JPH04174056A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable the high-level,efficient process of a document by preparing a document contents processing means which processes a document stored in a document storage means to generate document contents in different formats and displaying the document contents in the different formats in plural windows. CONSTITUTION:When an input process is performed by an input processing part 31-1, object data are updated 32. At this time, respective processes are registered in a call registration recording record 41. The registered processes are read out in order in display mode, display processes such as a 1st display process 34-1 and a 2nd display process 34-2 are performed to enable documents processes in different ways, and a necessary process result is displayed in a corresponding window. Consequently, only one kind of document information is updated regardless of the number of the windows, so even if the kinds of the windows increases, the processes do not become complicate.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION "Field of Industrial Application" The present invention relates to a document processing device for performing various processes on a document while displaying it in multiple windows.

``Prior art'' Opening multiple windows on a display and editing the necessary parts while displaying different pages of the same document in each window is not possible using a workstation or a relatively advanced Japanese word processor. This is widely used in document processing devices.

In such a document processing device, it is necessary to reflect the processing performed in one window on other windows regarding the same document. For example, suppose that the first window displays the contents of the first page of a document, and the second window displays the contents of the tenth page of the same document. In this case, if you add a few lines of text to the document content on the first page, not only will the content displayed on the first page change,
The display contents will be moved down in order to correspond to the newly added contents, and the contents of the tenth page will also be different from the original ones. In this way, changing the contents of one window may also change the display contents of other windows.

Therefore, in such a document processing device, when the text content of one window is processed, the content of the original document is changed accordingly, and other windows to which this change has a ripple effect are updated with the changed content. Steps are taken to display the document contents anew.

In addition, in a string processing device that uses a certain type of text editing program, for data consisting of a simple string such as a written program, it is possible to process the data as appropriate and create the processed data and the unprocessed data. Each piece of data is displayed in a different window. The character string data here is, for example, data that displays the total number of steps in a program. Even in such a character string processing device, when editing such as deleting or adding a character string is performed, the total number of steps of the program, etc. is recalculated accordingly, and the display contents of the corresponding window are changed. Become.

"Problem to be solved by the invention" The former document processing device processes the contents of one document by
I am trying to display it in multiple windows under one view. For example, displaying each necessary page of one document in a corresponding window can be said to be processed in one way in that it displays the contents of the document itself.

By the way, the structure of a document can generally be expressed as a tree structure. For example, it has a tree structure such as chapters, sections, etc. This concept is used, for example, in document creation software under the trade name “MORE” by Livingtext and “
It is shown in the document creation software with the trade name "IDOQ".

In addition to the method of creating a document in order from the beginning, there is also a method of representing the structure of the document in a tree structure and fleshing out the individual contents.

The latter method is generally implemented using document creation software called an outline processor. However, currently, unlike the case of simple character strings, for documents consisting of multiple paragraphs, the content is only displayed on the display in one view, and the content is displayed in a mixture of windows with different views. Nothing has been done.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing device that can simultaneously display windows with different views on a display.

"Means for Solving the Problems" The present invention includes a display constituted by, for example, a CRT, a multi-window setting means for simultaneously setting a plurality of windows on the display screen of this display, and a document consisting of a plurality of paragraphs being stored. a document storage means; a document content processing means for processing the document stored in the document storage means to generate one or more document contents in different formats or different views; and a document stored in the document storage means. and display content allocating means for allocating and displaying any one or more of the document contents generated by the document content processing means in a multi-window.

Then, document content processing means is arranged in the device to enable document processing from multiple viewpoints, and necessary results of these processes are displayed in the corresponding window, thereby achieving the above-mentioned purpose. do.

"Example" The present invention will be described in detail with reference to Examples below.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of the circuit configuration of a document processing device in an embodiment of the present invention. This device is a CPU
(Central Processing Unit) 11, which is connected through a bus 12 such as a data bus to a magnetic disk device 13, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 14, a display 15, and a keyboard 16.

