JPH03161863A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily move characters in an item by making it possible to move characters written in plural items including a specified item to the moving destinations of respective items after specifying the item to be moved and its moving destination. CONSTITUTION:When at least one item to be moved and the moving destinations of characters written in the item are specified by a keyboard 1, a line counter 2 counts up the number of lines in a document and a cursor counter 3 counts up the number of characters in a line under the control of a control part 4. A table frame deciding part 6 decides whether a table frame from a movement starting position up to the moving destination or from a moving starting line up to an end line is complete or not and a one-line reading part 7 reads out a document for one line at maximum from a text buffer 5 and stores the read contents in an one-line buffer 9. An intra-table item contents moving part 19 writes a character string in the item to move characters in a working buffer 1 and writes the character string written in the buffer 11 to the position of the buffer 9 corresponding to the moving destination. Thus, the characters in the item can easily be moved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to document processing or document processing in which characters written in an item whose area is determined by ruled lines forming a table can be moved within the item range. Regarding equipment.

[II#l that the prior art and the invention try to solve! ]
In conventional word processors and other word processors, when moving the entry position of characters in a group of items that have a common heading in a table, the characters must be moved one item at a time, and it is difficult to move characters within an item. There was a problem that the work involved was complicated and the operability of the device was low.

The present invention has been made to solve these problems, and by simply specifying the item to be moved and the destination of the characters, the characters of multiple related items can be moved to their respective destinations. By doing so, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation system that allows easy movement of characters within an item and has high operability.

[Means to solve the problem]

The document creation device of the present invention is a document creation device capable of moving characters written in items in a table whose areas are determined by ruled lines within the item, and in which at least one item to be moved is moved. a means for specifying a destination for characters written in at least one specified item, a means for specifying a destination for moving characters entered in at least one specified item, and a method for specifying an item to be moved and a destination for moving characters, and then filling in multiple items including the item. The characters that are
The apparatus is characterized by comprising a means for moving each item to its destination.

[Effect]

The document creation device of the present invention specifies at least one item to be moved, specifies the destination of the movement of characters written in the specified item, and then moves the characters written in multiple items including the specified item. Move the characters to the destination of each item.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained based on drawings showing embodiments thereof.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the document creation device of the present invention. 1 in the figure is a keyboard equipped with keys for instructing movement of item contents in a table, a left alignment key, a right alignment key, a centering key, etc.
The commands input from the controller 4 are input to the control section 4. Control unit 4
controls data exchange between each part of the device according to input commands.

A line counter 2 counts the number of lines in a document, and a cursor counter 3 counts the number of characters in one line.

The text buffer 5 stores the document, and the table frame determination unit 6 determines whether the table frame from the movement start position to the movement destination or from the movement start line to the end line is complete. The one-line data reading unit 7 reads a maximum of one line of the document from the text buffer 5 and stores it in the one-line buffer 9. The in-table item content moving unit 10 writes the character string of the item whose characters are to be moved among the rows stored in the one-line buffer 9 into the work buffer 11, and makes the character string written into the work buffer 1l correspond to the movement destination. Write to the 1-line buffer 9 position. The one-line data writing unit 8 writes the contents of the one-line buffer 9 into the text buffer 5. A display unit 12 made of a CRT or the like displays the document in the text buffer 5.

The procedure for moving character strings within an item using the document authoring device configured as described above will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, taking left alignment as an example.

First, it is determined whether the in-table item content movement instruction key has been pressed. If the key is pressed, it is determined whether the cursor position is in a movable string of characters.

If the cursor is in a movable position, the cursor's equal position is set to a variable X, the left ruled line position nearest to the X position is set to a variable XS, and the right ruled line position is set to a variable X. The table frame determining unit 6 determines whether or not the space between XS and XE is a complete table frame. If the table frame is complete, the row with the first sol is set as the movement start line and is set as the movement start line in variable SL, and the bottom horizontal ruled line of the complete display is set as the movement end line as variable F.
Set it to L.

Next, it is determined whether the key force is the "left shift key", "right shift key", or "centering key-1".

When the left alignment key is pressed, the movement start line ST, is set in the line counter variable ML. The one-line data reading unit 7 reads one line specified by the variable ML from the text buffer 5.
Read to row buffer 9.

Next, from XS to XF of the row read into the one-row buffer 9
．． Detect strings between . First, set the variable XS plus ``l'' to the variable , this is repeated until XL exceeds XE or until it is determined that it is not blank. XI
If it was blank until 7 exceeded XE, from XS to XE
It is determined that there is no character string in the items up to ML. ni゛′
Add 1” and move to the next line.

If it is determined that the value of XL is not blank before exceeding XE, the value obtained by subtracting "1" from XE is set in variable XR.

It is determined whether the position XR in the l-line buffer 9 is blank, and if it is blank, ゛1゜゜ is subtracted from XR, and this is repeated until it is determined that the position XR is not blank. When the table item content moving unit 10 determines that the position XR is not blank, it writes the character string from the position XI of the l-line buffer 9 to the position XR to the work buffer 11,
XT. ~XR is left blank, and the contents of the work buffer 11 are transferred using the position (XS 1,000) of the one-line buffer 9 as the starting position.

After the transfer, the l-line data writing unit 8 writes the contents of the one-line buffer 9 to the text buffer 5. Display section 12
displays the line in the text buffer 5 specified by ML in the display section 1
Display on 2. The movement of one line is completed by adding ゜゜1'' to the variable M■, of the line counter 2.

The above operation is M+. is the last line E L. M until it crosses! −
Move and repeat one line at a time to complete the left alignment of the item contents.

Figure 2 is an example of a left-aligned screen display of item contents;
"Name""Date of birth""Age" as shown in figure (a)
In a table consisting of the items ``Gender'' and ``Hobbies,'' ``Simply specify the item ``Age J'' and press the 6-key, and the contents of the uneven items in the ``Age'' column can be changed as shown in Section 2Z(b). Moved to the left.

In addition, although this example describes the case where the item contents are moved in the horizontal direction of the table, it can also be applied to the case where the item contents written in the vertical direction are moved in the vertical direction, and the same effect can be obtained. is obtained.

〔Effect of the invention〕

In the document creation or editing of the present invention, by simply specifying at least one item to be moved and specifying the destination of the characters, characters written in multiple items including the item to be moved can be transferred to each item. Since the characters are moved within the item, it is easy to move the characters within the item, and the device has excellent operability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of document creation or arrangement of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an example of screen display for aligning item contents to the left, and Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the procedure for aligning item contents to the left. . 1...Keyboard 2...Line counter 3...Cursor counter 4...Control unit 5...Text buffer 6...Table frame determination unit 7...L line data reading,
Output unit 8...1 line data writing unit 9...1 line buffer 10...Table item content movement unit 11...Work buffer 12...Display unit Patent Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a document creation device that can move characters written in items in a table whose areas are determined by ruled lines within the item, at least one item to be moved is specified. a means for specifying a destination for characters entered in at least one specified item; and a means for specifying a destination for moving characters entered in at least one specified item; and a means for specifying a destination for moving characters entered in at least one specified item; 1. A document creation device characterized by comprising: means for moving characters in each item to a destination of each item.