JPH0668085A - Document processor with annotation function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To specify a desired range within a document, to add an annotation sentence and to enable editing by storing the document composed of inputted chracter strings in a hierarchical structure form. CONSTITUTION:When a cursor moving key S071 is operated, a processing for moving a cursor with the proofreading unit of a hierarchy at present as an unit is performed and when it is not operated, whether a key S072 for moving the hierarchy up and down is pressed or not is discriminated. When it is pressed, the hierarchy of a constitutional unit for specifying the range is changed up and down for one stage. In other cases, whether a range magnification 7 reduction key S073 is pressed or not is discriminated and when it is pressed, the processing for magnifying or reducing an annotation adding range in a prescribed direction corresponding to a specified key with the constitutional unit of the hierarchy at present as the unit is performed. Then, when a range defining key S074 is pressed, the transfer to a document input mode is performed, the inputted document is registered as an annotation sentence and also management information is stored in the form of a annotation management table.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a general document processing device such as a text editor and a word processor, and more particularly to a document processing device with an annotation function capable of editing an annotation for a document in relation to the document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Document processing devices, especially word processors, first appeared as devices for the purpose of creating a final document (so-called "clean copy"). Therefore, although various functions such as character modification and layout arrangement necessary for clean copy are substantial, on the other hand, regarding the function used while creating a document while thinking (so-called "document creation support function"), It is still insufficient.

An annotation function is one of the insufficient document creation support functions in the conventional document processing apparatus. In general,
When creating a document while thinking, it often happens that a memorandum or memo at that point is created in the document in the middle of creation and the document is referred to later. Further, even when proofreading a document written by another person, it often happens that the proofreading content is added as an annotation to the document.

However, at present, there are almost no document processing apparatuses having a function corresponding to such work. Some document processing software running on a small number of document processing devices or personal computers has an annotation function. However, even such conventional devices or software provide only minimal functionality. That is, in a conventional document processing device or document processing software, a part of a sentence to which an annotation is attached is marked as "... [ ^* 1] ..." and the corresponding annotation is provided separately from the text. Processing is taking place.

[0005]

In a document processing apparatus that does not have an annotation function, there is a case where the same operation as "writing a simple memorandum or memo in a line space or a margin of a document" in a handwritten document is performed. Think For that purpose, it is possible to insert a comment sentence in the text. However, the annotation text is
It is required during document creation but not needed in the final document. Therefore, it is necessary for the user to distinguish the text from the comment text and manage the comment text.

Next, consider a document preparation device or document preparation software having only the aforementioned minimum functions. In this case, the document creation device and the software itself distinguish and manage the text and the annotation text. However, the place where the annotation is added in the text is only marked to indicate that the annotation is added. Therefore, it is only necessary to look at the document to determine whether the annotations added there are only for the immediately preceding word or the immediately following word, the sentence, or some sentences including the mark. Is impossible. Also, it is not possible to specify the target range of such an annotation.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus with an annotation function which can add a comment text by designating a desired range in a document and edit the comment text.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A document processing device with annotation function according to the present invention hierarchically creates a document consisting of an input means for inputting an electronic character string and a character string input by the input means. An annotation in which a document storage unit capable of storing in a structural form and a character string input by the input unit are associated with components in an arbitrary range of an arbitrary layer of a document stored in the document storage unit As an annotation text editing means for updating as necessary and storing it in the document storage means, and outputting the document stored in the document storage means, and for any constituent element of the output document And an output unit capable of outputting the annotation sentence associated and stored in the document storage unit in association with the corresponding component.

[0009]

In the document processing apparatus with annotation function according to the first aspect, the document consisting of the character string input by the input means is stored in the document storage means in a hierarchical structure format. Annotation text editing means can associate an annotation with a component in an arbitrary range in an arbitrary hierarchy of this document, edit the annotation, and store it in the document storage means. When a document stored in the document storage means is output, the corresponding annotation sentence stored in the document storage means is output in association with the constituent element in an arbitrary range of the document. It can be edited by the annotation text editing means.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An example in which the present invention is applied to a word processor will be described below. However, the present invention is not only applicable to word processors dedicated to document processing, but also applicable to word processor software executed on a general-purpose computer such as a personal computer.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the word processor of this embodiment. Referring to FIG. 1, this word processor executes a predetermined document processing program and includes a CPU (central processing unit) 32 for controlling various input / output devices described later. A bus is connected to the CPU 32. Various peripheral devices to be described later are connected to the CPU 32 via this bus.

Referring to FIG. 1, the word processor further includes a ROM (read-only memory) 38 storing a document processing program executed by CPU 32, a memory 34 for temporarily storing a document to be processed, and the like. Fixed disk 36 for storing data such as documents, and CPU
A CG (character generator) 40 for outputting a predetermined character pattern in response to a character code given from 32, a CRT (cathode ray tube) 42 for displaying a document, etc., and a printer for printing a document, etc. 44
And a flexible disk driver 46 for storing documents and the like, characters constituting the document, control characters, and other CPs
A keyboard 48 for generating a special character string or the like given as a command to the document processing program on U32 as an electronic character string.

