JPH03282877A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily grasp the sequence of all the pages that are rearranged by displaying the page number of an original document in order of pages, and also, displaying a page array after page operation on the same screen, and thereafter, executing the page operation of actual document data. CONSTITUTION:An arbitrary document stored in a memory 11 is designated and the number of its pages is retrieved, and the page number is displayed in order of pages. Subsequently, with respect to the displayed page number, an arbitrary page operation is instructed, a page array after operation is displayed on the same screen in new order of pages by using the page number, and thereafter, with respect to document data of a document area 11a, the rearrangement processing is executed actually in the lump by a page unit. In such a way, how the sequence of pages is rearranged before and after the page operation, that is, the contents of the page operation can be confirmed at a glance, and the sequence of all the pages that are rearranged after the operation can be grasped easily.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Purpose of the invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to a document creation device having a page manipulation function.

(Prior Art) Some conventional document creation devices have a so-called "page operation function" that rearranges document data within the same document page by page. In this type of page operation function, rearrangement is performed by specifying the page to be moved and its destination on the displayed document.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, with the above-mentioned page operation function, only the page to be moved and the destination thereof are specified for the displayed document data, so the operations required to specify the movement are cumbersome. Not only that, but it becomes difficult to grasp the order of the entire rearranged pages after the operation.

The present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to make it possible to check at a glance how the pages were rearranged before and after page operations. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document creation device.

[Structure of the invention] (Means and effects for solving the problem) That is, the present invention provides the following: (1) Specifying any document stored in a memory, searching for the number of pages thereof, and displaying the page number on the pages. At the same time, instruct any page operation for the displayed page number, display the page arrangement after the operation in a new page type on the same screen using the above page number, and then execute the page operation. (2) Specify any document stored in memory, search for its page number, display the page number in the page category, and then instruct any page operation for the displayed page number. , the page arrangement after the operation is displayed in place of the above display as a new page type using the above page number, and then the page operation is executed. Either method allows you to see the contents of the page operation at a glance. This makes it easier to understand the order of the entire rearranged pages after the operation.

(First example) A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows its basic circuit configuration, where 10 is a microprocessor (CPU) and 11 is a RAM accessed by the microprocessor 10.

12 is the same ROM.

A microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10 controls the entire device, and controls the RAM II and ROM described above.
12 and starts a program according to input instructions to execute document creation processing, external character creation processing, page operation control processing as shown in FIG. 2 above, and the like. RAMI
I is a document area 11a' that stores a document to be worked on.
Various control information including the x-line image area (print buffer) 11b, external character registration area, word registration area, cursor position register that stores the cursor position on the document display screen, and page order register that stores the page order by page operations. It consists of an area for storing. ROM12 is CPUl
A program area 12a that stores input processing programs including a program that determines the operation of 0 and a page operation control routine as shown in the second factor, and a character pattern area 12b1 that stores display or print character patterns.
It has a dictionary area 12c etc. in which various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or romaji into kanji are registered.

Also, 13 is the keyboard (KB), 15 is the display, 18
is a floppy disk device (FDD), and 20 is a printer (PRT). The keyboard 13 inputs information necessary for document creation etc. through a keyboard interface (KB
-IF) 14 to cPUlo. In addition to character keys, numerical keys, cursor keys, etc., this keyboard 13 includes a half-width specification key for switching the cursor range from full-width to half-width, and a "Hiragana" shift key and "Katakana" that switches the cursor range from half-width to full-width. Various function keys are provided, including a "kanji" shift key, a "selection/execution" key for selecting/executing various instructions, and the like. The display 15 is comprised of a liquid crystal display device that displays, for example, 40 characters and 20 lines. Display controller (
The display-CNT) 1B controls the display of the display 15 using the display RAM 17 under the control of the CPU10. The floppy disk device 18 stores created documents and stores external characters, second level characters, etc. under the control of the CPU 10 via a disk interface (FDD-IF) 19. The printer 20 connects to the CPU via a printer interface (PRT-IF) 21.
Under the control of l0, the created document or character information read into the main body from the floppy disk device 18 is printed.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 2 shows a routine executed by the CPU 10 when the "page rearrangement mode" for rearranging documents page by page is specified using the function keys of the keyboard 13. At the beginning of the process, <RA>
The number of pages in the document stored in the document area 11a of M11 is searched. The page number of each page obtained by the search is then displayed and output in step A2.