Here, the magnetic disk device 13 stores the contents of various documents in addition to programs for controlling this document processing device. The RAM 14 stores the above-mentioned programs as well as various types of temporary storage data. The display 15 is adapted to display the contents of the document in a multi-window format. The keyboard 16 is used to input various data such as characters. A mouse 17 is connected to the keyboard 16 as a coordinate indicating device. Of course, like a tablet, the mouse 1
It is also possible to use coordinate indicating devices other than 7.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display of this device. In this example, the display screen 21 of the display 15 has three windows 22-1 to 22-2.
2-3 is set. The first window 2
2-1 displays the contents of the first page of the first chapter of a certain document. This display is
YSIWYG) format, that is, in the visual state as it is recorded on paper. That is, in this first window 22-1, there is (a) a chapter heading 23 that says "Chapter 1, On the Line", and (b) a main text 2 that starts with "This text is".
A one-page document consisting of three types of document structures is displayed: 4, and (c) a graphic frame 25.

In the second window 22-2, all heading portions of the currently created document are extracted and displayed.

A graphic frame 25 is displayed alone in the third window 22-3.

In the display state of the display screen 21 shown in FIG. 2, the operator moves a cursor (not shown) with the mouse 17,
Editing can be performed in any window. For example, if you change the chapter heading 23 "Chapter 1, Introduction" in the first window 22-1 to a phrase for another heading, the corresponding heading in the second window 22-2 will be changed to the changed content. It turns out. In addition, for example, the figure frame 25 enlarged and displayed in the third window 22-3
If the graphic is edited, the edited contents will be reflected in the first window 22-1 as well.

FIG. 3 generally shows the relationship between input processing and display processing for each window.

In this embodiment, the first input processing section 31-1 is an input processing section corresponding to the first window 22-1 in FIG.
It consists of a keyboard, etc.

Similarly, the second input processing section 31-2 is an input processing section for the second window 22-2, and the third input processing section 31-3 is an input processing section for the second window 22-3. It is. Each of these input processing units 31-1 to
Data update 32 is performed for the manual processing performed by 31-3. At this time, each window 22-1 to 22-3
There is no update target for each document, but only one document data 33 stored in the magnetic disk device 13 or RAM 14 is updated.

When such data update 32 is performed, the first to third display processing units 34-1 to 34-3 corresponding to the first to third windows 22-1 to 22-3 are called, and document information is It is communicated that some update has been made.

The first to third display processing units 34-1 to 34-3 perform display processing for each window 22-1 to 22-3 based on this.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, difference information 35 of document data 33 is stored. What is difference information 35?
This is information indicating which part was edited and how. By storing the information of the changed part in each input processing section 31-1 to 31-3 as the difference information 35, each display processing section 34-1 to 34-3 can change the information for each difference information. Determine where there has been a change in the displayed content and open the corresponding window 22-1~
22-3 will be redisplayed.

Further, in FIG. 3, a user-created manual processing section 31-U is arranged in which the user performs his own manual processing, and data updating 32 is also performed through this. A user-created display processing unit 34-U for executing display processing uniquely created by the user is also arranged in the same manner.

FIG. 4 shows the relationship between data updating and display processing, taking the first manual processing as an example. In this figure, when the first human processing unit 31-1 performs manual processing, the target data is updated 32. At this time,
Each process is registered in the call registration record 41. The processes registered in this way are sequentially read out during display, and the processes are read out sequentially during display.
Display processing such as 4-2 is performed.

That is, the document processing device of this embodiment realizes various display processes by faithfully executing the recall of the contents registered in the call frame record record 41, and only a specific window is displayed according to the registered procedure. It does not mean that the content is managed or specific content is displayed. In other words, the call for display processing only implements a general-purpose function of giving a trigger to a procedure registered in a certain record. therefore,
For example, even if the user-created display process 834-U shown in FIG. 3 is newly added and one corresponding window is added, it is sufficient to add the identifier for that window to the call registration record record 41. Become.

FIG. 15 shows the bin list of the document processing device of this embodiment. Here, the view list is a list that exists for each window and represents various views of the same document by those windows.

