JPH05210661A - Word processor and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform efficient document preparation by realizing a two-dimensional centering function of a document. CONSTITUTION:When execution of the two-dimensional centering function is indicated from a KB 17, a character string demarcated by a separation code or the like is selected from an area independently determined on a part displayed at present on a CRT 11 out of the document being in course of editing, and the center of this character string is determined. The character string is so moved that its center coincides with the center of the area, thus centering the character string. If plural character strings are selected and extend over plural rows, the longest character string is determined as the center row of the character string group, and the character string in each row is moved to the center of the row, and thereafter, the character string group is so moved that the center of the center row coincides with the center of the area.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus having a function of editing a document, such as rearranging character strings in the document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some conventional document processing apparatuses have a function of moving a desired character string to the center of a digit (column direction centering function) in order to arrange the appearance of a document, but the line / column direction It was not possible to move them to the center of at the same time. If you want to replace the character string in the center not only in the digit direction but also in the row direction, use the digit direction centering function in the digit direction to move the character string line by line while checking the overall layout in the row direction. It was necessary to replace it with the desired position.

[0003]

As described above, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, only one-dimensional document shaping is considered in each line, and when performing a two-dimensional dynamic layout, the operator does The work of centering the direction, moving the document in the row direction, and confirming the layout had to be repeated, and the work efficiency of the document editing was reduced.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and an object thereof is to improve efficiency in performing two-dimensional centering processing of a character string.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the document processing apparatus of the present invention has the following configuration. A document processing apparatus for editing an electronic document, comprising means for calculating a central position of an area set on the document with a spread in the row direction and the column direction, and a selection means for selecting a character string from the area. , A means for moving the selected character string to the central position of the area.

Further, in a document processing apparatus for editing an electronic document while displaying it, the input means for allowing an operator to input instruction contents, and the above-mentioned displayed portion,
Means for calculating a central position of an area set on the document with a spread in the row direction and the column direction according to the instruction; selecting means for selecting a character string from the area according to the instruction; It is characterized by further comprising: a moving means for moving the generated character string to a central position of the area, and a means for newly displaying a document obtained as a result of the moving of the character string on the moving means.

The document processing method of the present invention has the following configuration.

A document processing method for editing an electronic document, wherein a process of calculating a central position of an area set on the document with a spread in the row direction and the column direction and a character string is selected from the area. It is characterized by comprising a selection process and a process of moving the selected character string to the center position of the area.

[0009]

With the above structure, the center in the row / column direction in the area in the document is calculated, and the character string is moved so that the center becomes the center of the selected character string. The movement is performed according to an instruction from the input unit, and the document in the corresponding area is displayed before and after the movement.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A Japanese word processor device will be described as an embodiment of the present invention.

<Structure> FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of a word processor device according to an embodiment. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 15 denotes a central processing unit CPU which controls the entire device, and a CPU 1
A storage device 14 is built in the device 5. The CPU 15 realizes a document processing function by executing a program stored in the storage device 14. An operation for realizing document editing such as two-dimensional centering is performed using the input KB 17 and the display CRT 11, and the created document is output to the output printer (PRT) 16. When the two-dimensional centering function is given as a dedicated key, that key is arranged on the KB 17.

<Description of Two-Dimensional Centering> FIG. 2 shows an example of a screen during the editing process by the word processor of this embodiment. In the figure, a frame 20 schematically represents the document to be edited, is spelled horizontally from the top to the bottom, and the position of the characters written in the document is represented by a coordinate system as described later. You can From this document, the portion currently being operated is displayed in the editing window area 28 displayed on the CRT 11. The two-dimensional centering process is performed with the area 28 as a reference. Although the area 28 is the editing window itself here,
It may be considered as a frame indicating an area taken in the document being edited regardless of the window. For example, one page when the document is divided into pages.

A point 21 is a coordinate at which the document can be input.
If the digit position direction, that is, the horizontal direction is the x axis and the line position direction, that is, the vertical direction is the y axis with the point 21 as the origin, the character position in the document can be uniquely represented by (x, y). it can. The line position of the start point (upper left corner point) of the area 28 is set to h
1, the column position is c1, and the line position of the end point (lower right corner point) is h
2, the digit position is c2, that is, the coordinates of the starting point are (c
1, h1) and the coordinates of the end point are (c2, h2), the coordinates (cc, hc) of the center point 27 of the region 28 can be obtained by cc = (c1 + c2) / 2 hc = (h1 + h2) / 2 it can. To move the character string 26 to the center of the area 28, the center of the character string 26 is located at the position of the center point 27, that is, 1 / the length of the character string from the center point 27.
The two-dimensional centering process is completed by moving the head of the character string 26 to the coordinate with the value of 2 subtracted.

