JPH04143858A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily prepare a document of a book form by adding successively the serial page numbers continuous over plural documents to the pages of plural document data read out by a document reading means. CONSTITUTION:In a document print state, etc., a document reading means 3A reads successively plural document data designated by a document specifying means 2A out of a document storage means 1A based on a designated calling order. Then a page number adding means 4A adds successively the serial numbers to the pages of plural document data. In this case, the serial page numbers 1 - 5 are added to the pages of a document A together with the serial page numbers 6 - 15 added to the pages of a document B, and the serial page numbers 16 - 21 added to the pages of a document E respectively. Thus plural documents prepared individually can be controlled as a single document. At the same time, the serial page numbers can be added to the pages of plural documents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device such as a word processor.

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention provides a method for, in a word processor or the like, when a plurality of document data is specified as an output target and a calling order thereof is specified, the specified plurality of document data are sequentially read out in accordance with the specified calling order, and ,
A serial page number is sequentially added to each page of a plurality of document data, the start page of each document on this serial page is found, and a table of contents document is created with this start page as a table of contents item.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in word processors, etc., multiple pieces of document data that have been individually created and registered on a magnetic disk are stored in one file.
When creating an "r-tree" format document by combining the documents into one document, the following procedure was used.

That is, one method is to load a plurality of documents from a disk and combine them into one document through editing operations.

Another method is to call up multiple documents individually and print them individually.

By the way, if you combine multiple documents into one document as in the former method, a word processor with automatic pagination will be able to add consecutive page numbers to all pages of the combined document. It can be added when printing documents, but before printing multiple documents,
Requires editing work to keep it organized.

Further, the latter method does not require the above-mentioned editing work, but does require the work of inputting serial page numbers in consecutive number format across a plurality of documents for each page.

Furthermore, any of the above-mentioned methods also requires the work of creating a table of contents document indicating the starting page of each document.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] As described above, various tasks are required, which takes an hour and is troublesome. Moreover, each time a document or page is added or deleted, it is necessary to write a page number. This method has the disadvantage that it is not possible to efficiently create a "book" format document because it requires re-entering data and re-creating the table of contents document.

The reason for this is thought to be that document data registered on a disk or the like is managed on a document-by-document basis.

If you do this, you can manage multiple documents as one document even if they are created separately, and you can add continuous page numbers to all pages across multiple documents, or set the start number of each document. It is clear that if a table of contents document indicating pages can be created, it will be possible to easily create a "1-book" format document.

The first object of the invention is to manage multiple documents as one document even if they are created separately, and to add consecutive page numbers to each page spanning multiple documents. It is.

The second object of the invention is that even if multiple documents are created individually, they can be managed as one document, that continuous page numbers can be added to each page spanning multiple documents, and that each document To enable the creation of a table of contents document that indicates the starting page of a book.

[! ! ! [Means to solve the problem] The means of the first invention is as follows.

The document storage means IA (see the functional block diagram of FIG. 1A, the same applies hereinafter) is a magnetic disk or the like that stores one document data.

The document specifying means 2A is a key manual device or the like that specifies a plurality of document data as output targets from the document storage means IA and also specifies the order in which they are called.

The document reading means 3A sequentially reads out a plurality of document data designated by the document specifying means 2A from the document storage means IA according to the designated calling order.

The page number adding means 4A sequentially adds consecutive page numbers across the plurality of documents to each page of the plurality of document data read by the document reading means 3A.

The means of the second invention is as follows.

Document storage means IB, document specification means 2B, document reading means 3
B. Page number adding means 4B (see the functional block diagram in FIG. 1(B); the same applies hereinafter).

The above-mentioned document storage means IA and document specification means 2A.

Since this corresponds to the document reading means 3A and the page number adding means 4A, a description thereof will be omitted.

The table of contents document creation means 5B counts the number of pages of each document data designated by the document designation means 2B for each document, and determines the start page of each document on the serial page number based on the count value for each document. , create a table of contents document with this start page as a table of contents item.

[Work] The operation of the means in the first invention is as follows.

Currently, document storage means IA contains document A "number of pages 5", document B "number of pages 10", . . . document E "page a
6" is stored, the document specifying means 2A
Assume that a plurality of documents A-B-E are specified by [A-B-El] as the calling order.

Then, when printing one document, the one document reading means 3A reads the plurality of document data specified by the document specifying means 2A, and reads them into the document storage means IA according to the specified calling order.
Then, the page number adding means 4A sequentially adds page numbers to each page of the plurality of document data. In this case, each page of document A has a serial page number "1-5", and each page of document B has a serial page number "1-5", and each page of document B has a serial page number "1-5".
6 to 15", and each page of document E has a serial page number "1".
6 to 21 J is added.

