JPH02257260A - Document editing processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To constitute this processor so that as for all sentence constitution units in which the line heads are to be put in the same position, the indent can be set by the same number of digits by setting the indent by the number of digits of the indent to a decided character pattern, when a character which coincides with a character pattern exists in a divided range. CONSTITUTION:Whether a character which coincides with a character pattern exists in a divided range or not is decided by a deciding means 402. In the case when the character pattern is detected by this decision, the number of digits of an indent which is set with regard to a character pattern saved in a first storage means 404 is read out by an indent setting means 402, and with regard to the line heads of all sentences in a divided range containing its character pattern, the indent is set by the number of digits which is read out. In such a way, the work for setting the indent by considering its hierarchical level at every sentence constitution unit, and also, paying attention so as to become the indent of the same number of digits as that of the sentence constitution unit of the same level in other area, which is executed up to this time becomes unnecessary.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to document editing processing using a word processor, personal computer, workstation, etc., and particularly to a document editing processing device suitable for setting indentation.

[Prior art] When creating or editing a document, the structure of the document is
It may be divided into chapters, sections, sections, etc., and have a one-layer structure.

In such a case, the beginnings of the lines of sentences constituting one document are aligned at different column positions according to the hierarchical level of chapter, section, section, etc.

In a document editing processing device such as a word processor, an indentation function is used to align the beginning positions of each line of such a sentence.

This indentation function masks the beginning of the line of the page by a preset number of digits to create a blank area. If you set this indentation, even if you break a line while creating a document, the cursor will not enter the beginning of the line beyond the indentation setting position. Therefore,
Since one character cannot be entered in the indent setting area, the beginnings of the lines are automatically aligned.

Conventionally, such indent settings have been made by specifying and inputting the position of the indent area using a cursor or the like on the screen for executing document creation 1 editing, etc. in a document editing processing device such as a word processor. I am doing it.

When indentation is performed in this way, the indentation area is automatically continued in the following lines until the next indentation is performed at a different column position.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] The above-mentioned prior art divides one document into sentence structures in units such as a part corresponding to a chapter, a part corresponding to a section, and a part corresponding to one paragraph, and parts that are positioned in the same sentence unit are divided into sentence structures. No consideration is given to the case where all indents are set with the same number of digits; in other words, with conventional technology, in such cases, an operation must be performed to set indents for all document constituent units. There was a problem. For example, each time the position of the beginning of a line in a document changes to a different hierarchy, such as chapter 1, section 1, section, etc., it is necessary to set the indent position (number of digits), etc., which is time-consuming. There was a problem.

In addition, in order to check whether the indentation is set to the same number of digits for all parts where the beginning of a line should be in the same position, it is necessary to display and check the corresponding part using a single key.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the need for individual settings for all document constituent units and to simplify the operations.

The object of the present invention is to provide a document editing processing device in which indentation can be set using the same number of digits for all sentence constituent units whose lines should have the same position.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present application provides the following invention.

The first invention of this application is.

In a document editing processing device equipped with a function of setting an indent at the beginning of each line of a document, a first storage means for storing a character string representing the number of indent digits and a designation of the number of indent digits; a first input means for inputting a character pattern indicating that the number of indentation digits and the number of indentation digits are specified into the first storage means; and a division range specification means for specifying a range in which the document is to be divided line by line. , a second storage means for storing the range divided by the divided range specifying means; a determining means for determining whether or not there is a character matching the character pattern in the divided range; The present invention is characterized by comprising an indent setting means for setting an indent by the number of indent digits for a character pattern determined by the means.

A second invention of the present application is a document editing processing device having a function of setting an indent at the beginning of each line of a document.

a first storage means for storing a character string representing the number of digits of indentation and a designation of the number of digits of indentation; and the first storage means has a designation of the number of digits of indentation and the number of digits of indentation. a first input means for inputting a character pattern representing the character pattern;

division range detection means for detecting the stored character pattern from a document and setting the line in which the character pattern exists as the first line of the range into which the document is to be divided; and the division set by the division range detection means. The present invention is characterized by comprising: a second storage means for storing a range; and an indent setting means for setting an indent by the number of digits of indentation for a character pattern in the first line of the divided range.