The respective devices shown in FIG. 1 and the document processing program executed by the CPU 32 constitute various means described in claim 1.

Although the keyboard 48 is shown as the input means in the example shown in FIG. 1, it may be an OCR (optical character reading device) or an input means using a communication line. Alternatively, the driver 46 of the flexible disk may input a document from a file of the flexible disk. Although the CRT 42 and the printer 44 are shown as an example of the output means, the CRT 42 may be replaced with a display device such as an LCD (liquid crystal display device) or a communication line. Further, the flexible disk driver 46 may be used as an output unit to output to a file of the flexible disk.

Various functions realized by the document processing program executed by each device shown in FIG. 1 and the CPU 32 will be described below with reference to FIGS.

With reference to FIG. 2, this document processing apparatus has an input means 50 for inputting a document body and comment text, and the inputted document body and comment text and their relationship in a hierarchical structure. A document storage unit 54 for storing, an output unit 58 for displaying or outputting the document body and the annotation sentence in association with each other, and various kinds of addition, correction, deletion, etc. regarding the contents of the document body and the annotation sentence. It includes a document control unit 52 for performing an editing process, and an annotation sentence management unit 56 for managing the relation between the added annotation sentence and the document body.

Referring to FIG. 3, input means 50 is a conventional document input means 62 for inputting a document.
And an annotation range designation means 60 for designating an annotation addition range in the document body, and an annotation range selection means 64 for selecting an annotation already added to the document body. The annotation range designation means 60 and the annotation range selection means 64 are newly added functions in the present invention.
These functions are realized by the keyboard 48 and a predetermined part of the document processing program.

With reference to FIG. 4, the output means displays the document body according to the conventional format, and the document output means 66 for displaying the specified annotation text, and the range to which the annotation is added. An annotation range display means 68 for displaying in the displayed document body. The annotation range display means 68 displays the annotation addition range according to the information given from the annotation text editing means 56 described later via the document control means 52. To display the additional range,
For example, a method of underlining the range in which the annotation is added in the document body may be considered. These means are C
It is realized by the RT 42 and the output control part of the document processing program.

Referring again to FIG. 2, the function itself of the document control means 52 is basically the same as the conventional one. That is, the document control unit 52 controls a process for inputting, storing, selecting, correcting, and changing a sentence to be processed. The sentence to be processed includes the document body and an annotation sentence added to the document. That is, the document control means 52
In, the conventional functions for the document body can be applied not only to the document body but also to the annotation sentence.

In the present embodiment, the annotation sentence itself is also treated as one independent document. Therefore, the processing that has been conventionally applicable to the document body can be similarly applied to the annotation text. For example, the annotation text may be further annotated just as the document body may be annotated according to the present invention.

With reference to FIG. 5, the annotation text editing means 56
This is a functional block characteristic of the present invention, and includes an annotation sentence managing unit 70, an annotation sentence adding unit 72, an annotation sentence deleting unit 74, and an annotation sentence searching unit 76 which operate under the control of the annotation sentence managing unit 70. Each of these means is realized by the corresponding part of the document processing program, as will be described later.

The annotation sentence management means 70 has means for managing the document in units of hierarchical components and storing which part of the document body a certain annotation sentence is added to. Characters, words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, sections, etc. can be considered as the hierarchy. Each of the constituent elements of each layer is associated with one or a plurality of constituent elements in the layer immediately below. For example, a "section" includes one or more "paragraphs" as constituent elements, and a "paragraph" includes one or more "sentences" as constituent elements. A "sentence" includes a plurality of "bunsetsu" as constituent elements. Similarly, each clause also includes one or more "words" as constituent elements. Finally, each word contains one or more "characters."

The annotation sentence is added to one component or a predetermined range of a plurality of components. The annotation sentence management unit 70 has a function of adjusting the storage of the added position of the annotation sentence when the annotation is newly added, deleted, or the added position is changed as described later. Also, if changes are made to the document body,
In accordance therewith, it has a function of adjusting the memory of the added position of the annotation text. The annotation statement management unit 70 prepares one annotation management table for one document, and manages all the above-described processing for the annotation for one document using this management table.

The annotation sentence adding means 72 is a function for adding a new annotation sentence to the document body. Annotation sentence deleting means 7
Reference numeral 4 is a function for deleting the comment text already added to the document body. The annotation sentence search unit 76 has a function of searching for an annotation sentence that satisfies a desired condition, depending on the content and other conditions.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the input means 50
As described above, the keyboard 48 and a predetermined portion of the document processing program correspond to each other. The memory 34 is used as the document storage means 54. As the output means 58, the corresponding portion of the CRT 42 and software is mainly used as described above. As the annotation text editing means 56, the CPU 3
The corresponding part of the document processing program executed in 2 and the memory 34 are used. The document control means 52 mainly corresponds to each function of the document processing program executed by the CPU 32.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, the input means 50
The respective means 60, 62, 64 in the above correspond to the keyboard 48 and the portion corresponding to the input processing control in the document processing program.

