JPH03102463A - Table edit displaying system and its device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the choice of an item with an easy operation by designating the character frame string of a table in a longitudinal and/or lateral direction arbitrarily, deleting a character frame in an area formed with a designated character string and a character in the character frame, and selecting a desired character string in the table. CONSTITUTION:A user can easily and surely generate a new table by using a marker upper part and a frame at the left side shown in figure and instructing required parts in the lateral and longitudinal directions by using a position designation means in a display device such as a mouse or a keyboard, etc. In other words, the required part in the lateral direction(column content) is instructed first with the position designation means such as the mouse, etc., and similarly, the one in the longitudinal direction(row content) is instructed. After the required part being designated, editing is instructed to a controller. Thereby, the new table desired to obtain can be generated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention can be used in various languages. 1'; +Jru sentence office gon device,
For example, Japanese word processors, electronic typewriters,
Concerning table creation/editing methods and devices for various computers, etc.

(b) Conventional technology Conventional document processing devices have the ability to process data and organize it into a table, but they can also extract necessary parts from an already completed table or remove the contents of specific rows or columns to create a new table. I couldn't summarize it in a table.

For example, reorganizing the table in FIG. 2 into the contents shown in FIG. 5 requires extremely complicated and time-consuming operations. In the end, a new table for Figure 5 will be created, but creating a separate table for Figure 4 will also require new work.

Furthermore, once Figure 5 is created, adding or replacing Ichiro in Figure 2 will require a great deal of operation and time.

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention When removing a part of an existing table or, conversely, extracting only a part, it is usually necessary to perform the following operations.

1) Delete only the necessary data.

In this case, the data will shift due to deletion, so if you do not check the contents of the data one by one when creating Figures 2 to 4, necessary data will be deleted and unnecessary data will remain. or Errors are particularly likely to occur in the case of numerical data.

2) Reset the tabs, etc., and arrange the data vertically.

Generally, tabs or decimal tabs are used to align the data, so if the data order changes, the tabs etc. need to be reset.

3) Delete unnecessary ruled lines from the arranged data and supplement missing ruled lines.

Generally, when the number of items to be removed or selected increases, the previous ruled lines can hardly be used, and new ruled lines are often redrawn.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a table that allows items to be selected or selected with a simple operation, and also enables data contents to be easily added, deleted, and replaced by maintaining the relative relationship with the original table. This provides an editing display method.

(2) Means for Solving the Problems FIG. 1 is an example of a general system configuration diagram for realizing the present invention.

First, here is an overview of the present invention as shown in FIGS. 2, 5, and 6.
This will be explained using FIG. 9. Figure 2 shows a table that has already been created, and Figure 5 shows a table that consists of the parts shown in Figure 2 and is a new table that is to be created. Figure 6 shows the second method for realizing the present invention.
The table of the figure is shown with markers in the vertical and horizontal directions. Further, FIG. 9 shows a state in which necessary portions of the above-mentioned markers are individually marked in the vertical and horizontal directions and indicated by diagonal lines in order to configure the contents of FIG. 5 in FIG. 6.

If the marked portion in FIG. 9 is extracted both vertically and horizontally, it can be easily confirmed that the content is as shown in FIG. 5.

The present invention makes it possible to easily and accurately edit the table shown in FIG. 5 from the table shown in FIG. 2 by using vertical and horizontal markers attached to the table, as shown in FIG. The first invention provides a data processing device with a tabulation function capable of creating a table in which character frames are arranged in a matrix. ．． r:. 1: Bi/Yota or 1♂Specify a character frame string in four directions arbitrarily, remove the character frame within the area formed by the specified character string, and the characters within that character frame, and thereby This is a table editing display method in which a desired character string is selected.

A second invention provides a data processing device with a tabulation function capable of creating a table in which character frames are arranged in a matrix, including an input means for inputting information for editing the table, and an input means for inputting information input from a manual means. a table editing means for editing the table, a table editing means for editing the table edited by the table editing means, and a table editing means for editing the table edited by the display means;
A specifying means for specifying a character frame string in the horizontal direction as a pressure color, and a vertical position and/or horizontal position of the specified character string to be distinguished from a character frame string that is not specified, and to correspond to the above table. Vertical position b and/or corner direction {except for the character frame in the area formed by the identification display means edited by vertical position and the character string specified by the designation means and the sentence '1 in the character frame. There is a data processing device with 6111 and the ability to edit the heat table.

(E) Function By using the marker shown in Figure 6, the user can easily and easily specify the required part in the horizontal and vertical directions using a position specifying means in the display device such as a mouse or keyboard. You can definitely get the means to create the new table you want.

First, a necessary portion in the horizontal direction (column contents) is designated using a position specifying device such as a mouse, and the same is specified in the vertical direction (row contents). Once the necessary portions have been specified, a new table can be obtained by instructing the control device to edit.

