JPH04329466A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily observe respective candidate phrase groups concerning preceding and following phrases in a sentence example. CONSTITUTION:In the document preparing device to retrieve a desired sentence example file from a recording medium recording the files of plural sentence examples, to read out the file and to display it on a screen, a candidate window 43 is opened when an aimed phrase 42 in the displayed sentence example is designated, and the candidate phrase group corresponding to the aimed phrase 42 is displayed in this candidate window 43. At such a time, the candidate window 43 and the candidate phrase group can be switched and changed by a single simple operation while being linked, with the switch and change of the aimed phrase 42.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to document creation in which one sentence example is selected from a plurality of sentence examples prepared in advance, and a final document is created while making modifications to the selected sentence example. Regarding equipment.

0002

[Prior Art] In general, documents such as letters for ceremonial occasions, business texts, and speech manuscripts have many fixed parts.
Anyone can easily create a document of a certain level of quality by processing text examples prepared in advance according to the purpose. Taking this into consideration, in a document creation device such as a word processor, a plurality of sentence examples are prepared in advance, classified according to the purpose, etc., and the sentence examples are searched and recalled according to the purpose. Attempts have been made to create a final document by filling in necessary information, deleting unnecessary parts, rewriting, adding, and other modifications.

[0003] Specifically, the above-mentioned plurality of sentence examples are individually filed as document files (sentence example files) and recorded on a floppy disk, etc., and in order to manage these files, a so-called directory is formed and stored. The information is also recorded in a predetermined area of a floppy disk or the like. This directory corresponds to the table of contents of a book, and is hierarchically organized into large items, medium items, small items, etc. as necessary to facilitate searching. A document creation support system consisting of document files corresponding to a plurality of sentence examples, directories for file searches, search programs, etc. is provided in the form recorded on, for example, a floppy disk.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] By the way, when actually using such a document creation support system, examples of sentences are called up and displayed on the screen, and corrections are made in units of character strings (for example, phrases) of a predetermined length. ing. Specifically, several candidate groups are displayed for each phrase, and an editing operation is performed to select an appropriate candidate from among these candidate groups.

[0005] At this time, after displaying the above candidate group for the phrase of interest where the cursor is located (for example, highlighted) in the displayed sentence example, the user attempts to view candidate groups for other phrases. If you wish to do so, first return to the state where the candidate group is not displayed, move the attention point to the desired phrase (move the highlighted display position) using a cursor movement operation, etc., and then use the predetermined candidate group display operation to move the point of interest to the desired phrase. An operating procedure is required to display a group of candidates corresponding to the phrase of the current point of interest.

[0006] Such a series of operations is complicated, and while performing this operation, the memory of the contents of the previous and subsequent candidate groups tends to become vague, making it difficult to select candidates that are related to the previous and subsequent candidates. It has the disadvantage of being difficult. In particular, when creating sentences, it is necessary to select candidates while carefully considering the contents of the preceding and following sentences, making conventional methods difficult to use.

[0007] The present invention was proposed in view of the above circumstances, and when a group of candidates is displayed in units of character strings of a predetermined length (for example, in units of phrases), it is possible to change the previous and next characters with a simple operation. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can confirm a group of candidates corresponding to each column (phrase).

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems] A document creation device according to the present invention selects one of a plurality of sentence example files recorded on a recording medium, reads out the selected sentence example file, and reads out the selected sentence example file.
In a document creation device that displays sentence examples on a dimensional screen display means and creates a document based on the displayed sentence examples, each of the sentence examples is divided into character strings of a predetermined length, and character string candidates are created for each character string. In response to specifying the character string in the displayed sentence example, a candidate window is opened on the two-dimensional screen, and the characters corresponding to the specified character string are displayed in the candidate window. A group of column candidates is displayed, and by switching and changing the specification of the above character string while this group of character string candidates is displayed, the specification of the above character string in the displayed example sentence is switched and the specified string is changed. The above problem is solved by switching and displaying the character string candidate group according to the character string.

