JPH01177157A - Document arrangement system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operating efficiency for arrangement of document by designating the arrangement of the document where the contents are hierarchically described based on the chapters and paragraphs against a group of blocks or the level of a hierarchical structure. CONSTITUTION:A block control means 1 controls hierarchically plural text blocks and their attributes. Then a text memory means 2 is used to store the texts together with a command processing means 3 which receives a document arrangement command and processes this command, a structure display means 4 which displays the structure between text blocks by means of the header names given to the text blocks, and a document showing means 5 which displays or delivers the text blocks according to the structures and attributes stored in the means 1. Thus the manipulated variable is reduced and the operating efficiency is improved for arrangement of documents.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document editing method, particularly to a method for editing documents that are hierarchically managed by creating blocks such as chapters and sections for the content of the document. Regarding the plastic surgery method.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional word processors, formatting systems, and the like that process documents, text is continuously managed by connecting character strings that make up the text using pointers.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

This conventional method uses text attributes such as chapter and section title font type, 7-on F size, and character spacing for documents that describe content hierarchically by chapters and sections. If you change the attributes of
This designation must be made for each character string one by one, which poses a problem in that it requires a large amount of manipulation. Also, formatting operations on large text blocks are not taken into consideration.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, to solve the problems described in Chapter 1, and to
The purpose of this document is to provide a document formatting method that allows efficient formatting of documents whose contents are described hierarchically by specifying them for each block or level of the hierarchical structure. shall be.

[Means for solving problems]

The document formatting method of the present invention includes a block management means that hierarchically manages a plurality of text blocks together with their text attributes, with a text block consisting of a character string of an arbitrary length as one unit, and a variable-length character string. a text storage means for storing text as a storage unit; a structure display means for displaying a structure between the text blocks using heading names given to the text blocks; and a structure display means for accepting and processing document formatting commands. and document presentation means for displaying the text block on a CRT screen or outputting it from a printer or the like in accordance with the structure and attributes stored in the block management means.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram mainly showing the flow of operations showing one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, one embodiment of the present invention is a document formatting method in which the content is described hierarchically by creating blocks such as chapters and sections.
A block management means 1 that hierarchically manages a plurality of text blocks together with their attributes; a text storage means 2 that stores text; a command processing means 3 that receives and processes document formatting commands; a structure display means 4 for displaying the structure between text blocks using the heading names written in the text block;
It includes a document presentation means 5 for displaying on a T screen or outputting from a printer or the like.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing storage areas in the block management means 1 of FIG. 1. For example, area 11 is a code storage area for storing internal numbers added to text blocks, and area 12 is a text block storage area. A parent code storage area that stores the code of the text block that is the parent of the code of area 11 in the document's hierarchical structure consisting of text blocks, and area 13 is the code of area 11 in the document's hierarchical structure consisting of text blocks. Area 14 is the right older brother code storage area that stores the code of the text block that is the right older brother of A child code storage area, area 15, is a level storage area that stores the level of area 11 in the hierarchical structure of a document consisting of text blocks.Area 16 is a font type storage area, which stores the 7 ontotypes of the text block. 1
7 is a font size storage area that stores the 7-ont size of the text block, area 18 is a string storage area that stores the value between characters in the text block, and area 19 is a line spacing value storage area that stores the value between the lines of the text block. , area 2o is a pointer area for storing a pointer to a text block, and area 21 is a heading name storage area for storing a heading name named for the text block.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing storage areas in the text storage means 2 of FIG. 1. For example, area 31 is a previous character string pointer storage area for storing a pointer to the previous character string storage unit. , area 32 is a rear string pointer storage area for storing a pointer to the next string storage unit, area 33 is a storage area for the number of strings that can be stored in the storage unit, and area 34 is a storage area for storing the number of strings that can be stored in the storage unit. is a character string number storage area for storing the number of character strings currently stored in the storage unit, and area 35 is a character string storage area for storing character strings.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of a text block stored in the storage area in the block management means 1 of FIG.
Pl, P2, . . . , P6 are pointers to respective text blocks.

FIG. 5 is an example in which the structure of the text block shown in FIG. 4 is displayed by the structure display means 4 of FIG. 1, and the entire structure of the text block is expressed using heading names. be.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a process in which the structure of a text block is displayed on the CRT screen by the structure display means 4 of FIG. 1, and the command input means 3 specifies document formatting based on this. This is a flowchart.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of processing for displaying a text block stored in the text storage means 5 on a CRT screen or outputting it to a printer using the attribute information of the block management means 1 shown in FIG. .

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1, 6, and 7.

The document to be edited is stored in an external storage device holding the information shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. is stored in the area. When the program ends, the document information stored in the respective areas of the block management means 1 and text storage means 2 is stored in the external storage device.

The structure display means 4 displays f;=M in the form shown in FIG. 5, for example.

The structure display means 4 displays the structure of the document on the CRT screen according to the following procedure.

