JPH0212366A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the patching production of documents with high efficiency by shifting the information between the documents together with the form information. CONSTITUTION:A document editing device consists of a display device 1, an input device 2, a controller 3, a print output device 4, an external memory 5, and a memory 6. The controller 3 and the memory 6 form a central control part 30. The form information on the writing form, etc., on each call information can also be copied as the additional information. In other words, the form information on the due information is registered in the memory 6 together with the information taken out. At the same time, these information are all reflected to the copying destination so that the maintenance of form can be copied. As a result, the existing documents can be edited in the same procedure as a conventional patching editing way with no consciousness of the writing form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document editing device, such as a Japanese word processor, which has functions such as inputting a single document, m-collection, and printing.

[Conventional technology]

In Japanese word processors that have become rapidly popular in recent years (Hitachi Japanese word processor Word pal 210 catalog, etc.), one document editing work is being used for a wide variety of purposes, and there is an increasing demand for shortening the time required for editing composition. is increasing. Among these, it is often done to extract only necessary documents from already created documents and create a new document by cutting and pasting. Conventionally, these operations have made it possible to transfer information to a new document by copying a document using a document recall function, or copying line information and graphic information used in tables and the like.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, general text information and document information in the G line,
It is impossible to maintain the format of call information, etc. between documents with format changes. In other words, with the conventional copying function, except for the line information and graphic information,
It had no shape information. Therefore, although the entire content of the document itself is copied, it does not have shape information such as formatting, so it has the drawback of requiring a lot of editing work to arrange it into the desired shape after copying.

Additionally, if you want to change the printing color of the edited document information, you will need to replace the ink ribbon, so you will need to replace the text information in areas that are printed in colors other than black with spaces in advance.
Moreover, it was necessary to separately input only the information to be printed in color on the next page, etc. In other words, when printing black, it was necessary to input the information before replacing with spaces at the position corresponding to the part replaced with spaces.

The object of the present invention is related to document creation work for the purpose of recalling information from an edited document and preserving the shape of the information.

To eliminate problems associated with copying documents between different formats, and to color print information in a work-related manner. To provide a document editing device which eliminates problems in information editing work.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve this purpose, in the present invention, shape information such as the format of each call information can be copied at the same time as the attached information. In other words, the shape information of the information can be This makes it possible to copy while maintaining the shape by registering the information in the storage device and reflecting all the information to the copy destination.

That is, the present invention provides at least an input device that can input character information, a central control unit that has a storage device that stores information and performs various processes and controls, and a display device that displays input information and processing results. In a document editing device equipped with an external storage device for storing input information and processing results, an extraction means for extracting only necessary information from document information that has already been edited, and an extraction means for extracting only necessary information from document information that has already been edited; a multi-information storage means for storing information and attached information consisting of shape information such as other formats of the main information; It is equipped with a calling means for calling necessary information.

Here, the retrieved information may be graphic information for the edited document that is separate from the document, and this separate information may be combined using attribute information.Then, the calling means may be equipped with a shape changing means to maintain the shape. Instead of leaving it as is, it may be possible to change it to a desired shape and call it into the edited document.

Regarding problems related to color printing, in the 1 edit proof display state, it is possible to register print color specification in a specific range unit in the storage device as attached information to the original information, and this color specification information can also be stored. In addition, it is now possible to save print position information and transfer editing information to the next page one color at a time when printing is instructed.

That is, the present invention provides at least an input device that can input character information, a central control unit that has a storage device that stores information and performs various processes and controls, and a display device that displays input information and processing results. In a document editing device that is equipped with an external storage device that stores input information and processing results, a printout device for edited documents capable of color printing and color information of color printed portions of the edited document are stored together with main information about the document itself. a multi-information storage means for storing the attached information as ancillary information; an information migration means for detecting the attached information at the time of printout and storing the main information at the same position on another page without printing out the corresponding main information; The apparatus is equipped with partial printing means for outputting color printout corresponding to only information.

