JPH02297140A - Document printing processing system in constructing document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To suitably use existing OA resources and to print document contents corresponding to respective nodes not only by means of designating a logical page but also designating a physical page by unifying the contents of document files generated with plural document processing functions in the form of a construction document. CONSTITUTION:A construction document file 11 where the contents of the document files 11 generated by respective document processing software 3-1 to 3-7 are unified by the construction documents corresponding to hierarchy construction in respective documents is provided. Either the designation of a physical page or the designation of a logical page for printing and outputting is described in the attribute information in the construction document, and a printing processing function can execute page designation in accordance with the designation. Thus, not only the designation of the logical page but also the designation of the physical page can be instructed for printing the contents of the generated document files 11.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] In performing processing including document creation for one or more types of documents, a plurality of document processing software including a Japanese document processing mechanism are used, and the document For individual documents created using software, when printing out a structured document that maintains the hierarchical structure of the document as a structure, it is possible to specify one page by specifying either a physical page or a logical page. Regarding a document print processing method in a structured document processing system that allows instructions to be given as appropriate.

The purpose is to make it possible to create desired individual documents using document processing software.1 When printing the contents of the created document file, it is possible to specify not only the conventional logical page specification (also physical page specification). year.

A structured document file is created in which the contents of document files created by individual document processing software are integrated by a structural document corresponding to the hierarchical structure of the individual documents, and is printed out in the attribute information of the structured document. Either a physical page designation or a logical page designation is written at the time of printing, and the print processing function specifies the page according to the designation.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention utilizes a document printing processing method in a structured document processing system, in particular, a plurality of document processing software including a Japanese document processing mechanism when performing processing including document creation for one or more types of documents. At the same time, when printing out a structured document that maintains the hierarchical structure of an individual document created using the document software, the page designation can be divided into physical page designation and logical page designation. The present invention relates to a document print processing method in a structured document processing system that allows any of these to be instructed as appropriate.

Currently, OA systems are in general use, and OA resources such as software and document files are becoming larger. Therefore, there is a need to be able to easily create and manage various documents as structured documents while utilizing these resources. When printing out a structured document that has been created, it is desirable to be able to specify not only the conventional logical page but also the physical page as appropriate.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional OA processing systems, each item is created (Japanese text, line drawings, images, graphs, etc.).

(English sentences, etc.) were processed separately using software compatible with the purpose of creation.

However, recently, consideration has been given to creating a document processing system that can call up and process the various processes described above as needed. In this specification, such a document processing system will be referred to as a structured document processing system, and in this structured document processing system, when printing out a created structured document, three individual sentences, etc. It would be desirable to be able to specify the beginning of the unit by specifying not only the conventional logical page but also the physical page so that the printing mode of the individually created unit can be selected as appropriate.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As mentioned above, in the conventional case, the accumulated OA resources can only be used by systems that correspond to each purpose, and can only be used by existing OA resources such as existing software and document files.
It was not possible to use A resources as needed. Furthermore, in printing using a conventional Japanese document processing system, for example, so-called logical page designation is performed. However, there are cases where, for example, the title of a chapter in a document needs to be printed at a predetermined position on the page. In the conventional case, if an attempt was made to print at such a predetermined position, it was necessary to manually give instructions corresponding to the increase or decrease of the previous text.

The present invention makes it possible to create a desired individual document using document processing software, and 5 to make it possible to specify not only the conventional logical page specification but also the physical page specification when printing the contents of the created document file. The purpose is to

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 shows a basic configuration diagram of the present invention. Code 1-i in the figure
is an individual document, 2-1.2-2. . . . is a document file that holds the contents of individual documents, 5 is a document processing function unit that executes individual document processing, and 6 is a structured document.

Reference numeral 7 indicates a document holding function unit that holds the document contents, 5-1 indicates a print processing function, 5-2 indicates print output, 5-11 indicates an attribute information decoding unit, 5-12 indicates a first page instruction unit, and 5-13 indicates an individual unit. Represents the document content reading section.

Desired individual documents 2 For example, individual documents such as office documents, technical documents, reports, guidebooks, manuals, technical manuals, etc. that you are currently trying to create are - Generally, document name 9 Cover, Chapter 1, Chapter 1 Section .1, Section 1.2.

