JPH04309112A - Method and device for processing document - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability by changing speed for repetition according to an instructed position in the case of repeatedly executing an operation such as moving a cursor or scrolling a picture. CONSTITUTION:A RAM 6 in the main body part 1 of the processor stores a page format 11, physical position 12 showing the position of the cursor on the page format, both area block data 13, two kinds of 1st and 2nd repeat time 14, logical position 15 showing the position of the cursor on a data file 10 and repeating time 16 valid at present. When a cursor moving key or a scrolling key on a keyboard 2 is depressed, it is investigated by investigating the physical position 12 whether the cursor is positioned in the area block data 13 or out of it, when the cursor is within the area block, the 1st repeating time is set to the valid repeating time 16, when the cursor is out of the area block, the 2nd repeat time is set to the valid repeating time 16, and the repetition is executed with this valid repeating time 16. Thus, by changing the repeating time according to the instructed input position, the operability of document edition can be improved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing method and a document processing device thereof, and more particularly, to a document processing method and a document processing device thereof for editing a document on a display screen of an electronic typewriter, word processor, etc. Regarding.

0002

[Background Art] When operations such as moving a cursor mark or scrolling the screen are performed by continuously pressing the same key or repeatedly pressing a repeat key on a document display editing screen of a conventional document processing device, the repeating time interval is always constant. (For example, the speed of movement of the cursor mark or the speed of screen scrolling is constant), or the speed of movement of the cursor mark or the speed of screen scrolling is constant after the key is pressed. In some cases, the speed increases as the speed increases), and the repeat time interval varies depending on the type of key being pressed.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, it is important to note that the time interval between repeats such as moving a cursor mark or scrolling the screen is always constant or changes with the passage of time after the start of repeating, which is a problem for the document being handled. This was done regardless of the content and page format of the document, resulting in the following operational inconveniences, for example. (1) If the moving speed of the cursor mark is slow, the amount of documents is large, and the moving distance of the cursor mark is long, it takes a long time to reach the target position. (2) Conversely, if the elapsed time after pressing the key is long, the cursor mark moves too fast and cannot be stopped at the desired position, passing past the target position.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing method and a document processing device thereof that can change the repeat time interval depending on the input position of the instruction. The purpose is

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the document processing method of the present invention includes the following steps. That is, this is a document processing method for editing a document on a display screen of an electronic typewriter, word processor, etc., which includes the steps of inputting a document editing instruction from any location on the display screen, and inputting a document editing instruction from the document editing instruction. a step of selecting a predetermined instruction; a step of detecting a position on the display screen where the predetermined instruction is input; and a step of repeating the predetermined instruction after a predetermined time according to the input position of the predetermined instruction. A document processing method is provided.

According to another invention, there is provided a document processing device for editing a document on a display screen, comprising: a storage means for storing a document; a display means for displaying the document; an input means for inputting a document editing instruction from any location of the document displayed on the display screen; a selection means for selecting a predetermined instruction from the document editing instructions;
It is characterized by comprising a detection means for detecting a position on the display screen where the predetermined instruction is input, and a repeating means for repeating the predetermined instruction after a predetermined time according to the input position of the predetermined instruction. Equipped with a document processing device.

[0007]

[Operation] With the above configuration, the present invention operates to select a predetermined instruction from input document editing instructions, check the input position of the instruction, and repeat the instruction after a predetermined time according to the input position. .

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing device that is a typical embodiment of the present invention. The document processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes a main body 1, a keyboard 2 equipped with character keys or control keys, and a display 3 for displaying documents. The device body 1 further stores a CPU 4 that controls the entire device, a ROM 5 that stores a processing program 9, a RAM 6 that stores various processing data, and is used as a work area for document processing, and a document data file 10. It consists of a hard disk 7 and a CPU bus 8 that connects these components.

In the RAM 6, for document processing, there are a page format 11 for storing top, bottom, left and right margins, etc., a physical position 12 for storing the cursor position on the page format 11, area division data 13 for dividing the page format into planes, which will be described later. a first holding a first and a second time interval of
Information such as a repeat time and a second repeat time 14, a logical position 15 for storing the cursor position of the data file 10, and an effective repeat time 16 for storing the currently valid repeat time are stored. Further, the RAM 6 stores a document data file 10 read from the hard disk 7 during document editing.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing various control information for key processing to be described later. In FIG. 2, (a) of FIG. 2 is a page format 11, and (b) of FIG. 2 is a physical location 12.
, FIG. 2(c) shows the details of the area division data 13, and FIG. 2(d) shows the positional relationship between the values of the page format 11 and the area division data 13. In page format 11 of FIG. 2(a), T. M,B
．． M.L. M.R. M represents the top margin, bottom margin, left margin, and right margin, respectively. The physical position 12 in FIG. 2B is information indicating the position of the cursor with the upper left corner on the display as the origin, and is indicated by the line position (vertical direction) and column position (horizontal direction). In Figure 2 (
The region division data 13 in c) is information that defines regions into which repeat times are divided. In this example, 2
information (V
．． A.H. A).