[Effect]

By making it possible to move information between documents along with shape information, it is possible to efficiently create cut-and-paste documents. As for color printing, efficient print editing is possible without converting information with color designation in mind during printing.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail using the drawings.

Figures 1 to 3 show how to cut and paste information from an edited registered document to a newly created document, and Figures 4 to 6 show the printing flow when color printing is specified for an edited document. , FIG. 7 is a block diagram of the document editing device, FIG. 8 is an example of document creation in which a new document is edited in a cut-and-paste manner, and FIG.
The figure shows an example of a registered document that is the source of cutting and pasting, and a print format image. Figure 10 shows an image of the information transfer and printing procedure for a document with color printing specified. Figure 11 shows the external appearance of the document creation device. It is.

First, we will explain the functional flow of a basic document editing device in Section 7.
This will be explained using figures. The document editing device uses a CPU (Central Processor) that performs various processing and control.
1Jnit), a RAM (Random Access
s Memory ) and ROM (ReadOnly
A storage device 6 consisting of a floppy disk drive (Memory) and an FDD (floppy disk drive) used for storing the program and externally storing created document information.
External storage device that generally uses a magnetic recording device such as ve )! 5.C to display processing contents and processing status
It consists of a display device 11 that uses an RT (cathode ray tube) or the like, and an input device 2 that uses a keyboard or the like as an information input means. Control device 13
and the storage device 6 constitute a central control unit 30.

Note that a power supply device that supplies power for the physical operation of this device is essential, but since it is not directly related to the content of the present invention, a description thereof will be omitted.

First, when the document editing device is started, the storage device 6
The program stored in the ROM section of the control device 3
According to the program procedure, the program information other than the ROM section is read out from the FDD of the external storage device 5, and the program necessary for the document creation device is read into the program storage area section of the RAM of the storage device 6. It will be done. Once this process is completed, it may be possible to operate as a document processing device. In other words, the necessary programs are sequentially processed according to the information instructed from the input device 2, and the input document information, etc. that is being edited is stored in the RAM of the storage device 6, and the edited document is saved. In this case, processing such as registering and storing in the external storage device 5 will be performed. Note that the document information also includes character information and character attribute information such as underlining and shading.
It is stored in the AM or external storage device 5. In this manner, the normal operation of the document processing device is performed.

Next, regarding the content related to the present invention of claims 1 and 2,
An embodiment in which editing work can be performed using a cut-and-paste image of a document will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, FIG. 7, FIG. 8, and FIG. 9.

While editing the edited document 7 (FIG. 8), which is a newly created or updated document, the edited document 14 (
(Figure 9), select "Call function" manually (Step lb)
Called by. This "recall function" is one of the editing functions of the document editing device, and the edited document is stored in the storage device 6 from the external storage device 5 in which the document file has been set in advance in step 1c, and the document number is specified (step ld). This is a function to call (step la) and display the called content on the screen (step if).

A part of the information called into the edited document 7 is displayed on the CRT display device 1, which is the information 15 (Fig. 9) corresponding to the cut and paste part 8 (Fig. "R diagonal designation by cursor operation to specify the editing position on the screen" [This designation is one of the editing functions of the document editing device, and specifies the information editing unit by diagonal designation of the upper left corner and lower right corner of the editing information. It is something. ] (Susutera 11/lh) function is used to instruct the extraction.In this extraction, the internal information (character information, etc.) that is extracted in the conventional way is stored in the memory table [6, the RAM extraction information registration area. The data is temporarily stored in (step lj). At this time, at the same time as storing the main information of the document itself such as the character information mentioned above, the vertical and horizontal dimension information occupied by the cut out information area is also stored as the shape information such as the format specified for the document, that is, the character spacing. - The physical area size in the printed state, which is the area size cut out from the line spacing information, the number of horizontal characters cut out, and the number of vertical lines, can be calculated and found by the CPU that is the control device 3. The shape information obtained in this way is stored in the storage device 6 (various information storage means) as attached information.
Next is remembered. That is, the shape information is stored in the attribute information area of the RAM of the storage device 6 as the attribute information of the above-mentioned cutout area information (steps 2a to 2d).