FIG. 3 shows a state in which the two-dimensional centering process in the document area 28 of FIG. 2 is completed, and the distances l1, l2, l3, l4 in the area are from the frame line to the centered character string 26. It is a distance, and l1 = l2 l3 = l4.

FIG. 4 shows the CPU 1 of this word processor device when the two-dimensional centering processing as described above is performed.
6 is a flowchart of a processing procedure executed by No. 5.

The two-dimensional centering process will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 4. The operator performs an operation of specifying the character string 26 to be centered and inputs an instruction from the KB 17 to execute two-dimensional centering. This input may be performed by inputting a specific key or a specific character string, or may be performed by selecting from a menu or the like. The description of the flow chart starts after these inputs are completed.

<Description of Flowchart> First, the size of the area 28 in the row and column directions is calculated in step S41, and the coordinates of the center point 27 of the area 28 are calculated in step S42.
In step S43, if the length of the character string 26 to be centered is an odd number, it is corrected by adding 1 so that it becomes even, and in step S44, the leading coordinates of the character string 26 are acquired.

In step S45, a component hc in the row direction (y direction) and a component cc in the digit direction (x direction) of the central coordinates in the area 28 are obtained. In step S46, the digit direction component cc of the coordinate value is calculated in step S43. The value of 1/2 of the corrected character string length is subtracted. That is, if the length of the character string 26 is s, the coordinates (cc-s, hc) are obtained. In this way, the process of moving the character string 26 to the coordinate position (cc-s, hc) obtained in step S46 is performed in step S47, and the centering process is completed.

The character string to be centered is
It does not have to be selected by the operator's special designation. For example, assume that the area 28 is a page forming a document. When a two-dimensional centering process is instructed on the page being edited, the character string is searched in order from the beginning of the target page, the character string delimited by separators such as blanks and punctuation marks, and the target character string. Also good. In this way, when writing a character string in the center of the page, it is sufficient to execute the two-dimensional centering function after writing the character string from the beginning, and it is not necessary to specify the character string. Also, instead of not specifying the character string at all, let the desired line be specified,
Character string from the specified line (separated by separators)
It is also possible to find out and set it as the target character string for centering.

Further, the area 28 is not limited to a predetermined area such as a page or an editing window, but may be an area determined in advance by the operator or each time. In this case, a procedure for setting the area 28 is necessary. For this purpose, the upper left corner point and the lower right corner point are defined, and then the area defined by them is stored as a coordinate value or the like in the storage device. It is stored in 14 and referred to when necessary.

[0021]

[Other Embodiments] In the above embodiment, centering is performed on one line of character strings, but this embodiment describes an apparatus for performing centering processing of a character string group extending over a plurality of lines, such as 51 in FIG. To do. The configuration of the device is the same as that shown in FIG. 1, but the processing procedure executed by the CPU 15 is different.

When the two-dimensional centering process is performed on the character string group 51, the in-line centering process is performed on all lines of the character string group 51, and then the line having the longest character string length is within the area 28. Center in the row direction. FIG. 6 shows a state in which the character string group 51 of FIG. 5 is centered in the area 28, and the character string group 51 becomes the centered character string group 61 in which the longest character string "good. It will be "Tenki." Is placed in the central line of the area 28.

FIGS. 7 and 8 show the CPU 1 for centering the character string in the area 28 of FIG. 5 to bring it to the state of FIG.
5 is a flow chart of a processing procedure executed by No. 5,
The two-dimensional centering process of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the row coordinate (y coordinate) of the starting point of the area 28
Is assigned to the pointer lptr (step S701), and the row coordinate of the last row of the area 28 is given to lend (step S702). As a default value, a variable lmax for substituting the length of the longest character string in the centered character string group and a pointer ltop of a line in which the target character string group first appears-
1 is substituted (step S703), and the row coordinate lno of the longest character string in the focused character string group is set to be the same as lptr (step S704). The above is the initialization procedure.