Next, key processing during document editing executed by the document processing apparatus having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, in step S1, it is checked whether any key input has been made on the keyboard 2. Here, if it is determined that there is no key input, the process proceeds to step S16.
The process proceeds to , resets the repeat flag that instructs repetition of the process indicated by the input key (this is called repeat process), and then ends the process. If it is determined that there is a key input, the process proceeds to step S2, and the input key is a repeat key (a key that instructs to repeat the process) or a repeatable key (a key that can be pressed continuously to display characters, etc.). Check if the key allows continuous input. here,
If the input key is neither a repeat key nor a repeatable key, the process advances to step S14, where the repeat key is not a repeat key.
The flag is reset, and in step S15, the input data is fetched in a form that can be edited, and the key processing is ended. In contrast, if the input key is a repeat key or a repeatable key, the process advances to step S3.

In step S3, it is checked whether the repeat flag is set. Here, if it is determined that it is in the reset state, the process proceeds to step S10, and the RA
The first repeat time set in M6 is copied to the effective repeat time 16, followed by setting a repeat flag in step S11, and checking whether the input key is a repeatable key in step S12. In step S12,
If the input key is determined to be a repeatable key, the process proceeds to step S15; if it is determined that the input key is not a repeatable key (in other words, if it is a repeat key), the process proceeds to step S13 to repeat the previous key. Captures the input data in an editable form and finishes key processing.

If it is determined in step S3 that the repeat flag is set, the process proceeds to step S4.
In step S5, the value of effective repeat time 12 is set in the wait timer, and a wait state is entered in step S5. Next, in step S6, it is determined whether the input key is a cursor movement key or a scroll key. Here, if the key is neither a cursor movement key nor a scroll key, the process advances to step S13. On the other hand, if it is determined that the key is a cursor movement key or a scroll key, the process proceeds to step S7.
Then, the physical position of the current cursor is checked by referring to the physical position 12 stored in the RAM 6. Here, if the cursor position is located outside the area division (14 in (d) of FIG.
(corresponds to the center of the page format)
, the process proceeds to step S9, and the second repeat time (Δ
t2) 10 is set as the effective repeat time 16, and the process proceeds to step S13. On the other hand, if it is located within the area division (the area indicated by 15 in FIG. 2(d), which corresponds to the peripheral part of the page format), the process advances to step S8;
The first repeat time (Δt1) 10 is set as the effective repeat time 12, and the process proceeds to step S13.

[0016] In step S13, the previously inputted data is imported in a form that can be edited repeatedly, and the key processing is completed. Thereafter, normal document editing processing is performed, and the values of each parameter are also updated.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the repeat time when the cursor movement key or scroll key is input can be changed according to the cursor position in the document data.

Although this embodiment has been described with reference to the case where the repeat time is changed when the cursor movement key or scroll key is input, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, it is also possible to perform the following processing only regarding key inputs of cursor movement keys.

FIG. 4 is a diagram in which a part (steps S6 to S9) of the key processing flowchart of the present embodiment shown in FIG. 3 is replaced with another process.

In FIG. 4, in step S20, it is checked whether the input key is a cursor movement key. Here, if the input key is not a cursor movement key, the process advances to step S13 as described above. On the other hand, if the input key is a cursor movement key, the process proceeds to step S21, and the data type at the logical position 15 of the data file 10 where the cursor logically exists is checked. Here, if the data type is space data, the process advances to step S23,
The second repeat time (Δt2) 14 is set to the effective repeat time 16, and the process moves to step S13. On the other hand, if the data type is other than space data, the process advances to step S22 and the first repeat time (Δt1) 14
is set to an effective repeat time of 16, and the process moves to step S13. This allows the repeat time to be changed when the point at which the cursor key is pressed is space data.

Furthermore, it is also possible to perform the following processing only with respect to key inputs of cursor movement keys, particularly lateral movement cursor movement keys.