In the case of the present invention, attention is paid to the above-mentioned hierarchical structure (tree structure) of an individual document, and a logical structure corresponding to the hierarchical structure is created as a structure. It is configured to have a structure document 6-4 described as . Then, the document file 21.2-2 in which the content of the individual document is stored by the document structure document 6-i. ...is given instructions.

The document processing function unit 5 performs processing to create and modify the individual documents described above using a group of document processing software such as a Japanese document processing mechanism and a graph processing mechanism. Print processing function 5 to print out
-1 is provided.

When printing out individual documents, for example, node (1, 1 clause) #5, node (1, 2 clause) #6, node (2, 1 clause) #7, etc. in the structural document 6-i shown in FIG. When printing content such as, (i) a logical page instruction in which the first print position is automatically determined based on the print result of the previous document, and (ii) a first print position that is physically determined in advance. It is desirable to be able to specify both the physical page instructions and the physical page instructions to be saved. For this purpose, the illustrated nodes #5, #6'', #7 . In the attribute information in node #8, etc., either a physical page designation or a logical page designation is written as information regarding the page to be printed at the time of printout.

The attribute information decoding unit 5-11 in the print processing function 5-1 decodes the attribute information and determines whether it is a physical page designation or a logical page designation. The first page instruction section 5-12 is.

In the case of a physical true designation, printing starts from the designated page regardless of the page position where the end of the content of the previous document is printed. In addition, if a logical page is specified, the print start position is shifted as appropriate depending on the situation in which the contents of the previous document were printed. The individual document content reading unit 513 reads the document content from the nine document content holding function unit 7 and obtains a print output 5-2.

[Effect]

The structure document 5-i prepared as described above includes, for each node, (i) information indicating what position in what hierarchical structure the own node occupies; (ii) Information about which document processing software I/ware the own node is associated with + (iii) Information about which document file 2-1.2-2゜... the own node is associated with the document content stored in In addition to information such as whether the node is currently running or not, attribute information regarding the node itself is also described.

In the case of the present invention, 9 is one of the attribute information.

Information on whether to specify a physical page or a logical page for printing is described.

The illustrated attribute information decoding unit 5-11 decodes the attribute information and determines whether the physical page designation or logical page designation is specified by the first page designation unit 5-1.
2 will be notified. The first page instruction unit 5-12 specifies the first page based on the content of the notification and the information regarding the true state at which the previous print content ended. That is, in the case of designating a logical page, the designation is made in accordance with the printing status of the previous print content. The print processing function section 5-1 outputs the document content read by the 3-individual document content reading section 5-13 as a print output 5-2, but at this time, the first page instruction section 5-
The instructions from 12 are used.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. Code 2A in the diagram
, 2B, . . . , 2X are document files that hold the contents of individual documents, 3 is a group of document processing software, and 5 is a document processing function unit. Further, 10 represents a structured document processing system that controls the entire system, and 11 represents the entire structured document file. Note that in document processing software group 3.

3-1 is a Japanese document processing mechanism, 3-2 is a line drawing processing mechanism,
3-3 is an image processing mechanism, 3-4 is a table calculation processing mechanism, 3-5 is a graph processing mechanism, 3-6 is a list processing mechanism,
3-7 represents an English document processing mechanism. The two structured documents according to the present invention each exist in the structured document file 11.

The document processing software group 3 may be, for example, an existing software group that has existed individually from the past. Then, existing files (such as the illustrated document file 2A, vA image file 2B, etc.) that exist corresponding to these existing software groups are integrated under the structured document file 11. It may be considered that a structural document prepared corresponding to one individual document serves as a summary for the integration.

The document processing function unit 5 operates under the control of the structured document processing system 10 to process the 1 Japanese sentence S processing mechanism 3-1 and the line drawing processing mechanism 3.
-2 as appropriate to create, modify, or delete a desired document (the desired document is referred to as an individual document). At this time, for example, when the Japanese document processing mechanism 31 operates to create a Japanese sentence in the content of the individual document, the created Japanese sentence is created in, for example, the two document files shown in the figure. Further, when creating a line drawing in the contents of the individual document, the line drawing processing mechanism 3-2 is activated and the line drawing is created in the line drawing file 2B.

