JPH03294957A - Sentence generating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently execute the sentence editing in which sizes of characters are made uniform automatically by checking an attribute of the character in a sentence editing position and determining the attribute of the character which is subjected to editing processing, in the case of inserting a new character into a character-string inputted already. CONSTITUTION:The device consists of a coordinate input device 1, a controller 2 being a device main body, and a display device 3, and the controller 2 is provided with a processing part and a buffer memory. In such a state, at the time of editing a sentence by inserting a new character into a certain position of a character-string inputted already, an attribute of characters before and after its character inserting position, for instance, a size of its character is checked, and in accordance with its character attribute, the attribute (size) of the character to be inserted is determined and sentence editing is executed. In such a way, a sentence editing work is advanced simply and efficiently without being aware one by one of the attribute of the character-string for constituting a sentence being an editing object.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a text creation device that can efficiently perform text editing processing.

(Prior Art) Recently, as text creation devices have become more multi-functional, it has become possible to create texts while mixing a variety of characters with different character sizes and fonts.

However, when I tried to edit text information created using these functions, it became very difficult to understand which character attributes were set for which characters and the font sizes and fonts were changed. There is. Particularly when character attributes cannot be checked on the display screen, there is a problem in that it is very difficult to understand what attributes should be set for the characters to be edited and input to ensure consistency in the text. .

For this reason, there have been problems such as inputting edited characters while setting character attributes by trial and error, or setting character attributes anew after text editing processing.

On the other hand, recently, a device has been developed in which a transparent tablet and a display are laminated and integrated, and a device can be used to create sentences by directly inputting characters using a pen. However, this type of device is configured to display the character pattern written on the tablet as it is on the display, recognize and input the handwriting as characters, and the size of the characters can also be set arbitrarily. It looks like this.

However, when inserting new character information in order to edit text information that has already been input in such a device, it is extremely difficult to match the size of the characters before and after the character insertion point. . In particular, it is extremely difficult to identify the character insertion position while looking at the font size of the displayed character string, and then write characters of the same size at that position to edit the text consistently. .

(Problem to be solved by the invention) In this way, conventionally, when editing text by inserting new character information into text information created with various character attributes attached, the editing target It is difficult to understand the part, that is, the attributes of the characters before and after the position where you want to insert the character.
For example, there has been a problem in that it is extremely difficult to efficiently edit text with consistency in which the font sizes are uniform.

The present invention was made in consideration of these circumstances, and its purpose is to input new character information without being aware of the attributes of the text information to be edited, while maintaining consistency. An object of the present invention is to provide a highly practical text creation device that realizes text editing.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) A text creation device according to the present invention provides a text creation device according to the present invention, when an editing instruction for text information involves an interruption to a character string, Check the attributes, for example, the size of the characters before and after the character insertion position specified for interrupt, and set the attribute of the character input by interrupt according to that attribute.
For example, it is characterized in that the attribute is determined to be equal to the attribute of the character adjacent to the interrupt input position.

(Function) According to the present invention, when attempting to edit a text by inserting a new character into a position of a character string that has already been input, the attributes of the characters before and after the character insertion position, for example, the character's The size is checked, the attribute (size) of the character to be inserted is determined according to the character attribute, and the text is edited.
It becomes possible to easily and efficiently proceed with text editing work without being conscious of the attributes of character strings constituting the text to be edited. As a result, the workload can be significantly reduced, and it becomes possible to edit and create consistent texts with consistent character attributes.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a text creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the schematic configuration of the embodiment device.
2 is a coordinate input device, 2 is a control device which is the main body of the device, and 3 is a display device. The coordinate input device 1 is made of, for example, a transparent tablet, and is integrated into the control device 2 by being stacked on a display device 3 made of, for example, a liquid crystal display, as shown in FIG.

The transparent tablet and the liquid crystal display have the same coordinate plane, so that the coordinate position on the liquid crystal display can be directly specified on the transparent tablet, and the information displayed on the liquid crystal display can be visually confirmed through the transparent tablet. has been done.

