JPH0384662A - Document producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily change the document constituting order by setting the information required integratedly for documents based on the logical constitution of the document and the conditions designated on a document constituting sheet. CONSTITUTION:When the start is instructed for connection of documents, a document connection means 11 connects plural document component elements into a single document based on the order of document component elements held in a memory device 8. When the connection of documents is through, a document information setting means 12 sets the information including the indexes, the tables of contents or the page numbers, etc., which are integratedly required for documents based on the logical constitution of the connected document and the conditions designated on a document constituting property sheet. Thus it is possible to easily change the document constituting order while looking at plural areas at one time despite a large quantity of the document data to be processed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention is a document creation method that can express not only human power of character strings but also document information such as figures and tables in one document. Regarding equipment.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of document creation device, many functions have been set for not only manually inputting characters and symbols, but also for easily editing and processing the document being created. For example, one of these functions is to extract all necessary parts from an existing document, transfer them to a basic document, and compose them into a single document. Usually, a document is created for each document component such as a paragraph, section, or chapter, and by combining them based on the logical structure of the document as shown in Figure 4,
One document is completed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, when changing the order of multiple document components that were created separately, conventional document creation devices scroll through the data displayed as a series of character strings, find the relevant part, and replace it. was.

For this reason, there is a problem in that operations become complicated when the order is frequently changed. Another problem is that it is difficult to grasp the logical configuration as shown in FIG. 4, and it takes time to change the overall configuration order.

Additionally, if you change the order of document components, the index,
Information that is uniformly required for documents, such as the table of contents or page numbers, has also changed, and users have had to newly set this information.

In this way, when changing the order of separately created document components and combining them into one continuous document, the problem with conventional document creation devices is that operations tend to be complicated and work efficiency decreases. there were.

The present invention provides a document creation device that can easily change the order of document components that are created separately, and can work without being aware of the coordination of information that is uniformly required for a document. The purpose is to

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the document creation device according to the present invention includes icons indicating document constituent elements such as chapters and sections that are divided and created according to the logical structure of the document, and an index, a table of contents, or a page. A document + i-information display means for displaying a document composition sheet for specifying conditions for information uniformly required for a document, such as a number, and a composition order of document constituent elements specified by a pointing device such as a mouse. a storage means for storing information regarding the conditions specified in the document composition sheet; and a document combination for combining a plurality of document components into one continuous document based on the order specified by the pointing device. and document information setting means for setting information uniformly required for a document based on the logical structure of the document and conditions specified in the document structure sheet.

[Effect]

The document information display means displays icons indicating document components such as chapters and sections, and when the user selects an icon and specifies the order of the document components, the specified order of document components is stored in the storage device. be remembered. In addition, the document information display means displays a document composition sheet for specifying conditions for information that is uniformly required for the document, such as an index, table of contents, or page numbers, and when the user specifies various conditions, , the specified conditions are stored in the storage means. Also, when the user instructs to start document merging,
The document combining means combines a plurality of document constituent elements into one continuous document based on the order of the document constituent elements held in the storage means.

At the same time, the document information setting means, based on the logical structure of the combined documents and the conditions specified in the document structure sheet,
Set information that is uniformly required for a document, such as an index, table of contents, or page numbers.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the document creation device according to the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to the present invention. This document creation device is a display device for displaying characters, figures, etc. on the screen.
TI, a CRT driver 2 that controls the display on the CRT 1, a keyboard 3 that performs manual input such as commands, character strings, and numerical values, and a cursor for specifying and selecting icons and display areas displayed on the CRTI. A mouse 4 which is a pointing device, a keyboard ◆driver 5 that outputs various data by the user's operation of the keyboard 3, and an external storage device 6 that stores various document files in a storage medium such as a pigeon disk. an external storage device driver 7 that controls human output of data from the external storage device 6;
It is composed of a memory device 8 and a CPU (central processing unit) 9.

The memory device 8 stores programs such as an operating program that manages the basic operations of this document creation device and various application programs, as well as data such as characters and numbers entered manually from the keyboard 3 and mouse 4. ing. The memory device 8 also stores information on the configuration order of document components specified by icons indicating document components, and information on various conditions specified for document configuration property sheets to be described later. Ru.

The CPU 9 is a circuit that not only controls the entire device but also performs arithmetic processing on predetermined data based on various instructions. Execute arithmetic processing on the data. The CPU 9 also has icons indicating document components created by dividing them according to the logical structure of the document, and a document structure property sheet for specifying conditions for information uniformly required for the document. a document information display means 10 for displaying a document, a document combining means 11 for combining a plurality of document components such as chapters and sections into one continuous document based on the order specified by the mouse 4, and an index and a table of contents. or document information setting means 12 for setting information uniformly required for documents, such as page numbers, based on the logical structure of the combined documents and conditions specified in the document structure property sheet. It is.