In each of the above inventions, preferably, a setting instructing means is provided for instructing the indent setting means to start setting an indent.

In addition, in each of the above inventions, the divided range.

a third storage means for storing the number of digits of indentation to be set when none of the character patterns stored in the first storage means match; and a second input means for inputting the number of digits for the indentation. can be provided.

The first storage means, the second storage means, and the third storage means can each be provided as a table in a data memory of hardware constituting the document editing processing device of the present invention, for example. The first storage means stores the number of indentation digits and a character string indicating that the number of indentation digits is specified as one chapter, and the second storage means stores the range into which one document is divided. A range storage table that stores the indicated range can be provided.

It is preferable that these divided table and range storage tables are stored separately from the document data in a storage medium of an auxiliary storage device.For example, in the case of a word processor,
Stores programs that control the system. Preferably, they are stored in a so-called system disk. By storing the one-division table and the range storage table independently of one document data in this way, it becomes easy to use them for other documents.

The character pattern representing the designation of the number of indentation digits stored in the first storage means can be registered by the user inputting and storing arbitrary characters, symbols, etc. This type of character pattern is
-Numerically, [Chapter 1", rSection 1", rlJ", rl
, J, r, , J, r (1) A pattern consisting of letters and symbols such as J can be considered.

The user can register these character patterns in advance, along with the number of indentation digits to position the beginning of the line in the sentence unit in which it is located. In this case, the number of indentation digits is in the order of chapter 1, section, 5, etc. , the position of the beginning of a line can be set according to the hierarchical level of one sentence.

Note that the character pattern may be registered during or after the document is created.

The symbols constituting the character patterns described above often include numbers. Therefore, when these character patterns are registered, the determining means or the division range detecting means, for example, the character pattern ``Chapter 1''. If registered, it is preferable to configure it so that it is recognized as the code of the first character, the arbitrary number code, and the character code of the first chapter.
If you set it like this, for example, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
Even if there are consecutive chapters, there is no need to input and register all of them, and only "Chapter 1" needs to be registered.

The first and second input means may be constructed of an input device such as a keyboard and a central processing unit (CPU), and the zero division range designation means may also be constructed in the same manner. In this case, a position pointing device such as a mouse can also be used.

The present invention relates to a one-document editing processing device, but it is not limited to devices such as word processors that exclusively create and edit documents, but can also be used as part of one function of a personal computer, workstation, etc. that has a one-document editing function. Needless to say, it also includes things that are composed of.

[Function] When a text is structured in a hierarchical structure, for example, chapters, sections, sections, etc., the present invention allows special characters, symbols, etc. representing those chapters, sections, sections, etc. to be repeated. Moreover, these were created by focusing on the fact that they are usually placed in the first sequential line of each sentence constituent unit.In other words, if these characters and symbols are used as indicators, the document From the various hierarchical levels that appear repeatedly in the text, it is possible to recognize sentence constituent units that belong to the same hierarchical level.

The present invention makes such a character pattern correspond to the hierarchy of one sentence, and defines the number of indentation digits corresponding to the level. The first storage means and the first input means are:
This is the purpose of this function.

In the first aspect of the present invention, a character pattern representing the number of indentation digits and the designation of the number of indentation digits is input into the device by the first input means. This input is made from outside the system. The input may be made before the creation of one document, during or after the creation of the document, or may be input completely independently of the document to be created.

The input number of indent digits and character pattern data indicating that the number of indent digits is specified are stored line by line by the first storage means.

Next, the range in which the target document is to be divided is specified line by line using the 1-division range specification means. This specification can be made arbitrarily by the user. However, it is best to follow the structure of one sentence, so it is preferable to
Specify that the character pattern described above be included in the first line.

Thereafter, the determining means determines whether or not there is a character matching the character pattern in the divided range.

