JPH052584A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display relation between respective described contents and respective memoes in a document so as to easily distinguish them and to make it possible to convert a memo display to an icon. CONSTITUTION:At the time of receiving a prescribed document display input from an input part 5, a processing part 4 reads out document data 7 determined by a specification from a document storing part 1, displays the read contents on the display screen of a display part 6, and at the time of receiving a prescribed memo display input from the input part 5, determines memo data 8 to be related to a specified described part in the displayed document data based upon link information 9 read out from a link storage device 3, reads out the determined data 8 from a memo storage part 2, displays the read memo data 8 on a position determined based upon the display position of the specified described part on the display screen of the display part 6, converts the memo data displayed by the specification into a prescribed memo information icon, and then displays the icon on a position corresponding to the described part.

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 capable of displaying a document and a memo corresponding to a specific portion in the document in association with each other on one screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A document input from an input device such as a keyboard is displayed on a display screen of a display device such as a CRT display device so that the user can create, update, and browse the document while watching the display screen. Document processing devices capable of storing such documents are well known.

In such a document processing device, in addition to the text of a document, a memorandum, a comment, etc. are written, or a memorandum of a matter that is conceived during creation is written, or a portion that needs to be reviewed for correction later is shown. It is also known that such additional information outside the document can be created and held together with the document as a memo when there is a request for marking.

A document processing apparatus capable of holding a memo together with a document is the simplest display format for referring to the memo during processing of a document. Then, the screen can be switched.

However, in view of the purpose of the memo as described above, it is desirable that both the document and the memo can be referred to on the same screen as much as possible. Therefore, the area of the display screen is vertically or horizontally divided into two, for example, as necessary. However, a display format is also used in which the document body is displayed on one side and the memo group is displayed on the other side.

Further, in a known device having a so-called multi-window display function, a window for displaying a text of a document and a window for displaying a memo group are provided, and when necessary, a part of the memo window is partially overlapped with the memo window. A display format that displays a group window is also used.

[0007]

When the memo is an annotation or the like to the description in the text of the document, the description and the memo are displayed in close association with each other, and the relationship can be identified at a glance. Although it is desirable to display in the above-mentioned conventional display, even when displayed on the same screen, the memo group can be referred to in a certain area of the display screen, and the necessary description in the text and the memo group The association with the corresponding memo needs to be written in the memo, for example, and read and identified.

Therefore, it is desirable to be able to display each description and each memo in the document in a display format that makes it easy to identify the relationship between them. Further, when such a mode of display is possible, it is possible that the display becomes difficult to see if the number of memos increases. Therefore, in such a situation, the memo display is selectively iconized and the memo It is also necessary to reduce the size of the display so that it is possible to identify its existence and its degree, and to make it easier to see the text of necessary documents and necessary memos.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing apparatus capable of displaying each description and each memo in a document in a display format in which the relation between them can be easily identified, and converting the memo display into an icon.

[0010]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention. The figure shows the configuration of the document processing apparatus, which includes a document storage unit 1, a memo storage unit 2, and a link storage unit 3.
And a processing unit 4, an input unit 5, and a display unit 6.

The document storage unit 1 holds the document data 7, the memo storage unit 2 holds the memo data 8, and the link storage unit 3 holds each required description portion of the document data 7 and each memo. Each predetermined link information 9 associated with the data 8 is held.

When receiving a predetermined document display input from the input unit 5, the processing unit 4 reads out the document data 7 determined by the designation of the document display input from the document storage unit 1 and displays the display screen of the display unit 6. Is displayed in a predetermined document display format.

In the first invention, the processing section 4 includes an input section 5
When a predetermined memo display input is received from the memo display input, the designation of the required description portion in the displayed document data 7 is received, the link storage unit 3 is searched, and the link information 9 Determines the memo data 8 associated with the designated description portion, reads the decided memo data 8 from the memo storage unit 2, and places the memo data on a display screen of the display unit 6 at a predetermined display position. , Display in a predetermined memo display format.