[0009] Here, the character string of the predetermined length can be, for example, a so-called phrase, and a group of candidate phrases is set in advance for each phrase in a sentence example. When a candidate window is opened corresponding to the position of a specified phrase in a sentence example, for example, a highlighted phrase, the candidate window and candidate phrase group are opened in conjunction with the phrase switching operation. The display will be changed to the corresponding one.

0010

[Operation] By simply switching and changing character strings of a predetermined length (for example, phrases) in the example sentence above, the corresponding group of character string candidates will also be displayed. You can browse through the candidate groups one after another.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows a schematic hardware configuration of an embodiment of a document creation apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a sub-CPU 12 is connected to a main CPU (central processing unit) 11, and the sub-CPU 12 controls key input from a keyboard 13, generation of a buzzing sound from a buzzer 14, and the like. The bus line of the main CPU 11 includes a RAM (random access memory) 15, a program ROM (read only memory) 16, a type font ROM 17, a dictionary ROM 18, an SIO (serial interface) 19, an expansion connector 20, and an LCD (liquid crystal display) controller. 21 etc. are connected. L
The CD controller 21 controls the display of the LCD 23, which is a two-dimensional screen display means, while reading and writing display data to and from a V (video) RAM 22. Main CPU1
A gate array 24 having functions such as a timing generator and an address decoder is connected to the bus line 1, and timing signals and address signals from this gate array 24 are sent to the LCD controller 21, LCD 23, and VR.
The scanner connector 25 is connected to this gate array 24. Also main CP
A disk controller 26 is connected to the bus line U11, and this disk controller 26 transfers data to and from a floppy disk device 28 while reading and writing data to and from an S (static) RAM 27. Furthermore, the bus line of the main CPU 11 has
A printer connector 30 is connected via a buffer 29, and a card connector 31 is also connected.

Here, the floppy disk device 28
The disk for the document creation support system mentioned above is available as a floppy disk to be installed in the floppy disk.
On this disk, a plurality of examples of sentences such as letters for ceremonial occasions and business sentences are recorded as document files. Furthermore, in order to facilitate the search of these multiple document files, hierarchical directories, search programs, and the like are recorded on the disk for the document creation support system. In the embodiment of the present invention, the hierarchical directory is as follows:
The structure is such that branches from multiple clauses in the upper hierarchy are allowed for one clause in the first hierarchy, and multiple paths can be set for one example sentence.

FIG. 2 shows a list of selection items, a so-called menu, at the top layer of such a hierarchical directory. After the reading of the document creation support system disk is completed, the LCD ( This is what is first displayed on the display screen of the liquid crystal display device 23. The choices on this first menu are “Information”;
Items according to large categories such as "ceremonial occasions" and "notices", so-called large items, are displayed. Major item 3 whose characters are inverted in the major item menu 34 on this display screen
5 indicates the currently provisionally selected item. This temporary selection item position can be moved by operating the up, down, left, and right cursor keys, and by pressing the enter key, such as the YES key, with the desired item highlighted, the selected item can be moved. It can be confirmed. For example, as shown in Figure 2, if you press the YES key (generally the Enter key) while the major item "Ceremonies" is highlighted, the major item "Ceremonies" will be displayed as shown in Figure 3. ``Weddings and Funerals'' is selected, and the corresponding menu 36 is displayed.

[0014] FIG. 3 shows a state in which the main item "Ceremonies" has been selected and a menu 36 is displayed that lists medium items that are options within the main item "Ceremonies". There is. In this middle item menu 36, there are "celebrations of life"
, ``Awards and Decorations,'' and ``Marriage,'' among other medium-level categories. The fact that the highlighted middle item 37 of the menu 36 represents a temporary selection state and that the highlighted display position can be moved by operating the cursor keys is as follows.
This is the same as in the case of FIG. 2 above. If you press the YES key (enter key) in the state shown in FIG. 3, the "Marriage" item will be selected and the next menu 38 will appear as shown in FIG.
appears.