Next, specify the area on the edited document 7 to cut and paste the extracted information into the edited document 7 displayed on the display device 1, using the starting point reference (top left corner) by specifying the cursor (step 2f ), gives a "cut and paste" instruction (step 3a). At this time, the shape information, which is the attached information at the time of the above-mentioned cutting, is cut and pasted based on the information stored in the internal storage device 6, regardless of the currently set format of the edited document 7. In other words, the information in the cut and paste area is treated as graphic data (data such as figures and images) in the edited document 7, and the internal data is a form in which the starting point of the cut and paste is connected as attribute information (step 3b). ), in this way, by using the shape information of the cut out information as the attribute information of the cut out information, it is possible to maintain the shape without being affected by the currently set format, similar to cutting and pasting from a single sheet of paper. becomes.

Editing operations like this can be carried out efficiently by calling up the registered documents one after another from the external storage device 5 and performing cutting and pasting operations to maintain the shape for the cut and paste sections ■9 to cut and paste sections ■13 in Fig. 8. It is possible to proceed with Note that the method of correcting the position of the cut and paste position can be easily realized by using the "movement function" (steps 3d to 3f), similarly to the movement of graphic data.

Further, shape information such as format can be easily changed by inputting a format change instruction into the input device.

Therefore, if a shape changing means is provided in the calling means, it becomes possible to change the shape as appropriate, set it again to a desired shape, and call up the required document in the edited document.

Next, the content related to the present invention of claim 4 will be explained in FIGS. 4 to 6.
This will be explained using FIGS. 7, 9, and 10.

This is an embodiment of the present invention in which color printing is specified for an edited document and color printing efficiency is improved. If you want to specify color printing for a document that has been edited, first select the part you want to print in color.

Input the desired color designation for each area by character or diagonal designation (step 40 to step 4e)
, this color information is stored in the internal storage device 6 as attached information to the specified area information, similar to the above-mentioned cut-and-paste editing.
(various information storage means) (step 4f).

This information is also stored in the external storage device 5 when one document is registered. Next, when a print designation, that is, a print output command to the printer which is the print output device 4, is input from the input device 2, if the document is already registered.

In response to an input instruction from the input device 2 to designate the document number of the floppy disk set in the FDD, which is the external storage device 5, the storage device i! Called at 6.