The individual document is roughly divided into items such as (i) cover page, (ii) chapter 1, (iii) chapter 2, ..., (iv) references, and is further divided into items such as, for example, chapter 2 above. If the content includes Japanese text and line drawings, a "structural document" is created that gives the hierarchical structure of the individual document as a structure, and is held in the structured document file 11 shown in Figure 2, and the content of the document is Based on this, predetermined storage positions of the document file 2A, line drawing file 2B, etc. are linked.

In this way, documents created using existing document processing functions are integrated for each individual document based on the contents of the structural document. In addition, based on the content of the structural document, individual document files 2A and 2 may be created as appropriate.
B, . . . can be accessed.

FIG. 3 shows a partial configuration diagram of the main parts of the present invention. Symbol l in the diagram
is a document, l-4 is an individual document, 2-1.2-2. ... is a document file that holds the contents of individual documents, 3-1.3-
2. . . . are a group of document processing software, 4 is a structural document definition used as a template when creating a structured document corresponding to the above-mentioned individual documents, 5 is a document processing function unit that executes individual document processing, and 6 is a document processing function unit that executes individual document processing. 7 represents a structural document, and 7 represents a document holding function section that holds the document contents.

There are two types of documents, such as papers, reports, letters, and technical manuals, but there is a structure that describes the typical hierarchical structure of the paper as a structure, corresponding to the type of document, for example, a paper. Document definition 4 is prepared.

Consider that the structural document definition 4 is prepared for each type of document. i #2
．． ...). Each node (#l, #2.
...), as described below (, information about the tree structure,
Attribute information i such as the software to be used and information regarding the printing position when printing is written.

Document processing software group 3-1.3-2. ···for,
Software used to execute processes corresponding to each of the above nodes is held.

When creating the two individual documents, the document processing function unit 5 creates the contents corresponding to the individual documents 1-4, and creates the respective document files 2-1, 2-2. ..., but at this time, the document contents are created in association with the nodes indicated in the contents of the one structural document definition 4-j. At this time, the nodes shown in the structural document definition 4-j may be partially modified as necessary. Then, a structural document 6-i is created and held for the created individual document 1-i. For example, in the terminal node of the tree structure of the structural document 6-i, the document name of the corresponding document file 2 is written,
As a result, the structural document 6-i and the individual document 1-i are linked.

FIG. 4 shows the contents of one embodiment of the structured document shown in FIG. Reference numeral 12-1 in the figure is a self-ID, and represents the node ID of each node in the structural document 6-i shown in FIG. 12-2 is the parent ID of the node that is the parent of the node of interest; 12-3 is the head child ID of the first child node of the node of interest; -4 is the upper ID of the node that belongs to the same layer as the node of interest and is located directly above it, and 12-5 is the ID of the node that also belongs to the same layer and is located directly below, 10° 12-6 12-7 is content setting information that indicates whether the content has already been set for the node of interest; 12-7 is content type information that indicates the software to be used for the node of interest; -8 is a document file name that indicates the document file that stores the content when the content is set for the node of interest, 12-9
represents attribute information that provides attribute information such as physical page designation and logical page designation according to the present invention when printing a node of interest. When a physical page is specified, the absolute position (position of which page, line, etc.) at which the beginning is to be printed is specified as "layout is position."

Further, when a logical page is specified, the relative position to the end of the previous document is specified as "allocation at intervals".

In addition, the parts marked in parentheses in Figure 4 are as follows.

This shows the additions and modifications made to the definition given in the structural document definition 4-j shown in FIG. 3 when creating the structural document 6-i corresponding to the individual document l-i.

Regarding own ID #3 in FIG. 4, the node #3 has the following conditions: (i) the parent node is node #l, and (ii
) The first child node is node #5.

(iii) The immediate value node is node #2, and (
iv) The immediate value node is node #4, (V) Content settings have not been made yet, (vi) The software used is a Japanese document processing mechanism, and (vi) The document file has not been prepared yet. , (vi) It is made clear that predetermined attribute information is written.

