JPH0447865B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field] The present invention is capable of displaying a plurality of types of format information in the form of a plurality of layout images, and displays a document in a format according to desired format information among them. This document relates to a document processing method that can be used to process documents.

[Prior Art] Recently, with the advancement of word processing system technology, word processing functions have been developed that take into consideration not only character input but also layout and the like. Therefore, it has become possible to define formats that include not only the number of characters and character pitch, but also the number of columns, column width, etc. However, in order to format such sentences, it was necessary to individually create and change values such as the number of columns and column width by inputting numerical values from a keyboard, which is a man-machine interface.
Therefore, it was easy for mistakes to be made and omissions to be made, and it took time and skill to create a well-balanced formatted text. Particularly in the case of formatting, it is difficult to imagine the overall formatting from a set of individual numerical parameters. can be displayed in the form of a plurality of layout images, and by specifying a desired one of the plurality of layout images to be displayed, the format information and the document information corresponding to the specified layout image can be displayed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing method that can store documents in association with each other and display them in a format according to the format information.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image processing system including a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a CRT display unit used in the raster scan display method, 2 is a video RAM (VRAM) that stores display pattern information for one screen, and 3 is a CRT display unit used in the raster scan display method.
Writing pattern information corresponding to VRAM2,
This is a display control unit that controls reading to a CRT. Reference numeral 4 denotes a microprocessor (MPU) having a main memory 5, which performs main control of the personal computer as well as the display device of the embodiment. A keyboard 8 is connected to the MPU 4 for inputting character data and commands. Reference numeral 6 denotes a disk device in which sets of various character patterns called font files are stored. And each of these building blocks is an I/
0 bus 7, and it is possible to create a network with multiple systems similar to this. In addition, in FIG. 1, a reader and a printer may be further included.

In the system configured as above,
Among the functions of the image processing system including document information according to the present invention, particularly regarding document processing, the image processing system has the following format-related functions in addition to normal document input and editing functions.

(1) Registration of the form, (2) Partial correction of the registered form,
(3) Formatting the document, (4) Partial correction of the document format First, before explaining the above (1) to (4), format data will be explained. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing part of the data stored in the disk device 6 shown in FIG. 1. A format file table 9 is a table for determining which file among the format files 10 is to be selected. In the text file 11, there is a text section 1 in which document data is actually stored.
2. There is a format section 13 that stores formats corresponding to the text, and the document file table 14 allows
It is determined which text or format of the document file 11 is to be selected.

Next, the format data stored in the format file 10 shown in FIG. 2 will be explained. The format definition consists of the following three record parts. In other words, 《a》
These are a format definition header record section, <<b>> one text definition record section, and <<c>> a plurality of peripheral definition record sections. <<a>> manages the number of format definitions, but the details are omitted. Further, <<c>> defines a folio (number of pages), a column (heading outside the margin), etc., but the details are omitted here. <<b>> has a main text definition and a column definition, and has, for example, the essential structure shown in Figure 3. Note that FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of parameters (terms) regarding the format. Figure 4 shows the position of the printing plate, which is the place for inputting and editing documents on paper displayed on the display unit 1 of the CRT etc. shown in Figure 1.
The number of columns indicates the number of columns, and in the case of FIG. 4, there are two columns. Column alignment is to align the bottom rows of columns, as shown in . Further, the line length indicates the line length of a column, and the line number indicates the number of lines in the column. Furthermore, since there are two stages in the case of FIG. 4, the distance (V) between the stages is shown. This is the third
The data related to the column definition shown in the figure includes data such as character font, number of dots, size, character spacing, paragraph indentation, color information, etc. for the main text definition.

Next, the functions related to the above-mentioned format will be explained in detail.

(1) Form registration Figure 5 shows the registration flowchart. First, among the various functions of a WS (work station) consisting of a display section 1 and a keyboard 8, when a command for registering a format is input, a registration routine is entered. In step 1 of FIG. 5, information such as paper size, paper placement direction, vertical/horizontal writing, etc. is input. Next, in step 2, the column layout as shown in FIG. 4 is inputted, for example, in a display flow as shown in FIG. 6. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the printing plate 6 on the paper 5 is determined by inputting, for example, two points marked with an X using a pointing device (PD) such as a track ball. Then, in step 2, enter the number of rows (two rows in the figure), and in step 3, press the keyboard or P.
For example, specify the X mark point using D, and specify the column width and column spacing. After defining columns as described above, in step 4, text definitions such as font, dot, size, etc. are performed. Therefore, by looking at 4 in Figure 6,
You can intuitively know the approximate number of lines and layout. Next, in step 3, the page number (number of pages),
Define columns, columns (margin headings), and headings. This operation can also be input intuitively while looking at the WS image, making it possible to set formats very efficiently. The format set as described above is registered in step 4 of FIG. 5, and stored in A, B, C, . . . of the format file 10 shown in FIG. Multiple formats can be registered by the above means. Note that numerical data indicating the format may be displayed along with the image indicating the format set as described above.

(2) Partial modification of a registered format This section describes the case where a format registered according to the procedure described in (1) is recalled and modified. FIG. 7 shows a drawing (hereinafter referred to as a window) in which a menu of formats for calling up registered formats is displayed on a portion of the display screen. FIG. 8 shows a flowchart for partially modifying a registered format file. First, in step 1, in WS,
A menu as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. For example, (B) is an "article" and is A4 (paper size), 10po (font size), and 1 column (number of columns). Next, in step 2, move the cursor (arrow 17 in Figure 7) using a PD such as a trackball, turn on the PD key at the desired format, for example report (A), and the format file in Figure 2 will be displayed. The format contained in A is selected by the format file table 9 and displayed on the CRT display section 1 of FIG. 1 as shown in FIG. 4. Then, in step 3, parameters such as the column line length explained in FIG.
Modify the image by numerically or intuitively transforming it using PD. Then, the corrected format can be rewritten in the format file shown in FIG. 2, or it can be newly written and registered.

(3) Writing to a document Next, when a command for formatting a document is input using the WS, the diagram shown in FIG. 7 will be displayed as in case (2). Note that even if a document is currently being processed on the screen, this screen is displayed superimposed on it. In addition, by pointing the cursor ↑ at the lower right corner of FIG. 7, the window can be scaled according to the movement of the cursor. You can also move the entire window by pointing to the "Format File" part of the title and moving it.
Therefore, if the text screen is not displayed, of course, even if the text screen is displayed, the window shown in Fig. 7 can be moved or scaled and displayed in an empty area on the text screen to match the text screen. A desired format within the window can be easily selected. FIG. 9 shows a flowchart for formatting a document. Now, the document section 12 shown in Figure 2 is displayed on the screen.
Data n ₁ document is displayed. and the ninth
In step 1 of the figure, a window for one column of format files shown in FIG. 7 is called up at an arbitrary position on the screen by key input from the WS. and the aforementioned
Select a desired format, for example '(A), using the PD and cursor 17. Then, the format file A in FIG. 2 is selected, and in step 2, the format file A in the format file 11 in _FIG.
is copied to the part a corresponding to . This removes the formatting of the document currently being processed. Since the formatting and outputting of a document is performed while formatting the text according to the new format within the document, the document being processed is output in a completely new format by the above processing. Regarding headings in document formatting, information specifying character strings that should be headings may be stored in the document file, or the document information in the document file may be sequentially formatted and the information in the format may be stored. The character string at the position corresponding to the heading information may be treated as the heading.

(4) Partial modification of document format Next, we will explain the case where part of the format of a created document is modified using the procedure shown in (3). First, we will explain how to call a document onto the display screen.
FIG. 10 shows a flowchart for partially changing the format of a document. In step 1, the document file 11 consisting of the format section and the text section 12 shown in FIG. 2 is read out by the document file table 14, and the document is displayed in that format on the display section.

Next, in step 2 in FIG.
If you wish to modify the format-related parameters such as the number of columns, columns, line lengths, spacing between columns, etc. and register them in step 3, you may register them newly or re-register them in the document file 11 of FIG. 2.

As described above, according to the present invention, a format can be registered in a system that processes image information including document information, and the registered format is displayed simply as a simple image such as a frame or a picture, so it is intuitive. It is possible to select the Further, the selected format can be easily corrected or changed and further registered by transforming the numerical data corresponding to the desired format or the frame, picture, or other image indicating the format.

Furthermore, with the present invention, formatting can be set visually using the PD or keys, so most of the formatting can be done using image information instead of setting all the complicated numerical values as in the past. Since the setting is performed with

Further, according to the present invention, the format of the document currently being processed can be easily changed based on the selected format by simply selecting a desired format from the format file.

[Effects] As detailed above, according to the present invention, a plurality of types of format information can be displayed in the form of a plurality of layout images, and a desired one of the plurality of layout images to be displayed can be specified. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a document processing method capable of storing format information corresponding to the specified layout image and the document information in a related manner, and displaying the format information in accordance with the format information. Ta.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of the image processing system, Figure 2 is a block diagram of the image processing system.
The figure shows a part of the data stored in the disk device 6, Figure 3 shows the structure of the text definition of the format data, Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the format, and Figure 5 shows the format. Flowchart of registration, Figure 6 is an explanatory diagram of input related to column format, Figure 7 is a diagram of a display screen showing registered format files, Figure 8 is a flowchart of partial correction of registered format files, Figure FIG. 9 is a flowchart for formatting a document, and FIG. 10 is a flowchart for partially changing the format of a document. 1 is a display unit, 6 is a disk device, 4 is an MPU,
5 is main memory.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A storage means for storing document information and a plurality of types of format information, and a display means for displaying the plurality of types of format information stored in the storage means in the form of a plurality of layout images. and, when a desired one of the plurality of layout images to be displayed by the display means is specified, linking format information corresponding to the specified layout image and document information stored in the storage means; 1. A document processing method, wherein the document information is stored in a manner that follows the format information.