JPH02311951A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively perform a logical editing task by defining previously the items of logical elements for each structure element of a document and carrying out interactively the logical editing tasks to define an optional part of the contents of each structure element as the item of a certain logical element. CONSTITUTION:A definition file 7 is prepared for the items of logical elements related to the contents of each structure element of a document together with a document file 6 for each structure element, an attribute contents file 8 for items of logical elements, and a reference file 9. Then the interactive processes are carried out for selection of items of defined logical elements, designation of a range of character strings serving as the logical elements, input of the attribute contents related to the items of designated logical elements, and input of data to be stored in the file 9 respectively in terms of the contents of the structure elements. Then each file is updated or produced. For this purpose, a means is provided together with the man-machine interface means 1 and 2 required for interactive processes. As a result, the logical editing tasks can be interactively carried out with high efficiency in terms of the document contents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing device, and more particularly to a document editing device for efficiently editing the contents of a document.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been a device called an outline processor that has advanced editing functions that can be used to edit high-quality documents such as publications.

In this outline processor, a document is treated as a tree structure consisting of structural elements such as chapters and sections.In advance, the outline of the document, that is, the tree structure of the document, and the attributes such as font size, type, indentation, etc. for each structural element are prepared. By defining , document input can be performed for any structural element. The input document data is
Automatically edited according to the defined outline.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, as the name of the outline processor suggests,
Possible editing is limited to editing the document structure represented by a tree structure, such as emphasizing part of the document content, adding footnotes to some character strings, or expressing part of it as conversation text. , it was not possible to efficiently edit the document contents (hereinafter referred to as logical editing).

An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing device that can efficiently perform such logical editing.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a definition file that stores definitions of logical element items regarding the contents of each structural element of a document that can be expressed in a tree structure, It has a stored document file, an item attribute content file for storing attribute contents regarding each item of a logical element, and a reference file for storing data related to an item of a specific logical element. Regarding the contents of the stored structural elements, selection of logical element items defined in the definition file, specification of the range of character strings as logical elements, input of attribute contents regarding the specified logical element items, and the reference file The computer is configured to include means for updating or creating each of the files by performing interactive processing for inputting data to be stored in the computer, and a man-machine interface means for the interactive processing.

Effect of the present invention With the above-described configuration, if a logical element item is defined for each structural element of a document in advance, logical editing can be performed interactively by making any part of the content of each structural element an item of a certain logical element. can be done efficiently.

Note that the logical elements and the contents of their editing will be specifically explained in the embodiment.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a functional schematic diagram of a document editing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. This document editing device is capable of not only editing the structure of a document, but also logically editing the content of the document and editing the layout of the final output of the document through interactive processing.

The display section 1 and the input section 2 are means of a man-machine interface for such interactive processing.

Reference numeral 3 denotes an editing processing unit that executes editing processing interactively through a man-machine interface, and this functionally includes a logical editing processing unit 3A for logical editing processing of a document, and a logical editing processing unit 3A for processing output layout editing of a document. Layout editing processing unit 3 for
B, an interaction control unit 30 that performs interaction control related to these processes, and the like.

Files related to editing processing include a document file 6, a definition file 7, an item attribute content file 8, a reference file 9, and a layout attribute content file IO.

A document editing device having such a functional configuration actually includes a CPU 11, a memory 12, and a CRT as shown in FIG.
General data processing consisting of display 13, keyboard 14, mouse 15, display interface circuit 16, node disk device 17, floppy disk device 18, disk interface circuit 19, laser beam printer 11 printer interface circuit 21, etc. This can be realized by the multi-window processing operating system (O8) and various processing programs on the hardware configuration of the device.

To briefly explain the correspondence between Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the display section l
A CRT display 13 is used as the input section 2.
A keyboard 14 and a mouse 15 are used as such.

A hard disk drive 17 or a floppy disk drive 18 is used to store each file 7, . . . , 10, and each file is called to the memory 12 and processed as needed. The editing processing section 3 is realized by hardware such as the CPU 11, the memory 12, the display interface circuit 16, etc. according to the O8 and the processing program. The laser beam printer is used to output a note copy of the final layout-edited document.

Document editing by the document editing device configured as above will be described. In order to simplify the explanation, only FIG. 1 will be referred to regarding the device configuration.

Documents to be subjected to logical editing processing, which is a feature of the present invention, are:
Structural editing has already been completed. This structural editing is performed according to definitions regarding the structural elements of the document. The definitions of structural elements and logical elements for each structural element in this document are as follows:
They are prepared in advance according to the type of target document (distinction between paper, magazine, etc.) and stored in the definition file 7. A corresponding definition file 7 is linked to a document to be logically edited. In addition, document data (character string data) is
It has been edited in advance according to the document structure definition, and is stored in a document file 6 created for each defined structural element. Note that the method of editing the structure of such a document may be the same as that of a conventional outline processor, so a description thereof will be omitted.

