JPH06162007A - Document preparing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the document preparing method which sets plural blocks to space and can prepare documents whose formats are different extending over plural pages at every block. CONSTITUTION:A storage part 50 is provided with block information storage parts 5.1-5.n for storing information related to plural blocks and plural sentence storage parts 6.1-6.n for storing sentence information of each block. A control part 20 sets the contents of the block information storage part by a command from an input part 10, and displays plural blocks on a display part 30, based on its contents. When an arbitrary block is designated and the sentence information is inputted by the input part 10, its sentence information is delimited and stored in the sentence storage part corresponding to the designated block. The sentence information stored in the sentence storage part is outputted by a printing output part 40 in accordance with information related to the corresponding block stored in the block information storage part. Also, by adding connecting information (page number, block number, etc.) into the block information storage part, a degree of freedom for preparing the document can be further increased.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation method using a word processor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A word processor is used for the purpose of creating a document, but the arrangement direction of the characters of a sentence on one page is within the page 1 as shown in FIG. It is limited to the horizontal composition in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the horizontal direction or the vertical composition in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the vertical direction as shown in FIG.

However, the formats of documents are extremely diversified, and the word processor is required to have a function of creating a paper surface in various formats as shown in FIG. That is, in FIG. 2, (a) shows that the paper surface 1 is divided into left and right by the dividing line 3, and the horizontal character strings 2 are arranged on the left and right respectively. In addition, (B) is a format in which the sheet 1 is divided into upper and lower parts by the dividing line 3 and the upper and lower sections are in horizontal composition as shown in (A). Also, (c) and (d) in the same figure.
In each case, the drawing or photograph 4 is placed on the paper surface and the character string 2 is placed in the margin. (C) is the horizontal arrangement of the character string 2 below the drawing or photograph 4 Is a vertical arrangement of the character strings 2, (d) the right side of the drawing or photograph 4 is divided into upper and lower parts by division lines 3, and the upper and lower parts are arranged in the vertical composition format. It was done.

Documents of this type could not be created all at once using conventional word processors.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to arbitrarily set a plurality of sections and create a document having a different format for each section. In addition to the above, it is possible to provide a document creation method capable of increasing the degree of freedom in document creation by adding connection information of text information for each section.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a document creating method of the present invention has an input section, an output section, and a storage section, and the storage section stores information regarding a plurality of sections. In a word processor having a section information storage unit for storing information and a text storage unit for storing text information separately for each section, a step of inputting a command for setting information about the section from the input unit, The step of storing information on a plurality of sections in the section information storage unit based on the input command, and the plurality of sections visible on the output unit based on the information on the plurality of sections stored in the section information storage unit Step of displaying the input text information by designating an arbitrary section from the input section, and storing the input text information in the text storage section so as to correspond to the specified section. A step of storing connection information of sentence information for each section stored in the sentence storage section in the section information storage section; and sentence information of each section stored in the text storage section, respectively, in the section information storage section The step of visually outputting to the output section according to the information about the corresponding section stored in the section, and the step of performing a predetermined process based on the connection information stored in the section information storage section. To do.

[0007]

That is, in the document creating method of the present invention, when the command for setting the information about the sections is input from the input unit, the information about the plurality of sections is stored in the section information storage unit. After that, the plurality of partitions are visually displayed on the output unit based on the information about the plurality of partitions stored in the partition information storage unit. Next, when text information is input by designating an arbitrary section from the input section, the input text information of each page is stored in the text storage section corresponding to the specified section. afterwards,
The text information of each section stored in the text storage section is
The information is visually output to the output unit according to the information about the corresponding partitions stored in the partition information storage unit.

Further, when the text information is stored in the text storage section, the section information storage section stores the connection information of the text information for each section, for example, a section number indicating a connection relationship of a plurality of sections in a page, or a plurality of pages A page number or the like indicating the connection relationship between the sections common to all the areas is stored. Thereafter, based on the connection information of the sentence information for each section stored in the section information storage unit, when a predetermined process, for example, the text information of one section is displayed, the text information of this section is subsequently connected. The processing is executed so that the text information on the same page or the text information on another page in the same section is automatically read from the text storage unit and displayed.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily set a plurality of sections to create a document having a different format for each section and to add the concatenation information of the text information for each section. The degree of freedom in document creation can be increased.

[0010]

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

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

This word processor comprises an input section 10, a control section 20, a display section 30, a print output section 40, and a storage section 50 as its main part. Here, the input unit 10
For example, it is composed of a keyboard such as a kana type and has a display unit 30.
Is a display device such as a cathode ray tube display, and the print output unit 40 is a printing device such as a dot printer. The storage unit 50 also includes a plurality of partition information storage units 5.1,
...... 5. n and n (corresponding to the same number of sections) document storage section 6.1 ,. made up of n and

The partition information storage section 5.1 is divided into five storage areas, each of which is a partition reference position 5.1.1, a partition inset direction 5.1.2, a partition inset pad 5.1.3, It is composed of 5.1.4 between lines within a partition and 5.1.5 the number of lines within a partition, and the other partition information storage units 5.2 ,. n is similarly configured.

On the other hand, in the sentence storage section 6.1 for each section, the data 6.1.1 and the position coordinates 6.1.2 for one character respectively inputted are paired and stored in that section. It is configured to store the data of as many characters as possible,
6. Text storage units 6.2, ..., 6 for other sections. n is similarly configured.

The control unit 20 includes the input unit 10 and the display unit 3.
0, the print output unit 40 and the storage unit 50 have a function of performing processing of command and data delivery.

