JPH05342069A - Number sampling system for page number - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically calculate serial page numbers and to utilize them when one document is composed of plural modules. CONSTITUTION:A brother pointer showing a lateral order is inputted to the directory of each module and further, a parent-child pointer showing a longitudinal order is inputted as well. A program counts page numbers while tracking module pointers longitudinally from up to down and tracking modules laterally from right to left. A head directory part 60 of the module includes an upward pointer 52 showing the module of a parent, downward pointer 53 showing a child module, left side pointer 54 showing an elder brother module, and right side pointer 55 showing a younger brother module. Further, the part 60 includes a head page number 56 showing the head page number of this module, a number 57 of page of this module and an update flag 58. The update flag 58 shows that the number 57 of page of the module is updated by updating the contents of the module.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to word processing,
Regarding page number numbering system for displaying and printing page numbers in a document processing system such as document processing, document storage or document printing, especially when one document consists of multiple modules, display, printing or document The present invention relates to a page number numbering system which is an improved call system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a page number numbering system for displaying and printing page numbers in a document processor such as a word processor, the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-3770 is known. .. This technique is intended to improve the operability for designating a page by enabling page numbering by designating not only pages in a document but also chapters and pages as a page calling means.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, when one document is composed of a plurality of modules, the number of the first page of each module is registered as the criminal offense value. There is a problem in that when the number of pages is increased or decreased as a result of modifying a module including, the page number of the first page of the subsequent module including the subsequent page must be reset. On the other hand, in the case where one document is composed of a plurality of modules according to Japanese Patent Application No. 3-314307 “page number numbering system”, the applicant has We propose a method to add a page number that is uniquely determined in a document by adding a serial number to the module number. The present invention is a further improvement of the above-mentioned proposal, and it is an object of the present invention to display, print, or call a document by serially ordering each module according to a certain definition when one document consists of a plurality of modules. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a page number numbering system in which a serial number page number assigned to a part to be automatically calculated and used.

[0004]

The above object of the present invention is to construct a document by dividing one document into a plurality of modules semantically and hierarchizing the modules using semantic dependency. , A page numbering system characterized by serially assigning page numbers serially using the hierarchical relationship of the modules, or one document is semantically divided into a plurality of modules When a document is created by using the table of contents module as a hierarchy, it is achieved by a page number numbering system characterized by serially assigning page numbers using the hierarchical relationship of the table of contents module. It

[0005]

In the page numbering system according to the present invention, one of the following systems is adopted. (1) When ordering modules by using module pointers: A sibling pointer indicating the horizontal order is placed in the directory of each module, and a parent-child pointer indicating the vertical order is also placed. The program counts page numbers as the module pointer is traced vertically from top to bottom and horizontally from right to left. Then, the module or page designated by the user is printed, displayed, or the document of that portion is called. (2) When ordering modules using the table of contents: The program counts page numbers while following the modules in the order of the module names arranged in the table of contents. It then prints, displays, or retrieves the document for the module or page you specify.

More specifically, the following operation is performed. (a) Modularization of documents: One document is semantically grouped and divided into modules that are easy to write or read and modularized. This should be summarized as a table of contents. (b) Document module association: One hierarchical document is
Use one of the following methods to specify the relationship between modules. 1) Place pointers between modules so that they are semantically related as shown below. -This is equivalent to arranging the document modules serially, that is, setting a pointer in the horizontal direction according to the expansion order of the contents to be described. -Depending on the level of detail of the contents to be described, it corresponds to nesting the document modules, that is, setting a pointer in the vertical direction. 2) Provide a table of contents module that is specially handled by the program,
Associate the document modules with each other in the order they are written in the table of contents.

(C) Module printing: When various modules are updated and then one module is displayed, printed or called, the page number is uniquely determined by the module order shown in 1) or 2) of (b). Will end up.
Therefore, when printing one entire document or one module, page numbers are automatically printed according to the order shown in 1) or 2) of (b). Since this page number is a continuous series of numbers, the corresponding page can be searched using the page number. That is, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, the number of the first page of each module is registered as the initial value of the page number in the module, so when a module having a young page number is modified and the page number increases, In the module including the subsequent page, it was necessary to increase the starting page, but in the page number numbering method according to the present invention, the page number from the first page is automatically serialized even if the page number increases. By accounting, there is no need to reset the first page number for each module, and the processing can be simplified.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a word processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 in the figure
Reference numeral 1 denotes a main storage device of an electronic computer that loads a program for executing word processing from a program library 12, and reference numeral 13 denotes a document storage disk that stores a document to be processed. The user inputs the document name or document number from the keyboard 14 to read the document to be processed into the document processing work area 17. The program displays the document on the display device 15 or outputs a list to the printer 16. A page counter is provided in the document processing work area 17. FIG. 5 shows a module configuration of a document to be processed in this embodiment. The target document is composed of a plurality of modules, which are connected to each other by a vertical pointer and a horizontal pointer.

Modules connected by horizontal pointers, for example, 22, 23 and 24 are chapter level modules,
25,26,27 are node level modules, 28,29,3
0 is a term level module. The lower module connected by the vertical pointer is the description content that is semantically included in the upper module. FIG. 6 shows the structure within one module. The directory section 60 at the head of the module includes an upward pointer 52 indicating a parent module, a downward pointer 53 indicating a child module, a leftward pointer 54 indicating a brother module, and a rightward pointer 55 indicating a younger module. Furthermore, the top page number 5 that represents the top page number of this module
6, page number 57 and update flag 5 of this module
Including 8. The update flag 58 indicates that the page number 57 of the module has been updated by updating the content of the module.

Therefore, when using, displaying or printing a document using this consistent page number, the update flag 58 of the module before the module to be processed is checked, and if the update flag is on, The first page number 56 of the module to be connected next is an increment value, that is, ((56 of the previous module + (57)) − (5
It is necessary to add only 6)). After the addition, the update flag of the previous module is turned off. In this way, the top page number of the module to be processed is obtained. Figure 7
FIG. 6 illustrates a pushdown stack used to follow the relationships between modules when processing page numbers in a hierarchical document. 1 to 3 are operation flow charts showing a processing procedure for obtaining the latest value of the first page number 56 of the module to be processed using the pointers 52 to 55 in FIG. This procedure is
This is a routine that starts from the origin module 21 of FIG. 5 and corrects the head page number 56 of all modules. In addition, here, it is assumed that the modules are arranged in the order of chapters, sections, and items as in a normal book.

The operation of this embodiment having the above-mentioned structure will be described below. First, look at the downward pointer (step
110), call the module indicated by it. Next, the processing procedure shown in FIG. 8 is called as a subroutine (SUB-A) (step 115). Here, the “current value of the page counter”, which is the work area, is stored in the first page number 56. If the update flag is set, the number of pages is counted and the number of pages is set to 57 (step 220). Adds the page number of the module being processed to the "current value of page counter" regardless of the update flag
(Steps 220, 230). If the downward pointer is not 0 in the module for which page processing has been completed, the module name is stacked on the stack 80 as a pointer value. Then, the module indicated by the downward pointer is input to the work area 17 (step 120). This process is repeated to count the number of pages while stacking downward modules in the stack (step 125).

If the downward pointer is 0, the right pointer is viewed (step 130). If this is not 0, one's module name is stacked on the stack as a pointer value and a rightward processing flag is set (step 135).
Then, the module indicated by the right pointer is input to the work area 17, and the subroutine (SUB-A) is executed, and the processing is started again (step 140). If the right pointer is 0, the pointer value 82 and the state 84 are extracted from the top of the stack (step 145). If the state is being processed to the right, it is considered that the processing in the downward direction and the processing to the right have ended,
The pointer value 82 and the state 84 are fetched from the top of the stack. Then, see the status (step 150). If the state is the downward processing, the right processing is considered to remain and the right processing is started (step 155). Figure 8
As described above, the processing procedure of the subroutine (SUB-A) is shown.

According to the above embodiment, by using the pointer to have a document having a hierarchical relationship between modules, even if a plurality of people update different modules, the document can be easily consistent. It is possible to obtain the effect that a page number having a property can be given. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the structure of a table of contents module used when assigning consistent page numbers using the table of contents module. The table of contents module has a column 71 showing the module name and a table of contents title 72 to be printed as a table of contents.
It consists of As a matter of course, when using this table of contents module, the pointers 52 to 55 in FIG. 6 are unnecessary. FIG. 10 is an operation flow diagram of a process of using the table of contents module 70 to store page numbers that are consistent in the order of the table of contents in the directory part of the module.

According to the present embodiment, by having the table of contents accompanied by the module name, even when a plurality of people update different modules, for example, as in the case of the above embodiment, the document can be easily converted into a document. The effect that page numbers having a consistency can be given is obtained. It is needless to say that the above-mentioned embodiments are merely examples of the present invention and the present invention should not be limited thereto.

[0015]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, when one document consists of a plurality of modules, each module is serially ordered according to a certain definition, and is displayed, printed, or called. Since the serial number page number assigned to the part that does is automatically calculated and made available, even if multiple people update different modules, it is easy to obtain consistent page numbers as documents. This has a remarkable effect of realizing a page number numbering system capable of performing the above.

[0016]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram (No. 1) showing a processing procedure of a page number of a hierarchical document in a word processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram (No. 2) showing a processing procedure for processing page numbers of a hierarchical document in the word processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram (No. 3) showing the processing procedure of the page number of the hierarchical document in the word processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a word processing system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a module configuration of a hierarchical document according to an embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of a document module according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a pushdown stack used to process a page number of a hierarchical document according to an exemplary embodiment.

8 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of a subroutine for page processing used in the processing shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 illustrates the contents of a table of contents module used to process page numbers with a table of contents according to another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of page processing using a table of contents module.

[Explanation of symbols]

11: system main memory, 12: program library, 13: document storage disk, 14: keyboard,
15: display device, 16: printer, 17: main storage device 1
1 document processing work area 17.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. When one document is semantically divided into a plurality of modules, and the modules are hierarchized by using a semantic dependency relationship to constitute a document,
A page number numbering method characterized by serially assigning serial page numbers using the hierarchical relationship of the modules. 2. When one document is semantically divided into a plurality of modules and the modules are hierarchically structured by using a table-of-contents module to form a document, they are serially linked using the hierarchical relationship of the table-of-contents module. A page numbering system characterized by assigning a page number to be the number.