Next, the character string group to be centered is set to the area 2
Search from 8 First, the line li indicated by the variable lptr
It is determined whether or not a character string exists in ne (lptr) (step S705), and if it does not exist, the process skips to step S712. If it exists, the character string is centered in the line (step S706), and the pointer l
It is tested whether top remains the initial value (step S70
7) If the initial value remains as it is, the character string is positioned at the top of the character string group to be centered, and ltop
To the value of lptr at that time (step S70
8).

The line in which the character string is found is set as the last line of the character string group of interest at that time, and a pointer l indicating the last line is set.
The value of lptr is given to bottom (step S70)
9). Next, the length l of the character string pointed to by the pointer lptr
It is determined whether en (lptr) is longer than lmax (step S710). If long, the coordinate lno of the longest character string is determined.
The current row coordinate lptr is substituted as (step S71
1), the length len (lprt) of the character string is set to lmax
(Step S712). When the determination of one row is completed in this way, the row coordinate lptr is advanced by 1 (step S713), and it is determined whether lptr is the last row of the area 28 (step S714). If it is not the last row, the processing from step S705 is started. To the next line.

When the information necessary for centering the character string group is fetched in this way, then the destination is determined based on these information.

The central coordinate in the row direction within the area 28 (which is "hc" in the previous embodiment) is given to the variable lcen (step S715), and the row component of the destination coordinate of the first row of the character string group is given. lmov is calculated (step S71)
6). When lmov is determined, it is determined whether the movement destination is located above the upper end of the area 28 (step S717),
If it is above the area 28, the head row of the area 28 is given as lmov and corrected (step S718). Similarly, it is determined that the destination end point is not located below the lower end of the area 28 (step S719) and correction is performed (step S72).
0).

When the source and destination are determined, the character string group is finally moved, and the two-dimensional centering process is completed (step S721).

FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the "in-line centering process" of step S706 in FIG.

First, the leading digit of the character string written in the target line is obtained (S91). Then check the length of the string,
If it is an odd number, 1 is added to correct it to an even number (S92).

Next, the column position at the center of the line of interest is obtained (S
93), half the length of the character string obtained in step S92
Is subtracted from the value (S94). The value obtained in step S94 becomes the digit position of the destination of the character string, the character string is moved to that position and the centering ends (S95). A character string group extending over a plurality of lines can be easily performed by the procedure described above. Can be centered. The "area" in the description
It may be considered that a page is a page forming a document, a window for editing processing, or the like.

As described above, since an arbitrary area in the document editing frame is selected, the center coordinates of the characters in the row / column direction in the area are calculated, and a means for centering the character string two-dimensionally is provided. After performing centering in the digit direction, it becomes possible to automatically layout a two-dimensional document without the manual work of adjusting the layout in the row direction.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus.

[0035]

As described above, the document processing apparatus according to the present invention has the effect of improving the work efficiency when performing two-dimensional centering processing of a character string.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a document edit frame before centering processing according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document edit frame after centering processing according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a document edit frame before centering processing according to another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a document edit frame after centering processing according to another embodiment.

[Figure 7]

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process of another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an in-line centering process of another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 CRT 12 processing program area 13 document data storage area 14 memory 15 CPU 16 printer 17 keyboard

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A document processing apparatus for editing an electronic document, comprising means for calculating a central position of an area set on the document with a spread in a row direction and a column direction, and a character string from the area. A document processing apparatus comprising: a selection unit that selects a character string; and a moving unit that moves the character string so that the center of the selected character string is located at the center of the area. 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the area can be set by an operator as a desired rectangular area. 3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the area is predetermined as an area serving as a unit forming the document. 4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means searches the area for a character string delimited by a predetermined separator and selects the found character string. 5. The character string is a plurality of character string groups written in a plurality of lines, and the center of the character string group is defined as the center of the longest character string in the character string group. Claim 1
Document processing device described. 6. A document processing device for editing while displaying an electronic document, comprising: input means for allowing an operator to input instruction content; and a line direction and a digit on the displayed portion according to the instruction. Means for calculating the central position of the area set on the document with a spread in the direction, selecting means for selecting a character string from within the area according to the instruction, and the selected character string for the center of the area A document processing apparatus comprising: a moving unit that moves to a position; and a unit that newly displays a document obtained as a result of moving a character string on the moving unit. 7. A document processing method for editing an electronic document, comprising a step of calculating a central position of an area set on the document with a spread in a row direction and a column direction, and a character string from the area. A document processing method comprising: a selection step of selecting and a step of moving the selected character string to a central position of the area.