The predetermined memo display format is determined based on the display position of the designated description portion on the display screen of the display unit 6,
It is one of a plurality of display formats provided corresponding to a plurality of display positions where the description portion in the display screen can be arranged.

In the second invention, when the processing unit 4 receives a predetermined iconification instruction input from the input unit 6, the processing unit 4 corresponds to each memo data 8 which is determined by the iconification instruction input. The display of the memo data on the display screen is deleted, and a predetermined memo information icon is displayed at a predetermined display position determined from the display position of the description portion corresponding to the memo data.

When a predetermined restoration instruction input is received, the display of each memo information icon determined by the restoration instruction input is restored to the display of the corresponding memo data 8. In the third invention, the processing unit 4 is associated with the memo data 8 and the memo information icon when updating the display of the document data 7 displayed on the display screen according to the designation by the input from the input unit 6. When the display position of the description part moves within the display screen by the update of the display, is discharged to the outside of the display screen, and the discharged description part returns to the inside of the display screen, The display of the memo data and the memo information icon is updated according to the predetermined display format determined based on the description portion in the display screen after the update.

In the fourth invention, when the memo information icon is ejected from the display screen, the memo information icon is saved in a predetermined display area in the display screen. In the fifth invention, the memo data 8 to be iconified and the memo information icon to be restored are designated by the input of the iconification instruction and the input of the restoration instruction, respectively. The information icon is individually designated on the display screen.

In the sixth invention, all the memo data 8 and all the memo information icons on the display screen are designated as the iconification target and the restoration target by the iconification instruction input and the restoration instruction input, respectively. To be specified.

In the seventh invention, the designation of the memo data 8 to be iconified and the designation of the memo information icon to be restored by the input of the iconification instruction and the restoration instruction are performed on the document on the display screen. A character string that is designated by the position, a predetermined display attribute, or a character string of the data 7 or the memo data 8, and that corresponds to the position or the display attribute in the document data 7 or the memo data 8, or the specified character string Assuming that the description portion or the memo data 8 having a character string that matches with is designated, the designated processing is performed on the corresponding memo data 8.

[0020]

With the document processing apparatus of the present invention, the correspondence between the description part in the document and each memo is individually saved as link information, and when a description part is designated and a memo display is requested,
The device determines a memo corresponding to the designated text description part from the link information and displays it in a fixed display format.

In this case, the display position of the memo is determined based on the display position of the description part, and if the display position of the description part is moved, the display position of the memo is also moved so that the association is approximately identified from the display positions of both. It can be so.

In addition, the display of the memo and the display of the text of the document can be easily distinguished by color coding or window shape by an appropriate display format, and the display of the memo and the related description portion in the text are connected by, for example, an appropriate line. It is easy to identify the relationship between the two by means such as.

In the case where the number of displayed memos is so large that it is difficult to see, the displayed memos are designated by various methods and reduced to icons as memo information icons. To be able to display.

In order to efficiently perform the operation of iconizing and restoring the memo information icon to the memo, various designation methods for facilitating the designation of the memo to be processed and the memo information icon are provided.

Also, the memo information icons are displayed in a manner that makes it easy to identify the relationship of the contents based on the display position relationship with the text, similar to the memo, and the display position is changed with the update of the display of the text. And so on.

[0026]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, a created document is stored as document data 7 in a document storage unit 1 composed of a magnetic disk storage device or the like, and memos of each document are stored as memo data 8 in memo storage. Stored in part 2.

When a memo is created, a description portion related to the memo in the text of the document is designated, link information 9 connecting the description portion and the memo data is generated and stored in the link storage unit 3. I'll do it.

Each link information 9 includes, for example, a body pointer that indicates the beginning of a description portion in a document by an in-document address (for example, a line number and an in-digit position in the document), and a memo pointer that indicates a storage position of corresponding memo data. And the pair.

Therefore, when the processing section 4 carries out the document update processing as usual and, as a result, the document data 7 is changed, the processing section 4 scans the link storage section 3 and is instructed by the body pointer of the link information. When the in-document address of the description part moves, the corresponding body pointer is updated, and when the description part is deleted, for example, the body pointer of the link information is left blank.

