JPH04167049A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare an easy-to-read document by setting a layout so that a group of character strings showing the meaning of a word (idiom), a phrase, etc., is not parted into two lines. CONSTITUTION:A Japanese document when inputted from an input device 2 is properly divided by a document dividing means 4. A character array means 5 arrays a character string, sandwiched between adjacent punctuations of the document divided by the document dividing means 4, on a free space on the same line in order. A character string length judging means 6 judges whether a character string to be arrayed next is too long to put in the free space up to the end of the line and when it is judged that the character string can not be put in the free space up to the end of the line, a line end processing means 7 performs a carriage return process. Therefore, the group of character strings such as idioms and phrases in the document is never parted into two successive lines. Consequently, the easy-to-read document is created.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a document processing device that has a document editing function for arranging created sentences in an appropriate layout to make the documents easier to read.

[Conventional technology]

The arrangement of sentences on a document makes it easier to read by using line breaks at periods, commas, and meaning breaks.

In addition, it is possible to create documents with beautiful appearance.

In a document creation device for a European language, since the European language is expressed with spaces between words, there are fewer cases where words are separated at the end of a line than in a Japanese document.

In European texts, when a word is split at the end of a line, the division is done according to rules, and the word division is represented by a symbol such as "-".

On the other hand, Japanese sentences do not have a sentence structure that leaves spaces between words like the European sentences.

The prior art related to this type of line end processing is disclosed in Maruzen ■, published on April 25, 1986, edited by Akihiro Uetani, rJs, ter Workstation'' (
In particular, see pages 131 to 133).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Conventional Japanese document processing devices use period marks and commas.

End-of-line processing for parentheses, so-called prohibition processing, is performed, but
Idioms and phrases often break at the end of a line.

For this reason, when there are separated phrases or phrases, the user must scan to the beginning of the next line to confirm the phrase or phrase before reading, which often results in a document that is difficult to read.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device that eliminates the drawbacks of the above-mentioned prior art, eliminates the division of phrases and clauses at the end of lines, and can create documents composed of easy-to-read sentences.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a sentence dividing means (4 in FIG. 1) that divides a given sentence at appropriate intervals.
and a character arrangement means (5 in Figure 1) for sequentially arranging the character strings sandwiched between adjacent breaks in the sentence divided by the sentence division means on empty spaces on the same line; character string length determining means (6 in FIG. 1) for determining whether the character string to be arranged is long enough to be accommodated in the empty column up to the end of the line; and the character string to be arranged next. A document editing device (1 in FIG. 1) comprising: a line end processing means (7 in FIG. 1) that performs a line break process when the length exceeds the length that can be accommodated in the free space up to the end of the same line; ).

[Effect]

When a Japanese sentence is inputted from the input device (2 in FIG. 1), the sentence is divided at appropriate intervals by the sentence dividing means (4 in FIG. 1).

The character arrangement means (5 in FIG. 1) sequentially arranges the character strings sandwiched between adjacent delimiters of the sentence divided by the sentence division means on empty spaces on the same line.

The character string length determining means (6 in FIG. 1) determines whether the character string to be arranged next has a length that can be accommodated in the empty space up to the end of the line, and When it is determined that the length of the character string to be processed exceeds the length that can be accommodated in the empty space up to the end of the same line, the end-of-line processing means (7 in FIG. 1) performs line break processing.

As a result, a group of character strings such as an idiom or phrase in a sentence is not divided into preceding and following lines, resulting in an easy-to-read document.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a document processing device according to the present invention, in which 1 is a document editing device, and 2 is an input device such as a keyboard for inputting information such as character 9 function commands to the document editing device. 3 is a display device such as a CRT or LCD for displaying the document being created; 4 is a sentence dividing means that finds appropriate breaks in a Japanese sentence and divides the sentence into character strings between adjacent breaks; 5 is a character arrangement means for sequentially placing character strings on a line, and 6 is a character string length that determines whether the character string to be arranged next on the line is longer or shorter than the remaining free space (number of characters that can be accommodated) on the line. 7 is a line end processing means for performing line feed processing and prohibition processing; 8 is a buffer memory a for storing sentences to be processed; and 9 is a buffer memory b for storing cut out character strings.

In the configuration shown in the figure, when a character string constituting a sentence is input from the input device 2, the input character string is held in the buffer memory a8.

Then, using buffer memory a and buffer memory b,
The sentence dividing means 4 performs sentence dividing processing to divide the text into character strings representing the meaning of a group of Japanese words, such as idioms and phrases.

The character strings of the divided sentences are placed on lines in division units by the character arrangement means 5.

At this time, since all lines in which the first character string is placed are "empty", the character string length judgment means 6 determines that (character string) <(
empty space) and is placed from the beginning of the line.

As will be described later, in document creation, it is common to leave one character blank at the beginning of the first line of a paragraph, so it is assumed that the blank space between the first character and the first line of a paragraph is processed before character arrangement.

Next, regarding the next character string to be placed on the relevant line, the character string length determining means 6 compares the length of the character string to be placed on the relevant line with the length of the remaining space (empty space) on the relevant line. .

Then, if (character string) < (empty space), place the character string on the relevant launch, and if (character string) > (empty space), the line end processing means 7 executes line feed processing,
Place the following string above from the beginning of the next line.

The document being processed is displayed on the display device 3, and the user can check the layout of the text on the document while monitoring this display.

Hereinafter, the operation of the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be explained in detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the first configuration.

In the figure, when document processing is started and text input is started, the character string (Japanese text) of the text input from the input means 2 to the document editing device 1 is entered into the buffer memory a8 (step 1, hereinafter S- 1).

An appropriate group of phrases or phrases is cut out from the beginning of the character string in the buffer memory a8, and the cut out character string is stored in the buffer memory b9 (S-2).