Now, the control device 2 includes a coordinate input section 111, a character string editing section 129, an editing function determination section 131, a character recognition section 141, a character size determination section 15. and a processing section consisting of a display section 16, a coordinate data buffer 211, an editing information buffer 22, a character string buffer 23. and a buffer memory consisting of a character recognition buffer 24.

The coordinate input unit 11 has a function of sequentially storing coordinate data input via the coordinate input device (transparent tablet) 1 into the coordinate data buffer 2 or the character recognition buffer 24. The character recognition unit 14 determines the handwriting of the character pattern written on the coordinate input device 1 from the arrangement of coordinate data stored in the character recognition buffer 24, and recognizes the character pattern by recognizing the handwriting. At this time, the character recognition unit 14 simultaneously determines the size of the input character pattern. The input character information that has been recognized in this way is stored in the editing information buffer 22 as a character code that specifies the character along with information on the input character size, etc., and then under the control of the character string editing section 12, For example, the characters are sequentially stored in the character string buffer 23 in the format shown in FIG.

Further, the character string editing section 12 has the above-mentioned coordinate input device (
In addition to inputting characters via the transparent tablet (1), editing operations are performed on the character string data stored in the character string buffer 23. This editing operation is performed according to the contents stored in the editing information buffer 22. That is, the editing instruction information inputted from the coordinate input device 1 and detected by the editing function determining section 13 is stored in the editing information buffer 22 as, for example, the name of the editing function as shown in FIG.

It is stored as field information of a character string to be edited or a range of 1 editing position and 1 character size. The character string editing section 12 executes editing processing on the character string data stored in the character string buffer 23 according to such editing information.

At this time, the character string editing unit 12 activates the character size determining unit 15, and, for example, when inserting a character into a character string, it checks the character sizes before and after the character insertion position, and determines the size of the character to be inserted before and after the character insertion position. Processing is controlled so that it is equal to a character.

The display unit 16 displays the character information input from the coordinate input device 1 as a handwriting pattern as described above, or displays the character data string stored in the character string buffer 23 as the character pattern string. It is displayed on the display device (liquid crystal display) 3.

Next, text editing processing in the control device 2 configured as described above will be explained using an example of inserting a new character (character string) into a character string that has already been input.

FIG. 5 shows the flow of the insertion process. Here, the character data ``It's nice weather today...'' is input into the character string buffer 23 in the format shown in Figure 3, and the insert text editing is activated for this character string. shall be.

The editing function is instructed, for example, by pointing an editing function icon on the coordinate input device t. Then, the instruction information is detected by the coordinate input section 11, and the editing function determination section 13 is activated (step a). Then, the editing function determining unit 13 detects the contents of the editing instruction from the indicated position of the editing function icon, etc. (step b
). In this example, it is detected whether the type of editing is "insertion" or not. Note that when an editing instruction other than "insert" is given, information on the editing content corresponding to the instructed editing function is set in the editing information buffer 22 (step c).
), editing processing corresponding to the functional content is activated (step d).

When an editing function that executes "insert" is specified, for example, from the editing function list shown in Figure 7, "insert" is selected.
When executing the "insert" function, it is required to input information on "insertion position" and "insertion character string." Therefore, the editing function determining unit 13 waits for a manual instruction of the insertion position from the coordinate input device 1 according to this information (step e).
Furthermore, it waits for an instruction to specify the insertion character string to be inserted there (step f). The information input in this way is stored in the editing position field and the target character string field of the editing information buffer 22, respectively, in the format shown in FIG. 4(a), for example.

The insertion position is entered by, for example, specifying, on the coordinate input device t, the character at the position in the character string displayed on the display device 3 at which the character is to be inserted, and the coordinates of the specified position are The editing function determining unit 13 associates the text with the position in the character string buffer 23. At this time, it is also possible, for example, to set a window for inputting character strings on the display screen and input the inserted character string into this window. Then, the character recognition unit 14 appropriately responds to the character string input in this manner.
will be started and the input character will be recognized.