Therefore, even if a plurality of documents are created individually, they can be managed as one document, and consecutive page numbers can be added to each page spanning a plurality of documents.

The operation of the means in the second invention is as follows.

In this case as well, it is the same as described above, but in the second invention, the table of contents document creation means 5B counts the number of pages of each document data designated by the document designation means 2B for each document, and also counts the number of pages for each document. Find the start page of each document on the serial page number based on the value, and create a table of contents document with this start page as a table of contents item. ”, a table of contents document is created in which the start page “6” corresponds to document B and the start page “16” corresponds to document E as table of contents items.

Therefore, even if multiple documents are created individually, they can be managed as one document, consecutive page numbers can be added to each page across multiple documents, and the table of contents shows the starting page of each document. Can create documents.

[Example J Hereinafter, one embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 8.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a word processor.

CPU II controls the operation of this word processor according to various programs, and is a key human power device 12.
The document data inputted from the CRT display device 13 is displayed and outputted, or the CPU 11 performs kana-kanji conversion, etc., and the document data is stored in the document memory 14. The data is read out from the magnetic disk controller 15 and registered on the magnetic disk 16 via the magnetic disk controller 15.

The magnetic disk 16 is an external storage device for storing documents, and as shown in the figure, a plurality of documents A1, B1, C, . . ., N are registered. Then, the document data in the magnetic disk 16 that has been arbitrarily designated as a printing target in advance is read out in response to a print command from the key human-powered device 12, and is printed out from the printing device 17. In this case, when printing multiple documents on the magnetic disk 16 in one document format, the CPU II sequentially loads the pre-specified document data from the magnetic disk 16 according to the specified calling order. At the same time as reading, a serial page number is sequentially added to each page of the plurality of documents, and the printing device 17 prints out the pages one by one.

Here, when printing multiple documents in the magnetic disk 16 as one document in "tree" format, the CPU II uses a title name memory 181, a cover format memory 19, a heading name table memory 20, a start page table memory 21, and so on.
Table of contents format memory 22. Page number counter 23
, page number register P is used.

The title name memory 18 is a memory for storing the cover title name inputted from the key input device 12, and this title name is printed together with the cover format preset in the cover format memory 19.

The heading name table memory 20, start page y-pull memory 21 constitutes a table of contents table, and the heading name table memory 20 stores table of contents items "1", r2J, etc., as shown in FIG.
..., the table of contents heading name and document name are stored for each table of contents item rl, and the start page table memory 21 stores the table of contents item rl as shown in FIG.
J, "2"... Heading name (or document name) for each,
The start page is stored and its contents are printed together with the table of contents format 2 preset in the table of contents format 22. In addition, page number counter 2
3 is a counter used to find the starting page for each table of contents item.

The page number register P is used to store page numbers when consecutive page numbers are added to each page of a plurality of documents, and its value is updated by rlJ every time one page is printed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 8.

Figure 5 shows how multiple documents are grouped together into a "book".
12 is a flowchart showing book creation processing that is executed as preprocessing when printing in a format.

First, when the title name of a book is inputted from the key input device 12 (step 7 Al), the inputted title name is registered in the title name memory 18 (step A2).

Next, when you input a table of contents heading name (for example, Chapter O, Section O) [Step A3] and specify the corresponding document name (Step A4), the entered heading name and specified document name are It is registered in the table memory 20 (step A5).

In order to perform such registration for all heading items, in the next step A6, it is checked whether registration termination is specified. If termination is not specified, the process returns to step A3 and the first table of contents heading name (e.g. Chapter 1, Section 1) to the last table of contents heading (
For example, by sequentially inputting items up to Chapter 5, Section 5) one by one and specifying the corresponding document names,
Data for all items is registered in the heading name table memory 20. Note that inputting the table of contents heading name is optional, and it is also possible to omit the inputting.

When all the items have been registered and the end is specified, this is detected in step A6 and the stage 2
Proceeding to step A7, the page number register P is set to an initial value rlJ. Then, the document data corresponding to the first document name registered in the heading name table memory 20 is loaded from the magnetic disk 16 (step A8), and the number of pages of the document is counted (step A9). 23 to count page break marks, or calculate the number of pages based on the amount of data, setting format, etc.
The table of contents heading name corresponding to the document name is read out from the heading name table memory 20 (step Al0), and it is checked whether the corresponding table of contents heading name is registered in the heading name table memory 20 (step A11). If it is,
The value of the heading name and page number register P (initially "1"
) is registered in the start page table memory 21 (step A12), but if the corresponding heading name is not registered in the heading name table memory 20, the document name and the value of the page number register P are registered in the start page table memory 21. Register (step A13).