In FIG. 4, a small item menu 38 is displayed in which more detailed items (small items) of the selected medium item "Marriage" are listed. Specific examples of sub-items in this menu 38 include "Notice of Engagement", "Information on Wedding Ceremony", "Invitation to Reception", etc. In Figure 4, the sub-items of "Invitation to Reception" are listed. Item 39 is temporarily selected and displayed in reverse video. When the YES key (enter key) is pressed in this state, a specific sentence example corresponding to the selection item "banquet invitation" is read out and displayed, as shown in FIG.

Here, the sentence examples called up by selecting each sub-item in the menu 38 in FIG. 4 can also be searched via other paths (selection paths) depending on the content. For example, select the large item "Information" in the large item menu 34 in Figure 2 above, select the medium item "Marriage" in the next displayed medium item menu, and then select the small item displayed next. The sentence example shown in FIG. 5 can also be called up by selecting the sub-item "reception" in the menu. Furthermore, for example, the sentence example that is called up by selecting the small item "wedding celebration" in the small item menu 38 in FIG. Item menu 34
It can also be called up by selecting the major item ``Celebration'' in the menu, selecting the medium item ``To individuals'' in the next medium item menu, and selecting the minor item ``Marriage'' in the next small item menu. Can be done.

[0017] By setting multiple paths (selection paths) for one sentence example in this way, the original classification items can be reflected in the directory structure as is, and the menu of small items can be displayed as is. It is possible to avoid complicated trial-and-error operations such as returning to the medium-item menu or large-item menu when a target sentence example is not found at a stage, and the search becomes easier.

That is, FIG. 6 shows a specific example of the above-mentioned hierarchical directory. Immediately after the reading of the program of the above-mentioned writing support system disk is completed, the first block address As of the hierarchical directory file of FIG. is read, and the data of the first block BL0 at this address As is read. In this first block BL0, initial data for generating the large item menu 34 shown in FIG. File number data NF indicating the number of items (number of files), then file group (data block group)
The first address data Af of the parent directory is written, and the first address data Ap of the parent directory is written last. In the example of FIG. 2 above, the number NF of major items is 14. 14 files (data blocks) BL1, BL2, ... are provided corresponding to each of these major items.
The start address is specified by the start address data Af of the block BL0. Each block BL1, BL2, ... corresponding to each of the above major items contains character data such as "ceremonial occasion" which is the name (title) of the major item, and text data corresponding to the block (file) in order from the beginning. File type data FT indicating whether the item is a directory or a file, and start address data Ad of the content data of the item are respectively written. Here, since the file type of each major item is a directory, file type data FT(D) indicating the directory is used. Each of these large item blocks BL1, BL2,...
・The menu for each selected large item (for example, the middle item menu 36 in FIG.
) can determine the starting position of the series of data to generate.

[0019] The data structure for generating a medium item menu showing the contents for each of these large items is the same as the case of the large item menu above, and the first block contains the corresponding items in order from the beginning. Title of middle item menu (
For example, the data includes character string data indicating "ceremonial occasion"), file number data NF, file group head address data Af, and parent directory head address data Ap. In addition, the data blocks corresponding to each medium item include, in order from the beginning, character data such as "marriage" indicating the name of the medium item, and file type data FT (D) indicating the directory.
, and the start address data Ad of the data that is the content of the item. Each of these start address data A
d, it is possible to read out a series of data for generating a small item menu as shown in FIG. 4, for example. This small item menu generation data also has the same structure as the large item and medium item generation data described above, but since each small item corresponds to a file (document file), file type data FT indicating the file is used. (F) is used, and the start address data Ad indicates the start address of the document file DF corresponding to each of the above sentence examples. The document file DF consists of a file header FH at the top position and document data DD as the body.

FIG. 7 shows the data structure or file format of the file header FH of the document file DF. In this FIG. 7, from the beginning, file header size FHS, document type DT, acronym type HT,
The number of points to note NR, the number NA of safety greeting data, and the number of thank you greetings data NG are each arranged by one byte, followed by N1 bytes of notes data RD, N2 bytes of safety data AD, and finally N3 bytes of gratitude data. GD is arranged to constitute a file header FH. The 6 bytes from the beginning of this file header FH are always a necessary area, and the data after that is variable depending on each document file.

