JPH06187339A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically prepare the document wherein optionally specified indexes and index contents and corresponding pages of the document are paired. CONSTITUTION:Document data that an operator optionally generates are stored in a document memory 18 and when desired contents are specified as a table of contents or indexes in the document data, the page position of the contents in the document can be obtained by referring to a page quantity control register; and a table-of-contents control circuit 15 or index control circuit 16 generates a table-of-contents document or index document, which is automatically written in the document memory 18.

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 for processing a document arbitrarily created by an operator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread and improvement of functions of Japanese word processors, large-scale documents, such as manuals and instruction manuals, are often created by word processors. In a manual, an instruction manual, etc., a table of contents and an index are indispensable, but conventionally, the operator has to input and create them as a part of the text, and the operation is very troublesome. The items listed in the table of contents above are the headings and the number of pages of each chapter in the text, and the index is the words and phrases appearing in the text and the number of pages.

[0003]

In particular, a document processing apparatus capable of automatically creating a table-of-contents document in which contents specified by an operator as a table of contents on a document are paired with page positions on the document. Did not exist. An object of the present invention is to be able to automatically create a table of contents document in which the contents of an arbitrarily specified table of contents and the corresponding page on the document are paired.

[0004]

The means of the present invention are as follows. A display unit for displaying a document spanning a plurality of pages, a document storage unit for storing the document in a document format, and a character string at an arbitrary position on the document displayed by the display unit as a character string to be a table of contents. Designating means for arbitrarily designating, first reading means for reading the character string for the table of contents designated by the designating means, the page position of the character string for the table of contents on the document, and information on the page position And a second reading means for reading the information of the page position read by the second reading means.
The table-of-contents document creating means for creating a table-of-contents document in a document format arranged so as to form a pair with the character string of the table-of-contents object read by Storage control means for newly storing the document format in the document storage means, and display control means for displaying the table of contents document created by the table of contents document creation means on the display means are provided.

[0005]

The operation of the means of the present invention is as follows. When the operator specifies the character string to be the table of contents, the operator arbitrarily specifies the character string at an arbitrary position on the document as the character string to be the table of contents. Then, the designated character string for the table of contents is read by the first reading unit, and the second character string is read by the second reading unit.
The reading means checks the page position of the character string of the table of contents on the document and reads the information of the page position. The information on the page position read by the second reading means is in a document format arranged in association with the character string of the table of contents read by the first reading means by the table of contents document creating means so as to form a pair. A table of contents document is created. Then, the storage control means newly stores the table of contents document created by the table of contents document creating means in the document data storage means in the document format, and the display control means displays the table of contents document created by the table of contents document creating means. Display by means.

Therefore, it is possible to automatically create a table of contents document in which the contents of the table of contents arbitrarily specified by the operator on the document data and the corresponding page on the document data are automatically created, and the created table of contents document is not Since it is stored and displayed in the same document data storage format as other documents, the operator should handle the displayed table of contents document in the same way as other documents, such as additionally storing the necessary character strings. You can

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes a keyboard, which includes a kana key, a numerical value input key, a function key, an index registration key, an index creation key, a table of contents registration key, and a table of contents creation key.
The key input is sent to the CPU 12. This CPU12
A display device (not shown) is connected to, and a kana-kanji conversion circuit 13, a document control circuit 14, and a table of contents control circuit 1 are connected.
5, the index control circuit 16 is connected. A dictionary memory 17 for kana / kanji conversion is connected to the kana / kanji conversion circuit 13. Further, the Kana-Kanji conversion circuit 13
Is a document memory 18, a table of contents memory 19, an index memory 20.
Connected to. The document control circuit 14 has a document memory 18 and a page number management register 21, and the table of contents control circuit 15 has a table of contents memory 19 and a page number management register 21.
Further, the index control circuit 16 is connected to the index memory 20 and the page number management register 21. The page number management register 21 manages the number of pages of the created document, and its output data is sent to the document memory 18, the table of contents memory 19, and the index memory 20. Further, an external storage device 22 is connected to the memory 18, and the data table memory 1
9 and the contents written in the index memory 20 are sent to and stored in the document memory 18. Furthermore, this document memory 1
An external storage device 22 is connected to 8, and data is read from and written to each other.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the key on the keyboard 11 is operated, the content of the operation key is judged as shown in step A1 of FIG. 2, and the process is performed according to the judgment result. That is, when the kana key is operated, the process proceeds to step A2, the kana input is stored in the buffer (not shown) in the CPU 12, and the kana input is displayed on the display unit and displayed in step A2.
Return to 1. Similarly, each time the Kana key is operated, the Kana input is stored in the buffer and displayed on the display unit. After that, when the key indicating the delimiter at the delimiter point of the word or phrase is operated, if kana / kanji conversion is not required, the process proceeds from step A1 to step A3, and the kana in the buffer is passed through the document control circuit 14 to the document memory. Write to 18. When the kana-kanji conversion key is operated on the keyboard 11, the process proceeds from step A1 to step A4, the kana-kanji conversion circuit 13 accesses the dictionary memory 17 to convert kana in the buffer into kanji, and the kana is displayed on the display unit. At the same time, it is written in the document memory 18 as shown in step A5. By repeating the above input processing, a document is created, for example, as shown in FIG.