Here, the structural elements of a document and the logical elements within the structural elements will be explained.

For example, consider a document with a turini structure as shown in FIG.

The document shown here has a "preface" and "operation method" as structural elements at the level equivalent to chapters, etc., and an "overview" and "overview" below the "preface" as structural elements at the next level.
It has "function".

Similarly, there are one or more structural elements under “operation method”. The number of levels of structural elements can be arbitrarily defined. The file structure of a document is a hierarchical structure in which the content of the document (document data) is made into a file for each lowest structural element, and these files are sequentially linked to files of higher structural elements.

Basically, logical elements may be defined for each structural element at each level, but here, to simplify the explanation, logical elements will be defined only for the structural element at the lowest level.

Logical elements specifically include "see note" which means a character string with a footnote, "emphasis" which means a character string or sentence that is emphasized by enlarging the characters or by means of Aydalai/etc., and conversational text. These include "conversation sentences," which mean sentences such as "conversation sentences."

In a document with the structure shown in FIG. 3, if "see note" and "emphasis" are defined as logical element items in "summary", the definition file 7 will have contents as shown in FIG. 5. Go to the first definition! Elemental documents (preface, operating instructions, etc.) are the third
This is the definition part of the highest level structural element of the document shown in the figure, and shows that the document is composed of structural elements such as "preface" and "operation method".

The second definition - Element Preface (Summary 9 Function)> indicates that the structural element "Preface" includes the structural elements "Summary" and "Function". Third definition go! Element summary (character string 1 note reference 1 emphasis 1...)> defines that "see note", "emphasis", etc. may exist as logical element items related to the content of the structural element "summary". There is.

Assuming that the definition and structure editing as described above have been performed, the logical editing process of a document according to the logical element definition will be described next. FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of the logical editing process, and FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the display screen and file contents in the logical editing process.

Interactively select the structural elements of the document you want to edit (4th step)
5TI in the figure). That is, the operator repeats input operations using the input unit 2 to select the document and structural element to be edited, and the logical editing processing unit 3A performs necessary screen control via the interaction control unit 3C.

First, the logical editing processing section 3A refers to the first definition line in the definition file 7 for the specified document, and displays the highest level structural element of the specified document on the screen of the display section 1.

Since a document having the structure shown in FIG. 3 is used as an example here, following the document name, titles such as structural elements such as "Preface" and "Operation Method" are first displayed on the screen.

Next, when the “preface” is specified by the operator,
The logic editing processing unit 3A reads the “preface” in the definition file 7.
``Summary'', which is its structural element
and the title of the “function” are displayed on the screen.

On the other hand, when the operator specifies a “summary”,
In this example, since the structural element to be edited is specified at this stage, the logical editing processing unit 3A opens the text editing window 5 and displays the contents of the "summary" read from the document file 6 corresponding to the "summary". (Structure-edited character string data) is displayed.

For example, the following sentence will be displayed:

In order to improve the efficiency and versatility of DTP program development, the DTP program is divided into several submodules.

Next, the operator specifies a range of character strings as logical elements on the display screen through the input unit 2 (5T2 in FIG. 4).

The logic editing processing unit 3A refers to the definition file 7 and opens a window for the item menu of the logical element defined in the definition of the logical element regarding the 'summary', so the operator can select the item of the specified logical element as an item. Select from the menu (573 in Figure 4).

For example, the string rDTPJ is specified as a logical element,
Assume that "see note" is selected as the item. In this case, the logic editing processing unit 3A, as shown in FIG. >virtue! (see note), the screen display is similarly changed, and the item menu window is closed (the item menu window 26 may remain open).

If the specified logical element item requires attribute specification, the logical editing processing unit 3A opens an item attribute window r, and the operator enters the necessary attribute and gender contents in the input unit 2. Input (5T4 in Figure 4).

In the case of "Refer to Note", the reference number and reference file name are displayed as attributes in the item attribute window n, as shown in FIG. If the operator uses the reference number e.g. rlJ
When, for example, rDTPJ is input as the reference file name, the logic editing processing unit 3A writes the specified attribute contents to the item attribute content file 8 as shown in FIG. 5, and closes the item attribute window r (Sr1).

Next, the logic editing processing unit 3A checks whether the item of the logic element requires an annotation text or an image (Sr1
). Since the logical element item "Reference Note" requires a comment text or image, the logical editing processing unit 3A opens a window row of the reference file, and the operator inputs the necessary comment text or image into the window. 5
T7).

The annotation regarding this rDTPJ is, for example, a sentence such as "What is desktop publishing?".

When the input/editing of the annotation text is instructed to end, the logical editing processing unit 3A creates a reference file 9 with the file name DTP whose content is an annotation text or an image, as shown in FIG. Close the window path of the file (
Sr8).