If a one-character pattern is detected by this determination, the indentation setting means stores it in the first storage means. The number of indentation digits set for the character pattern is read out, and the indentation is set at the beginning of the line of all sentences in the divided range including the character pattern using the number of digits read out. This setting is processed so that if the character patterns are the same, they all have the same number of digits.

Therefore, the user selects the hierarchical level of one sentence constituent unit, the corresponding number of indent digits, and a character pattern indicating that the number of indent digits is set for the hierarchical level, registers this, and Regarding the documents to be processed.

All you need to do is specify the range to be divided into parts with the same number of digits of indentation.

Previously, indentation was done by taking into consideration the hierarchical level of each individual sentence structure unit and making sure that the indentation was the same number of digits as the sentence structure units at the same level in other areas. Setting work is no longer necessary.

Furthermore, according to another invention of the present application, the operation of specifying the division range can also be made unnecessary. That is, another invention of the present application, as described above, focuses on the fact that a character pattern such as "Chapter 1" is at the beginning of a sentence constituent unit, detects this character pattern in the system, and reads the detected line. By setting this at the beginning of the divided range, one divided range is automatically set.

This greatly reduces the number of operations the user has to perform, improving usability.

(Left below) [Example] An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

FIG. 4 shows a system configuration diagram of this embodiment.

In FIG. 4, the system of this embodiment includes character input,
an input device 401 that issues instructions for editing, storage, printing, etc.; a CPU 402 that controls input, editing, storage, and printing based on inputs and instructions from the input device 401;
A program memory 403 that stores the control program of U402, a data memory 404 that stores one document data, a display device 405 that displays one document, and an auxiliary storage device 40
6 and a printing device 407 that prints document data.

The input device 401 has a division key for dividing one document line by line.

FIG. 1 is an example of a data table required in this embodiment.

FIG. 1(a) shows a range storage table that stores the line range of a divided document. This table contains an address 101 with the first line information of the line range of the divided document, an address 102 with the last line information, and FIG. 1(d) described later.
The address 108 of the partitioned table is stored.

FIG. 1(b) is a line management table that stores information on each line of a document in order from the beginning of the document. This table stores the character data address 103 where the first character data of one line is located and the number of indentation digits 104.

FIG. 1(c) shows character data 105 constituting the text.
This is a character data table that stores from the beginning of the document.

FIG. 1(d) shows a character pattern 106 indicating that the number of indentation digits is specified and the number of indentation digits 107.
This is a partitioned table that stores the data as one unit.

Each of the tables may be provided in a data memory. Note that it can also be saved in an auxiliary storage device.

Line-by-line division of a document is performed by inputting a division key at the first line to be divided (step 201 in Figure 2).
), this can be done as follows: First, position the cursor displayed on the screen of the display device 405 at the first line of the string to be divided, which is also displayed.
In this condition.

A split key is input from the input device 401. In response, the CPU 402 detects the address of the line with the same coordinates from the screen coordinates of the line where the cursor is located, and sets this to -
Retain time memory.

Next, the CPU 402 stores the row address stored in step 201 as the first row address 101 in the range storage table (step 2o2).

At this time, the row address immediately before the first row address is stored in the range storage table as the end address of the previously designated divided range. That is, since the end of the divided range is set by specifying the next divided range, one divided range is set by specifying the first line twice. In other words, when specifying the range, it is only necessary to specify the first row.

Next, the process of setting the indentation of each divided portion of the document will be explained using FIG.

First, the CPU 402 reads out the character data of the first line stored in the range storage table (step 301).
Reading of character data is realized by reading the first row address 101 and reading the character data address 103 of the line information of the first row.

Next, the CPU 402 reads out the digit number specification character pattern 106 of the partitioned table (step 302), and checks whether the character data read out in step 301 includes character data that matches the character pattern 106 read out in step 302. is determined (step 303), and if there is, the process of step 304 is performed; if not, the process of step 305 is performed.