In order to make this process efficient, for example, an appropriate control symbol indicating that there is a memo is inserted at the time of creating the link information at the digit position in the text of the document indicated by the link information body pointer. The control symbol is controlled so as to be ignored when displaying or printing the document body.

When the user designates a document with a predetermined input from the input unit 5 and gives an instruction to display the document, the processing unit 4 reads the document data 7 of the designated document from the document storage unit 1 and displays it on the display unit 6. Display on the display screen by normal processing.

In the document display format of the document body, for example, a relatively large window having a predetermined size is provided as a document window, and the format is determined for each document, and the first window fills the document window. If the page is displayed and scrolled or a page is designated, the display portion in the document is moved accordingly.

When the user wants to refer to the memo, the user is in the input section 5 while the document is displayed as described above.
Key is operated to place, for example, a cursor at the beginning of the display of a required description portion, and a predetermined key for instructing memo display is pressed to make an input for instructing memo display.

Upon receiving this memo display input, the processing unit 4 obtains the in-document address of the description portion pointed by the cursor by the memo display input, searches the link storage unit 3, and uses the in-document address as the body pointer. The address of the memo data 8 associated with the designated description part is obtained by the memo pointer of the link information 9 held in the.

When the address of the memo data 8 is determined, the memo data 8 is read from the memo storage unit 2 and the memo data is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 6. In that case, a window for the memo is provided as the memo window, and the memo data is displayed in the memo window.

The memo window may be rectangular as usual, but may be elliptical so that the text and the memo can be more easily distinguished. The display position of the memo window is determined based on the display position of the specified description part associated with the memo. For example, as shown in FIG. 2 (a), the line with the description part is aligned with the upper edge of the memo window. It is displayed on the right side of, or partially overlapped with the text as shown.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2C, the lines and the memo window may be slightly shifted so that the description portion and the memo window are connected by an appropriate lead line. The leader line may be selected from thick lines, various chain lines, double thin lines, and other suitable line types in consideration of the easy-to-see association and the effect of slightly obscuring the text.

Regarding the portion where the leader line and the character of the body overlap, for example, the portion where the leader line of the character of the body overlaps is displayed in reverse. Further, the display as shown in FIG. 2 (f) may be made, and if possible, in the above display, if the display of the text window and the display of the memo window are different,
Makes it easier to distinguish between text and notes.

When the display of the text window is scrolled up and down by the input from the input unit 5, the processing unit 4 updates the display of the memo accordingly, and
If the memo display format is as shown in (a), move the memo window as shown in (b).

Further, in the state of FIG. 2 (c), when scrolling down, for example, the leader line is rewritten from FIG. 2 (c) to update the display shown in FIG. 2 (d). When the description part of the text related to the displayed memo disappears from the display screen, the corresponding memo window and leader line are deleted from the screen.

Further, FIG. 2 (e) is an example in which a memo window is further instructed in the state of (d) and a memo window is added. If the memo window displayed as described above is as shown in FIG. 3 (a), for example, the user inputs a predetermined iconification instruction and the memo window desired to be iconified is displayed by, for example, the mouse. When specified with an input device such as
The processing unit 4 receives the signal via the input unit 5.

Therefore, the processing unit 4 generates a memo information icon having a predetermined shape from the specified memo window by iconizing the well-known window, and, for example, a line having a description part of the text associated with the memo window. It is displayed at the right end of the screen as shown in Fig. 3 (b).

At the same time, the processing unit 4 sets, for each memo information icon, icon control information including, for example, the number, shape, display position of the memo information icon, the link information 9 about the original memoized icon, and the like. Hold on.

By thus locating the additional location of the memo window and the memo information icon in the vicinity, it is easy to find the memo information icon to be restored in order to refer to the memo later, and the memo information icon is located in the vicinity of the text. Make it easier to specify the information icon.

When the memo information icon is displayed in this way, by scrolling the text or updating the text,
When the description portion of the text corresponding to the memo information icon moves within the display screen, the memo information icon moves as the text moves, as illustrated in FIG. 4 (a).

When the description corresponding to the memo information icon goes out of the display screen due to scrolling of the body text, the display of the memo information icon is also erased from the screen, or FIG. 4 (b). As illustrated in, the memo information icon is saved and displayed in the save area provided in one corner of the display screen.

As described above, when the display of the memo information icon is moved on the display screen or is erased from the screen, the memory of the display position of the icon information is updated so that it is previously generated and disappears from the screen. When the memo information icon that is displayed or the description part corresponding to the memo information icon displayed in the save area returns to the display screen again, it is detected by scanning the icon control information and the corresponding memo information icon is detected. Shall be restored and displayed in the same manner as above.

Even when a plurality of memo windows and memo information icons are displayed on the display screen, the processing unit 4 specifies a plurality of memo windows required by the user on the screen, so that each memo information item can be displayed. By reducing the size to an icon and designating a plurality of necessary memo information icons on the screen, it is possible to restore each of them to the original memo window.

However, in many cases, all the memo windows displayed on the display screen are iconified all at once, and all the memo information icons are restored to the memo windows. Therefore, in such a case, a predetermined batch icon is created. By the instruction or the collective memo restoration instruction, all the memo windows or the memo information icons displayed at that time may be designated as the processing target.

That is, when the user presses an appropriate key or inputs such as pointing a specific area of the text window with a mouse or the like, the input section 5 instructs the processing section 4 to make a batch icon or batch memo. By inputting, all the memo windows or all the memo information icons displayed on the display screen at that time are targeted for processing, and iconification or restoration of the memo windows is executed as described above.

When a large number of memo windows are displayed, the processing target necessary for the immediate processing is selectively designated,
By specifying the position in the body of the description part, display attributes (character font, display color, etc.) or character string, as a specification method for iconizing or restoring the memo window,
The memo window of the memo added to the corresponding description portion or its memo information icon may be designated.

Further, by designating the display attributes (character font, display color, size, shape, etc.) or the character string for the memo window instead of the main text, the corresponding memo window or its memo information icon can be designated. May be.

In this case, when the processing section 4 receives, for example, an appropriate iconization instruction input, it displays a window for designating an appropriate menu or the like to enable the input of the above-mentioned designation conditions and use. When the user receives a designation, the memo window corresponding to the description part that matches the designation or the memo window that matches the designation itself is selected as a processing target. In addition, the memo window that satisfies the specified condition is excluded from the processing by the instruction.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of the case of designating by an attribute value. When a memo icon is displayed as shown in FIG. The section 4 displays the attribute value designation menu as shown in FIG.

The user specifies one or more of the attribute values in the upper column of this menu (the figure shows an example in which the third item from the top is selected), and then clicks "Do With" in the lower column. If you specify it, all items that match the conditions will be processed and "Do Withou
If "t" is designated, the rest except for all that meet the conditions are subject to processing, and selective iconification is performed as shown in FIGS. 5 (a) to 5 (c), for example.

FIGS. 6A and 6B are views for explaining an example of the case of designating by a character string, and when the memo window is displayed as shown in FIG. 5A, For example, when a predetermined iconification instruction for iconifying the window designated by the character string in the memo window is input, the processing unit 4 displays the character string designation window shown in FIG. 6 (a).

Then, the user specifies a character string "body" in the upper column of the character string specification window, for example, as shown in the example of the figure, and then specifies "Do With" as in the above case. All the memo windows having the column "body" are iconified, and selective iconification is performed as shown in FIG. 6 (b).

Although FIGS. 5 and 6 are examples of iconization, if a memo information icon is designated by a similar designation method in a predetermined memo restoration instruction, the corresponding memo windows are restored.

For example, the memo window shown in FIG.
If all are iconified as shown in Fig. 6 (c),
By giving an appropriate memo restoration instruction and specifying the same as the above with the menu as shown in FIG. 5 (b), the processing unit 4 is selected by iconizing from FIG. 5 (a) to (c). Restore the same memo window as shown in Figure 7 (a).

Further, in the state of FIG. 6C, another memo restoration instruction is given, and if the same designation as the above is designated by the character string designation window as shown in FIG. ), Only all memo windows containing the string "body" are restored.

[0061]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, each description and each memo in a document can be displayed in a display format in which the relation between the two can be easily identified in the document processing device, and the memo can be displayed. When there are many memos, unnecessary memos are iconified and displayed in a reduced size, which makes it easier to see the screen and has a remarkable industrial effect that the existence and classification of memos can be identified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a memo window.

FIG. 3 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a display example of a memo information icon.

FIG. 4 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating a display example of a memo information icon.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a display example of a memo information icon (No. 3)

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a memo information icon (Part 4).

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining a display example of a memo information icon (No. 5)

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Document storage 2 memo storage 3 link storage 4 processing section 5 Input section 6 Display 7 Document data 8 memo data 9 link information

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A document storage unit (1), a memo storage unit (2), a link storage unit (3), a processing unit (4), an input unit (5), and a display unit.
(6), the document storage unit (1) holds document data (7), the memo storage unit (2) holds memo data (8), and the link storage unit (3) holds predetermined link information (9) for associating each required description part of the document data (7) with each memo data, and the processing unit (4) stores the input unit ( When a predetermined document display input is received from 5), the document data (7) determined by the designation of the document display input is read from the document storage unit (1) and the display screen of the display unit (6) is read. To
When the document is displayed in a predetermined document display format and a predetermined memo display input is received from the input unit (5), the memo display input specifies the required description portion in the displayed document data. Upon receipt, the link storage unit (3) is searched to determine the memo data (8) associated with the designated description portion by the link information (9), and the determined memo data (8) is used as the memo data. The memo data is read from the storage unit (2) and displayed on the display screen of the display unit (6) in a predetermined memo display format, and the predetermined memo display format is the display screen of the display unit (6). It is configured based on the display position of the designated description part above, and is configured to be one of a plurality of display formats provided corresponding to a plurality of display positions in which the description part in the display screen can be arranged. A document processing device characterized in that 2. When the processing unit (4) receives a predetermined iconification instruction input from the input unit (6), the processing unit (4) is determined by the iconification instruction input and corresponds to each of the memo data. , Deleting the display of the memo data on the display screen, displaying a predetermined memo information icon at a predetermined display position determined from the display position of the description portion corresponding to the memo data, and receiving a predetermined restoration instruction input 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the case where the memo instruction information is input, the display of each of the memo information icons determined by the input of the restoration instruction is restored to the display of the corresponding memo data. 3. The memo data and the memo information when the processing unit (4) updates the display of the document data displayed on the display screen in accordance with the designation by the input from the input unit (6). The display position of the description part associated with the icon moves within the display screen by the update of the display, is discharged outside the display screen, and the discharged description part is displayed within the display screen. 3. When returning, the display of the memo data and the memo information icon is updated according to the predetermined display format determined based on the description portion in the display screen after the update. Document processing device described. 4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the memo information icon is ejected from the display screen, the memo information icon is saved in a predetermined display area in the display screen. 5. The memo data and the memo information required to specify the memo data to be iconified and to specify the memo information icon to be restored by inputting the iconification instruction and the restoration instruction, respectively. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4, which is performed by individually designating an icon on the display screen. 6. All of the memo data on the display screen is input by the iconization instruction input and the restoration instruction input,
5. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, claim 3 or claim 4, wherein all the memo information icons are designated as the iconification target and the restoration target, respectively. 7. The designation of the memo data to be iconified and the memo information icon to be restored by the iconization instruction input and the restoration instruction input are performed on the document data or the document data on the display screen. A character string that is specified by the position, a predetermined display attribute, or a character string of the memo data, and that corresponds to the position or the display attribute in the document data or the memo data, or a character that matches the specified character string. 5. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4, wherein, assuming that the description portion or the memo data having a column is designated, the designated processing for the corresponding memo data is performed.