. After that, the operation is similar to that of a normal word processor.

Next, a processing method for carrying out the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG. 8 and subsequent figures.

Formatting is represented by text and vectors as display elements.

The data format of the text is as shown in FIG. Here, as shown in FIG. 9, the X address and the X address are both dot addresses of a bitmap set in the memory with the upper left corner of the document page as the starting point.

Vectors are only straight lines and are stored in memory as shown in FIG. Here, the line type is a number representing the type of line, such as a solid line, a dotted line, or a broken line.

The format data is expressed in a format file as shown in FIG. The display management table, format management table, format text data, and format vector data of this format file are normally stored on the disk of the hard disk device 8 shown in FIG.
read out above.

When new formats are added, the data is added to the end of each table.

Learning the format display order is performed by re-sorting the display management table.

That is, the order of reduced display when selecting a format is displayed in the order of the display management table. Therefore, after a certain format is selected, the pointer of the selected format is immediately inserted into display 1, and 1 is shifted to 2, 2 to 3, and so on.

For example, as shown in FIG. Namely.

As shown in (a), the format management table initially has pointers for format ■■■■■... lined up sequentially from the pointer for format ■, and when format ■ is selected, the pointer for format 9 is inserted into Display 1, followed by postunters in the format 〇〇〇〇.... Then, when format 〇 is selected next, the pointer for that format ■ is inserted in display 1,
After that, pointers in the format ■■■■... are lined up sequentially.

Next, the format selection process will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, when format selection is started, the format is read from the format file disk. Then, zoom out this format (
(described later). When the reduced display is performed, a format is selected according to an instruction from an operator, and format sorting (described later) is performed based on this selection.

Then, the format file is written to the disk, and the format selection process ends.

Next, format reduction display processing will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the format reduction display process is started, the display management table is first searched. Then, it is determined whether or not all have been displayed, and if all have been displayed, this process ends. If not all have been displayed, a format pointer is first obtained, and then a format text data pointer is obtained. and,
Obtain formatted text data and display this text data.

Furthermore, after obtaining a vector data pointer, obtaining vector data, and displaying this vector data, the process returns to searching the display management table.

Repeat this routine until all are displayed.

Next, the format sorting process will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the format sorting process starts, first, a work area of the same size as the display management table is secured.

Next, copy the pointer of the latest selection format to work number 1.

Then, the number after the pointer number of the latest selected format in the 1 display management table is incremented by one. Next, copy the display management table from the beginning to the second and subsequent parts of the work. Then, the work is copied to the display management table and this format sorting process is completed.

Next, the effects of this invention will be explained with reference to FIGS. 16 and 17.

For example, it is assumed that the format ■ is selected from among the formats reduced and displayed as shown in FIG. Then, at the next selection opportunity (for example, when creating another document or selecting the format for the next page), the formats are displayed in the order of ■■■■■■ as shown in FIG. Furthermore, if you select ■ here, the 17th
As shown in the figure, the formats are displayed in the order of ■■■■■■.

In this way, even when an operator selects a format when creating a new document in a word processor, he or she can easily select frequently used formats in the same way as in kana-kanji conversion.

Improves operability.

shame - rice As explained above, according to this invention.

The operability when an operator selects a format when creating a new document is improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of a word processor as a document processing device embodying the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the control section. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a work menu display screen of a word processor embodying the present invention. Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the format display screen, Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the reduced display screen with three columns vertically, Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the screen that reduces and displays the equivalent of one character by points, and Fig. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the format display screen. An explanatory diagram showing a data format of text that is a display element. FIG. 9 shows X set on the bitmap memory. An explanatory diagram showing a Y address. Figure 10 is an explanatory diagram showing the data format of vectors, which are format display elements. Figure 11 is an explanatory diagram showing the format data management format. Figure 12 is an explanatory diagram showing the change in the order of the format pointer when a format is selected. Figure 13 is a main flow diagram showing the format selection process; Figure 14 is an explanatory diagram showing the format selection process;
FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing format reduction display processing, and FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing format sorting processing. FIGS. 16 and 17 are explanatory diagrams of the format display screen after format selection according to this embodiment. A... Input device B... Display device C... Format display means D... Format selection means E... Format display order learning means 1... Keyboard 2... Pointing device 3... Image scanner 4... CRT display device 5... Printer 7... Floppy disk device (FDD) 8... Hard disk device (HDD) 10... Control unit 11.
...Microprocessor 12...Main memory 1 day...CRT controller

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input device for inputting various characters, etc., a display device for displaying the input characters, a format display means for displaying a plurality of reduced formats for document editing on the display device, and the formats. A document processing device comprising format selection means for selectively setting one of the formats displayed by the display means, wherein the format selected by the format selection means is learned and stored, and the format selected and set by the format display means is used next time. A document processing device characterized by comprising a format display order learning means for displaying formats in order from the most recently selected format when displaying reduced formats.