Returning to FIG. 5 again, the screen 40 in FIG. 5 shows a display screen of two-dimensional display means, such as the LCD (liquid crystal display) 23 shown in FIG. 1 above. This display screen 40
Above, the selected sentence example is displayed in the main text window 41, and when this sentence example is corrected, character strings called predetermined phrases are grouped together as a unit of correction. Generally, a group of meaningful character strings is considered to be a phrase, and a highlighted portion 42 in the main text window 41 is called a phrase of interest. This inverted display position can be moved by operating the up, down, left, and right cursor keys, and the phrase to be corrected is displayed in inverted video (as the phrase of interest) and edited. The above path (selected route) is displayed at the upper right position of the main text window 41 in the screen 40. At the lower position of the main text window 41, sentence examples and various information related to the current state are displayed.

When the YES key (or enter key, etc.) is pressed in the state shown in FIG. 5, the candidate group for the highlighted phrase 42 of interest is displayed in the candidate window 43 as shown in FIG. One of the phrases will be highlighted. This candidate window 43 is displayed in the main text window 41 at a position above or below the phrase of interest 42 . When the noteworthy phrase 42 is located above the main text window 41, the candidate window 4
3 is displayed at the lower position, and when the noteworthy phrase 42 is located at the lower part of the main text window 41, the candidate window 43 is displayed.
is displayed in the upper position. In this state, the inverted display position can be moved up or down by operating the up and down cursor keys, and at the same time, the focused phrase in the text is switched and displayed to the inverted candidate phrase.

With this candidate window 43 displayed, by performing a predetermined switching operation, for example, by operating the left and right cursor keys while holding down the shift key, the phrase of interest can be switched, and at the same time, the phrases of interest can be switched. You can also switch the displayed candidate windows. Specific examples of this are shown in FIGS. 9A, B, and C. In other words, in A, B, and C of FIG. 9, the phrases "Ladies and Gentlemen,""Ladies and Gentlemen,""Two young people," and "On the departure of..." are sequentially highlighted and switched to the above-mentioned phrase of interest. Each state is shown below. In FIG. 9A, "Ladies and Gentlemen," is the notable phrase 42A, and a group of four candidate phrases are displayed in the candidate window 43A. In this state, if you press the right cursor key while holding down the shift key, the phrase "Young couple" will be highlighted and become the attention phrase 42B, as shown in B in Figure 9, and a candidate window will be displayed above this attention phrase 42B. 43B is opened and the corresponding candidate phrase group (3 candidates) is displayed. Furthermore, if you press the right cursor key while holding down the shift key, a message will appear as shown in Figure 9C.
” is highlighted and becomes the attention phrase 42C, and a corresponding candidate window 43C (two candidates) is displayed. In addition, if you press the left cursor key while holding down the shift key in the display state shown in C of FIG. 9, the state will shift to the state shown in B of FIG. Transition to display state.

[0024] In this way, by performing one predetermined key operation (for example, operating the left and right cursor keys while holding down the shift key), the above-mentioned phrase of interest and the corresponding candidate phrase group can be switched and displayed. Since candidates before and after a predetermined phrase in a sentence can be compared, it is easy to select an appropriate candidate while considering the connections before and after the sentence. Also, when you want to check whether a specific keyword is included in a text, etc.
You can easily see all candidates.