That is, the control unit 20 uses the partition information input from the input unit 10 to store the partition information storage units 5.1 ,.
5. 5. Set n and store the document data in the sentence storage section for each section 6.
1, ..., 6. It has a function of writing to n, displaying on the display unit 30, and causing the print output unit 40 to output the document data of the text storage unit for each section according to the section information of the section information storage unit.

The word processor of the present invention having the above construction is operated, for example, as follows.

(1) When the operator inputs a partition definition command from the input unit 10, the control unit 20 sets the partition information storage unit (for example, 5.1), and the partition information storage unit 5.
No. 1 reference position 5.1.1, intra-part set direction 5.1.
2. Intra-compartment line-filling 5.1.3, inter-compartment line spacing 5.1.4, and number of in-compartment lines 5.1.5 are written, and information regarding the partition is displayed on the display unit 30. For the next partition definition command, the control unit 20 allocates the partition information storage unit 5.2 and performs similar processing.

In this way, all the sections necessary for the layout of the paper are set and their contents are displayed on the display unit 30.
The information regarding the section is displayed as an image that directly displays the area occupied by the section when the entire paper surface is displayed on the display unit 30. In the case of the partial display on the paper surface, the display unit 30 also displays characters and symbols indicating that fact.

In the following, in this embodiment, the entire surface of the paper is the display unit 3.
An example of the case of being displayed at 0 will be described.

(2) When a character is input from the input section 10 by designating an arbitrary section, the control section 20 performs the following operation.
(A) First, the input character 6.1.1 is added with the position coordinates 6.1.2 of the character corresponding to this division, for example, obtained by calculation from the division information storage unit 5.1, and Write in the text storage section 6.1.

(B) The input character 6.1.1 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 30 corresponding to the position coordinates of the character obtained in (a).

This operation is repeated until the character input in the designated section is completed.

(3) When the operation shown in (2) is repeated for all the sections assigned to the paper surface of the document to be created, the document corresponding to the paper surface is displayed on the screen of the display unit 30. To be done.

(4) If the operator confirms on the screen of the display unit 30 that the characters need to be corrected, the operator designates a section from the input unit and issues a correction command. The control unit 20 changes the content of the sentence storage unit for each corresponding section according to the instruction of the correction instruction, and changes the display of the corresponding portion on the screen of the display unit 30.

(5) When the operator confirms the content of the document on the screen of the display unit 30 and then issues a print output command from the input unit, the control unit 20 is assigned to the print output unit 40 on the paper surface. 6. The sentence storage units 6.1, ..., 6. The contents of n are stored in the partition information storage unit 5.1,
...... 5. Make the necessary edits according to the contents written in n, and then output. In this way, the text is printed out on the paper in a predetermined format.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the word processor of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those in FIG. 3 are designated by the same reference numerals.

The word processor of this embodiment has a partition information storage section 5.1, ..., Of the embodiment shown in FIG.
5. n and the text storage section for each section 5.1, ... Partition information storage unit 7.1.1 having the same content as n, ... 7.1. n
And a text storage unit 8.1.
1, ..., 8.1. Each of n and n has a plurality of sets from the first page to the m-th page.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to easily lay out a document on a plurality of pages.

If items such as character size, typeface, character spacing, number of columns, column spacing, etc. are added as items in the segment information storage unit, more various segments can be set and various sentences can be created. Further, by adding connection information (page number, section number, etc.) in the section information storage unit, the degree of freedom in creating a document can be further increased. For example, when the text information of one section is displayed, the text information in the same page and the text information of another page in the same section, which is linked to the text information of this section, are automatically stored in the text. It is possible to execute a predetermined process that is read out from the department and displayed. If the entire page cannot be displayed on one screen of the display unit 30, an appropriate screen feed may be added or an image input device may be added to display the image data in the designated section. It is also possible to add a function of allocating.

[0031]

As described above, according to the document creating method of the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily set a plurality of sections to create a document having a different format for each section, and to obtain the text information for each section. The degree of freedom in creating a document can be increased by adding the connection information of.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a paper surface of a document created by a conventional word processor.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a document that can be created by the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Input unit, 20 ... Control unit, 30 ... Display unit, 40 ... Print output unit, 5.1 to 5. n ... Partition information storage section 5.1.
1-5. n. 1 ... Section reference position, 5.1.2 to 5. n.
2 ... Intra-compartment assembly direction, 5.1.3 to 5. n. 3 ... In-compartment filling, 5.1.4-5. n. 4… Distance between lines 5.1.5
~ 5. n. 5 ... Number of lines in section, 6.1 to 6. n… Sentence storage for each section.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An input unit, an output unit, and a storage unit,
And the storage unit is a section that stores information about a plurality of sections.
Text information storage section and sentences that store text information separately for each section
In a word processor having a chapter storage unit, the command for setting information on the section is input.
And the step of inputting from the part, based on the input instruction,
Store information about a plurality of partitions in the partition information storage unit
And the information about the plurality of partitions stored in the partition information storage unit.
Based on the information, the output section visually displays multiple sections
And input the text information by designating an arbitrary section from the input section.
And the input text information to correspond to the specified section
And storing connection information of the sentence information for each section stored in the sentence storage unit.
Storing the information in the section information storage unit, and the sentence information of each section stored in the sentence storage unit, respectively.
Associated with the corresponding section stored in the section information storage section.
Visually outputting to the output unit according to the information
And the location information based on the connection information stored in the partition information storage unit.
A document creation characterized by having a step of performing a predetermined process.
How to do it. 2. The document creating method according to claim 1, wherein the connection information is a section number indicating a connection relationship between a plurality of sections in the page. 3. The document creating method according to claim 1, wherein the connection information is a page number indicating a connection relationship between sections common to a plurality of pages.