In step 305, the CPU 402
Then, it is determined whether or not there is a character pattern 106 of the divided table to be read next, and if there is, the process of step 302 is performed, and if there is not, the process of step 306 is performed.

In step 3o4, the CPU 402
The address of the partitioned table corresponding to the character pattern 106 read out in step 2 is stored in the partitioned table address 108 of the range storage table, and at the same time, the number of indentation digits 107 corresponding to the character pattern 106 read out in step 302 is stored in the partitioned table address 108 of the range storage table. From the first row address 101 read in step 301 to the last row address 102 corresponding to said 101
Number of indentation digits for all line information that falls within the range 10
Set to 4.

In step 306, the CPU 402 executes step 301.
Determine whether there is information in the range storage table to be read with
If there is, the process of step 301 is completed; if not, the process ends.

When such settings are made, indentation processing will be performed using the line management table shown in FIG. 1(b). That is, in the line management table, the number of characters in each line is determined according to the number of digits of indentation, so the first character data address of each line is determined correspondingly.

As a result, for each line, the character data of the character data table shown in FIG. 1(Q) is sequentially read out and displayed on the screen of the display device 405, starting from the first character data. In this case, when displaying characters on each line, the display device 405 shifts the display start digit position toward the end of the line by the number of digits stored in the number of indent digits 107 of the partitioned table shown in FIG. 1(d). indicate. As a result, the beginning of one line will be blank for the set number of digits, and the lines will be aligned.

In this example, the process of setting the indentation of each divided part of the document is performed after the digit number specification character pattern representing the number of indentation digits and the number of indentation digits have been set in the division table. be. However, by providing a means to instruct to set an indent for each division,
The instruction means may be used as a trigger.

In the above embodiment, in step 305, the character pattern 10 of the partitioned table to be read next in step 302 is
6, and if not, performs the process of step 306 and does not set indentation. However, if the character data of the first line of the divided line range does not match any character pattern in the divided table. By providing means for storing the number of digits of indentation to be set and means for inputting the number of digits for indentation, it is possible to set indentation even when there is no such means.

The above embodiment is an example in which the user of the document editing processing device specifies text units in which the number of indentation digits is different as the division range. In this example, any range can be indented as long as it includes a single character pattern.

By the way, as mentioned above, when a text is structured into a single layer structure, such as chapters, sections, sections, etc., special characters, symbols, etc. are used to represent those chapters, sections, sections, etc. , and these are usually placed at the beginning of each sentence unit. Therefore, the setting of the division range exists in the text. It is considered possible to perform one line by detecting these character patterns.

Next, an embodiment will be described in which the system automatically issues a one-division instruction based on this idea.

In this embodiment, the system can be configured by the hardware shown in FIG. 4, as in the previous embodiment. The difference from the above embodiment is that split key manual labor is not required;
Another advantage is that the system has a function of automatically recognizing the division range. Note that other functions are substantially the same as those in the embodiment described above. Similarly, the number of indented digits and a character pattern indicating that the number of indented digits is set may be input and stored. Therefore, the following explanation will focus on the different functions.

FIG. 5 shows a flowchart regarding the operation of the function for recognizing the division range of this embodiment. Here, Figure 1 (
The process shown in FIG. 5 is performed from the first record to the last record of the row management table shown in b).

The CPU 402 reads character data from the first character to the last character in the line (step 501).

Next, the read character data is compared with each character pattern 106 in the partitioned table shown in FIG. 1(d). If there is no character pattern that matches any of the character patterns, the process advances to step 506. On the other hand, if there is character data that matches any character pattern, in step 503, the character data address 103 of the row record in the row management table is changed to the first row address in the range storage table shown in FIG. 1(a). Write to 101.

Next, the CPU 402 reads from the row management table the first character data address of the row immediately before the row having the character data address written in the range storage table, and reads the first character data address of the row having the character data address written in the range storage table. End line address 1 of the record immediately before the record written
02 (step 504), which is the same as the procedure for registering the range storage table in the embodiment described above.

Next, the CPU 402 writes the address of the divided table with the matching character pattern into the divided table address 108 of the range storage table (step 505).