In FIG. 3 (1), the document currently being worked on has ``7'' pages, and the page numbers ``1'' to ``7'' of each page are displayed on the display 15 in page order.
This shows the status displayed in .

With the page numbers displayed in this manner, the user selects and specifies the page number that will be the starting position of the range to be rearranged using the cursor on the keyboard 13, as shown in step A3. Next, the process proceeds to step A4, where the page number that is the end position of the range to be rearranged is selected and designated using the cursor on the keyboard 13.

Fig. 3 (2) shows the state of this range specification.
In this state, page number "2" is specified as PE, and page number "5" is specified as end position PE.

When the range is specified in this way, the page numbers "2" to "5" of the range are stored in the RAM in the order of selection in the next step A5.
At the same time, at step A6, as shown in FIG. 3(3), the rearranged page array is displayed on the display 15 together with the page array before the rearrangement.

Thereafter, in step A7, it is determined whether or not the rearrangement selection has been completed. If the selection is to be continued, the processing from step A3 is repeated.

Here, for example, if you use the cursor keys to specify the page number "3" repeatedly as both the start position Ps and the end position PH1 as shown in FIG. The data is stored and then displayed on the display 15 as the rearranged page order as shown in FIG. 3(5) together with the page arrangement before the rearrangement.

After that, in the same way, page number "1" and page number "7"
If each is specified twice, the same process as above is repeated, and the page number rlJ r7 is also stored in the page order register of RAMII, and then the display 15 displays the
) is displayed together with the page arrangement before the above-mentioned rearrangement as the rearranged taheji order.

After specifying the rearrangement of the pages in the order r2345317J, when it is determined in step A7 that the selection specification has been completed, the process proceeds to step A8 and the keyboard 1
Depending on whether or not the "Select/Execute" key No. 3 is operated, it is determined whether or not to actually rearrange the document data. "
If the "Select/Execute" key is not operated and the "Cancel" key etc. is operated instead, all of the above processing is invalidated and the processing from step A2 is repeated again.
If the "Select/Execute" key is operated, the process proceeds to step A9, in which the document data in the document area 11a is actually arranged page by page according to the page order stored in the page order register of RAMII. This completes the process.

As described above, the page numbers of the original document are displayed in page order, and the page arrangement after page operations is displayed on the same screen, and then the page operations of the actual document data are executed. You can check the contents at a glance,
It also becomes easier to understand the order of the entire rearranged pages.

(Second example) Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Since the basic circuit configuration is the same as that shown in FIG. 1 above, the same parts are given the same reference numerals and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 4 shows an operation routine executed by the CPU 10 when the "page rearrangement mode" in which documents are rearranged page by page is specified using the function keys of the keyboard 13. <Search for pages in the document stored in the document area 11a of RAM II. Then, the page number of each page obtained by the search is stored and held in the page order register of the RAMII, and is displayed and output in the subsequent step B2 according to the stored contents.

FIG. 5(1) shows a state in which the document currently being worked on has "12" pages, and the page numbers "1" to "12" of each page are displayed on the display 15 in page order.

With the page number displayed in this manner, it is then determined in step B3 whether or not the document within the page is to be confirmed, depending on whether or not a selection has been input using the cursor keys on the keyboard 13. If the contents are to be confirmed, the process then proceeds to step B4, in which the document data for the corresponding page is read out from the document area 11a of the RAM II and expanded, and the document contents are displayed in a window using a part of the display 15 screen.

