JPH05210657A - Editing processing method for common allocation structure - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the editing method for a common allocation structure, by which even an operator who does not know a rule of a tree structure can edit the common allocation structure going along an ODA code, and it does not occur that which is discrepant with the common allocation structure which a user desires is prepared.. CONSTITUTION:By an editor program 151 for editing a common logical structure and an editor program 152 for editing a common allocation structure, an editing screen of the common allocation structure is displayed on a display device 14 instead of a tree structure, and by using a keyboard 11 and a mouse 12, an attribute of the common allocation structure is designated, and a position and size are set, and the edited common allocation structure is stored in a common structure file 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for editing a common layout structure, and more particularly to an IS (IS)
O; International Organizat
standardized in 1988 by the ion for Standardization (ODA) Office Document Arch (ODA)
even an operator who is not familiar with the rules
ODA Agreement (hereinafter referred to as ODA Agreement)
The present invention relates to an editing method suitable for editing a common layout structure having a tree structure according to the above.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A method for editing a common layout structure for generating a specific structure in which documents, figures, tables, etc. are input is
It was announced in 1988 by the ODA regulations.

The following inventions exist as prior art related to the present invention. That is, as a method for editing the parent-child and sibling relationships of nodes in a tree structure, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-209844, an editing method using line commands and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-2026.
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 20, a method of displaying a tree structure on a display and drawing a line between nodes to establish a link relationship can be mentioned.

[0004]

In the prior art disclosed in the above publication, the tree structure is directly displayed, each node is designated, the tree structure is edited by a line command, or a line is drawn between the nodes to link them. Is the way. However, in the method of using the above line command, it is necessary to remember and use the command, and in the method of drawing the above line and linking, the OD
There are rules such as A rule that can be in a parent-child relationship, and the operator needs to be aware of the tree structure in order to edit. Therefore, there is a problem that the operation is difficult for an ordinary operator who does not have specialized knowledge to understand the operation.

Further, the conventional technique disclosed in the above publication has a problem that even if the tree structure can be edited, the actual page layout cannot be recognized by the physical structure such as the layout structure. It was

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. Even an operator who does not know the rule of the tree structure can edit the common layout structure according to the rules, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for editing a common layout structure that does not create a conflict with the desired common layout structure.

[0007]

The common allocation structure editing method of the present invention is one common allocation structure designated from a file storing a plurality of common allocation structures forming a tree structure defined by the ODA convention. Is read out and displayed, the displayed common allocation structure is processed, a new common allocation structure is edited, and the edited new common allocation structure is stored in the file.

[0008]

According to the present invention, since the tree structure itself is not the object to be edited and the common allocation structure is directly displayed and is the object to be edited, even an operator who does not know the rule of the tree structure can perform the common allocation according to the ODA rules. The structure can be edited, and it is possible to prevent the inconvenience of creating a structure that is inconsistent with the common layout structure required by the user.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a common layout structure editing processing device for executing the common layout structure editing method of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 is a keyboard used for inputting positions and sizes of various frames in editing the common layout structure, and 12 is used for selecting a frame to be edited and selecting a menu. A mouse to be used, 13 is a processing device for performing the processing of this device, 14 is a display device for displaying the layout of the page being edited, the position and size of the frame, and capable of pointing a specific position on the screen with the mouse 12. , 15 is a main storage device that holds a program executed by the processing device and data, 151 is an editor program that edits a logical common layout structure, 152 is an editor program that edits a physical layout common layout structure, and 16 is It is a common structure file. The common structure file 16 stores a basic common layout structure in advance.