Other effects may also be obtained by the method according to the present invention, which will be clearly explained in the following description by way of example.

(f) Example of Disaster The details of the present invention will be explained below based on the example shown in the drawings. Note that this does not limit the present invention.

FIG. 1 shows a general system configuration diagram for realizing the present invention, and l-1 is a control unit for controlling the entire system consisting of a microcomputer, etc., which includes table editing means, specifying means, and identification means. It functions as a display means and a removal means. 1-2 is an input unit such as a keyboard for inputting data, and functions as an input means. A display section 1-3 functions as a display means for showing various information to the user, and is composed of a display device such as a CRT display or an EL display. Further, reference numeral 1-4 denotes an output unit, which represents an output device such as a printer.

The present invention relates to a data processing device that has the ability to create tables, such as a Japanese word processor Conviewer 8 Tanstem, and although the methods of creating tables for each device are slightly different, the present invention applies to any of the methods. However, based on the table that has already been created, extract or remove a part of it and create a new table.
a]F:;This is a book about a method for creating a table of formulas. The method of creating the base table (hereinafter referred to as the original table) is already known and has no direct bearing on the present invention, so a description thereof will be omitted.

Figure 2 shows the original table referred to here. Moreover, FIGS. 3 to 5 show examples of tables to be created from the original table. In general, even if there is a master table (original table), there are items that are unnecessary for the purpose of use or items that do not want to be made public, so it would be convenient if it could be easily edited based on the original table. However, as mentioned earlier, the current situation is that the more a new table is created, the more complicated the operation becomes. There are three types of situations when editing the original table, and these are shown in FIGS. 3 to 5. FIG. 3 shows the case where the contents are selected vertically. FIG. 4 shows a case where the content in the horizontal direction is selected. Further, FIG. 5 shows a case where contents in both the vertical and horizontal directions are selected. The present invention is a table editing display method and an apparatus thereof that can handle the above three types of situations.

FIG. 6 shows a basic diagram for realizing the present invention. Frames called "markers" are displayed at the top and left side of the original table. Display markers in correspondence with the horizontal and vertical directions of the table. Use this marker]
The purpose of this method is to distinguish between unnecessary and necessary parts of the contents in the horizontal or vertical direction of a table, edit the original table accordingly, and create a new table.

In FIG. 6, displaying the marker and specifying the position of the marker portion using a cursor using a mouse or keyboard can be easily realized using conventional techniques.

7 to 9 show the method based on the present embodiment, and the third method described above.
It shows a state in which editing information is added to the marker in FIG. 6 when editing FIGS. FIG. 7 shows a state in which necessary portions are specified using vertical markers (designated portions are indicated by diagonal lines) in order to produce the image shown in FIG. 3 from the state shown in FIG. 6. Similarly, FIG. 8 shows the state in which necessary portions have been designated for editing FIG. 4. Further, FIG. 9 shows a state in which necessary portions are designated as markers in the vertical and horizontal directions of the original table in order to create FIG. 5.

The following explanation explains the method for extracting the necessary parts from the original table and creating another table. Next, an outline of the processing flow will be explained with reference to FIGS. 17 and 18.

17-1 first displays the original table (original table), and then displays l7
-2 indicates that the marker is displayed as shown in Figure 6.Next, 17-3 indicates that the necessary (or unnecessary) part of the original table is displayed using a mouse, keyboard, etc. Go up and give instructions. Specify the vertical direction, (J horizontal direction, or both directions.) Next, in step 17-4, instruct the control device 1-1 to create the intended table, and in step I7-5
Edit the data. 17-6 shows a process of newly editing the edited data.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart for explaining the editing process of l7-5 in more detail. Manoko, Figure 18 (random) shows the MXN matrix allocated to the original table for explaining this flow. Should I take this 71 Rikus as a single character frame? It is up to the Nosdem designer to choose tx, and this embodiment can be applied to either method. For convenience, the flow will be explained using a single character frame. 1. 8-1 Original table and marker f
Initialize the location pointer. Next, in step 18-2, the data of the nth row is retrieved. Next, check the state of the vertical marker at 18-3, and when the marker is ON (necessary part), skip the line by pressing G, that is, jump to 18-8 and proceed to the next line. If the marker is ON, I84
Data editing in the shading direction is performed in the processing from to 18-5.