Set the internal number of the text block whose value stored in the parent code storage area 12 in the block management means 1 is NULL in the internal buffer (BFF).
A) in Figure (5), perform the following process (1) until the value set in BFF becomes NULL (B in Figure 6 (5))
.

(1) B)' Display the character string stored in the heading name storage area 21 of the text block corresponding to the internal number set in F in accordance with the value stored in the level storage area 15 (No. Figure 6 (5) C).

Set the internal number set in the internal buffer (BFF) to internal buffer 1 (BFFI), and set the value of the first child code storage area 14 corresponding to the internal number set in the internal buffer (BFF) to B. F I" (D in Figure 6 (5)). However, if the value of the first child code storage area 14 is NLILL, the right older brother code storage area 13 of the internal code set in BFFI The value of B
Set to F (E, F in Figure 6 (5)).

If the value of the right older brother code storage area 13 set in BFF is N0LL, the parent code corresponding to the internal number set in BFFI is set in Bk''F1, and the right older brother code of that parent code is stored. Set the value of area 13 to BFF' (G, )i in Figure 6 (5).If the value of the right older brother code of the parent code set to BFF is NULL,
The parent code of the internal number set in BFFl is NULL.
If so, set BFFK NULL and end the process (Figure 6 (Al, J).

After displaying the structure of the document on the CRT screen, the command input means 3
accepts the specification of the formatting process name (for example, changing the font type) and the internal number added to the text block to be formatted (for example, a text block with the heading "1. Opinions about the product"). K in Figure 6 (b)). Here, the text block to be formatted can be specified, for example, by specifying one line or several lines on the screen shown in Figure 5, or it can be specified all at once for each level of the hierarchical structure. Ru. Command processing means 3
is the block management means 1 corresponding to the specified internal number.
Change the attribute information in to the specified value. If specified by the level of the hierarchy.

The attribute information in the block management means 1 for all internal numbers at that level is changed to the specified value. (For example, change the value in the font type storage area 16 from bold to Mincho) (Figure 6 (L of BJ).

The document presentation means 5 stores the internal number of the text block whose value stored in the parent code storage area 12 in the block management means 1 is NULL in an internal buffer (BFF).
) (A in Figure 7 (5)).

The value of pointer area 20 of the text block corresponding to the internal number set in BFFF is transferred to internal buffer 1 (
BFFI) (K in Figure 7 (B))
, j: The block management means 1 reads out the 7 ont type, font size, character amount value, and line spacing value corresponding to the internal number set in IFF (see Figure 7 (B)), and performs the following processing ( Do 2).

(2) The character string stored in the character string storage area 35 in the storage area of the text storage means 2 pointed to by the value of the pointer set in the internal buffer 1 is stored in the character string number storage area 34. The block management means 1 reads the number of character strings and displays them on a CRT screen or outputs them to a printer or the like according to the font type, font size, character spacing value, and line spacing value read out by the block management means 1. Next, text storage means 2
Reads the value of the subsequent character string pointer storage area in the relevant storage area and sets it in the internal buffer. This process is repeated until the value of the internal buffer becomes NULL (M, N, 0 in FIG. 7 (g)).

In (2), the value of the internal buffer x (BFFI) is N
[When the JLL is reached (M in Figure 7 (B)), the value of the first child code storage area 14 corresponding to the internal number set in the internal buffer (BFF') is set in BFF (Figure 7 (5) D). However, the first child code storage area 14
If the value is NULL, the value of the right older code storage area 13 of the internal code set in BFFI is set in BFF (E in FIG. 7 (5)).

F). Sera to BFF) s% right brother code storage area 13
If the value of is NULL, set the parent code corresponding to the internal number set in BFFI to BFFI, and set the value of the right older brother code storage area 13 of the parent code to B F
Set to F (G in Figure 7 (5)).

H). If the value of the right older code of the parent code set in BFF is NULL, and if the parent code of the internal number set in BFFI is NULL, NULL is set in BFF and the process ends (Fig. 7 (5) ) of l.

J).

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the storage area in the block management means 1 shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the storage area in the text storage means 2 shown in FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing the storage area of the block management means 1 of FIG.
FIG. 5 shows an example of the structure of the text block stored in the storage area of FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 shows an example of the structure of the text block shown in FIG.
5) and (B) and FIG. 7 (8) and (B) are flowcharts of an example of the processing performed by the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Block management means, 2... Text storage means, 3... Command processing means, 4... Structure display means,
5...Document presentation means. Agent Patent Attorney Susumu Uchihara Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 6 (△) Figure 6 (B)

Claims (1)

[Claims] block management means for hierarchically managing a plurality of text blocks together with their text attributes, with a text block consisting of a character string of arbitrary length as one unit;
a text storage means for storing text in variable-length character strings as storage units; a structure display means for displaying a structure between the text blocks using heading names given to the text blocks; and a document formatting command. and a document presentation means for displaying the text block on a CRT screen or outputting it from a printer or the like in accordance with the structure and attributes stored in the block management means. Characteristic document formatting method.