The flow of the entire common layout structure editing process will be described below using the common layout structure editing processing device shown in FIG. When the common layout structure editing process is started, the editor programs 151 and 152 are activated, and the common logical structure editing screen and the common layout structure editing screen are displayed on the display device 14. The editor program 152 stores the common logical structure edited by the operator using the keyboard 11, the mouse 12, and the display device 14 in the common structure file 16. Therefore, the common structure file 16 stores the common layout structure stored in advance and the common layout structure created by the operator.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a tree structure for explaining an example of the common allocation structure. The common layout structure shown in FIG. 2 has a header frame 22, a body frame 23,
The footer frame 24 is subordinate in order. The header frame 22 is subordinate to the fixed frame 25, and the body frame 23 is the simple frame 23.
1, the column frame 232, the mixed frame 233, and the footnote frame 234 are subordinate to each other in order, and the footer frame 24 is subordinate to the fixed frame 26. Further, the multi-column frame 232 is dependent on a plurality of multi-column sub frames 235, and the mixed frame 233 is the mixed sub frames 236 and 237.
Are subordinate in turn.

Here, the header frame 22 means a frame for storing subheadings and the like to be placed on the page. Further, the footer frame 24 means a frame for storing a subheading attached to the bottom of the page. Further, the main body frame 23 means a frame for storing a document, a diagram and the like in a page. The simple frame 231 subordinate to the body frame 23 is a single frame for storing documents and the like. The column frame 232 subordinate to the main frame 23 is a frame composed of a plurality of column sub-frames 235 having the same attribute (meaning a document or a chart to be stored).
Documents, diagrams, and the like are stored in each column sub-frame 235 according to attributes. The column frame 232 includes, for example, a horizontal two-column frame in which the column sub-frame 235 has two horizontal stages, a vertical three-column frame in which the column sub-frame 235 has three columns vertically, and the like. The mixed frame 233 means two mixed sub-frames 236 and 236 having different attributes.
A frame composed of 237, and each mixed sub-frame 236,
In 257, documents, diagrams, etc. are stored according to the attributes. The footnote frame 234 is a frame for adding a footnote to a document or the like in the main frame.

Although only one header frame 22 is provided below the page frame 21 in FIG.
You may comprise so that two or more may be made to depend. Similarly, a plurality of footer frames 22 may be subordinate to the page frame 21. Also, below the page frame 21, the main frame 2
A plurality of 3 may be subordinated. further,
A plurality of simple frames 231, column frames 232, mixed frames 233, and footnote frames 234 may be arranged under the body frame 23.

Further, the header frame 22, the main body frame 23, and the footer frame 24 have fixed positions and sizes within the page, and the fixed frame 25 and the footer frame 2 subordinate to the header frame 22.
The position and size of the fixed frames 26 subordinate to 4 are fixed. For other frames, the position and size are variable with respect to the upper frame.

When editing a common layout structure having a tree structure as shown in FIG. 2, the operator operates the keyboard 11 to read the common layout structure shown in FIG. 2 from the common structure file 16. An editing screen as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display device 14. As shown in FIG. 3, a frame type display field 32, a frame name display field 33, and an in-page frame layout field 34 are displayed in the editing screen 31. In the frame type display field 32, "page frame", which is the type of the frame currently being edited, is displayed, and in the frame name display field 33, the operator arbitrarily attaches it to the target frame. The name "Page A4" (meaning that the page is A4 size) is displayed. Here, when another page frame (page frame other than “Page A4”) is to be edited as the page frame, the edit button 311 displayed at the top of the edit screen 31 is designated by the mouse 12.
As a result, the menu screen 50 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed as an X window on the editing screen 31, and the mouse 1
By designating "candidate" from the menu displayed by 2, the list of frame names of page frames is displayed as an X window. By specifying one frame name from the list of displayed frame names of the page frame with the mouse 12, the specified page frame can be displayed on the edit screen 31.

In FIG. 3, the page inner frame layout column 3
In FIG. 4, the layout of the frames subordinate to the page frame 21 in FIG. 2 is displayed, and the header frame 22 and the main frame 2 are displayed.
3 and the footer frame 24 are displayed in a fixed position and size. The header frame 22 has a header frame designation button 221,
The body frame 23 has a body frame designation button 231 and a footer frame 24.
A footer frame designation button 241 is displayed at the upper left of each. By selecting one of these designating buttons 221, 231, 241 and designating with the mouse 12, the frame to be edited can be changed to the designated frame.

