JPH0512264A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the occurrence of a black page which an editor does not intend by preventing a page from being turned when a page-turning code appears at the head of the page as the result of editing document data. CONSTITUTION:A page-turning code detection means 3 detects the page-turning code in document data stored in a storage device 2. When the page-turning code is detected in a place except for the head of the page, a page-turning instruction is outputted to an output device 4. When the page-turning code is detected at the head of the page, the page-turning instruction for the output device 4 is not outputted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation apparatus for preparing a document having a plurality of pages, and more particularly to a document preparation apparatus having a page break function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, information processing equipment has been widely used, and a document creating apparatus has come to be used not only for business purposes but also for home use. In a conventional document creation device, a special control code called a page break code is inserted in document data to force a page break at an arbitrary place in the document, and the page break code is detected in the document. Then, the page was always changed. Hereinafter, an example of the above-described conventional document creating apparatus will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 6 shows an example of input data to such a conventional document creating apparatus, which is composed of 5 lines of data per page, and 7 lines of data are arranged over 2 pages in the entire document. Here, if a page feed code is entered at the beginning of the 4th line in FIG. 6, the 4th line in FIG.
A page break is performed at the place where the data of the line existed, and in FIG. 6, the data of the fourth and fifth lines existing on the first page moves to the second page. In FIG. 7, "P"
Indicates a page break code.

[0004]

However, further data input is continued to the above-mentioned conventional document creating apparatus, and for example, two lines of data are inserted between the second line and the third line in FIG. Then, as shown in FIG. 8, the page break code is the second
Move to the top of the page. Therefore, a page break is performed at the beginning of the second page, and "Yes" on the second page in Fig. 7
The subsequent data moves to the third page, while the second page becomes a blank page. In such a case, the document editor must delete the page break code to prevent a blank page from being generated, which causes a problem that the efficiency of document data creation is reduced.

In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creating apparatus in which a blank page does not occur even when a page break code appears at the top of a page as a result of editing document data. ..

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a document creating apparatus of the present invention comprises a data input means for inputting document data, a storage device for storing the data input by the data input. A page break code is detected from the document data stored in the storage device, and if detected, a page break code detecting means for determining whether the page break code is at the top of the page, and the page break code is at the top of the page. In this case, a prohibition unit that determines not to output a page break command to the output device and an output device that outputs the content of the document data stored in the storage device are provided.

[0007]

In the present invention, the page break code detecting means detects a page break code from the document data input by the data input means, and when the data page break code is at a position other than the top of the page, a page break operation is performed. When the page break code is at the top of the page, the page break operation is not performed so that a blank page does not occur even when the page break code appears at the head of the page.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a data input means for inputting document data, and for example, a keyboard is used. Reference numeral 2 is a storage device for storing the data input by the data input means 1, and 3 is a page break code detecting means capable of detecting the page break code and the position of the page break code from the document data stored in the storage device 2. Reference numeral 4 denotes an output device that outputs the document data stored in the storage device 2, and is, for example, a printer or a display screen.

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the document creating apparatus constructed as described above. In the figure, “data input” in step # 1 is input from the data input device 1 and is inserted into or deleted from the document data stored in the storage device 2, or a new sentence is input from the data input device 1. It means the process to do. In step # 2, "Page break code in document data?" Is a process of determining whether or not there is a page break code in the entire stored document data, and at the same time, the process of the page break code in the entire document data is performed. The process of counting numbers. Step # 3 "n = 1" is a process of focusing on the page break code at the top of the document data. The "position of n-th page break code?" In step # 4 is a process of determining whether or not the page break code is at the page head. Step # 5 "Issue page break command" is a process for issuing a page break command to the output device if the page break code is located at a place other than the page head. If the page break code is at the beginning of the page, the page break command is not issued, but the existence of the page break code is stored. Step # 6
"N <total number of page break codes?" Is a process for comparing the number of page break codes counted in # 2 with the number (n) from the beginning of the page break code that has just been processed. If n <the total number of page break codes, that is, if the processing has not been completed for all the page break codes, the process of paying attention to the next page break code is performed at “n = n + 1” in step # 7. .. # 4 to # 7 are repeated until the processing of all page break codes is completed.

Next, the operation will be described using a specific example. 3 is input from the data input device 1 and the storage device 2
3 is an example of the document data stored in. One page of the document is composed of 5 lines, and the document data of 7 lines is arranged over 2 pages in the entire document. Since no page break code exists in this document data (# 2), the document data is output to the output device 4 as it is. When a page break code is entered at the beginning of the fourth line in FIG. 3 by the data input means 1, the page break code detection means 3 detects this page break code (# 2) and checks the position of the page break code. (#
4) Since the page break code is at a position other than the beginning of the page, a page break command is output to the output device 4 (# 5), and the fourth line and the fifth line existing on the first page in FIG. The line data "Yes" and "Oh" move to the second page. The output result of the document data after the page break is shown in FIG. In this case, since there is only one page-break code in the sentence, after outputting the page-break command, it waits for the next data input operation. In FIG. 4, "P" represents a page break code.

Further, if two lines of data "KUKUKU" and "KEKEKE" are inserted between the second and third rows of FIG. 4, (#
1), the page break code moves to the beginning of the second page as shown in FIG. Here, the page break code detecting means 3 detects that the page break code is at the beginning of the page (# 4) and does not output a page break command to the output device 4. At this time, although the document data has a page feed code at the beginning of the second page as shown in FIG. 5, the data after "Yes" is placed on the second page without the second page becoming a blank page. To be done. In this case also, since there is only one page-break code in the sentence, after outputting the page-break command, it waits for the next data input operation. However, since FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display on the screen, “P” is displayed at the top of the page, but the display on the screen and the printing paper surface are not necessarily the same, and therefore, FIG. When the second page is printed, the first page of the second page is printed as "Yes", "Oh", ...

Further, in the above embodiment, the input example in which the character string is inserted as the data is given, but when the character string is deleted, it is similarly determined whether or not the position of each page break code is the page head. However, at the page head, the same effect can be obtained by performing a process of not issuing a page break command to the output device 4. As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the page break code is detected at the top of the page by providing the page break code detecting means capable of detecting the page break code in the document data and the position of the page break code. Does not output a page break command to the output device, and when the page break code is detected at a position other than the top of the page, it causes the output device to output a page break command so that the page break code is displayed at the top of the page. Even in some cases, blank pages are not generated, and the efficiency of document data creation can be improved.

[0013]

As described above, the present invention outputs a page break command to the output device when the page break code is at a position other than the beginning of the page, and when the page break code is at the beginning of the page. By providing a page-break code detecting means that does not output a page-break command, a blank page does not occur even when the page-break code is at the top of the page, and the line feed code that appears at the top of the page Since it is not necessary to delete each time, the efficiency of document data creation can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of document data input to a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an output result on a display screen when a page feed code is input for the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an output result on a display screen when a page feed code appears at the top of a page in an example.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of input data to a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an output result on a display screen when a page break code is input in the conventional example.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an output result on a display screen when a page break code appears at the top of a page in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 data input device 2 storage device 3 page break code detection means 4 output device

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A data input device for inputting document data, a storage device for storing data input by the data input, and a page feed code from document data stored in the storage device. And a page-break code detecting means for determining whether the page-break code is at the top of the page when detected, and prohibiting output of a page-break command to the output device when the page-break code is at the top of the page. A document creating apparatus, comprising: a prohibiting unit for controlling the content of the document data; and an output device for outputting the content of the document data stored in the storage device.