After this, it is determined whether all records of the one-row management table have been read, and until all records are read,
The above procedure is repeated, and when all records have been read, the process ends (step 506).

With the above steps, the registration of the division ranges requiring indentation is completed, and next, the process of setting the indentation of each division of one document will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

First, the CPU 40.2 selects the first row address 101.2 stored in the range storage table. Read the last row address 102 and the partitioned table address 103 (step 6)
01).

Next, the CPU 402 calculates the number of indent digits by 1 from the partitioned table based on the read partitioned table address 103.
07 is read out, and for all lines corresponding to the range from the first row address 101 to the last row address 102 of the read range storage table, the number of indent digits is set to the number of indent digits 104 of the corresponding record in the one-line management table. 107 (step 602).

Then, the CPU 402 stores the data in the range storage table.

It is determined whether there is any data to be read next, and if there is, the above procedure is repeated until there is no more data, and when there is no more data, the process ends (step 603).

After the indentation is set in this way, the text is displayed on the display device 405 with blanks at the beginning of the line corresponding to the set number of digits, as in the above-described embodiment. Furthermore, the output device 407 prints the document with the beginnings of each line of the text aligned based on the set indentation.

Note that in this embodiment, when there is a sentence constituent unit that does not have a pre-registered character pattern;

Even if there is a registered character pattern, if you want to change the number of indentation digits in a line other than the line where the character pattern exists, enter the character pattern in the first line into the split table, and then change the indentation. This can be done by inputting the number of digits. Of course, similar to the other embodiments described above, this may be handled by manually inputting one division key.

[Effect of the invention] According to the present invention, a document is divided into sentence structures in units such as a part corresponding to a chapter, a part corresponding to one section, and a part corresponding to one paragraph. When setting indentation by the number of digits, you can eliminate the need to set it individually for all document constituent units, and also set the indentation by the same number of digits for all parts where the beginning of the line should be in the same position. There's no need to check to see if it's there.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of data required by the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of processing for dividing a document line by line, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of processing for setting indentation of each divided portion of a document. Fig. 4 is a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 5 is a flowchart showing the division range setting process in another embodiment of the icefield invention, and Fig. 6 shows the process of setting the □ indentation in the invention. It is a flowchart. 101... First row address, 102... Last row address, 103... Character data address, 104...
Number of indent digits, 105...Character data, 106...
・Number of digits specification character pattern, 107...Number of indent digits, 401...Input device, 402...CPU, 403
...Program memory, 404...Data memory,
405...Display device, 406...Auxiliary storage device, 4
07...Output device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a document editing processing device equipped with a function of setting an indent at the beginning of each line of a document, there is provided a document editing processing device that stores a character string representing the number of digits of indentation and the number of digits of indentation. 1 storage means; a first input means for inputting into the first storage means a character pattern representing the number of digits of indentation and a designation of the number of digits of indentation; a second storage means for storing the range divided by the division range specification means; and a determining means for determining whether or not there is a character matching the character pattern in the divided range. and an indent setting means for setting an indent in the divided range by the number of digits of indentation for the character pattern determined by the determining means. 2. In a document editing processing device equipped with a function of setting an indent at the beginning of each line of a document, a first storage means for storing a character string representing the number of indent digits and the designation of the number of indent digits; a first input means for inputting into the first storage means a character pattern representing the number of indent digits and a designation of the number of indent digits; detecting the stored character pattern from the document; The line where the character pattern exists is
A dividing range detecting means for setting the first line of the range into which the document is to be divided; a second storage means for storing the dividing range set by the dividing range detecting means; and an indent for the character pattern in the first line of the dividing range. and an indent setting means for setting an indent with the number of digits. 3. The document editing processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising setting instruction means for instructing said indent setting means to start setting an indent. 4. A third storage means for storing the number of indentation digits to be set when none of the character patterns stored in the first storage means match in the divided range, and inputting the number of indentation digits. 4. The document editing processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second input means.