JPH01231115A - Document generating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the work efficiency by constituting the title device so that table data can be obtained easily from a display on a display means. CONSTITUTION:As a result of having evaluated a reply planning part 2064 and a reply planning rule storage part 2074, when it has been decided that it is necessary to output no only guide data stored in a guide data storage part 210 but also table data which has collected information which is necessary for an operation shown by a guidance and cannot be documented, the table data stored in a table data storage part 211 is read out together with said guidance data and stored in a guide sentence buffer 2087. As for this table data, a punctuation mark code table of a word processor and a head index table, etc. are considered. The table data which as collected information required for executing an operation shown in a guidance sentence of the stored guide data is displayed on a display device 4 by a display part 205.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document creation device, such as a Japanese word processor, equipped with a guidance function.

(Prior Art) Some document creation devices, such as Japanese word processors, are capable of displaying guidance indicating operating procedures.

By the way, conventional devices of this type display only the operating procedures, such as Kuten input in Kana-Kanji conversion, etc.
In many cases, table data other than the guidance text is required for operation.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, even though conventional document creation devices have a guidance function, the guide text only shows the operating method, so it is not written in printed materials such as manuals. There was a problem in that the table data had to be referenced separately, resulting in low work efficiency.

The present invention was developed under these circumstances, and most of the work can be done just by the display contents of the display means.
The purpose is to provide a document creation device that allows work to proceed efficiently.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve this object, the document creation device of the present invention includes input means for inputting characters, sounds, coordinate values, and assistance requests, knowledge, and various rules. , an external storage means for storing guide data and table data, a display means for displaying the question item table and guide texts, and a temporary storage means for storing the question texts and guide texts necessary for creating the question items and guide texts. a storage means for storing information, and an inference means for creating question sentences and guide sentences from knowledge and various rules, and when creating a guide sentence, the display means displays information related to the guide data based on the judgment of the inference means. It is designed to display tabular data.

(Function) When the present invention is applied to a document creation device such as a Japanese word processor, it is possible to easily obtain tabular data from the display of the display means, which could not be obtained without referring to materials such as manuals, thereby improving work efficiency. will improve dramatically.

(Example) Hereinafter, details of this example of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes an input device such as a keyboard, microphone, tablet, mouse, etc. for inputting characters, voices, coordinate values, assistance requests, etc.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a control device that centrally controls the entire device. 3 is an external storage device such as a magnetic disk, memory card, ROM, etc. that stores knowledge, various rules, guide data, etc. 4 is C that displays the question list and guide text as shown in Figure 2.
These are display devices such as RT, liquid crystal displays, and plasma displays.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control device 2. As shown in FIG.

First, the input unit 201 reads data input through the input device 1 and stores it in the temporary storage unit 208 as necessary. The display unit 205 reads necessary data from the -time storage unit 2'08 and displays it on the display device 4.The applied processing function unit 203 performs processing necessary for the applied functions of the device, such as document creation and editing functions in a word processor. It performs processing and includes the programs necessary for this assistance.

The inference unit 206 is controlled by the control unit 202 and reads out the rules stored in the rule storage unit 207 in accordance with each process of assistance, and
The situation information analysis unit 204 analyzes the application processing function unit 203 and makes an evaluation using the knowledge stored in the application processing function unit 203 and the situation information obtained, and stores the results in the temporary storage unit 208.

Further, the guide data storage section 210 stores guide data necessary for assistance, and the guide data is read out according to the rule evaluation result of the inference section 206. The data stored in the rule storage section 207, the knowledge storage section 209, and the guide data storage section 210 are initially in the external storage device 3, and are read into a predetermined storage section when the assistance is activated.

The processing in the control device 3 will be described below with reference to FIG. 4.

Normally, keys, commands, various data, etc. input to the input unit 201 are sent to the application processing function unit 20 via the control unit 202.
3 and used for various processing (steps 401 to 401).
403).

At this time, when the user inputs an assistance request,
The control unit 202 first activates the status information analysis unit 204 to analyze the operating status of the applied processing function unit 203 and stores it in the status information buffer 2081 (step 404). For example, in the case of a word processor, the operating status of the applied processing function unit 203 is "double angle is being specified".

After that, the control unit 202 controls the item setting unit 2 in the inference unit 206.
By activating 061, assistance is activated. The item setting section 2061 includes the item setting rule storage section 207
The item setting rules stored in 1 are evaluated, and the items to be displayed on the question item table and their order are determined and stored in the display item buffer 2082 (step 405).