Next, FIG. 10 shows a flowchart for explaining the continuous switching display operation of candidate phrase groups as shown in FIG. 9 above. The operation shown in FIG. 10 is started from a state in which the above sentence examples are displayed and one of the phrases is highlighted and becomes the noted phrase 42. In this FIG. 10, step S
1 waits for a key input, and in step S2 it is determined whether or not there is a key input, and if NO (no key input), the process returns to step S1. When it is determined in step S2 that YES (key input has been made), the process proceeds to step S3, where the inputted key is the candidate group display instruction key, that is, the Y
Determine whether it is the ES key or not. YES in this step S3
If it is determined that this is the case, the process proceeds to step S4, where the candidate window 43 corresponding to the phrase of interest (the currently highlighted phrase) 42 is opened, and display processing is performed to display a group of candidate phrases within the candidate window 43. . When the determination in step S3 is NO, the process advances to step S5 to perform processing according to the input key, and then returns to step S1 to wait for key input. After the candidate window and candidate phrase group corresponding to the phrase of interest are displayed in step S4, steps S6 and S
7, it waits for a key input and determines whether or not there is a key input. When a key input is made, it is determined in steps S8 and S10 whether or not the currently operated key is a key for continuous switching of candidate groups. For example, in the case of the above embodiment, it is determined whether or not the cursor key for rightward movement was operated while holding down the shift key in step S8, and whether or not the cursor key for leftward movement was operated while holding down the shift key in step S10. are determined respectively. When it is determined in step S8 that YES (operate the right cursor key while holding down the shift key), the process advances to step S9, and the phrase of interest in the displayed sentence example is switched to the phrase on the right (the phrase on the right is displayed in reverse video). ), and a candidate window is opened to display a group of candidate phrases in response to this new phrase of interest. When it is determined in step S10 that YES (operate the left cursor key while holding down the shift key), the process advances to step S9, where the focused phrase in the displayed sentence example is switched to the phrase on the left, and the new phrase that has been switched is changed. A candidate window is opened in response to the noted phrase to display a group of candidate phrases. These steps S9, S
After the process in step S11 is completed, the process returns to step S6 to wait for key input. Further, when the determination in step S10 is NO, the process returns to step S5.

As described above, with one simple key operation,
Since you can switch to consecutive phrases before and after, and switch to display candidate groups corresponding to each of these switched phrases, you can compare the candidate groups before and after, and choose the appropriate candidate while considering the connections before and after the sentence. can be selected. Also, when you want to check whether a particular keyword is included in a text, you can easily see all candidate groups.

Next, in FIG. 11, in the character string (the above phrase) in which □ is written in the sentence, the □ part is undefined and it is necessary to input the character. By highlighting the phrase including this undetermined part, the phrase 42 of interest as described above is displayed.
Then, when the YES key is pressed, the candidate window 43 opens as described above, and when the YES key is further pressed, the candidate phrase is confirmed and a character input window 45 as shown in FIG. 12 appears. In this character input window 45, character input locations (three locations in the illustrated example) within the noteworthy phrase 42 are displayed.
Character input marks 46 are displayed in one line for each line, and characters can be input only at the positions of these character input marks 46. The mark 46 at the current character input position (mark 46p on the bottom line in FIG. 12) is displayed periodically or intermittently in reverse (so-called blink display), and this current character input position can be changed by operating the up and down cursor keys. You can switch by doing this.

At a predetermined position in the character input window 45, for example, on the top line, the current character input position (mark 46
Information (input content explanatory text) 47 indicating the content to be input according to p) is displayed. This input content information 47 is recorded in relation to the data of each phrase in the sentence example file (document file in which sentence examples are described). When actually generating the input window 45, the number of input position information (characters □ above) is included in the character string (phrase) information is counted, and a window is created to separate input positions and fixed phrases. generate. During input/editing, input content information 47 corresponding to the input location where input/editing work is currently being performed is displayed on the message display line (in the illustrated example, the top line) of the character input window 45. Here, only the "product name" is recorded in the sentence example file, and the remaining part "Please enter" is recorded in the input window 4, for example.
If the information is automatically added and displayed by a program when generating 5, the storage capacity can be reduced.

FIG. 13 shows a specific example of the data structure recorded on the medium of a phrase (the phrase of interest 42 in FIGS. 11 and 12) that includes the undefined portion (a portion that requires character input). In FIG. 13, the character input phrase record data is composed of three lines corresponding to three candidate phrases. For example, a 1-byte input code IN is placed at the head position of the first line of these three lines, and then two separators SP, each 1 byte are placed, and input content information (2 bytes per kanji character) is placed. The character string "product name" which is a part of ) is placed, the input code IN is placed again, and the first candidate phrase is "Well, the item you sent to me on □ month □ day is □ □". This line ends with the candidate end code SE. The two separators SP and SP in this line indicate that there are three character input locations within the candidate phrase,
Since there is no input content information in the position before each of these separators SP, why not display an explanation of the input content when entering characters in the previous two locations (each character input location for "□month□day")? , or simply a generic prompt like "Please enter your data." At the third input location, the character string "Please enter" is added to the character string "Product Name" by a program and displayed. In the next line, starting from the input code IN, a character string of (a part of) the input content information such as "Product Name" is placed immediately, and the next candidate phrase "Last time, The character string ``I ordered □□ from us'' is placed and ends with the candidate end code SE. The next line is another candidate phrase, “The other day,” right from the beginning.
The character string ``The item shipped from your company.'' is placed and ends with the phrase end code PE.

