JPH0256671A - Editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the editing operation of an operator by executing not only the change of the order of words but also the change of a character to return to a position with the change when the word is moved, deleted or inserted at the time of edition. CONSTITUTION:When the processing of the moving, deletion or insertion is indicated to an original sentence which is displayed on a display part, a position attribute deciding part decides the position attribute of the respective constituting words in the original sentence. After the designated processing is finished, a position attribute reflecting part reflects the position attribute, which is decided by the position attribute deciding part, to the constituting words of the updated editing sentence and executes processing to accompany the change of the position attribute. Thus, when the word is moved, deleted or inserted, for example, since the capital letter and lower-case letter conversion of both the subject word of the edition and the correspondent word after the edition is automatically executed, the editing operation of the operator can be simplified.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an editing device that performs editing processing on document data according to editing instructions from an operator.

(Prior Art) In recent years, various devices for computer processing of linguistic information have been developed, and editing devices have also come to have many applications. However, editing involves a wide variety of tasks, and multiple corrections may be required in response to changes in locations. Therefore, editing still depends on the operator, and there are many tasks that are easily overlooked, placing a burden on the operator.

In particular, when moving, deleting, or inserting words, which constitutes the majority of editing work, the positional relationship of the words that make up the sentence being processed changes before and after processing. Therefore, the properties that a certain word had because it existed in a certain arbitrary position in the sentence should be transferred to the word that is moved to that position after the change.

Previously, this process, or modification in response to changes in properties, was left to the manual work of the operator.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in conventional editing devices, when the positional relationship of words composing a sentence changes before and after editing processing, the movement of the properties of the words is left to the manual work of the operator. There was a drawback that it was

The purpose of the present invention is to simplify the editing operations of the operator by changing the condylar order of a word and also changing the properties associated with the position when moving, deleting, or inserting a word during editing. shall be.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention includes an input section, a display section that displays an original text input through the input section, and a configuration of the original text when editing the original text displayed on the display section. Includes a positional attribute determination unit that determines the positional attribute of a word, and a positional attribute reflection unit that reflects the extracted positional attribute on the constituent words of the editing unit after moving, deleting, or inserting the constituent words, and making necessary changes. The editing device is characterized by comprising an editing section, a storage section that stores the original text created by the input section and the editing section, the editing section, and environment data at the time of their creation, and an output section.

(Operation) In the device configured as described above, when movement, deletion, or insertion processing is instructed for the original text displayed on the display unit, the positional attribute determination unit determines each of the constituent words of the original text. Determine location attributes. After the specified process is completed, the positional attribute reflection unit updates the positional attribute determined by the positional attribute determining unit and reflects it on the constituent words of the fc edit, and executes the process corresponding to the change in the positional attribute.

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an English word processor that is an embodiment of the present invention. This word processor includes an input section 1 consisting of a keyboard, and an editing control section 2 that controls the entire device.
, a display control section 3 that controls the display of the original text and the editing section, a display section 4, a storage section 5 that stores the English text entered as the original text on the keyboard and the edited editing section, and a notebook copy of the original text and the editing section. and a printing section 6 for outputting the image as an image.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the key layout of the input unit 1.

The input section 1 has the following various keys in addition to character keys for English input.Edit keys: insert key 101 delete key 102 movement key 103 cancel key 104 function keys: 110 to 118 cursor keys:
130 to 133 Other keys FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the layout of the screen of the display section 4.

The input original text is displayed in the original text display area at the center of the screen. The right side of the screen is an editing area that can be used to display information necessary for editing.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of English text editing processing by the editing control section 2. The editing control section 2 is operated by step S1~
In S6, when an edit key other than canceling the designation of the processing target range and a confirmation key are input from the input unit 1, the corresponding processing (step 87) is performed. At this time, if the editing process selected in step S3 is insertion or movement, the operator specifies the insertion arrow or the destination location in step S5. Each word selected in step S2 and step S5 is subjected to position attribute determination in step S8. Then, in step S9, position attribute determination is performed,
As a result of the editing process, corrections are made to the edited sentence constituent words that have a different positional relationship from the original sentence.

In addition to the editing apparatus configured as described above, the positional attribute determination process is shown in FIG. 5, and the positional attribute reflection process is shown in a 70-chart in FIG. As an example of editing processing, a method of editing processing for a characteristic of English text in which the beginning of a sentence is displayed in capital letters will be described.