After the recording, the value of the page number counter 23 is added to the value of the page number register P to update the value of the page number register P (step A14).

Then, it is checked whether or not another document is registered by referring to the heading name table memory 20 (step A15). If it is registered, the process proceeds to the next step A16, and the document data corresponding to the next document name is transferred to the magnetic disk. After loading from page 16, the process returns to step A9 and the number of pages is counted.

Thereafter, the above-described operations are repeated until the absence of a document is detected in step A16, and as a result, the start page is registered in the start page table memory 21 in correspondence with the heading name or document name. In this case, the starting page is the page number on the serial page number.

When such book creation processing is completed, the print processing shown in FIG. 146 is started.

First, the cover format preset in the first cover format memory 19 and the title name registered in the title name memory 18 are read out, and the title name is inserted into the display format and printed (step Bl).
, FIG. 7A shows a printing example in this case, and the underlined character string "XX..." in FIG. 1 is the title name.

Next, the table of contents format set in the table of contents format memory 22 and the start page table memory 21
Read the heading name (document name) and start page registered in the table of contents format, insert the heading name (document name) and start page in the table of contents format, and print (step B2), Figure 7B
shows a printing example in this case, and the numbers on the right side of the figure are the starting pages of each document on the continuous page rl", r4), "9
”, “12”.

When the cover page and table of contents are printed in this way, the page number register P is set to the initial value "1" (step B3), and the heading name table memory 20 is referred to, and the page number register P is set to the initial value "1". Document data on magnetic disk 16
After specifying the first page of this document (step B5), the heading name corresponding to the document name is read from the heading name table memory 20 and printed on this first page (step B4). Step B6).

Next, the process proceeds to step B7, and after printing the value of the page number register P on the specified page, "1" is added to the value of the page number register P to update the value of the page number register P (step B8 ), then one page of document data of the specified page is printed (step B9), thereby printing the first page of the leading document. Figure 7C
shows an example of printing in this case, and r1. in the figure shows an example of printing in this case. AAAAJ is the heading name of the first document.

Then, in the first step BIO, it is checked whether or not there is a next page, and if there is, the process advances to step Bll.

After specifying the next page, return to step B7, and repeat the operation of printing the document data page by page while adding serial page numbers to the specified pages. An example of printing the eyes is shown.

If it is detected in step BIO that there is no next page, the process proceeds to step B12, where the heading name table memory 20
It is checked whether the next document is registered or not. If it is registered, the process advances to step B13, the next document is loaded from the magnetic disk 16, and then the process returns to step B5.

Hereinafter, the above-mentioned operation is repeated until the next document is detected as missing in step B12. As a result, as shown in FIG. 8, a plurality of document data (document A, document B1, document D) is called in the order of document A, document D, and document B according to a prespecified calling order, and each page of these documents has a serial page number, that is, one document A has page numbers rlJ to "3", Page numbers "4" to "8" for documents, page number "9" for document B
~ "11" is added.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to collectively manage multiple documents as one document, and it is also possible to add serial page numbers to each page of multiple documents, and to create a table of contents document that indicates the starting page of each document. Therefore, it is possible to easily create a "one-shot" format document. This is especially effective when adding or deleting one document or page, since there is no need to re-enter the page number or re-create the table of contents document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1(A) is a functional block diagram of the first invention;
B) is a functional block diagram of the second invention, FIGS. 2 to 8 show examples, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a word processor, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the index table memory. 20, FIG. 4 shows the start page table memory 21.
Fig. 5 is a flowchart of the main creation process, Fig. 6 is a block diagram of
FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the bay printing process, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a printing example, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the printing order of a document and how serial page numbers are added. 11...CPU, 12...Key manual device, 14...Document memory, 15...Magnetic disk control section, 16...Magnetism disk, 2
3...Page number counter, P...Page number register. Patent applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A document storage means for storing document data; a document specification means for specifying a plurality of document data as output targets from among the document storage means; and a document specification means for specifying the calling order; document reading means for sequentially reading out a plurality of document data from the document storage means in accordance with a specified reading order; A document processing device comprising: page number adding means for sequentially adding serial page numbers. (2) a document storage means for storing document data; a document specification means for specifying a plurality of document data as output targets from among the document storage means; and a document specification means for specifying the calling order; document reading means for sequentially reading out a plurality of document data from the document storage means in accordance with a specified reading order; page number adding means for sequentially adding serial page numbers; and counting the number of pages of each document data specified by the document specifying means for each document, and adding a page number on the serial page number based on the count value for each document. A document processing device comprising: table of contents document creation means for determining a start page of each document and creating a table of contents document having this start page as a table of contents item.