Based on this data structure, when this phrase is a notable phrase (highlighted), a candidate window 43 opens as shown in FIG. 11 by performing a predetermined operation (for example, pressing the YES key). hand,
Each of the above three candidate phrases in FIG. 13 is read out and displayed, and by further performing a predetermined operation (pressing the YES key), a character input window 45 is displayed as shown in FIG.
opens, and characters can be input only at the position of the character input mark 46, and at the same time an explanatory text 47 about the content to be currently input is displayed.

Input data obtained by inputting characters as described above is sent to a memory such as a RAM and stored, for example, at the timing when the character input window 45 is closed. Further, data of the phrase selected and confirmed from the candidate group is also stored in the memory. Regarding the document editing data stored in this memory, after exiting the document creation support program and switching to a general word processor program, the document data can be recalled and modified or rewritten as desired.
Of course, it can be printed out or saved on a floppy disk. When you exit the document creation support program and return to the word processor program, you can choose between exiting with the document written to memory as described above, or clearing the document and exiting. . Note that the document creation support program itself may be provided with a floppy disk writing function, a printout function, and the like.

By performing the input/editing work using the character input window 45 as described above, the Japanese word processor function can be used to input fixed phrases such as writing individual items such as dates, personal names, product names, and addresses. It is convenient because it can be done without switching. This is because switching to the Japanese word processor function requires waiting time for loading the program, etc., and when switching to the Japanese word processor function, the entire sentence can be easily rewritten, so it is difficult to write the individual items mentioned above. Considering that there is a risk that other parts may be rewritten, by using the character input window 45, individual items can be easily written without the need for troublesome efforts such as program switching.
Moreover, the necessary parts (the parts you want to keep) are protected from being rewritten. Therefore, anyone can input fixed phrases easily and without error.

Next, FIG. 14 shows a screen displaying an additional information window 49 in which so-called "writing points" are described as additional information corresponding to, for example, the currently called sentence example. The "points of writing" described in this additional information window 49 are advice for finishing the called sentence example, and different advice is prepared for each sentence example. If this simplified advice does not fit within the additional information window 49, it can be scrolled up and down by operating the up and down cursor keys. In order to open this additional information window 49, for example, a dedicated additional information display key may be provided and operated, but in order to prevent an increase in the number of keys, for example, a pop-up menu displayed by pressing a function key may be used. It is only necessary to select the item "Points for writing style" from the menu (for example, by pressing the YES key while highlighting the item). This additional information is
It can be displayed and checked in the main text window 41 of the screen at any time during document creation. Note that it is conceivable that the additional information data may be provided indirectly for each sentence example data, instead of being provided directly.

In this way, at the same time as the selected sentence example file data, the data of "writing points" as additional information corresponding to the sentence example is read out, and by performing a predetermined operation, for example, selecting "writing points" from the pop-up menu. It can be displayed on the screen by operations such as selecting an item. Therefore, when creating the desired document, there is no need to use references, books, etc., and the above additional information (points on how to write, etc.) corresponding to the currently called sentence example can be displayed on the screen as necessary. You can easily obtain peripheral knowledge information that is useful for document creation.