FIG. 5 is a diagram in which a part (steps S6 to S9) of the key processing flowchart of the present embodiment shown in FIG. 3 is replaced with another processing.

In FIG. 5, first, in step S30, it is determined whether the input key is a left cursor movement key or a right cursor movement key. Here, if the input key is neither the left cursor movement key nor the right cursor movement key, the process proceeds to step S.
Proceed to step 13 to perform the above-described processing. If the input key is the left cursor movement key or the right cursor movement key, the process proceeds to step S31, and the type of data at the logical position 15 of the data file 10 where the cursor logically exists and the data ahead in the cursor movement direction are determined. Compare types. Here, if the type of data on the cursor is equal to the type of data ahead in the moving direction of the cursor, the process proceeds to step S32, and the first repeat time (Δt1) 14 is changed to the effective repeat time 1.
The value is set to 6 and the process proceeds to step S13. On the other hand, if the data types are different, the process proceeds to step S33, sets the second repeat time (Δt2) 14 to the effective repeat time 16, and proceeds to step S13. Thereby, the repeat time can be changed according to the data type in the cursor movement direction.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, a case has been described in which the page format is divided into two area sections and the repeat time is divided into two stages, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, natural repeats can be realized by dividing the page format into more detailed area sections or by determining repeat times in stages. Also,
There are not only two types of data in the data file, but also
It is also possible to classify into more types and set the repeat time interval for each type. Furthermore, by combining these ideas, for example, the repeat time of non-space data is t1, and the repeat time of space data is t2.
, the increase in repeat time at the data type change is Δ
t1 and the increase in repeat time at the periphery of the page format Δt2, each of the above repeat times is added as a wait time according to the physical position of the cursor mark on the page format and the logical position on the data file. It is possible to move the cursor more slowly on a word than on a space, and to take a longer time interval at the beginning and end of a word, thereby realizing a more convenient editing operation.

The present invention may be applied to a system consisting of a plurality of devices, or may be applied to a device consisting of one device, or may be achieved by supplying a program to the system or device. Needless to say, it can also be applied to cases where

[0026]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, a predetermined document editing instruction can be repeated for a predetermined time according to the input position on the display screen, so that repeat operations are meaningful to the user. This has the effect of improving the operability of document editing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing device that is a typical embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing various control information for key processing.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing key processing executed by the document processing device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing key processing, particularly processing when a cursor key is pressed.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing key processing, particularly processing when a horizontal movement cursor key is pressed.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Document processing device main unit 2 Keyboard 3 Display 4 CPU 5 ROM 6 RAM 7 Hard disk 8 CPU bus 9 Processing program 10　Data file 11 Page format 12 Physical location 13 Area classification data 14 1st and 2nd repeat time 15 Logical position 16 Valid repeat time

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document processing method for editing a document on a display screen of an electronic typewriter, word processor, etc., comprising the steps of inputting a document editing instruction from any location on the display screen; a step of selecting a predetermined instruction from editing instructions; a step of detecting a position on the display screen where the predetermined instruction is input; and a step of transmitting the predetermined instruction for a predetermined time according to the input position of the predetermined instruction. A document processing method comprising the steps of: repeating the steps later. 2. A document processing device that edits a document on a display screen, comprising a storage means for storing a document, a display means for displaying the document, and a document that is displayed on the display screen by the display means. an input means for inputting a document editing instruction from any location in the document; a selection means for selecting a predetermined instruction from the document editing instructions; and a detecting position on the display screen at which the predetermined instruction is input. A document processing apparatus comprising: a detection means; and a repeating means for repeating the predetermined instruction after a predetermined time according to a position where the predetermined instruction is input. 3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the input means is a keyboard. 4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the position detected by the detection means is a cursor mark displayed on the display screen. 5. The repeating means includes logical position detection means for detecting a corresponding position of the document stored in the storage means based on the position detected by the detection means at which the predetermined instruction is input; determination means for determining the data type of the document located at the position detected by the logical position detection means; and a repetition time determination unit for determining the repetition time of the predetermined instruction based on the data type determined by the determination means. 3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: means. 6. The repeating means includes logical position detection means for detecting a corresponding position of the document stored in the storage means based on the position detected by the detection means at which the predetermined instruction is input; determination means for determining the data type of the document located before and after the position detected by the logical position detection means; and repetition for determining the repetition time of the predetermined instruction based on the data type determined by the determination means. 3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising time determining means.