This completes the logical editing regarding the character string rDTPJ of "see note".

The same applies when the operator wants to emphasize the character string "Submodule", and the operator specifies the range of the character string and selects the item "Emphasis".

In this case, as shown in FIG. 5, "emphasis" and "emphasis" are displayed before and after the "submodule", and the document data in the document file 6 is similarly modified.

Next, in the item attribute window r, the attributes are bold, double-width,
Since quadruple angle etc. are displayed, the operator specifies one attribute. If bold is specified, attribute content file 8
Data with attribute contents as shown in FIG. 5 is written in.

In the case of "emphasis", the reference file 9 is unnecessary, so no sled window is opened.

When the similar logical editing is completed for the necessary character strings, the operator instructs the input unit 2 to finish.

The logic editing processing unit 3A checks the input of the end instruction every time editing for one logical element is completed (5T9), and when the end is instructed, the document file 6 related to editing (the item of the logical element has been added) is checked. ), attribute content file 8 and reference file 9 should be stored in the storage area 5T1
0), the logical editing process regarding the contents of one structural element is ended.

As explained above, according to this document editing device, it is possible to efficiently perform logical editing related to the content or meaning of a document through interactive processing, which has been difficult to perform efficiently using conventional outline processors. I can do it.

Next, a layout editing process for editing a logically edited document into an easily viewable format will be described. FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of the layout editing process, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the screen display and file contents of the layout editing process.

When an operator specifies a document and instructs layout editing, the layout editing processing section 3B refers to the definition file 7 of the specified document and displays the structural elements on the screen.
The operator specifies the structural element to be edited on the screen (
5TII in Figure 6).

The layout editing processing unit 3B displays on the screen layout attributes such as offset, size, character type and size necessary for determining the layout of the contents of the designated structural element (ST12). When the operator inputs information on the displayed layout attributes, the layout editing processing section 3B writes the input information into the layout attribute content file 10 in association with the structural elements (ST12).

For example, in the case of a document with the structure shown in Figure 3, "Summary" and "
By sequentially specifying "Foreword" and inputting information on its layout attributes, a layout editing screen as shown in FIG. 7 will appear (the underlined area is the area for input by the operator).

When the input of the layout attribute information for the specified structural element is completed, the layout editing processing unit 3B converts the data of the document file of the curved structural element (document data to which logical element items are added) into the item attribute content file and the reference. The image is processed into a logically edited form according to the contents of the file, and further laid out according to the layout attribute contents, and is displayed on the screen (ST14).

In the case of "Foreword", the display content is like the laid out document screen 31 in Figure 7, and rDTPJ has "Note I".
” is added, and the contents of the footnote (contents of the referenced file)
is displayed on the bottom line and "Submodule" is highlighted.

If the displayed document is satisfactory, the operator instructs the process to end, and if the layout needs to be re-edited, the operator instructs re-editing.

The layout editing processing unit 3B checks the instructions from the operator (5T15), returns to the process of selecting structural elements when re-editing is instructed, ends the layout editing processing when instructed to finish, and Store the file in storage.

Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above description, the present invention provides a definition file for logical element items regarding the content of each structural element of a document;
It has a document file for each structural element, an attribute content file for logical element items, and a reference file, and regarding the contents of the structural element, the selection of defined logical element items and the specification and specification of the range of character strings as logical elements. a means for updating each file and creating an L by performing interactive processing for inputting attribute contents regarding items of logical elements that have been created and for inputting data to be stored in reference files; and a man-machine for said interactive processing. Since the configuration has an interface means, it is difficult to use conventional outline processors etc.
This has the effect that logical editing regarding document contents can be performed interactively and efficiently.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional schematic diagram of a document editing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a practical hardware configuration for realizing the document editing device, and FIG. is a diagram showing an example of a document structure, FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of logical editing processing, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of display screens, etc. in logical editing processing, FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of layout editing processing, and FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of logical editing processing. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen, etc. in layout editing processing. 1...Display section, 2...Input section, 3...Edit processing section, 3A...Logic editing processing section, 3B...Layout editing processing section, 3C...Interaction control section, 6. ...Document file, 7...Definition file, 8...Item attribute content file, 9...-Reference file. Name of agent: Patent attorney Shigetaka Awano and one other person Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 N So oO Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Claims] A definition file that stores definitions of logical element items regarding the contents of each structural element of a document, a document file that stores the contents of each structural element, and a file that stores attribute contents regarding each logical element item. An item attribute content file, a reference file for storing data related to the item of a specific logical element, regarding the content of the structural element stored in the document file,
For selecting logical element items defined in the definition file, specifying the range of character strings as logical elements, inputting attribute contents regarding specified logical element items, and inputting data to be stored in the reference file. 1. A document editing device comprising: means for updating or creating each of the files by performing interactive processing; and means for a man-machine interface for the interactive processing.