JPH0565902B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document processing device used in a document creation device equipped with a copy function.

[Technical Background of the Invention and Problems Therewith] A document creation device (word processor) is usually provided with a block copy function for copying sentences in another document to a document being created. For example, when creating a one-page document by combining sentences A, B, and C of each document stored in advance, this block copy function can be used by defining the boundaries of each sentence A, B, and C, and Each sentence A, B, and C will be copied within a block divided by boundaries.

However, the block copy function described above extracts sentences from other pages or specific areas of other documents from the document being created, places each of these sentences in an arbitrary area, and creates a new copy. It was difficult to create documents.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its object is to provide a document processing that can realize a block copy function that copies text in another page or document by placing it in an arbitrary area. The goal is to provide equipment.

[Summary of the Invention] In the present invention, a copy source text (character string) of a predetermined document read from a document storage means or a document being created
A block copy source designation means is provided for designating the area of the block copy with, for example, a cursor. The first character count means counts the number of characters within the area designated by the block copy source designation means. Further, a copy destination specifying means is provided for specifying a copy destination area of the copy source text. The number of characters within the area designated by the copy destination designation means is counted by the second character number counting means. The block copy processing means compares each count value of the first and second character number counting means and specifies the copy source text if the number of characters in the copy destination area is equal to or larger than the number of characters in the copy source text area. The data is configured to be copied to the above copy destination area.

With such a configuration, it is possible to realize block copy processing in which a copy source document consisting of a specific area can be placed and copied in an arbitrary copy destination area.

Embodiment of the Invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document processing device according to an embodiment. In FIG. A microprocessor (CPU) 10 controls the operation of the entire device based on a pre-stored program. An internal memory 11 is the main memory used when document processing is performed in the CPU 10. The memory 12 is a memory that stores a plurality of created documents, and is, for example, a floppy disk device.

Furthermore, a keyboard 13, a CRT display device (CRT device) 14, and a printer 15 are devices that each perform input or output operations necessary for document processing.

The operation of one embodiment of the document processing apparatus having such a configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. First, the CPU 10 reads out a copy document containing a copy source document (character string) from the external memory 12 to the internal memory 11 for the document being created, and displays the copy source document on the CRT device 14 (third Step S1 in the figure). The operator checks the display on the CRT device 14 and operates the keyboard 13 to instruct block copy processing (step S2).
In response to this instruction, the CPU 10 displays a menu on the screen of the CRT device 14 so that the copy source text area can be specified with a cursor. The operator operates the keyboard 13 to indicate the copy source text area with the cursor (step S3). Here, when specifying the copy source text area with the cursor, point P is specified with the cursor according to the shape of the text area, as shown in FIG. 2 a to f, for example. Specifically, if the text area is a rectangle, the number of points P is 2, as shown in a and b in the figure. Further, if the text area is hexagonal as shown in c of the figure, the number of points P is six. In this embodiment, designation of the number of points P as 4, designation of an odd number of point P, and designation of the number of points P as 9 or more are treated as errors.

When the operator finishes specifying the copy source text area as described above (step S4),
The CPU 10 checks the number of points P using the cursor (step S5). As a result of this check, if the number of points P is 4 or 9 or more, error processing is performed (steps S9 and 10). If the number of points P is 2, 6, or 8, the copy source text corresponding to each number of point P is read out, and the number of characters (including symbols, etc.) CN1 in this text area is counted (steps S6, 7, 8). In this case, the CPU 10 determines the polygonal text area from the row and column values specified by the cursor, stores the text in the internal memory 11, and similarly stores the count value CN1. Then, the copy source text in the designated area is displayed on the CRT device 14 (step S11).

Next, the operator, according to instructions from the CPU 10,
Indicate the copy destination area of the copy destination document with the cursor (step S12). In this case, the copy destination area is designated as shown in FIGS. 2a to 2f above. When the operator finishes specifying the copy destination area (step S13), the CPU 10 checks the number of points P specified by the cursor (step S14). As a result of this check, if the number of points P is 4 or 9 or more, error processing is performed (steps S15 and 16). Also, the number of points P is 2,
If it is 6 or 8, check the contents of the copy destination area according to the number of points P, and calculate the number of characters in that area.
Count CN2 (steps S17, 18, 19)
In this case, the CPU 10 checks whether a sentence or character (character string) exists within the designated copy destination area (step S20).

As a result of the above check, if there are sentences or characters in the copy destination area, they are copied to the CRT device 14.
screen (step S21). This results in
The operator determines whether to specify the copy destination area again (step S22). Also, if there are no sentences or characters in the copy destination area, CPU 1
0 is compared in size with the number of characters CN1 in the text area of the copy source and the number of characters CN2 in the copy destination area (step S23). As a result of this comparison, if the number of characters CN2 is equal to or larger than the number of characters CN1, the CPU 10
performs a block copy process that copies the copy source text to the copy destination area. Furthermore, the block-copied text is displayed on the CRT device 14 (step S24), and a menu is displayed asking whether or not to perform the next block copy process (step S24).
S25). Here, the number of characters CN2 above is the number of characters CN1
If it is smaller, the CPU 10 displays on the CRT device 14 that the copy destination area is insufficient (step S26). In other words, it is indicated that the area specification is insufficient because the number of characters in the copy destination area is insufficient compared to the number of characters in the copy source text. As a result, the operator operates the keyboard 13 to specify the copy destination area again (step S27).

In this way, the number of characters in the source text area
CN1 and the number of characters CN2 in the copy destination area are compared, and it can be determined whether the copy source text can be copied to the copy destination area according to the comparison result. Therefore, it is possible to reliably perform block copying of a copy source text having a specific area to an arbitrary copy destination area.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, a copy source text in a specific area extracted from another document or another page of a document being created can be copied to an arbitrary copy destination area. . Therefore, it is possible to reliably realize a block copy process in which a copy source text is placed and copied in an arbitrary copy destination area, and as a result, the document creation function can be greatly improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 10... Microprocessor, 11... Internal memory, 12... External memory, 13... Keyboard, 14... CRT display device, 15...
printer.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Document storage means for storing a document; Block copy source designation means for designating a copy source character string area of a predetermined document read from the document storage means or a document being created; a first character counting means for counting the number of characters in the area specified by the copy source specifying means; a copy destination specifying means for specifying the copy destination area of the copy source character string; A second character count means for counting the number of characters in the area is compared with each count value of the first and second character count means to determine whether the number of characters in the copy destination area is greater than the number of characters in the copy source character string area. 1. A document processing device comprising block copy processing means for performing a block copy process of copying the copy source character string to the designated copy destination area if the two characters are the same or larger. 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a character string exists in the copy destination area, the existence of the character string is notified. 3. Claims 1 or 2, characterized in that when the number of characters in the copy destination area is smaller than the number of characters in the copy source area, it is notified that the number of characters in the copy destination area is insufficient. Document processing device.