For example, when the body frame designation button 231 is selected in FIG. 3, as shown in FIG. 4, the display contents of the body frame 23 to be edited are displayed immediately below the body frame 23 (simple frame 2).
31, the multi-column frame 232, the mixed frame 233, the footnote frame 234), and the frame type display field 32.
Is displayed as "main body frame", and the frame name display field 33 is a name arbitrarily given to the target frame by the operator "B.
"ody Frame 1" is displayed. Further, regarding the multi-column frame 232 and the mixed frame 233, the layout of the multi-column sub-frame 235 immediately below the multi-column frame 232 or the mixed sub-frames 236 and 237 immediately below the mixed frame 233 is displayed by the same operation as above. , Can be edited. Further, the setting regarding the position and size of the designated frame is performed as follows. That is, by designating the edit button 311 displayed at the top of the edit screen 31 shown in FIG. 4 with the mouse 12, the menu screen 50 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the edit screen 31 as an X window. By designating the attribute with the mouse 12 from the displayed menu, a new screen 61 shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. Figure 6 for each frame
The position and size of the frame are set by displaying the setting screen as shown in and prompting the operator to specify the position and size.

In FIG. 6, 611 is a fixed selection button, 612 is a variable selection button, and 613 is a position input field. For example, when the fixed selection button 611 is designated by the mouse 12 in the input in the field beside the position, it becomes possible to input a numerical value in the position input field 613. Thereby, the operator can input an arbitrary numerical value from the keyboard 11. When the variable selection button 612 is designated by the mouse 12 in the position input, the values determined by the editor programs 151 and 152 are automatically set. The designation of the vertical column of the position, the horizontal column of the dimension, and the like is the same operation as above. In setting the dimensions, the maximum means the maximum value of the frame.

Further, in FIG. 6, the boundary means a frame-to-frame boundary. Here, “none” means that no border line is displayed, and “four-sided identical” means that the border lines on all four sides are of the same type (thin solid line, thick solid line, etc.). "Same right and left" means that the upper and lower boundaries are the same type and the left and right boundaries are the same type, and "arbitrary" means that the four boundary lines are arbitrarily designated. When the buttons 614 to 616 for selecting these are designated by the mouse 12, a screen for setting the type of the boundary line in each direction is newly displayed, and the type of the boundary line is designated by the mouse 12. Is set. The various operations described above are performed by the editor program 151 shown in FIG.
Performed by 152.

Next, the common layout structure editing process will be described by taking the page frame editing process shown in FIG. 7 as an example. In the state where the edit screen 31 shown in FIG. 3 is displayed, if the operator is satisfied with the edited result, the in-page-frame editing process is ended, and if not satisfied, the in-page-frame editing process is executed (step 71). When executing the edit processing within the page frame, the header frame 22 that is subordinate to the page,
A frame to be edited is selected from the body frame 23 and the footer frame 24, and any one of the header frame designating button 221 or the body frame designating button 231 or the footer frame designating button 241 is mouse-picked according to the selection result. To be selected (step 72). The selected frame is the header frame 2.
In the case of 2 (step 73), the process is moved to the header frame editing process (step 731). In the case of the main frame 23 (step 74), the main frame internal editing process (step 74)
If the footer frame 24 is selected (step 75), the process is moved to the footer frame editing process (step 751). The editing in each frame has the same processing flow as the editing process in the page frame.