Figure 5 (2) shows an example of displaying the contents of page "2", where the page number "2" is highlighted and the arrow Ar pointing from page number "2" to the bottom right of the screen is displayed. At the same time, the actually read page contents are displayed in a window at the lower right of the screen.

After completing the content confirmation in step B4, or after determining in step B3 that there is no instruction input for content confirmation, in step B5, move the arrow Ar on the screen to the page number you want to move using the cursor on the keyboard 13. Select and specify. The designated page number is displayed in reverse video as shown in FIG. 5(3), indicating that it has been selected.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step B6, where the page number to which the page is to be moved is selected and specified by moving the arrow Ar on the screen with the cursor of the keyboard 13.

FIG. 5 (4) shows the specified state of this destination. Here, page “3” selected in step B5 above is moved to “8”
” page and the “9” page.

The contents of the page order register of RAMII are rearranged in accordance with the above movement specification, and the rearranged contents of the page order register are displayed as the pages after movement in the subsequent step B7 as shown in FIG. 5(5).

Thereafter, in step B8, it is determined whether or not the rearrangement operation has been completed. If the rearrangement operation is to be continued, the processing from step B3 is repeated again.

When it is determined in step B8 that the selection designation is completed, the process proceeds to step B9, and depending on whether or not the "select/execute" key on the keyboard 13 is operated, whether or not to actually rearrange the document data is executed. to judge. If the "Select/Execute" key is not operated, all the above processes are invalidated and the process ends. However, if the "Select/Execute" key is operated, the process proceeds to step BIO, and the page order register of RAMII is The document data in the document area 11a is actually rearranged page by page according to the page order stored in the page order, and this process is completed.

As described above, the page arrangement during page operations is displayed faithfully on the screen using the page numbers of the original document, and then the page operations of the actual document data are executed. You can check the contents at a glance, and it is also easy to understand the order of the entire rearranged pages.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, (1) an arbitrary document stored in memory is specified, the page number thereof is searched, the page number is displayed on the pages, and the displayed page number is An arbitrary page operation is instructed for the page number, the page arrangement after the operation is displayed on the same screen as a new page using the above page number, and then the page operation is executed (2 ) After specifying any document stored in memory and searching for its page number, and displaying the page number in the page category, if you instruct any page operation for the displayed page number, the page after the operation will be Since the array is displayed in a new page type using the above page number instead of the above display, and then the page operation is executed, you can use either of the above two methods to display the information before and after the page operation. To provide a document creation device in which the contents of a page operation can be confirmed at a glance as to how the order of pages has been rearranged, and the overall order of rearranged pages after the operation can be easily grasped. can.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic circuit configuration of the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation processing content of page rearrangement, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the display state by the processing in FIG. 2. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the contents of the page rearrangement operation process of the second embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the display state by the process of FIG. 4. to-CPUS11-RAM, Ha-... document area, 1
2...ROM513...Keyboard (KB) 1
5...Display device.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) a memory for storing document data; a document specifying means for specifying an arbitrary document stored in this memory; a search means for searching the memory for the number of pages of the document specified by the document specifying means; a first page number display means for displaying the page numbers obtained by the search means in page order; an instruction means for instructing an arbitrary page operation on the page number displayed by the first page number display means; The page arrangement obtained by the instruction means after the operation is displayed in page order using the page numbers of the first page number display means and on the same screen as the display by the first page number display means. 1. A document creation device comprising: a second page number display means; and a page operation means for performing a page operation according to the display contents of the second page number display means. (2) a memory for storing document data; a document specifying means for specifying an arbitrary document stored in this memory; a search means for searching the memory for the number of pages of the document specified by the document specifying means; a first page number display means for displaying the page numbers obtained by the search means in page order; an instruction means for instructing an arbitrary page operation on the page number displayed by the first page number display means; A second display unit that displays the page arrangement obtained by the instruction means after the operation in page order using the page numbers of the first page number display means, and in place of the display by the first page number display means. A document creation device comprising: a page number display means; and a page operation means for performing page operations according to the display contents of the second page number display means.