Next, operations for changing the order of document constituent elements and combining documents in the above-mentioned document creation apparatus will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a display state on a CRT screen. First, when the document composition icon 21 on the screen is selected and opened with the mouse, the document composition area 22 is displayed. The user selects document icons 23 representing a plurality of documents created in advance with the mouse, and copies them onto the document configuration area 22 in the desired order of configuration (from left to right in this example). Furthermore, when a specific designated location in the document composition area 22 is selected with the mouse, the document composition professional sheet 24 is opened. The property sheet displays the various attributes of the selected item and the types and ranges of possible parameters in a list format. , for example, specifying numerical initial conditions. When you select a required item displayed on the document configuration property sheet 24, various conditions are presented. When you specify the applicable conditions, the system side requests confirmation to start document merging. come. If you are satisfied with the currently set conditions, select the "Start" item at the top of the sheet with the mouse to automatically start combining the documents under those conditions. Also,
If you want to cancel the process after it has started, select the "Cancel" item to return to the initial state. Furthermore, when you select the "Display" item, the progress of the process and any parts that have been completed up to that point, if any, are displayed. When the document combining process is completed, a new document 25
is generated and displayed in the document configuration area 22 (in this example, at the right end).

Note that although we have explained here the case of rearranging the order of multiple documents created independently and merging them into one, the above operation can also be performed on other document components such as chapters, sections, paragraphs, or character strings. The present invention can also be applied to document information including images created and edited on a conventional document creation device.

Furthermore, the logical structure of the document shown in FIG. 4 can be changed on the screen. For example, if you set icons for chapters, sections, or paragraphs and display them on the screen in the same way as the document icon 23 in Figure 1, you can change the overall order of the chapters, sections, or paragraphs in multiple locations. This can be easily done while watching at the same time.

When the combining of documents by the document combining means 11 is completed, the document information setting means 12 performs matching adjustment of information uniformly required for the documents, such as an index, table of contents, or page numbers. The alignment of information uniformly required for these documents is determined based on the logical structure of the combined documents and the conditions specified in the document structure property sheet 24. For example, the table of contents is assigned in the order of document 1, document 2, . . . document n, and chapters and sections are also numbered sequentially from the beginning.

In addition, reference pages and keywords that are specially specified in the text are also generated here.

Next, the CPU when executing the document combining process described above.
The processing procedure will be explained based on the flowchart in FIG. 3 while referring to the block diagram in FIG. 2.

First, icons indicating document components are displayed by the document information display means 10, and when the document components are replaced in an arbitrary order, the CPU 9 stores the designated order of each document component in the memory device 8 (step 101). Next, when the user selects the necessary items displayed on the document composition property sheet and specifies the corresponding conditions (step 102), the CPU 9 stores the specified conditions in the memory device 8 (step 103).

Then, a request is made to confirm whether document combining can be started under the currently specified conditions (step 104). When the start of document combination is instructed here (step 105)
The document combining means 10 combines a plurality of document components into one continuous document according to the order of the document components held in the memory device 8 (step 106).

Subsequently, when the documents are combined, the document information setting means 11 sets the index, Information uniformly required for the document, such as a table of contents or page numbers, is set (step 107).

Note that if the amount of data in the document to be processed is so large that it will take time to finalize the document (for example, if the number of pages is several hundred), you can instruct background processing. You can start creating another document without interruption. At this time, information on the document being processed in the background, the progress of the processing, etc. can be displayed as necessary.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the document creation device according to the present invention, document components created by dividing the document into logical JR components are combined into one continuous document in a specified order, and simultaneously , information that is uniformly required for a document is set based on the document's logical structure and the conditions specified in the document composition sheet, so even if there is a large amount of documents to be processed, multiple documents can be processed. The configuration order can be changed extremely easily while viewing the parts at the same time.

Furthermore, since the consistency adjustment of information that is uniformly required for a document is automatically performed, it is possible to work without being conscious of uniform content such as page numbers.

Therefore, it is possible to speed up processing and improve work efficiency, and to provide a document creation device with an excellent user interface.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the display state on the CR7 screen, Figure 2
The figure is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a CP when performing document combining.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of U, and is an explanatory diagram showing the logical structure of the document. 1... CRT, 3... Keyboard, 4... Mouse, 6... External storage device, 8... Memory device, 9...
- CPU (Central Processing Unit), 10...Document information display means, 11...Document combination means, 12...Document information setting means, 21...Document configuration icon, 22...Document configuration area , 23... Document icon, 24... Property sheet for document configuration, 25... New document. Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] A display device that displays information such as characters and figures on a screen;
In a document creation device equipped with a pointing device for instructing and selecting displayed information, pictograms of document constituent elements created by dividing them according to the logical structure of the document;
a document information display means for displaying a document composition sheet for specifying conditions of information uniformly required for a document; a composition order of document constituent elements specified by a pointing device; and a document composition sheet specified by the document composition sheet. a document combining means for combining a plurality of document components into one continuous document based on the order specified by the pointing device; A document creation device comprising: document information setting means for setting information based on the logical structure of combined documents and conditions specified in the document structure sheet.