First, in step 18-4, check the state of the m-th column of the horizontal marker, and if the marker is ON (necessary part), save the data in row n and column m (18-5). If it is not ON, move to l8-6 to save and advance the horizontal position pointer. Compare m and 11 12 M (18-7), and check the completion of the data in the n-th row. If there is data, the process returns to 184 and the process is repeated, and if the n-th line data has been completed, the plan pointer is advanced in the vertical direction to move to the next line at I8-8. I8-9 checks the end of the vertical data, and if there are still rows left, returns to I8-2 and repeats the process, or n
is larger than N, the entire editing process (17 in Figure 17)
5) is completed. In this example, data editing was performed sequentially in the row direction, but this was done assuming a general display system such as a CRT display, and the same editing results could be obtained even if data editing was performed sequentially in the vertical direction. It is clear that

Next, the processing of tabs, which are frequently used in table writing, will be explained. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing the tab position at the top of the original table. This figure shows how to edit tab settings when creating the table of FIG. 16 using horizontal markers. 1st
In Figure 6, a indicates a marker in the mouse direction, and b indicates the original tab position. Share the beginning of the line with the marker {b in vertical position
This shows that a new table can be edited without operating the tabs in the data of the original table by extracting the tab positions of and aggregating them as shown in C.

Based on this example, the horizontal and vertical situations when creating a new table from the original table are shown using markers.
0 and 11. In each case, A is a marker for the original surface, and B is a schematic diagram of the part created by editing. Therefore, C is removed from the original table and the f part is not shown.

Here, CIC2 is the removed portion in the groove direction, c+. c.
o corresponds to the removed portion in the vertical direction.

In general, even when editing from the original table, there are cases where you want to make corrections after creating the table once. The contents of the original table may be supplemented and incorporated, or removed. Also,
It is possible for the ruled lines to be doubled at the boundaries of the ruled lines (or even to be in the same shape as each other).Other embodiments will be explained below.Another embodiment is as shown in FIG. Cl.C2 and C[.CTi in FIG. Toshiro Seal (CI C2CI.C in Figure 12)
ll) with a position specifying device such as a mouse 1
, 2, expand only that part to the situation of edit i1j,
In the developed situation, the addition of Minemasa is the sign of the first shrine collection. FIG. 14 shows an example of the screen immediately after editing the original table. Here, for example, specify C2.Ii%
A part of the original table corresponding to m41-dil c2 will be extended in the direction of 11. In other words, immediately after editing, the original table and the newly created table are relatively connected.
i [to be held; Ultimately, it is clear that the new table can be edited independently as a new table.

(G) Results of the invention According to this invention, it is possible to extract only the necessary parts from a table that has already been created, mask data that cannot be disclosed such as confidential matters, and create a table from which unnecessary data is removed. Can be done efficiently and accurately. In addition, the tab-like horizontal function characters used in tables can be used without any special modification. Furthermore, excluding! ．． Clarify one part and easily remove the holding part! ]U can be restored and re-collected, so
Corrections and subtle adjustments can also be made in Hakusan, making it possible to easily and reliably create a table that is partially extracted from the original table.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure I is a block diagram of a processing nostem used for table editing according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of a general table that can be used to explain the embodiments of this invention, and Figures 3 to 5. The figure is the second
An example of a table that can be edited from a figure, Figure 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a table with markers that is the basis of the example, Figures 7 to 9 are edited from Figures 3 to 5. FIGS. 10 and 11 are schematic diagrams illustrating the restoration process of the removed portion of the table in the example, and FIGS. 12 to 14 show the removed portion of the table. Explanatory diagram, Figure 15 and 1st
6 is an explanatory diagram showing the tab processing of the embodiment, FIGS. 17 and 18 are flowcharts showing the operation of the embodiment, and FIG.
Figure (a) is a matrix diagram for explaining the operation of the embodiment. 15 ] 6 Ill conquest 11 parts, 2. Input section, 3. Display section, 4. Output section. -498-

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a data processing device with a tabulation function capable of creating a table in which character frames are arranged in a matrix, character frame rows in the vertical and/or horizontal direction of the table are arbitrarily specified; A table editing display method that removes a character frame within an area formed by a specified character string and the characters within that character frame, thereby selecting a desired character string in a table. 2. The table editing and display method according to claim 1, wherein the selected character frame string and the removed character frame string are independently indicated in the vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the original table. 3. Automatically extracts formatting information such as tabs set in each character frame in conjunction with the selected character string, and maintains the arrangement of the character frame and the characters within that character frame after editing. The table editing display method according to claim 1, characterized in that: 4. In the table editing display method according to claim 2, in which the removed character frame string is specified, the removed character frames and characters are restored by specifying the removed character frame string. A table editing display method characterized by displaying a table. 5. In a data processing device with a tabulation function that can create a table in which character frames are arranged in a matrix, there is an input means for inputting information for table editing, and an input means for inputting information input from the input means, a table editing means for editing the table, a display means for displaying the table edited by the table editing means, and a specifying means for arbitrarily specifying the vertical and/or horizontal character frame string of the table displayed on the display means. , the vertical position and/or horizontal position of the specified character frame string is distinguished from the unspecified character frame string, and the vertical position and/or horizontal position corresponding to the table is
or a table editing function comprising an identification display means for displaying at a horizontal position, and a removal means for removing a character frame within an area formed by a string of character frames specified by the specifying means and characters within the character frame. data processing equipment.