Next, referring to the flow chart shown in FIG. 8, the editing process within the main frame shown in FIG. 7 (step 73 in FIG. 7).
1) will be described. When performing the editing process within the body frame, the body frame designating button 23 is pressed in step 74 of FIG.
4 is displayed on the display device 14 by the mouse picking.
The edit screen 31 shown in is displayed. In this state,
When the operator is satisfied with the editing result, the body frame editing process is terminated, and when the operator is not satisfied, the body frame editing process is performed (step 81). When the body frame editing process shown in step 83 is executed, the edit button 311 displayed on the edit screen 31 shown in FIG. 4 is mouse-picked. As a result, the menu screen 50 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed by the X window, and the operator selects a process to be executed from the menu and selects the mouse (step 82). If the selected process is generation (step 731), a new body frame is generated and linked to the current tree structure in the generation process (step 7311). In the case of copying (step 732), the tree structure below the main frame is copied to the buffer in the copying process (step 7321). Further, in the case of deletion (step 733), deletion processing (step 73)
In 31), the tree structure below the main frame is copied to the buffer and deleted from the tree structure. In addition, in the case of addition (step 7
34), the contents stored in the buffer are added to the tree structure in the addition process (step 7341).

The new body frame edited as described above is
A new main body frame different from the main body frame 23 may be subordinated directly below the page frame 21 shown in FIG.
It may be subordinate to the page frame 21 instead of 3.
Then, the tree structure thus formed is stored in the common structure file 16 shown in FIG.

In the above embodiment, the main frame editing of the page frame editing was mainly taken as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, header frame editing or footer frame editing. It can also be applied to column editing and frame editing.

Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to editing within a page frame, but can be applied to new generation of the page frame itself, editing of the page frame itself, and the like. That is,
For example, by mouse-picking the edit button 311 displayed on the edit screen 31 shown in FIG. 3, the menu screen 50 shown in FIG.
By selecting copy, delete, or add and mouse-picking, the same editing process as in FIG. 8 can be performed on the page. This makes it possible to create a new page frame or edit an existing page frame. The tree structure of the page frame thus formed is stored in the common structure file 16 shown in FIG.

According to the above-described embodiment, when the operator edits the tree structure, all the operations are prepared in the menu in order to eliminate the need for prior knowledge such as line commands. Therefore, it becomes possible to edit the common layout structure simply by selecting from the menu. Furthermore, according to the above-described embodiment, in order to prevent a discrepancy between the layout requested by the operator and the edited tree structure, the physical structure generated from the common layout structure is displayed without directly displaying the tree structure. Enabled to display and edit the page layout directly. Then, the editing result is reflected in the tree structure.

Therefore, in editing the common layout structure, the layout of the frame within the page to be allocated is displayed on the screen without directly showing the tree structure to the operator, and the size and position can be edited or newly added. You can create a frame or delete an existing frame. Further, regarding a frame having a hierarchical structure, when the upper frame is designated, the frame immediately below can be newly displayed in the upper frame for editing. In this way, the man-machine configuration is used to edit the layout of page layout results without being aware of the tree structure, so there is no inconvenience such as accidentally entering a line command. It is possible to prevent the inconvenience that the created tree structure conflicts with the layout desired by the user.

[0028]

According to the present invention, since the common layout structure can be edited while directly looking at the page layout, it is possible to eliminate a failure such as generating a tree structure that is inconsistent with the layout imaged by the operator. There is an effect that can be done.

Further, since the tree structure is not directly edited, even a general operator can easily edit the layout structure.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a common layout structure editing processing device that executes a common layout structure editing method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a tree structure for explaining an example of a common allocation structure.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an edit screen displaying the common layout structure shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an editing screen when a main body frame in the editing screen shown in FIG. 3 is an editing target.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a menu screen displayed in an X window.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen for setting the position, size, etc. of a frame to be edited.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing edit processing within a page frame.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process of editing in the main body frame shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Keyboard, 12 ... Mouse, 13 ... Processing device, 1
4 ... Display device, 15 ... Main memory device, 151 ... Common logical structure editing editor program, 152 ... Common layout structure editing editor program, 16 ... Common structure file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A specified common allocation structure is read and displayed from a file storing a plurality of common allocation structures that form a tree structure defined by the ODA standard, and the displayed common allocation structure is processed. And editing the new common allocation structure, and storing the edited new common allocation structure in the file.