JPH06348694A - Document editing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decently insert a character string inputted from a specified position in a lateral written character string in a longitudinal direction by developing characters inputted from the specified position in a laterally written document in a longitudinally group in a storage means and adjusting spaces between the lines of the respective characters of the longitudinal group developed in lines before and after the line for which a character arrangement position is specified. CONSTITUTION:An editing position is specified in a step 1 and editing operations such as the input and deletion, etc., of the characters are performed in the step 2. In the step 3, an edited result is stored through a cetral processing unit(CPU) in a storage device, document information stored in the storage device is grouped in the longitudinal direction by the CPU, document images for which a gap between the front line and the rear line of the specified input position is adjusted corresponding to the number of the inputted characters are stored and the document images are typesetting displayed on a display device. In the step 4, a mode switching menu is displayed by using an input device, a lateral to longitudinal writing conversion mode is ended when recovery to a normal editing mode is instructed and the step 1 is returned and the processing is repeated when it is not instructed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing method for editing a character string, and in particular, a vertical writing mode is set during horizontal character string editing to edit a vertical character string in a horizontal character string editing area. The present invention relates to a document editing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document editing apparatus for performing this type of document editing, for example, a Japanese word processor, it is not possible to insert a vertically written character string in a document editing area set in a horizontal writing mode. For example, in order to perform character editing including horizontal writing characters and character strings vertically arranged as shown in FIG. 5 in the horizontal writing edit mode, as shown in FIG. A horizontal writing character or a character string is input in the direction, and the line feed width of the horizontal writing is adjusted, for example, 1/2 line feed, and processed as pseudo vertical writing character string input.

[0003]

Therefore, in the vertical writing character input processing in the horizontal writing editing mode, the cursor instruction to the position of the vertical writing character string, the line feed width adjusting instruction, etc. are complicated, and the horizontal writing operation is easily performed. However, there was a problem that vertical text strings could not be edited easily.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and recognizes the designation of vertical writing character input in a horizontal writing character string, and recognizes a character input from a designated position in a predetermined direction. An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing method capable of vertically inserting a character string input from a specified position in a horizontally written character string in a line style by adjusting the line spacing while incorporating in the vertical direction. .

[0005]

A document editing method according to the present invention develops a document image of input document information in a storage unit based on a horizontal writing edit mode, and sets a horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode while a horizontal writing edit mode is set. After setting the horizontal / middle / vertical mode, the vertical writing character arrangement position in the specified horizontal writing document is designated, and the characters input from the designated position are expanded vertically in the storage unit to generate the characters. Arrangement position Adjusts the line spacing of each character in vertical composition that is expanded before and after the specified line.

[0006]

In the present invention, the input document information is expanded in the storage means as the document image based on the horizontal writing edit mode, and the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set during the horizontal writing edit mode setting.
After setting the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode, the vertical writing character arrangement position in the specified horizontal writing document is specified, the characters input from the specified position are expanded vertically in the storage unit, and the character arrangement position is specified. The line spacing of each character in the vertical composition that is expanded before and after the line is adjusted, so you can set the horizontal-in-vertical mode during horizontal writing edit mode and enter the character to adjust the horizontal spacing. It is possible to easily insert a vertically set document.

[0007]

1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a document edit processing apparatus to which a document edit method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

In the figure, 11 is a central processing unit (CP
In U), access to various devices described later connected to the bus is controlled based on a control program stored in a ROM (not shown).

Reference numeral 12 denotes a storage device composed of a DRAM or the like, which stores a display image corresponding to the resolution of the display device 13, for example. An input device 14 includes a keyboard, a pointing device, and the like, and is a document displayed on the display device 13 including, for example, a CRT display device, for example, a desired vertical writing character in a horizontal writing character string input in the horizontal writing editing mode. Indicate the row incorporation position with a cursor. Note that the input device 14 can also input document data.

The general operation of each section will be described below.

On the document displayed on the display device 13, in the normal editing mode, the input device 14 including a keyboard and a pointing device is used to specify the editing position, and the input device 14 is used to input characters. , Edit operation such as deletion. The edited result is stored in the storage device 12 through the central processing unit 11, the document information stored in the storage device 12 is laterally incorporated by the central processing unit 12, and the incorporated document image is stored in the storage device 12, The document image is displayed on the display device 13 by the central processing unit 11.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a mode switching menu displayed on the display device 13 shown in FIG.