Here, "WYSIWYG View" means that the display processing is performed as it is printed by the display processing in the WYSIWYG format explained earlier, and "St.
"structuredView" means that a structure display process is performed based on the structure of the sentence.
“Property View” is the property view of the text (
This means that the display processing is performed by the professional staff.

FIG. 6 shows the flow of display control in this document processing device. When this device is powered on, the CPU
II (FIG. 1) creates one window (step (2) in FIG. 6) and obtains an identifier (step (2)). Assuming that the initial setting is that the first window to be set is in Wiswig format, the first identifier 51 representing the first window 22-1 is included in the call registration record record 41 shown in FIG. A pair with the Wiswig display process 52 explained in FIG. 5 is registered (Step 2).

FIG. 7 shows the registration status of the call registration record record at this time. The "WYSIWYG" display process 52 is extracted from the view list shown in FIG. 5, and the first identifier 51 is linked to and registered.

The operator may use only this first window 22-1 to perform work such as editing a document, but may display other windows as necessary. In the latter case, processing for window generation is performed (step ■; Y). At this time, the view list shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display screen 21 (FIG. 2) (step ■).

In this state, when the operator selects the desired display process (
Step ■; Y), a second window is created (step ■), and a second identifier for this window is obtained (step ■). Assuming that the "Structured View" display is selected for this second window 22-2, as shown in FIG.
A pair of display processes 54 "cured" will be additionally registered. Thereafter, the contents of those display processes will be registered in the same manner every time a window 22 is generated.

FIG. 9 shows the principle of display processing of each window in this document processing device. In this example, the third
window 22-3 (see Figure 2)
G" display processing. When each window 22-1 to 22-3 needs to be displayed, the CPU 11 shown in FIG. 1 registers it in the view list (FIG. 5). The respective identifiers 51, 53, and 55 are passed as factors to the display processing, and the display of each window is executed.At this time, the display processing of each window 22-1 to 22-3 is performed based on the previously registered one. The operations may be performed in order from the largest area of the windows displayed on the display screen 21 (FIG. 2).
If the windows 22 are displayed overlapping each other, the display process may be performed starting from the topmost window 22.

FIG. 10 shows the contents of the view list when the user creates a new display process. By adding the "New View" list section 62 created by the user in addition to the list section 61 prepared by the document processing device, this can be selected when setting each window 22, and the display The displayed content can be realized when

In the embodiment described above, the updating work is performed on only one piece of document information regardless of the number of windows, so even if the number of types of windows increases, the processing does not become complicated. Another advantage is that windows with new display formats can be easily added to the device.

"Effects of the Invention" As described above, according to the present invention, a document content processing means for processing a document stored in a document storage means to generate document content in different formats is provided, and document content in multiple formats is prepared. Since the document is displayed in multiple windows, the operator can view and process the document from different viewpoints, thereby enabling advanced and efficient processing of the document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, of which Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an overview of the circuit configuration of a document processing device, and Fig. 2 is an example of two windows displayed on a display. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram generally showing the relationship between input processing and display processing for each window, and FIG. 4 shows the relationship between data updating and display processing using the first input processing as an example. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the view list, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the main part of the display control of the document processing device, and FIG. 7 is the initial registration state of the call registration record. Explanatory diagram showing the 8th
The figure is an explanatory diagram showing the state in which the second registration of the call registration record has been performed, FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing the principle of display processing of each window in this document processing device, and FIG. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a display process created by a user is added to a list. 11...CPU, 13...Magnetic disk device, 14...RAM, 15...Display, 21...Display screen, 22... ...
...Window, 3I...Manpower processing section, 32.
...Data update, 33...Document data,
34...Display processing unit. Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Agent
Patent Attorney Yu Yamauchi - Ume Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 10 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A display, multi-window setting means for simultaneously setting a plurality of windows on the display screen of this display, document storage means for storing a document consisting of a plurality of paragraphs, document content processing means for processing the document to generate one or more document contents in different formats; A document processing device comprising display content allocating means for allocating and displaying content in the multi-window.