When evaluating rules, the knowledge storage unit 20
The contents of the knowledge and situation information buffer 2081 stored in 9 are checked.

Thereafter, when evaluating each rule, the knowledge stored in the storage unit 209 and the contents of the situation information buffer 2081 are similarly referenced.

When a question item is set in the display item buffer 2082,
The display unit 205 reads this and displays it on the display device (step 406), and allows the user to select one of the items (step 407). The item selected by the user is input section 2
01 is stored in the selection item buffer 2083 (step 408), and then the auxiliary item setting section 2062 is activated.

The auxiliary item setting section 2062 has a selection item buffer 2083.
The auxiliary item setting rules stored in the auxiliary item setting rule storage unit 2072 are evaluated based on the contents of the auxiliary item setting rules storage unit 2072, and the auxiliary items to be displayed on the question item table and their order are determined and stored in the display item buffer 2084 (step 409 ).

Here, the display section 205 is activated again, this time the content of the display auxiliary item buffer 2084 is read out and displayed on the display device 4 (step 410), and the user is prompted to select one of the auxiliary items (step 411). The auxiliary item selected by the user is stored in the selected auxiliary item buffer 2 by the input unit 201.
085 (step 412).

Next, the question text creation unit 2063 starts up, evaluates the question text creation rules stored in the question text creation rule storage unit 2073 based on the contents stored in the selection item buffer 2083 and the selection auxiliary item buffer 2085, A question text is created from the user-selected item and auxiliary items and stored in the question text buffer 2086 (step 413).

Next, the answer planning section 2064 starts up, evaluates the answer planning rules stored in the answer planning rule storage section 2074 based on the contents of the question text buffer 2086, and stores them in the guide data storage section 210 based on the evaluation results. The guide data that has been written is read out and stored in the guide sentence buffer 2087 (step 41).
4).

Finally, the display unit 205 is activated once again, and the guide sentence stored in the guide sentence buffer 2087 is read out and displayed on the display device 4 (step 415). The movements of the inference units 2061 to 2064, the input unit 201, the display unit 205, etc. described above are all controlled by the control unit 202.

In the document creation device of this embodiment that operates as described above, as a result of evaluating the answer planning section 2064 and the answer planning rule storage section 2074, the guide data storage section 2
When it is determined that it is necessary to output tabular data that summarizes undocumentable information necessary for the operation indicated by the guidance, in addition to the ID data stored in the tabular data storage section 21.
1 is read out together with the guidance data and stored in the guide sentence buffer 2087.

This table data may include a word processor's Kuten code table, radical index table, and the like. As an example, a part of the Kuten code table is shown in FIG.

Tabular data summarizing the information necessary to perform the operations indicated in the guidance text of the stored guide data is displayed on the display unit 205.
is displayed on the display device 4.

In addition, when storing the question text in the question text buffer 2086 (step 413), the user can select whether or not to output the table data, so that only the guide text, only the table data, or both the guide text and the table data can be output. It is possible to change the output format.

In addition, by displaying only the table data on the display device 4 in addition to the guide text when operating the contents of the guidance text, the user can learn the operation procedure from the guide text and follow the learned procedure. Input work can be performed based on table data. At this time, the display of the table data ends simultaneously with the end of the assistance (step 416), and the state returns to the state before starting the assistance.

Thus, according to the device of this embodiment, tabular data that could not be obtained with conventional devices without reference to materials such as manuals can be easily obtained from the display on the display device.
Work efficiency improves dramatically.

In this embodiment, a case has been described in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor, but the present invention can be similarly applied to personal computers and other document creation devices.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, table data can be easily obtained from the display on the display means, so that work efficiency is dramatically improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a question list in the same embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a control device in the same embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the flow of processing in the same control device, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the display of the Kuten code table in the same embodiment. 1... Input device, 2... Control device, 3... External storage device, 4... Display device. Applicant: Toshiba Corporation Toshiba Computer Engineering Co., Ltd. Atsushi No. 1, Figure 21, No. 39

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Input means for inputting text, voice, coordinate values, and assistance requests; external storage means for storing knowledge, various rules, guide data, and table data; and display means for displaying question item lists and guide texts. Equipped with a display means, a storage means for temporarily storing question sentences and guide sentences necessary for creating question items and guide sentences, and an inference means for creating question sentences and guide sentences from knowledge and various rules. A document creation device characterized in that, when creating a guide sentence, table data related to the guide data is displayed on the display means based on the judgment of the inference means.