JPH03156564A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily comprehend a prepared and edited document by registering a comment to the document corresponding to the specified document and executing an edition processing in respect to this comment corresponding to the contents of edition such as the reference, deletion and addition, etc., of contents. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 20 controls respective control parts 11, 14 and 18, real memory 17 and font ROM 16, executes a program corresponding to an inputted command and executes prescribed arithmetic and processing, etc. When the display instruction of the comment is executed, the CPU 20 reads out correspondent comment data, out of comment data loaded to the real memory 17, displays the data on a display device 19 and executes the edition processing inrespect to the displayed comment corresponding to the edition contents such as the change and deletion of the contents or the addition of new contents, etc. On the other hand, when the comment is set to the document to be edited, there are cases that the comment is set concerning the explanation of the contents to be inputted to the specified routine document and that the comment is set to the document for the unit of edition.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device for creating and editing documents.

[Conventional technology]

Some conventional document processing devices are equipped with a guide message function for providing guidance to users.

In such a document processing device with a guide message function, if the user does not know or has forgotten the prescribed operating method of the device, the user can use the guide message function to read the device's own operation guide. The information is displayed on the display, and the device is operated according to the displayed content.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

By the way, the above-mentioned conventional document processing devices can only provide operational guidance for their own devices; for example, there is a function that provides explanation guidance on the document contents that should be input for each standard document, and a function that provides an explanation guide on the document contents that should be input for each fixed document, and There is no such thing that has an annotation function that allows you to refer to character strings for annotation for the document in each editing unit such as a page or paragraph.

Therefore, it was sometimes necessary to spend a lot of time understanding the created and edited documents.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has been developed and
[1] It is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing device that allows edited documents to be easily understood.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention provides creation and processing for a specific document in response to the document.
a storage means for storing edited comments; an instruction means for instructing the display of a comment on the specific document; and, when the display instruction is given, displaying the comment of the corresponding document; The present invention includes a control means for performing editing processing on the displayed comment in accordance with the editing content.

[Effect]

In the present invention, special characters indicating comments for a specific document, such as a specific sentence 8 (for example, a character string of a predetermined item) in a fixed form document, or a document in an editing unit such as a page or paragraph of a document, are used. and register the desired comment.

By specifying the set special character, the registered comment corresponding to the specified special character is displayed. Furthermore, editing processing such as changing, deleting, adding new contents, etc. can be performed on the displayed comments.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of a document processing device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document processing device according to the present invention. In the figure, a keyboard/mouse control section 11 manually controls various data, commands, etc. from a keyboard 12 equipped with various keys and a mouse 13.

The disk control unit 14 is an external storage device (disk device)
15. The disk device 15 stores comments for a specific document that are set corresponding to a specific document among the created/edited documents, data to be edited (document), a predetermined program, and the like. The font ROM 16 has a plurality of types of character fonts, and the real memory 17 is composed of a RAM, and stores instructions and data to be input, calculation results, and the disk device 1.
5 and the comments set for the document are temporarily stored. Display control section 18
controls the display device 19 to display windows corresponding to various functions and fonts corresponding to font data.

A central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 20 controls each of the control units, the real memory, and the font ROM, and executes a program corresponding to an input command to perform predetermined calculations, processing, etc.

Further, the CPU 20 has the function of the above-mentioned control means,
When an instruction to display a comment is given, the corresponding comment data is read out from the comment data loaded in the real memory 17 and displayed on the display device 19, and the content of the displayed comment is displayed. Perform editing processing according to the editing content, such as changing, deleting, adding new content, etc.

By the way, when setting comments for a document to be created/edited, there are two cases: when setting a comment regarding the explanation of the content to be entered for a specific document (character string of a predetermined item) in a standard document, and when setting a comment regarding the explanation of the content to be input for a specific document (character string of a predetermined item) in a standard document. , comments may be set for editing units such as paragraphs.

FIG. 2 shows a document structure having comment data of a document in which comments regarding the explanation of the content to be manually input are set. The document data has document information 21 and a pointer 22 to page information 23, and the page information 23 includes block information 25 including line information 24.
, text frame information 26, graphic frame information 27, and image frame information 28, pointers 25A to 28A are included. The line information 24 includes a specific document (
A character string) 29, a special character 30 indicating a comment for the character string 29, and a character string 32A that is associated with the special character 30 by a pointer 31 and describes the content to be input are registered. Comment information 32 is included. In addition, the content of comment information 32 (character string 32A)
You can refer to, edit, delete, change, add, etc.

Note that special characters 30 are displayed on the corresponding page (page information 23
) is displayed on the display device 19, but is not printed. Also, the content of comment information 32 (character string 3
2A) is displayed on the display device 19 by specifying the special character 30, but is not printed.

FIG. 3 shows the document structure of a document in which comments (character strings for annotation) are set for the above-mentioned editing unit document.