The file name J12-8 shown in FIG. 4 links the structural document 5-i and the corresponding individual document 1-i (its contents).

FIG. 5 shows the processing mode of the portion of the document processing function section that uses document processing software.

The document processing function unit 5 selects a node whose content is to be processed in the structured document 5- (processing ■). For example, if we are instructed to create content (processing ■),
[Check the content of content type J12-7 for the node (processing ■). If the software to be used is, for example, the Japanese document processing mechanism 3-1, the processing is performed using the software. That is, in this case, a document is created, and the name of the file storing the contents of nine documents is written in "file name J12-8" shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows an example print processing flow in the print processing function.

+11 In process (■), the contents of the structure document 6-i corresponding to one individual document are read.

(2) In process ■, read the document content of one individual document.

(3) In process (2), it is checked whether a physical page is specified in the above attribute information.

(4) In process (2), if a physical page is specified, the process shown in FIG. 7 is performed.

(5) In process (2), if a logical page is designated, the process shown in FIG. 8 is performed, and (6) in process (2), a print instruction is issued.

(7) In process (2), it is checked whether printing of all document contents in the individual document has been completed. Then, if NO, the process of reading the secondary document content■
Return to

FIG. 7 shows an outline of processing by specifying a physical page.

(1) In process (■), the layout specified by the physical page specification outputs the line feed order up to the position.

(2) In process (■), formatting is performed on the content of the document to be printed.

(3) In process ■, the print position at the end of the document is
It is checked whether the layout specified for the self by the physical page specification exceeds the range.

(4) In process (2), the document content in the excess portion is captured and the above layout is printed from the position.

(5) In process (2), the above allocation is made to output line feed orders until the range is reached.

FIG. 8 shows an outline of processing by logical page designation.

(1) In process (2), a line feed order is output so that the layout specified by the logical page specification is spaced.

(2) In process (■), formanoting is performed on the content of the document to be printed.

(3) In process (2), it is checked whether printing of the document contents has been completed.

(4) In process ■, it is checked whether the printed content exceeds one page, and if it does, the process proceeds to process ■5 (5).
In process (2), since the part (2) has been exceeded, an order to perform a page break is output, and the process returns to (2) (that is, formatting is performed for the part exceeding one part).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the contents of document files created by multiple document processing functions are integrated in the form of a structured document, and existing OA resources can be used as appropriate. becomes possible. Then, when printing the document contents corresponding to each node, specify the position where the beginning will be printed.

This can be done not only by specifying a logical page as in the past, but also by specifying a physical page.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the invention, Figure 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of some essential parts of the invention, Figure 4 shows the contents of an example of a structural document, FIG. 5 shows a processing mode of a portion of the document processing function section that uses document processing software, and FIGS. 6 to 8 each show an example print processing flow in the print processing function. In the figure, 1 is a document, 1-1 is an individual document, 2 is a document file, 3 is a group of document processing software, 4 is a structural document definition, 5 is a document processing function section, 6 is a structured document, and 7 is a document holding function 10 represents a structured document processing system, and 11 represents a structured document file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A group of document processing software (3) that stores the contents of one or more types of documents in a document file (2) and processes each of the documents.
In a document processing system having a document processing software, a plurality of document processing software (3-i) including a Japanese document processing mechanism (3-1) are used as the document processing software group (3), and the document processing software (3) -i) is configured such that each document created by the method is stored and used in the document file (2), and at least one of the document processing software group (3)
The document processing function unit (5) executes individual document processing including the process of creating an individual document (1-i) while using the A structured document file (11) that holds a structural document in which a logical structure corresponding to the structure is described as a structure is provided, and the structural document is linked to a document file (2) that holds the individual document (1-i). The link information is written,
The above-mentioned structural document (6-i) and the above-mentioned individual document (1-i) are stored in association with each other, and physical page designation and logical pages are used as information regarding the page to be printed when printing out the contents of each document. The document processing function unit (5) has a print processing function (5-1) that prints the individual document (1-i).
), and the print processing function (5-1) decodes whether the above-mentioned physical page designation or logical page designation is specified, and designates the page to be printed for each of the above-mentioned document contents. A document printing processing method in a structured document processing system.