As shown in this figure, in the present embodiment, the "normal editing mode" or the "horizontal-center-vertical mode" is designated by the moving cursor by the instruction from the input device 14 Instruct to switch.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a horizontal / middle / vertical mode editing processing state on the display device 13 shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3A shows a character string input state in the horizontal writing editing mode. Is displayed. ”Is displayed. Figure 2 (b) is
This corresponds to the state in which the character "2" is input by instructing the horizontal-medium-vertical mode in the mode switching menu shown in (1) and by instructing the vertical character string incorporation position with a cursor (not shown). (C)
Corresponds to the display when the character "-" is input subsequently to the display state of (b). (D) corresponds to the display when the character "1" is input subsequently to the display state of (c). In addition, when the horizontal / vertical mode shown in FIG. 2 is specified and the sub-menu is configured so that the incorporation direction can be instructed to the up or down direction with the cursor, the characters “2”, “−”, and “1” can be input. The order can be changed to "1", "-", and "2".

The horizontal / middle / vertical mode processing operation in the document editing method according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing an example of the horizontal / middle / vertical mode processing procedure in the document editing method according to the embodiment of the present invention. Note that (1) to (4) indicate each step.

When the input device 14 is used to display the mode switching menu as shown in FIG. 2 and the input device 14 is instructed to start the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode, the flow is started and the input device 14 is used. Then, for example, the edit position is designated by the cursor (1), and the input device 14 is used to perform edit operations such as input and deletion of characters (2). The edited result is stored in the storage device 12 through the central processing unit 11, and the document information stored in the storage device 12 is assembled in the vertical direction by the central processing unit 11 and the preceding and succeeding lines of the designated input position are stored. A document image whose interval is adjusted according to the number of input characters is stored in the storage device 12, and the document image is type-displayed on the display device 13 by the central processing unit 11 (3). Here, the input device 14 is used to display the mode switching menu shown in FIG. 2, and it is judged whether or not an instruction to return to the normal edit mode is issued from the input device 14 (4). The vertical mode is ended, and if NO, the process returns to step (1) to repeat the above process.

As a result, in the display state of FIG. 3 (a), the mode is changed to the horizontal-center-vertical mode, the editing position is designated between the characters "de" and "wo", and the character "2" is input, the display is performed. Figure 3
The state becomes as shown in (b). Furthermore, if the character "-" is input without changing the editing position, the display state will be as shown in FIG.
It changes to the display state of and changes the editing position.
When is input, the state is switched to the state shown in FIG.

As described above, according to the document processing method of the present invention,
Based on the horizontal writing edit mode, the input document information is developed into a document image in the storage unit 12, the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set while the horizontal writing edit mode is set, and after the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set, in the specified horizontal writing document. The vertical writing character arrangement position is designated by the input device 14, the characters inputted from the designated position are expanded vertically in the storage means 12, and are expanded to the lines before and after the line whose character arrangement position is specified. Since the line spacing of each character in vertical composition is adjusted, you can easily insert a horizontal centered vertical composition document in which the line spacing is adjusted simply by entering the character by setting the horizontal-center-vertical mode while setting the horizontal writing edit mode. It becomes possible to do.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Based on the horizontal writing edit mode, the input document information is expanded into a document image in the storage unit, the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set while the horizontal writing edit mode is set, and after the horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set, the specified horizontal writing Specify the vertical text placement position,
Characters input from the designated position are vertically expanded in the storage means, and the line spacing of each character in the vertically arranged characters developed before and after the character layout position specified line is adjusted. The horizontal-center-vertical mode is set during mode setting, and it is possible to easily insert a horizontally-centered-vertical grouped document in which the line spacing is adjusted simply by inputting characters.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a document edit processing device to which a document edit method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a mode switching menu displayed on the display device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a horizontal / middle / vertical mode editing processing state on the display device 13 shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a horizontal-medium-vertical mode processing procedure in the document editing method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a horizontal writing edit state in a conventional document processing method.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a horizontal writing pseudo vertical writing mode in a conventional document processing method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Central Processing Unit 12 Storage Device 13 Display Device 14 Input Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The input document information is expanded in a storage means as a document image based on a horizontal writing edit mode, a horizontal-medium-longitudinal mode is set while the horizontal writing edit mode is set, and is specified after the horizontal-medium vertical mode is set. The vertical writing character arrangement position in the horizontal writing document is specified, the characters input from the specified position are expanded vertically in the storage unit, and the characters are expanded to the lines before and after the character arrangement position specified line. A document editing method characterized by adjusting the line spacing of vertically set characters.