A character string (ab) obtained by subtracting the character string in buffer memory b9 from the character string in buffer memory a8 is placed in buffer memory a8 (S-3).

It is necessary to judge whether the character string in buffer memory b9 can be placed on the empty space of the relevant line (5-4), yes, that is, (
character string) <(empty space), go to (S-6) and place the character string of buffer memo IJ b 9 on the relevant launch.

If the length of the character string in the buffer memory b9 exceeds the length that can be placed in the free space of the line (no), the line end processing means 7 performs a line feed process (S-5), and the character string in the buffer memory b9
Place the character string < (S-6) from the beginning of the next line.

Repeat the above process until there are no more Japanese sentences stored in the buffer memory a8 (no in S-7). When the buffer memory a8 is empty, input the sentence again from the input device 2, Perform the above process.

Then, when all the sentences have been input, the process ends (end).

Note that, as a specific means for appropriately dividing the sentences described above, known language analysis techniques such as morphological analysis techniques and semantic analysis techniques in the technical field of natural language processing are used.

In the case of Japanese, which does not have word divisions, the above morphological analysis is performed by first cutting out the words, and then comparing the cut out words, including inflections and derived words, with registered dictionaries. This is an analysis method that extracts idioms and phrases.

Semantic analysis is an analysis method that captures the basic meanings of the constituent elements of a sentence, such as the meaning of the word itself and the meaning of word usage, and the meaning within a sentence created by assembling these elements in a hierarchical structure of concepts.

Note that means for finding appropriate breaks in sentences is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-232472.

In order to prevent the idioms separated by these language analysis technologies from being split between the line in question and the next line, and to prevent grammatical units such as phrases from being split, the meaning of the sentence is divided into blocks. Avoid being split.

Further, the determination at (S-4) in FIG. 2 can be easily determined by the logic of comparing the number of characters in one line set in the document editing device with the number of character strings stored in the buffer memory b9.

Next, the processing operation of the present invention will be specifically explained using actual sentences.

3 and 4 are explanatory diagrams of specific examples of text processing according to the present invention, and 1 to 24 are column numbers indicating the number of characters accommodated in one line.

Here, the example sentence that will be processed is ``The May sales manager meeting will be held as shown below, and I would like you to attend.

”.

The manner in which the above text inputted by the input device 2 of FIG. 1 is placed on the top of the text area 61 through the document editing device 1 will be explained.

Note that in order to make this process easier to understand, the following description assumes that the process is displayed on the display device 3.

In this example, the number of characters in one line is 24, and 1 indicates a blank character.

The example sentence display in FIG. 3 shows the state before being processed by the document processing apparatus of the present invention.

First, input the blank character at the beginning of the line! It is processed by space input from 2.

FIG. 4(a) shows a state in which blank characters at the beginning of a line have been processed.

When the example sentence shown in FIG. 3 is input, the character string constituting this example sentence is held in the buffer memory a8 of the document editing device 1.

For the character string held in this buffer memory a8,
The sentence dividing means 4 cuts out the two characters "below".

The extracted two characters “below” are stored in buffer memory b9.
is maintained.

At this time, buffer memory a9 contains buffer memory b.
The remaining part (a-b) excluding the two letters of ``below'' cut out in 9, ie, ``I would like it to be done as...''.
is held again.

The two characters “below” held in buffer memory b9 are:
The remaining columns (2 to 24) are determined by the character string length judgment means 6.
Determine whether or not it can be placed all in one place.

In this case, since (``below'') < (empty space), the two characters ``below'' can be placed in one block on the line, so the character arrangement means 5 displays the characters shown in FIG. 4(b). As shown in , place the two characters "below" after the blank character.

Hereinafter, in the same way, "no", "tori", "May sales manager meeting", "wo", "will be held".

``Node'' processing is performed, and the items are sequentially placed on the relevant line as shown in 10 of FIG. 4(C).

Now, in this state, the content of the buffer memory a8 is "I would like to attend."

From the character string held in the buffer memory a8, the sentence dividing means 4 cuts out the four characters "attendee".

At this time, the remaining empty space on the line is one character, so the character string length judgment means 6 is (``attended'').
> (empty space), and the four-character string "attended" cannot be placed above the line.

Based on this determination, the end-of-line processing means 7 executes line feed processing for the line.

Reference numeral 11 in FIG. 4(d) is a line break mark displayed on the display device.

The above character string "attended" is 1 in Figure 4(e).
As shown in 2, it is placed from the beginning of the next line.

Thereafter, in the same manner as described above, the character string 13 of "tai." is placed, and a layout as shown in FIG. 4(f) is completed for the example sentence.

In this way, a single string of characters such as an idiom or phrase that makes up a sentence will not be split across the next line.
An easy-to-read document is obtained.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, words (idioms) can be
It is possible to create an easy-to-read document by creating a layout in which a group of character strings that express meaning, such as words or phrases, are not separated across the next line.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a document processing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart explaining the operation of the configuration shown in FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are text processing according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a specific example. 1...Document editing device, 2...Input device, 3...
... Display device, 4... Sentence dividing means, 5... Character arrangement means, 6... Character string length judgment means, 7...
・Line end processing means, 8... Buffer memory a, 9...
...Buffer memory b.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Sentence division means that divides a given sentence into appropriate divisions, and character strings sandwiched between adjacent divisions of the sentences divided by the sentence division means, are sequentially divided into blank spaces on the same line. a character array means for arranging characters on a space; a character string length determining means for determining whether a character string to be arranged next has a length that can be accommodated in the empty space up to the end of the line; A document editing device comprising: line end processing means for performing a line break process when the length of the character string to be arranged in the line exceeds the length that can be accommodated in the free space up to the end of the same line; and a document editing device comprising: document processing device.