The document 40 includes a document body portion 41 having edit unit documents 41A to 41C, and an annotation character string associated with a symbol 42 and pointer 43 indicating a comment for the edit unit sentence @41C. (Comment) 44 and an annotation section 45 . Note that the symbol 42 is displayed on the display device 19 when the 171st edited document 41C in the document body section 41 is displayed, but is not printed. Further, the comment 44 is displayed on the display device 19 when the symbol 42 is specified, but is not printed.

Next, processing operations for creating and editing comments in the document processing apparatus will be explained.

First, processing operations such as setting, referencing, and editing comments related to explanations of contents to be input will be explained.

A specific document 5 in a fixed form document 51 as shown in FIG. 4 loaded from the disk device 15 into the real memory 17
1A to 51C, and then select the special character 52A with the mouse 13 and press the "Open" key (not shown) provided on the keyboard 12. displays a window 53 in which nothing is written. Input a desired character string as a comment in this window 53, as shown in FIG.
By selecting "Complete" 53A with the mouse 13, the CP
U20 closes window 53. In this case, CPU2
0 associates the special character 52A and window 53 with a pointer and stores them in the real memory 17. Similarly, special character 5
Comments can be set even for 2B to 52C.

In this case as well, the windows corresponding to the special characters 52B to 52C are associated with pointers.

If you want to refer to the comment again, select the special character 52A with the mouse 13 and press the "Open" key (not shown), similar to the processing operation at the time of setting.
The PU 20 extracts a window associated with the selected special character by a pointer, for example, extracts a window 53 in which a desired character string (comment) is written, and displays it on one display device. This displayed window 53
You can edit the contents of comments, such as deleting strings or adding new strings.

In the above embodiment, comments are set for all the predetermined items 11 (specific documents 51A to 51C) of the fixed form document, but comments may be set only for desired predetermined items.

Next, set, reference, and comment comments for the document in the editing unit.
The editing processing operation will be explained.

As shown in FIG. 5, in the process of creating and editing a predetermined document 60 displayed on the display device 19, editing units of documents (for example, paragraphs) 61A to 61C are manually edited.
Thereafter, an annotation symbol 62 indicating an annotation is set for the document 61C in an arbitrary editing unit. After that, select the annotation symbol 62 with the mouse 13 and press the "Open" button (not shown) on the keyboard 12.
When the key is pressed, the CPU 2Q displays a window 63 in which nothing is written. In this window 63,
A comment is written as an annotation character string for the document 61C as an editing unit. When comment entry is complete, window 6
By selecting "Complete" (not shown) in 3 with the mouse 13, the CPU 20 closes the window 63. In this case, the CPU 20 associates the annotation symbol 62 and the window 63 with a pointer and stores them in the real memory 17.

In addition, in the window, for example, in the case of a proposal document, if the first draft is written as an editing unit document, the second draft document can be written as a comment, or in the case of a technical document, the second draft can be written as a comment. If a conclusive document is written as an editing unit document, the process and calculation examples can be written as comments, and supplementary explanations for the editing unit document can also be written as comments.

If you want to refer to the comment (character string for annotation) again, the CPU 20 selects the annotation symbol 62 with the mouse 13 and presses the "open" key (not shown), similar to the processing operation at the time of setting. A window 63 associated with the selected annotation symbol by a pointer and in which an annotation character string (comment) is written is extracted and displayed on the display device 19. It is possible to perform a shade editing process on the comment contents in the displayed window 63, such as deleting a character string or adding a new character string.

As explained above, according to this embodiment, a desired comment can be registered for a specific document in a fixed form document and the comment can be referenced, so that the fixed form document can be used to create and edit the document. The user can easily understand the content to be written for the specific document.

In addition, desired comments can be registered and referenced for editing units such as pages and paragraphs of a document, so users who refer to documents with comments registered can
The document in the editing unit can be easily understood by referring to comments registered for the document in the editing unit, such as comments such as supplementary explanations for the document and comments related to the content of the document.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, comments for a specific document are registered, and editing contents such as referring to and deleting contents, adding new contents, etc. to the registered comments can be edited. Since the editing process is performed accordingly, it becomes possible to easily understand the created/edited document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document processing device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the document structure of a document having comments explaining the written content to be input, and Fig. 3 is an editing unit. FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are explanatory diagrams for explaining setting and changing of comments. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11... Keyboard/mouse control part, 12... Keyboard, 13... Mouse, 14... Disk control part, 15... Disk device, 16... Font ROM
, 17... Real memory, 18... Display control unit, 19.
... Display device, 20... Central processing unit, 30... Special character, 31.43... Pointer, 32... Comment information, 42... Annotation symbol 1.45... Annotation part. 6 Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A document processing device that displays a document that has undergone document processing such as creation and editing, comprising: a storage means that stores comments that have been created and edited for a specific document in correspondence with the document; an instruction means for instructing the display of a comment on a document; and a control means for displaying the comment of the corresponding document when the display instruction is given, and performing editing processing on the displayed comment according to the edited content. A document processing device comprising: