JPH0589116A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the utilization efficiency of contents and an index by managing unitarily the text, the contents and the index as the same document. CONSTITUTION:A control part 1 generates automatically the contents and the index based on the text data of the produced document, and manages them with the text as one document. Thus, the contents and the index are unitarily managed, namely, they are page-managed together with the text in the same document. At the time of printing them as one document, for example, serial numbers are added to the text, the contents and the index. At the time of referring to the generated contents or the index, the contents or the index is called to a display screen by using the calling processing of page data on a page calling part 7. At the time of executing the edition processing of the text by referring to the contents or the index, for example, the designated page of the contents or the index can be displayed by a page calling processing without calling the contents or the index as a different sentence. Thus, troublesome input work such as the calling processing of the sentence is not required and the contents and the index can be used.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus having a function of creating a table of contents and an index for each document from a text.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a document creating apparatus including a Japanese word processor or a personal computer, which has a function of automatically creating a table of contents or an index for a body of a created document. This table of contents / index creation function creates a table of contents by searching for headwords in the text,
Also, search the keywords in the text to create an index.

If a table of contents and an index of such a document can be created separately from the text and the table of contents and index can be called, it is extremely convenient to use the saved document. In this case, according to the conventional method, a text document is created and saved, and the created table of contents and index are saved as a document different from the text document. That is, one document is originally managed as two documents, that is, the document in the body and the document in the table of contents and the index.

[0004]

In the conventional document creating apparatus, the contents and index documents are managed separately from the text documents. Therefore, it is difficult to centrally manage the table of contents and index together with the text. Further, it is difficult to add serial page numbers when the text, the table of contents, and the index are printed as one document.

An object of the present invention is to centrally manage a text, a table of contents, and an index as the same document, add a continuous page, and print the text, the table of contents, and the index as a single document. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device capable of improving the utilization efficiency of the document.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention manages a table of contents and an index based on the text of document data, a table of contents / index creating means, and a text, a table of contents, and an index, which are managed as one document. A document creating apparatus having a document managing unit for managing pages of a document including a text, a table of contents, and an index based on each page management information.

[0007]

In the present invention, the table of contents and index are automatically created by the table of contents / index creating means based on the text of the created document data. The created table of contents and index are 1 together with the text.
It is managed as a document. The text, table of contents, and index are page-managed based on each page management information, and serial page numbers are added as one document, for example.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main part of the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment. The apparatus includes a control unit 1 that controls the entire apparatus, executes document creation processing, edit processing, and the like.
It has a keyboard 2, an input control unit 3, and a document memory 4.

The keyboard 2 includes, in addition to various character keys, a cursor key 2a, a page line digit calling key 2b, a numeral key 2c and the like. The input control unit 3 converts various key input signals input from the keyboard 2 into a key code and outputs the key code to the control unit 1. The document memory 4 is a buffer memory that stores created document data, and includes text data,
The management information is stored together with the table of contents data and the index data.

Further, the apparatus comprises a display 5, a display control unit 6, a page calling unit 7, a page data buffer memory 8,
The printer 9 and the print controller 10 are provided. The display 5 is controlled by the display controller 6 to display the document data retrieved from the document memory 4. Page calling section 7
Is activated in response to the operation of the page line digit calling key 2b of the keyboard 2, and calls the document data of the page line digit designated by the keyboard 2 from the document memory 4. The page data buffer memory 8 stores the page data called by the page calling unit 7. The printer 9 is controlled by the print control unit 10,
The document data called from the document memory 4 is printed.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

First, in response to the operation of various character keys from the keyboard 2, the control unit 1 executes a new document creating process and stores the created document data in the document memory 4 (step S1 in FIG. 2). , S2). The display control unit 6 controls to display the document data read from the document memory 4 by the control unit 1 on the screen of the display 5.

Here, for example, when the created document data is stored in the disk, when the index / index creation process is instructed on the input screen for setting the document name and the like (YES in step S3), The table of contents and index are automatically created. That is, the control unit 1 refers to the body data stored in the document memory 4, searches for a headword in the body to create a table of contents, and creates the table of contents data from the document memory 4
To store. Further, referring to the body data, for example, a keyword in the body is searched to create an index, and the index data is stored in the document memory 4.

The control unit 1 stores the created table of contents and index together with the text as the same document in the document memory 4 (step S4). The structure of this one document is as shown in FIG.
It includes management information for managing documents such as body page information, table of contents page information, index page information, as well as body data, table of contents data, and index data. The control unit 1 saves the created table of contents and index together with the text as the same document on the disc.

Next, when an instruction to print the document data stored in the document memory 4 is issued by the keyboard 2 (YES in step S5), the control section 1 causes the display 5 to display a print format setting screen. .. When it is instructed to add a serial page number to each page of the text, the table of contents, and the index on the print format setting screen, the control unit 1 manages the text page information, the table of contents page information, the index page information, and the like. Based on the information, the body text, the table of contents, and the index are added as the same document with serial page numbers, and the printer 9 prints them (step S
6).

On the other hand, when the text of the created document is edited, the created table of contents or index may be referenced. In this case, when the page line digit calling key 2b of the keyboard 2 is operated (YES in step S7),
The control unit 1 causes the display 5 to display an input screen as shown in FIG. 3, for example, through the display control unit 6 (step S8). In response to the operation of the page line digit call key 2b,
The page calling unit 7 is activated, and the cursor key 2 of the keyboard 2
The selection of the table of contents or the index is designated by a and the designation of the page line digit is waited by the numeric key 2c. When the table of contents or index is selected and the page line digit is specified, the page calling unit 7 calls the page data of the specified page line digit of the table of contents or index from one document stored in the document memory 4 (step S9-S10).
The page calling unit 7 stores the called page data in the page data buffer memory 8 (step S11). The control unit 1
The page data stored in the page data buffer memory 8 is displayed on the screen of the display 5 (step S12).

In this way, the table of contents and index are automatically created based on the text data of the created document, and are managed as one document together with the text. Therefore, the table of contents and the index are centrally managed, such as page management in the same document together with the text. Thus, for example, when the text, the table of contents, and the index are printed as one document, serial page numbers can be added to each page of the text, the table of contents, and the index.

Further, when referring to the created table of contents or index, the page data of the page calling unit 7 is used to call the table of contents or index on the display screen. This allows
For example, when editing the text by referring to the table of contents or index, the page designated by the table of contents or index can be displayed by the page calling process without calling the table of contents or index as a separate document. Therefore, the table of contents and the index can be used without the troublesome input work such as the document calling process.

[0020]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to manage the table of contents and index automatically created based on the text of a document as the same document together with the text. Therefore, the text, the table of contents, and the index can be centrally managed as one document, and page management can be performed. As a result, it is possible to print the main body, the table of contents, and the index as one document by adding a continuous page, so that the utilization efficiency of the table of contents and the index can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main part of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an input screen according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Control unit, 2 ... Keyboard, 4 ... Document memory, 7 ... Page calling unit, 8 ... Page data buffer memory.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takashi Kusuhashi 1381 Shinmachi, Ome-shi, Tokyo Within Toshiba Computer Engineering Co., Ltd. Within the corporation

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document memory means for storing the created document data, a table of contents / index creating means for creating a table of contents and an index based on the text of the document data stored in the document memory means, and this table of contents / index creation. Managing the table of contents and the index created by means together with the text as one document,
A document creation device comprising: a document management unit that manages pages of a document composed of the text, a table of contents, and an index based on page management information of the table of contents and the index.