However, when a sentence to be registered in the table of contents such as a chapter heading is input at the time of creating the above document,
The table of contents registration key on the keyboard 11 is operated. For example, in FIG. 3A, the sentence "2.2.3" indicated by the symbol A is displayed.
To register "Computer Network" in the table of contents,
After entering the above-mentioned table of contents, operate the table of contents registration key. When this table of contents registration key is operated, the process proceeds from step A1 to step A6 in FIG. 2 to activate the table of contents control circuit 15, and the target item and the number of pages at that time held in the page number management register 21 are displayed. The contents are written in the memory 19. After that, when the text and document creation is completed and the table of contents creation key is operated or the document is registered in the external storage device 22, the process proceeds from step A1 to step A7 and is stored in the table of contents memory 19. The table of contents data is converted into a document format by the table of contents control circuit 15, and the document memory 1
8 is additionally stored. Further, in step A8, the contents of the table of contents, that is, the table of contents items and pages are displayed on the display unit.

Further, when the user wants to register the input word as an index at the time of creating the document, the index registration key is operated after the data is input. When this index registration key is operated, a vocabulary such as kana in the buffer or kanji data converted by the kana-kanji conversion circuit 13 is written in the document memory 18, and the kanji data or kana is index controlled in step A9. It is written into the index memory 20 under the control of the circuit 16. At this time, the number of pages held in the page number management register 21 is also written in the index memory 20. In this case, if the corresponding vocabulary exists in the index memory 20, only the number of pages from the page number management register 21 is written corresponding to the corresponding vocabulary. After that, when the same vocabulary stored in the index memory 20 is input during document creation, the number of pages from the page number management register 21 is sequentially additionally stored.

When the text and document creation is completed and the index creation key is operated or the document is registered in the external storage device 22, the process proceeds from step A1 to A10.
Arrange the vocabularies in the index memory 20 in alphabetical order,
Next, in step A11, the pages having the same vocabulary are arranged. Next, the process proceeds to step A12, the index contents are displayed on the display unit, the contents are written in the document memory 18 at step A13, and the process returns to step A1. When a key operation other than the above is performed, step A14
At, the program corresponding to the operation key is executed.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. However, although the circuit configuration is the same as that of the block diagram of FIG. 1, the operation is different from that of the flowchart of FIG. 2 showing the operation of the first embodiment only in the index registration and index creation. The processing will be described.
In the flowchart of FIG. 4, step symbols in the flowchart of FIG. 2 are used except for index registration and index creation.

Therefore, when it is desired to register the entered vocabulary in the index at the time of creating the document, the index registration key is operated after the data is input. When this index registration key is operated, it is checked in step B1 whether the vocabulary such as kana or kanji data converted by the kana-kanji conversion circuit 13 in the buffer has the same vocabulary in the index memory 20.
The index control circuit 16 judges the presence or absence in step B2, and if there is no same vocabulary, the process proceeds to step B3, and the vocabulary and the number of pages are written in the index memory 20. On the other hand, if the same vocabulary exists in the index memory 20, the process proceeds to step B4 and the page number is additionally written to the same vocabulary. Thereafter, this operation is repeated every time the index registration key is operated.

When the document creation is completed and the index creation key is operated, the process proceeds to step B5, where the vocabularies in the index memory 20 are arranged in the ABC order together with the number of pages, and the step B
The screen of the index in 6 is displayed. Further, the index is displayed on the screen and is written in the document memory 18 in step B7 to create a series of indexes.

[0015]

According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically create a table-of-contents document in which the contents of the table of contents arbitrarily specified by the operator on the document data and the corresponding page on the document data are paired, and the creation thereof is also possible. Since the displayed table-of-contents document is stored and displayed in the document data storage format like other documents, the operator may additionally store necessary character strings and the like in the displayed table-of-contents document. Can be handled exactly like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document creation example (a) and a table of contents display example (b).

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 keyboard 12 CPU 14 document control circuit 15 table of contents control circuit 16 index control circuit 18 document memory 19 table of contents memory 20 index memory 21 page number management register

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display means for displaying a document spanning a plurality of pages, a document storage means for storing the document in a document format, and a character string at an arbitrary position on the document displayed by the display means, in a table of contents. Specifying means for arbitrarily specifying the target character string, first reading means for reading the character string for the table of contents specified by the specifying means, and checking the page position of the character string for the table of contents on the document, Second reading means for reading the information of the page position, and the information of the page position read by the second reading means are paired with the character string of the table of contents read by the first reading means. A table-of-contents document creating means for creating a table-of-contents document in the document format arranged in correspondence with each other and a table-of-contents document created by the table-of-contents document creating means are newly stored in the document storage means in the document format And a display control unit for displaying the table of contents document created by the table of contents document creating unit on the display unit.