JPH0623951B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Use of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus, and is particularly required when creating a document. Paper size, paper orientation, margins, character spacing,
The present invention relates to a document creation device capable of easily setting format information such as line spacing and the number of columns.

[Background of the Invention]

In the document creation work in normal work, format information such as paper size, paper orientation, margins, character spacing, line spacing, number of columns, vertical, horizontal writing, etc., is set in advance according to the individual who creates the document and the type of the created document. In most cases, the fixed one is used.

However, in the conventional document creation apparatus, even though the same format information is used almost every time before the document data is input at the time of creating the document, the format information has to be input each time, which is difficult to use. In order to improve this drawback, as described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 56-152075, standard format information is stored in advance, and if the format information is not input, the standard format information is used. There were also cases where documents were created by being processed. However, in this method, the standard format information stored is fixed, and the format information has to be input again each time a document is created with a format other than the stored format information. further,
In order to improve the above-mentioned drawbacks, there is one in which the user format information unique to the user can be preset and stored in addition to the standard format information stored in advance, but only one piece of the user format information is stored. I couldn't do it.

[Object of the Invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creating apparatus which can easily set a plurality of format information according to the type of a document created by each operator in order to solve the above drawbacks and has good operability.

[Outline of Invention]

According to the above object, the present invention provides an input unit for inputting document data, a storage unit for storing the input document data,
In a document creation apparatus including a display unit for displaying the document data and a printing unit for printing the document data, a user format setting unit for setting unique user format information by an operator's input, and setting by the user format setting unit. A user format storage unit capable of storing a plurality of pieces of user format information, an identification name assigning unit for assigning an identification name to the user format information stored in the user format storage unit, and an identification name assigned by the identification name assigning unit. The user format information is read from the user format storage means and displayed on the display means as a list, and the desired format is identified from the user format information displayed by the format information list display means. It is characterized in that a format selecting means for specifying and selecting is provided.

Example of Invention

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on examples.

FIG. 3 shows the configuration of one embodiment according to the present invention.
1 is a keyboard, 2 is a control device, 3 is an external storage device, 4
Is a display device, 5 is a RAM, 6 is a ROM, 7 is a printing device,
8 is a bus line.

The keyboard 1 is a part for inputting format information and document data for creating a document, and as shown in FIG.
And the format setting key 9 required when entering format information,
A format change key 10, a document new creation key 11 required when creating a document, and other various control keys such as an execution key are provided.

The control device 2 is a part that performs various controls according to the information input from the keyboard 1, stores the document data input from the keyboard 1 in the document buffer 17, and stores the document data in the external storage device 3. Control such that the document data is displayed on the display device 4, printed by the printing device 7, the format information input from the keyboard 1 is stored in the format buffer 16, and stored in the external storage device 3. .

The external storage device 3 is controlled by the control device 2 so that the contents of the document buffer 17 for storing the document data input from the keyboard 1 and the format buffer 16 for storing the format information with the identification name are stored. In this portion, preset standard format information is stored for each paper size.

The display device 4 controls the control device 2 so that the document data input from the keyboard 1 is displayed and the user format information input from the keyboard 1 is displayed when the user format information is newly set or changed. Controlled.

In the RAM 5, as shown in FIG. 5, a document buffer 17 for storing the document data input from the keyboard 1,
A format buffer 16 for storing format information currently used for document creation, an identification name of the format information and priority information is placed. As the priority information, 1 is set to the format information having the highest priority, and 0 is set to the other format information.

The ROM 6 stores data indicating the processing procedure in the control device 2.

The printing device 7 is controlled by the control device 2 so that the document data input from the keyboard 1 is printed according to the format information currently stored in the format buffer 16.

The operation will be described in detail below with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS.

If the user-specific user format information is not yet stored in the external storage device 3, it corresponds to the most standard format information among the standard format information stored in advance in the external storage device 3 for each paper size, for example, A4 size. 1 is preset as priority information in the standard format information.

When a document is created using the standard format information having the highest priority, first, when the user presses the new document creation key 11 on the keyboard 1, the control device 2 inputs it in step 30, and the input judgment is made in step 31. In step 32, the fixed form information having the highest priority is read from the external storage device 3 and stored in the form buffer 16. Next, the control device 2
Moves to step 33 to display the contents of the document buffer 17 on the display device 4. At this time, since nothing is input from the keyboard 1 to the document buffer 17, no document data is displayed on the display device 4. Where keyboard 1
When the document data is input by the character keys 18 of the above, the control device 2 inputs it in step 34, judges the input in step 35, stores the input data in the document buffer 17 in step 36, and returns it to step 33. Then, the document data is displayed on the display device 4 according to the format information stored in the format buffer 16. After all the document data is input from the keyboard 1 in this way, the print key 14 provided on the keyboard 1 is pressed to respond to the fixed form information with the highest priority stored in the form buffer 16. The document is printed by the printing device 7, and the target document is created. When the registration key 15 provided on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the control device 2 stores the contents of the document buffer 17 in the external storage device 3.