Next, FIGS. 15 and 16 show screens on which selection items for information retrieval and specific contents of the selected items are displayed simultaneously. These Figures 15 and 1
6, for example, a display window 51 for honorific and humble titles.
is opened above the display of the large item menu 34. This display window 51 includes a title column 52 where the name (title) of the window is displayed, a selection item column 53 where a plurality of selection items are displayed, and the contents of the selected item among these selection items. That is, it consists of content display columns 54 and 55 in which honorific titles and humble titles are displayed, respectively. The currently selected item is displayed in reverse (inverted display) 56. This honorific title and humble title display window 51 can be displayed by selecting and confirming the item "Honorific title and humble title" from the pop-up menu, for example, while the document creation support system is loaded and the program is running. It can be called up at any time by pressing the YES key while the

When the honorific title and humble title display window 51 is open, if you operate the cursor keys to move the highlighted display area 56 and switch the selection item, the content (honorific title) display field 54 will display the selected item. The honorific name, which is the content of the item, and the humble name are displayed in the contents (humbly title) display column 55, respectively. Therefore, by arbitrarily switching and selecting an item in the selection item field 53, the contents will be displayed in the content display field 53.
4. The display will be automatically switched to within 55, so
You will be able to quickly check each content. This is because in the past, it was necessary to select one of the selection items on the screen using cursor key operations and then press the enter key to switch the screen and display the content. There is no need to switch to a display mode, which reduces the effort by half, and in particular, the operating procedure when viewing the contents of a plurality of selection items one after another is greatly simplified.

[0037]

Effects of the Invention According to the document creation device according to the present invention, the document creation device selects one of a plurality of sentence example files, displays it on a two-dimensional screen display means, and creates a document based on the displayed sentence example. By specifying a character string in the displayed sentence example, a candidate window opens and a group of character string candidates corresponding to the character string is displayed. By performing a predetermined operation in this state, you can change the character string specification. At the same time, the character string candidate group is also switched in response to the switched character string, so it is possible to continuously switch the character string and its corresponding character string candidate group with a simple operation. can. This means that when creating a sentence, the user can compare candidate groups of preceding and succeeding phrases with a single keystroke, allowing the user to select an appropriate candidate while considering the connections between the sentences before and after. Also, when you want to check whether a particular keyword is included in a text, you can easily see all candidate groups.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing a schematic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a large item menu for selecting items on the initial display screen in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a middle item menu on the display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a small item menu on the display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a sentence example display state on the display screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific example of the structure of a hierarchical directory according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of a file header of a sentence example file according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a state in which candidate groups of phrases of interest in display example sentences are displayed in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a state in which candidate groups are switched and displayed in response to switching of a phrase of interest in a display sentence example in the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a series of operations related to switching and changing operations of candidate windows and candidate phrase groups in the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a group of candidate phrases of interest including character input locations in a display sentence example are displayed in the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a character input window is opened by selecting a candidate including a character input position of a group of candidate phrases of interest in a display sentence example in the embodiment;

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the data structure of phrases in the sentence example file of the embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state in which writing points, which are additional information corresponding to display sentence examples, are displayed in the embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a state in which selection items for information search and the contents of the selected items are displayed in the embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state in which selection items for information search and the contents of the selected items are displayed in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11......CPU 13...Keyboard 21...LCD controller 23...
...LCD (liquid crystal display) 26...
Disk controller 28...Floppy disk device 34...Major item menu 36...Medium item menu 38...Small item menu 40... Display screen 41... Main text window 42... Featured phrase 43... Candidate window 45... ...Character input window 47...
... Input content information 49 ... Additional information window 51 ...
...Honorific title, humble title display window 52...
・Title field 53...Selection item field

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[Claims] Claim 1: Select one of a plurality of sentence example files recorded on a recording medium, read out the selected sentence example file and display it on a two-dimensional screen display means, and create a document based on the displayed sentence example. In the document creation device, each of the sentence examples is divided into character strings of a predetermined length, and a group of character string candidates is provided for each character string, and the character string in the displayed example sentence is specified. In response to this, a candidate window is opened on the two-dimensional screen, a group of character string candidates corresponding to the specified character string is displayed in this candidate window, and with this group of character string candidates displayed, By switching and changing the designation of the character string, the designation of the character string in the displayed sentence example is switched, and the group of character string candidates is switched and displayed according to the designated character string. A document creation device characterized by: