JPH0481224B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document processing device, which cuts out arbitrary portions of text from one or more documents and synthesizes them to create a new document. It relates to a processing device.

[Background of the invention]

Word processors are well known as typical document processing devices, and have recently become quite popular. In particular, word processors for Japanese processing are known that input sentences in kana and then convert them into appropriate kanji to create the desired sentence.

In this way, conventional word processors generally focus on creating new sentences. However, if a new document can be created by effectively utilizing already created documents, the effort can be considerably reduced. Therefore, recently, attention has been focused on a compositing function that creates a new document by cutting out arbitrary parts from an already created document and composing them.

The closest thing to a document composition function is cut and paste,
There are word processing functions such as insert. However, although the information in this technology is mainly document data, there is no means of transmitting area information in which document data is developed, so sentences cut out from a certain area of the original document are not accompanied by that area information. It is not possible to insert the text into a new location in the original format or arrangement. Furthermore, since there is no means of communication between the original document and the newly created document, even if the content of the original document is updated or changed, no notification to that effect can be made to the new synthesized document. Therefore, each new document must be changed one by one.

In addition, the storage medium that stores documents has a capacity limit, and each time a new document is synthesized and created, this document data is stored in the storage medium, so the storage medium can be used at a relatively early stage. There is a problem of insufficient capacity.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to easily change the arrangement of data in a document, and even when an original document has been updated, it can be reflected in other documents, and document processing can efficiently use document recording media. The goal is to provide equipment.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention defines document data and areas within a document using variables from a predetermined point by defining a document as being expanded into a three-dimensional document space. That is, by recognizing the variables and the document file name, it is possible to know the document data and the expansion area of the data, and also to collect the information and expand it in a new document space using information expressed by a function. This makes it possible to synthesize documents without bringing in the data itself.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, the outline will be explained using FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 shows that a document can constitute a document space whose coordinates are pages, rows, and columns. That is, all positions in the document, such as a, can be determined by the three elements of the coordinates. Also b
When the elements of a page are fixed like this, the page in the document can be expressed using two coordinates in the row and column directions.

In FIG. 2, the page is fixed, and the state within the page is shown, with the page as Z, the row as Y, and the column as X, corresponding to each coordinate. In other words, as in a, the document data "Iroha" on the Z _0th page in the A ₀ document
is the document information A ₀ variable and the coordinates of the rectangular area that contains "Iroha" The relative address of the position closest to the origin and the origin a ₀ variable, the line width of the area
b ₀ variable, c ₀ variable for column width and Z ₀ which is page information
It can be expressed using variables. Therefore, the character string and its area are defined by the function f ₀ (A ₀ , a ₀ , b ₀ , c ₀ , Z ₀ )
I can understand that it can be expressed as Similarly, as shown in b, the character string "12345" and its area on the _Z1 page of the _A1 document can be represented by the function _f1 ( _A1 , _a1 , _b1 , _c1 , _Z1 ).

In order to combine f ₀ and f ₁ and create a new document, for example, B document, on the _second page of Z, the v ₀ and v ₁ variables and the page are used as position variables for arranging f ₀ and f ₁ . It is necessary to determine the variable Z ₂ . This position information can be easily realized, for example, by directly inputting the position information from a keyboard. This means that
positional variables v ₀ and Z ₂ and f ₀ which is a function of said string
, the function of g ₀ (v ₀ , f ₀ , Z ₂ ) and the position variable v ₁ ,
Z ₂ , g ₁ (v ₁ , _{f 1 ,}
By defining Z ₂ ), it is shown that the B document can be expressed by a function based on the information where it is located, without having the document data itself in the B document itself. That is, this shows that document B can be created by combining other documents with a set of g functions expressed by an f function, which is a document data function, and a v variable and a Z variable, which indicate the address at which it is located.

Of course, when composing the same document, for example A ₀
It is also easily understood that a plurality of different parts within a document can be specified and extracted, and that parts can be extracted from three or more different documents. Also, new B
The document can easily be expanded to other pages, including pages Z ₀ and Z ₁ instead of Z ₂ pages.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating processing blocks according to one embodiment. The document recording medium 1 is a storage medium such as a floppy magnetic disk, and stores one or more original documents. The document reading processing unit 2 is given document names such as A ₀ and A ₁ and read page information such as Z ₀ and Z ₁ from the composite document creation processing unit 8, and based on this information, the document reading processing unit 2 reads the specified one from the document recording medium 1. Pages worth of document data are read out via the document reading processing section 2 and expanded into the document buffer 3. Normally, document data is compressed and written to the recording medium 1, so the document successive processing section 2 decompresses the read document data and develops it into a document buffer.

The data movement processing section 4 includes a composite document creation processing section 8.
For example, the above-mentioned function f ₀
and _f1 , an area on the document buffer 3 is designated, and the document data within that area is stored in the composite buffer 5. Note that the composition document creation processing unit 8 determines where on the composition buffer 5 it should be stored.
The above v ₀ and v ₁ given to the data movement processing unit 4 from
determined according to. The composition buffer 5 is a memory having the same capacity or more as the document buffer 3, and stores one page of document data. The data in the buffer 5 is converted into a character pattern by a known character generator (not shown) and displayed on the display screen of the display device 6. Note that since one page of document data is generally considered to be larger than the capacity that can be displayed on one display screen, the contents of the composite buffer 5 are sequentially scrolled and displayed using a known screen scrolling technique. displayed on the screen.

The composite document writing processing unit 7 adds a document name to the contents of a g table 10 and an f table 11, which will be described later, and writes them onto the recording medium 1.

The keyboard 14 includes data keys and control keys for inputting various data.
For data input, for example, when creating a document for the first time, in addition to kana, alphanumeric data, etc., the document recorded on the recording medium 1 is read out and displayed on the display 6.
To begin with, data specifying the document name and page is input. Control key inputs include not only controlling the reading or writing of a certain document from the recording medium 1, but also activation for transferring data cut out from the document buffer 3 to the composition buffer 5, and known cursor movement control. It will be done. In particular, specifying the position or area on the document mentioned above,
This embodiment relies on this cursor movement control.
For example, when the cursor is moved to the upper left corner of the alphabet shown in FIG. 2a, variable a ₀ is detected, and when the cursor is moved to the lower right corner, variables b ₀ and c ₀ are detected. Similarly, for document A1 and document B shown in FIG. _2b , the position or area on the document is specified.

The key input processing unit 13 decodes data, control information, etc. input from the keyboard 14. The range specification processing unit 12 selects the above a ₀ , b ₀ , c ₀ , a ₁ , according to the cursor position specified from the keyboard 14 .
The areas or positions of b ₁ , c ₁ , v ₀ , v _{1 ,} etc. are calculated.

The composite document creation processing unit 8 reads documents from the recording medium 1, writes documents, and writes g tables 10 and f tables 11 to the recording medium 1, which will be described later, according to control information input from the keyboard 14. In addition to performing startup control such as writing and reading, it also performs control to cut out a certain area on the document buffer 3 and move it to a specified position on the composite buffer 5.

In particular, document and page designation information input from the keyboard 14, such as document A ₀ , page Z ₀ , and position and area information a ₀ , b ₀ , v _{0 ,} etc. sent via the range designation processing unit 12 are composite information. It is sent to the processing section 9. The composite information processing section 9 controls writing and reading of the above information into the g table 10 and the f table 11.

The f table 11 contains the document name A ₀ to be the synthesis source,
Variables such as the corresponding page Z ₀ of the document A ₀ , positional information a ₀ specifying the area to be cut out from within the corresponding page Z ₀ , and area information b ₀ , c ₀ are stored. Of course, the document to be the synthesis source can specify an area to be extracted from one or more different pages within the same document example A ₀ , and more generally documents A ₀ , A ₁ , etc.
It is possible to cut out an arbitrary area from l different documents of A _l-1 using the above method.

In addition, the g table 10 also includes a document to be a synthesis source, that is, a document obtained by synthesis (for example,
The aforementioned variables _{v 0 ,} f ₀ , Z ₀ ,
Store v ₁ , f ₁ , Z ₁ , etc. Of course, the destination document A ₀
…When cutting out a certain area from A _l-1 , the variable v is v ₀ … v _l-1 , and the variable Z is Z ₀ … Z _l-1 .
Each of these will be registered in the g table 10.

In this way, the contents of f table 11 and g
A new _{document B0} is created based on the contents of the table 10, and the contents of these tables are always treated as a pair. recorded in

Of course, the recording medium 1 records the data of the original documents A ₀ ...A _l-1 . Usually, a word processor is equipped with a floppy disk as the recording medium 1, and the above document A ₀ ...A _l-1 and table 10,
The contents of 11 may be stored on the same floppy disk or on different floppy disks.

In any case, when creating a composite document, a pair of media storing document data and table contents must be loaded into the document processing device. The contents of the f table 11 and the g table 10 regarding the new synthesized document _B0 are stored in the recording medium 1.
However, if for some reason it is desired to display the document B ₀ again on the display device 6, the control information regarding the document B 0 is read out from the recording medium 1 via the document reading processing section 2, and these control information are stored in the document B ₀ . The information is
It is set in f table 11 and g table 10. Then, position information and area information are read out from the g table 10 and the f table 11, and according to these various information, the original specified from the recording medium 1 is read out under the control of the composite document creation processing section 8. Document A ₀ ,
_A1 etc. are read out to the document buffer 3.

Furthermore, specified areas are cut out from the specified pages in these documents A ₀ and A ₁ , respectively, and
It is stored in the position on the composite buffer 5 specified by the variables v ₀ and v ₁ . As a result, data of the synthesized document _B0 is developed on the synthesis buffer 5. Thereafter, these data are converted into character patterns and displayed on the display screen of the display device 6 using a known technique.

Next, the general processing operation will be explained. Fourth
The figure shows a processing flow for composing documents. First, the document reading processing section 2 is activated, and the specified document
The designated page Z ₀ of A ₀ is read out to the document buffer 3 (401). Next, the designated page is set in the synthesis buffer 5 by the data movement processing section 4 (402). Here, the position a ₀ to be synthesized and area information b ₀ , c ₀ are read into the range specification processing unit 12 from the keyboard 14 (403). These control information are written into the f table 11 by the composite information processing section 9 (404). When there is a designation to continue from the key input processing unit 13, the process branches to step 406 (405). When the key input processing section 13 designates another document or a page change, the process branches to step 401. As a result, control information a ₁ , b ₁ , c _{1 ,} etc. are similarly written to the f table 11 from page Z ₁ of document A ₁ . On the other hand, if there is none, the process returns to step 403. When termination is specified in step 405, the synthesis buffer 5 is cleared (407).

Next, position designation processing is performed regarding the new document to be synthesized. First, the position information of the synthesis destination specified from the keyboard 14 is sent to the range specification processing unit 12.
is sent to the composite document creation processing section 8 via (408). In addition, in order to associate the data of the area to be displayed at the position specified by v ₀ , f
f ₀ of table 11 is specified (409). These pieces of information f ₀ , Z _{0 ,} etc. are written into the g table 10 as a pair of v ₀ (410). The document name, for example A ₀ , and the number of pages, for example Z ₀ , corresponding to the document data specified as above are read from the f table 11,
One page of document data specified by these pieces of information is read from the recording medium 1 and stored in the document buffer 3 (411). From f table 11,
Document data area information to be synthesized within that page,
For example, a ₀ , b ₀ , and c ₀ are read out, and based on the information, a designated portion is read out from the document buffer 3 and moved to the composition buffer 5 (412). If there is a designation to continue via the key input processing unit 13, the process returns to step 408. Then, various information v ₁ , f ₁ , Z ₁ regarding the document A ₁ on the new document will be registered in the g table 10 in the same manner. Here, if end is specified in step 413, g
The contents of the table 10 and the f table 11 are paired and a document name Bi is added to them, and they are written to the recording medium 1 via the composite document writing processing section 7.

FIG. 5 shows a processing flow for reading out a combined document. First, the document reading processing unit 2 is activated and a specified document is read from the medium 1 (501). When the read document is a composite document, the document reading processing unit 2 writes document composition control information to the g table 10 and the f table 11 (502, 503). Next, the document data information and composition position information of the specified page are read from the g table 10 (504). Then, based on the document synthesis control information, the document name and area information where the document data exists are read from the f table 11 (505). Next, the specified document is read from the recording medium 1 to the document buffer 3 based on the document name read from the f table 11 (506). Next, the document data area information to be combined within the page is read from the f table 11, and based on that information, only the document data concerned is moved to the combination buffer 5 (507). Next, if document data corresponding to the page set in the g table 10 still exists, the process branches to step 504; otherwise, the process ends (508).

In this way, according to this embodiment, in document synthesis, document data to be synthesized can be handled as a function, a synthesized document can be defined as a set of the functions, and the synthesized document itself can be This has the effect of allowing documents to be created without having data.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the synthesized document data and its arrangement can be expressed by functions, so the arrangement of the synthesized document data can be changed arbitrarily, and document data can be easily replaced. In addition, since the synthesized document itself does not have the data of the document itself and is treated as a function, even if the original document is updated, the changed content can be updated without modifying the new synthesized document. It is easy to reflect this in new documents. Furthermore, there is no need to have document data as the document, and the document storage medium can be used efficiently.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the correspondence between documents and document spaces;
Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the correspondence between document data in a document and document space, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing a schematic functional processing block according to an embodiment, and Figs. 4 and 5 are synthetic document creation processing. The figure which shows the processing flow of. 1...Recording medium, 3...Document buffer, 5...Composition buffer, 10, 11...Table.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first storage means for storing at least one original document data consisting of a plurality of pages; a second storage means for storing data synthesized for display; In a document processing device having an output means for visually outputting the contents of a storage means, a first table registering a plurality of variables for specifying an arbitrary page of a certain original document and an arbitrary area within the page; , a second table that registers a plurality of variables for specifying a page and a position within the page related to a new document obtained by combining; It is characterized by comprising processing means for cutting out a certain area of a certain page of a specified document from the storage means and developing it on the second storage means based on the contents of the second table. Document processing device. 2. Claim 1, wherein the contents of the first table and the second table are stored as a pair in the first storage means for each new document that is synthesized. Document processing device as described. 3. The document processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the second storage means is a composition buffer.