In Figure 5, the editing program determines whether the word to be processed starts with a capital letter (801) and other conditions such as whether it is the beginning of a sentence.
That is, it is checked whether there is a period, two or more blank spaces, etc. immediately before the target word (802). If the word to be processed is applicable to both of them, its positional attribute is determined to be "at the beginning of a sentence" (803), and if it is not applicable, it is determined to be "in the middle of a sentence" (804).

In FIG. 6, it is assumed that the word or word string selected by the operator in step S2 of FIG. 4 is a.

Furthermore, if the editing process instructed by the operator is "1 Delete", the word located immediately after a in the original text is deleted, aL.

In the case of "insertion", the word located immediately after the insertion location of a is defined as b. When the editing process is "1 move", the direction of the move is "
If it is 10'', that is, the position of a in the sentence to be processed approaches the end of the sentence after processing, it is treated as ``1 deletion.'' If it is -, that is, if the position of a approaches the beginning of the sentence, it is treated as the same as ``insertion.'' .

FIG. 6 shows the positional attribute processing executed by the combination of the edit key selected in step S3 of FIG. 4 and the positional attributes of a and b determined in step S8. To move the word at the beginning of a sentence, use (901, 902, 9
04), the positional attribute of the next word becomes "beginning of sentence" (907), but when moving a word in a sentence to the beginning of the sentence, (907)
06), the position attribute of the word to be moved becomes "# at the beginning of sentence,"
The position attribute of the destination word is replaced with “in the sentence” (908
). Similarly, if you delete the word at the beginning of the sentence, (903,9
04).

The position attribute of the word that is newly positioned at the beginning of the sentence is "
In addition, when a word is inserted at the beginning of a sentence (905, 906), the positional attribute of the word to be inserted is changed to "beginning of sentence" and the positional attribute of the word of the insertion arrow is changed to "inside sentence". Positional attribute reflection processing (909) is executed for words whose positional attributes have changed in this way.

The above processing will be explained below using actual size.

The display on the display section at that time is shown in FIG. First, when deleting part of the original text "5uddenly", the operator specifies @5uddenly' as the target range (step S2) and presses the delete key and confirmation key (steps 53-s6). Then, from the displayed sentence ' 5udde
nly' is deleted (step 87) and the positional attribute of that word is determined in step S8. “8udd
"enly" starts with a capital letter (801), and there are no words within two blanks before it (801).
2), the positional attribute is determined to be "beginning of sentence". Then, in the positional attribute reflection in step S9, since the positional attribute of "5uddenly" is the beginning of the sentence (904), @the man
The positional attribute of ' is changed to 1st sentence', 9 (907), and the edited sentence becomes "The man 5topped" (909). When inserting "0neday" in the same original text, the input of the target range by the operator is the same as in the case of deletion. However, when the insert key is selected (step 84), it becomes necessary to specify the insertion arrow (step 85).

When the insertion arrow is specified before "8uddenly" and the confirmation key is pressed (step 86), "0neday" is inserted (step s7). At that time, “5uddenly
” position attribute is “beginning of sentence”, so (906) 0ned
Replace with the position attribute of “ay” (908), “0neda
y”, 5uddenly the man 5top
ped,” (909).Furthermore, the same original text “5ud.
When moving "denly", the moving direction is "+" (words located at the beginning of a sentence can only be moved in the "+" direction), so the process is the same as for deletion.Similarly, "the
When man' is moved to the beginning of a sentence, the same process as in the case of inserting a gourd, where the moving direction is "-", is performed.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments,
It can be applied to languages other than English, and can be used to perform editing processes other than moving, deleting, and inserting on various devices that handle text, such as word processors and bilingual editors for translation devices. It is something that can be applied.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when moving, deleting, or inserting a word, for example, the case of both the target word to be edited and the corresponding word after editing is automatically converted from uppercase to lowercase, which simplifies the operator's editing operation. It is possible to aim for

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the key arrangement of the input section shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the screen layout of the display section shown in FIG. 1. The figure shown in FIG. 4 is 707 showing the processing flow of the editing control unit shown in FIG.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing by the position attribute determination section shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing by the position attribute reflection section shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. This is a display example when the process shown in FIG. 4 is performed on the actual size. ...Input section...Editing control section...Display control section...Display section...Storage section...Printing section

Claims (1)

[Claims] an input section for inputting sentences and editing instruction information; a display section for displaying the sentences input from this input section; and an editing process for the sentences displayed on the display section according to the editing instruction information from the input section. and a positional attribute determining means for determining the positional attribute of the word in the sentence when editing such as moving, deleting, or inserting a word in the sentence; 1. An editing device comprising: a positional attribute reflecting means for reflecting the positional attribute that has been edited into a corresponding word in an edited sentence.