Thereafter, the character size determining section 15 is activated. The character size determining unit 15 checks the character sizes of the characters adjacent to the insertion specified position, that is, the characters before and after the insertion position, with reference to the character string buffer 23, and based on the character size, the characters of the inserted character string are This determines the size. Specifically, the character size determination unit 15 determines the character size of each character in the inserted character string so that it is equal to the character size of the characters before and after the detected insertion position. Then, information on the determined font size is stored in the editing information buffer 2.
2 (step g).

For example, for character string data as shown in FIG. 3, when the character insertion position is determined to insert a character before the fourth character "yo" in the literary string buffer 23,
The character size of the character "ha" at the character position immediately before the character insertion position is determined. Then, the character size of the character “ha” at this character insertion position [x3. y3], for the character string "Very" to be inserted there, change the character size [xs, ys] to [x3.ys]. y3].

When determining this font size, for example, if the font sizes of the preceding and following characters are the same, that font size is determined as the size of the inserted character, and if the font sizes of the preceding and following characters are different, the previous position It may be determined in advance to match the font size of the characters existing in the .

After determining the font size of the inserted character in this way,
By executing the character insertion process (step d)
For example, the data stored in the character string buffer 23 described above is updated as shown in FIG. 6, and character string insertion and editing processing is performed. Therefore, without worrying about the font size of each inserted character string, by simply specifying the character insertion position and inputting the inserted characters, in this example, it is possible to obtain an orderly text editing result with uniform font sizes. Become.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. For example, in the embodiment, an example of editing processing is shown in which a new character string is inserted into a character string that has already been input.
When moving or copying a character string, it is also possible to determine the characters S and R in the same way. In the case of moving a character string, the editing process may be controlled according to the contents of the editing function as shown in FIG. 4(b), for example.

Also, when determining the font size, instead of checking the font sizes of the characters before and after the character insertion position, as described above, multiple font sizes before and after the character insertion position are referenced, and the average font size is used. Alternatively, the character size of the inserted character may be determined by adopting the maximum size. Furthermore, it is also preferable to be able to select and specify how the character size is determined as appropriate.

Furthermore, instead of determining the character size as described above, it is also possible to perform editing processing such that, for example, other attributes attached to the character are automatically determined. For example, if the characters before and after the character insertion position are shaded, the inserted characters are also not shaded, and if they are underlined, the inserted characters are also underlined. You can do it like this. In other words, it is possible to automatically determine the character attribute for the character to be edited according to the character attribute attached to the character at the location where editing is instructed, and for which character attribute It is also possible to select and decide as appropriate whether to perform the control. In addition, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, when inserting a new character into a character string that has already been input, the editing process is performed by checking the attributes of the character at the text editing position. Since the attributes of the characters to be edited are determined, it is possible, for example, to efficiently edit text by automatically aligning the character sizes. In other words, there is no need to check or change the attributes of each character to be edited while editing the text, which greatly reduces the editing processing burden on the operator and makes it easy to edit text in an orderly manner with the character attributes aligned. It has great practical effects, such as being able to effectively obtain it.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show an embodiment of a text creation device according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the embodiment device, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the external configuration of the embodiment device. , 3rd
4 is a diagram showing an example of storing editing information in the editing information buffer. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the flow of editing processing procedure in the embodiment device. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of storing edited character data in a character string buffer, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing functions necessary to execute the editing process. 1... Coordinate input device (transparent tablet), 2... Control device, 3... Display device (liquid crystal display) 11.
...Coordinate input section, 12...Character string editing section, 13...
Editing function determination unit, 14...Character recognition unit, 15...Character size determination unit, 16...Display unit, 21...Coordinate data buffer, 22...Editing information buffer, 23...
・Character string buffer, 24...Character recognition buffer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a text creation device that inputs text information and edits the input text information, when an editing instruction for text information involves an interruption to a character string, an attribute attached to a character adjacent to the position specified for the interruption. What is claimed is: 1. A text creation device comprising: means for examining a character; and means for determining an attribute of a character to be inputted in accordance with the attribute detected by the means.