Furthermore, in the case of a document being edited, all its information is stored in the storage device 6, as described above. In this way, the storage device 6
Control device with attached information of document information! 3, it is searched to see if there is color printing designation information (step 5b), and if there is color information, the printing start position of the information is determined for each printing color designation area according to the invention according to claim 1 described above. As explained in detail, the control is performed by taking into account the top margin 24 and left margin 23 information (Figure 9), which is the printing start position information on the printing paper, which is essential for the format and printing information of the document. Calculated and determined by the CPU of the device 3 (step 5c
). Next, for the information specified to be printed in color, the information transfer means automatically reserves a new specified color unit that is separated from the normal black printing information, that is, if red is specified, a page is printed only in red, and the page is The specified area information is sent to the aforementioned control device 3.
The dot information necessary for the print output device 4 is expanded so that the printing start position is in accordance with the information calculated by (step 5g). , all are expanded to spaces (blanks) (step 5e). In other words, if after black printing, the ink ribbon is replaced and red printing is performed again on the same page paper, the red printing part that was missing in black printing will be printed without changing the printing position by the partial printing means. becomes. In this way, dot development is performed in the specified units one after another at positions where the printing position will be the same when overprinted, and the page is automatically increased by the number of units specified by the print color as shown in Figure 10. , the document information is developed into dots with one color assigned to each page. In the same figure, 16 is a black printed part, 1
Reference numeral 7 indicates a red print area, 18 indicates a blue print page, 19 indicates a space for red print information, and 20 indicates a space for blue print information. Furthermore, 21 is an information area in which the red printed information portion 19 in the black printed portion 16 is transferred to the red printed portion 17 by the information transfer means;
indicates the information area that has also been migrated.By doing this,
First, if the black printing is finished (Step 6a), and if information with a different printing color exists on the next page, the CRT, which is the display device 1, displays the ink ribbon to be replaced with the specified color (Step 6c).
) and a message is displayed to request that the paper on which black printing has been completed be reset to the print output device 4 (step 6e). After replacing the ink ribbon and resetting the paper according to this message, by inputting the completion, color printing according to the next page information is automatically executed. By repeating this procedure until all color information is printed, it is possible to efficiently perform color printing without destroying the original document information.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the appearance of a document editing device such as a Japanese word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a CRT device which is a display device, 2 is a keyboard which is an input device, 4 is a printer which is a print output device, and 5 is a floppy disk device which is an external storage device.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, document editing work can be performed from an existing document using the same procedure as conventional cutting and pasting work without being aware of the format. In other words, by using the information area size of the copy source as attached information when copying a document, it becomes possible to treat document information in the same way as graphic information, and it is possible to perform cut-and-paste operations using a document editing device.

In addition, for cases where color printing needs to be specified partially in an edited document, you can simply specify the color for each character or block where you want to print in color, without changing the created editing information. Multicolor printing can be performed efficiently by replacing the ink ribbon and resetting the paper according to the guidance message.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 3 show the processing flowchart 1- of the document information transfer method by maintaining the cut-and-paste shape of the edited document, and the fourth
Figures to Figures 6 to 6 show processing flowcharts that enable color printing of edited documents specified for color printing in a semi-automatic procedure, Figure 7 shows a block diagram of the document editing device, and Figure 8 shows cutting and pasting. Figure 9 shows an example of information to be extracted from a document that has been registered for editing, and Figure 10 shows an example of the expanded form of printed information of a document printed in color. FIG. 11 shows an external perspective view of the document editing device. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Display device, 2...Input device, 3...Control device, 4...Print output device, 5...External storage device, 6
...Storage device, 7.Edited document, 8-13.Cut and paste section, 14.Edit registered document, 16.Black printed page, 17.Red printed page, 18..・Blue printed page, 1
9... Space for information printed in red, 20... Space for information printed in blue, 20... Information developed on the second page, 22.
...Information expanded on the third page, 23...Left margin, 24.
...Top margin, 25...Print area.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input device that can input at least character information, a central control unit that has a storage device that stores information and performs various processes and controls, and a display device that displays input information and processing results. and an external storage device for storing input information and processing results, an extraction means for extracting only necessary information from document information that has already been edited, and for the document itself from among the extracted document information. a multi-information storage means for storing main information of the main information and attached information consisting of shape information such as other formats of the main information; A document editing device characterized in that it is equipped with a calling means for calling necessary information. 2. The document editing device according to claim 1, which converts the retrieved information into graphic information separate from the document for the edited document, and connects the separate information using attribute information. 3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calling means includes shape changing means for changing the shape of the retrieved necessary information and calling it into the edited document. 4. At least an input device that can input character information, a central control unit that has a storage device that stores information and performs various processes and controls, a display device that displays input information and processing results, and input information and processing A document editing device equipped with an external storage device for storing results, a printout device for edited documents capable of color printing, and storing color information of a color printed portion of the edited document as attached information together with main information about the document itself. a multi-information storage means for detecting the attached information at the time of printout, and an information transfer means for storing the main information at the same position on another page without printing out the corresponding main information; A document editing device characterized by comprising: partial printing means for outputting color printout.