When the operator wants to create a document with his own user format information, he first presses the format setting key 9 on the keyboard 1, and the processing of the control unit 2 moves from step 31 to step 37 to step 38, which has the highest priority. The format information is read from the external storage device 3, and the document buffer 1
Store in 6. Next, at step 40, the priority information of this format information is rewritten to 0 and stored in the external storage device 3.
Next, in step 41, the control unit 2 controls the contents of the current format buffer 16, that is, as shown in FIG. 6, paper size, paper orientation, margins, character spacing, column number and identification name items and their items. The data is displayed on the display device 4. Here, for each item of the displayed format information that is corrected, the cursor key 13 and the character key 1 provided on the keyboard 1
When the desired format information and its identification name have been input by step 8, the process proceeds to the input step 42, the judgment step 43 and the step 46, and the input data is stored in the format buffer and displayed sequentially. When the execute key 12 provided on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the priority information of the format buffer is rewritten to 1 from step 43 to step 44, and the content of the format buffer is transferred to step 45 to the external storage device. 3 is stored. Therefore, when a new document is created the next time, that is, when the document new creation key is pressed, the format buffer 16 stores the most recently stored format information, and the document will be saved from the next time according to this format information. Will be created.

Next, when it becomes necessary to create a document of a different type from the document created up to the previous time, that is, when format information other than the format information having the highest priority up to the previous time is used, first the keyboard 1 When the user presses the new document creation key 11 above, the processing of the control device 2 is performed in steps 30 and 31.
Then, the process proceeds to step 32 to read the format information having the highest priority from the external storage device 3 and store it in the format buffer 16. Further, the contents of the format buffer 16 are displayed on the display device 4 at step 33, and the keyboard 1 is displayed at step 34.
It becomes the input mode of the document data from 1. Here, when the format change key 10 provided on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the processing of the control device 2 proceeds from step 35 to step 47.
Then, the process proceeds to step 48 to display a list of identification names for all the format information stored in the external storage device 3 on the display device 4 as shown in FIG. At this time, the number corresponding to the target identification name is input from the keyboard 1 from the identification names of the displayed format information.
When the above-mentioned execution key 12 is pressed, the process moves from step 50 to step 51 and the format information having the target identification name is read out from the external storage device 3 and stored in the format buffer 16 and the previous format buffer 16 is stored. The stored format information is rewritten. Further, at step 52, the priority information of this format information is rewritten to 0 and stored in the external storage device 3. Next, in step 53, the contents of the format buffer 16 are displayed on the display device 4. If there is an item in the displayed format information that is different from the desired format information, enter the desired data from the keyboard 1 into the item in step 54 and change the identification name as well. Then, the input data is stored in the format buffer in step 58 and is sequentially displayed. Next, keyboard 1
When the upper execution key 12 is pressed, the process moves from step 55 to step 56, the priority information of the format buffer is rewritten to 1, and the content of the format buffer is stored in the external storage device 3 at step 57. Next, returning to step 33, the contents of the document buffer 17 are displayed on the display device 4 according to the format information newly stored in the format buffer 16. In this way, it is possible to create a document of a different type from the document created up to the previous time, and from the next time, the format information used last is preferentially used to create the document.

In the present embodiment, the format information used last time is preferentially used from the next time, but it is not limited to this. For example, it can be easily inferred that priorities may be given according to the frequency of use up to the previous time.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the standard format information which is the standard format information is stored in advance for each paper size, and the most standard standard format information has the highest priority. If you do not enter the format information, the format information with the highest priority is automatically set and a document is created, so as long as you use this format information, the format information You don't have to enter. Also, if you want to create a document other than the standard format information given the highest priority, you can easily specify the identification name given to the standard format information prepared for each paper size. The target document can be created. Therefore, when a document is created using the standard format information, the operator does not need to be aware of the format information, and if the format information is input every time, the operation is lost and the operability is good. Further, the operator can set various types of user format information other than the standard format information, and can give an easy-to-understand identification name and store the same, so that the user format information desired to be used can be easily stored in the same manner as the standard format information. You can specify and use that user format information to create a document. In addition, the most recently used format information is given the highest priority so as to match the operator's tendency to use the format information, and if the format information is not input, the format information given the highest priority is automatically assigned. It is not necessary to specify the format information that you want to use every time, because the document is created by setting it automatically. Therefore, the operability is improved and the document can be efficiently created.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, a plurality of user format information corresponding to various documents created by an operator can be set, and further, desired format information can be easily searched from the list display by the format setting or the format change, and designated and selected. It becomes possible to improve the operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 1 and 2 are flow charts, FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a document preparation device, and FIG. 4 shows the entire configuration of the keyboard of FIG. Pattern diagram,
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the RAM, and FIGS. 6 and 7 are schematic diagrams of the display surface of the display device. 1 ... Keyboard, 2 ... Control device, 3 ... External storage device, 4 ... Display device, 7 ... Printing device, 9 ... Format setting key, 10 ... Format change key, 11 ... New document creation Key, 16 ... Format buffer, 17 ... Document buffer

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── --- Continuation of the front page (72) Masaki Fujiwara Masaki Fujiwara 1-1-1 Higashitaga-cho, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki Hitachi Ltd. Taga factory (56) References JP-A-55-124863 (JP, A) JP-A-60-104381 (JP, A)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document preparation comprising: an input unit for inputting document data; a storage unit for storing the input document data; a display unit for displaying the document data; and a printing unit for printing the document data. In the apparatus, user format setting means for setting user format information by operator's input, user format storage means capable of storing a plurality of user format information set by the user format setting means, and stored in the user format storage means. Identification name assigning means for assigning an identification name to the user format information, and format information list for reading out the user format information to which the identification name is assigned by the identification name assigning means from the user format storage means and displaying the list on the display means. From the display means and the user format information displayed by the format information list display means, the identification name is designated and desired. Document creating apparatus characterized by comprising a format selecting means for selecting an expression, a.