Referring to FIG. 4, as the respective means 66 and 68 included in the output means 58, the CRT 42 and the CPU 32 are used.
The display control part corresponds to the document processing program executed in.

Referring to FIG. 5, the annotation sentence editing means 56 includes a corresponding portion of the document processing program, and
Some of the storage means such as the memory 34 and the fixed disk 36 are used.

The operation of this apparatus will be briefly described below with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5 and 6 to 14. Note that how to realize the operation described below with reference to the drawings is
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, referring to FIG. 6, a document display screen 78
The document body to which the annotation is added is displayed on.
Alternatively, a case may be considered in which a new document is being input using the document display screen 78. A case where an annotation sentence is added to the document body in FIG. 6 will be described. In FIG. 6, the part where the two underlines are displayed (the character "ke") is the current cursor position.

In order to be able to add annotations, first, referring to FIG.
Among the keys of the keyboard 48 shown in FIG. 3, the key (not shown) to which the function of “annotation addition” is assigned is pressed. This puts the word processor in annotation mode. At the beginning of the comment addition mode, the range to add the comment is an implicit value, for example, a character unit. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, when the cursor is at this position, the mode is to add a comment to the character "ke".

Although not shown, the keyboard 48 shown in FIG. 1 includes, in addition to the above-mentioned "additional key", a "selection key" used when selecting an annotation already added, The "modify" key to move to the mode for modifying the displayed commentary text, the "delete key" for designating deletion of the added commentary text, and multiple "Enter key" used to select one of the annotation texts when it is added
And a "stop key" that is operated when ending each of these operation modes. Further, the keyboard 48 includes an “up key” used to move the specified unit of the range to which the annotation is added up one level up from the current level, and a “down key” down to the level lower than the current level. There is a "← expand key" to expand the specified range for each component of the hierarchy in front of the document as it is, and a "→ contract key" to expand the comment specified range behind the document. . The "confirmation key" described above is also used to confirm the range designation when designating the annotation range.

When the "up" key is pressed in the state shown in FIG. 6, the display is as shown in FIG. In this case, the range for adding the annotation is performed in "word" units. In FIG. 7, the portion underlined in light indicates the currently designated range. This matches the word currently at the cursor.

When the "up key" is pressed further in FIG. 7,
The display is as shown in FIG. The hierarchy is moved up one level, and the unit for specifying the range is a clause. The portion underlined in FIG. 8 is the currently designated range. This matches the clause containing the current position of the cursor.

As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, in order to underline each word or phrase, the document must be divided into words or phrases and stored. This will be described in detail later with reference to the drawings. After the morpheme analysis is performed at the time of document input, the finally obtained characters are converted into words or phrase units obtained by these morpheme analysis, and further above them. This can be realized by hierarchically storing each unit such as a sentence or paragraph.

When the cursor movement key (which is also a normal cursor movement key included in the keyboard 48, which is also not shown) is pressed in the state shown in FIG. 8, the designated range is moved in units of clauses. Further, when the "down key" is pressed in FIG. 8, the unit for specifying the range is moved to the next lower layer, that is, the word unit, and the display is the same as in FIG.

FIG. 9 shows a state in which a plurality of units are collectively designated as an annotation addition target in one hierarchy. In FIG. 9, it is assumed that the hierarchy of range designation is a clause. In order to obtain the state shown in FIG. 9, the following operation is performed in the phrase unit range designation mode of FIG.
As described above, the “← enlargement key” is for expanding the range toward the front side of the document in phrase units in the current hierarchy. Therefore, by pressing this key once, the display changes to the states shown in FIGS.

In order to extend the range to the rear of the document while keeping the current hierarchy, the aforementioned "enlargement → key" is used. To narrow the specified range in front of the document with the current hierarchy, use the "→ reduce key". In order to narrow the range at the back of the document with the current hierarchy, use the "reduce ← key". Then, when the underlined part matches the desired range, press the "Enter key" to confirm the range of annotation addition,
The display is as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 10, an annotation input screen 80 is displayed overlaid on the phrase display screen 78. Using the annotation input screen 80, it becomes possible to input the annotation text in exactly the same manner as a normal document input. That is, when the comment text is input, all the functions available when editing the document body can be used, including new addition of the comment text. Further, the annotation text input on the annotation input screen 80 is stored in association with the annotation addition range in the document body designated prior to the annotation text. The details will be described later. Also, by pressing the "Cancel key" after inputting the comment text, the comment text input ends and the state returns to the state shown in FIG.

Next, an operation for selecting an already added annotation and referring to its contents will be described. First, press the "selection key". As a result, the annotation selection mode is set, and the annotation can be selected.

The unit (hierarchy) of the range of annotations to be selected is designated using the "up key" and "down key" in the same manner as the addition position. In addition, the range of annotations to be selected in one layer is "←
Designate using "enlarge key""enlarge → key""→ reduce key""reduce ← key".

FIG. 11 shows a case where the range of annotation addition is designated in sentence units. In FIG. 11, the sentence to which the annotation is added is underlined. By operating the "front key" and "rear key" in the display state shown in FIG. 11, it is possible to move to the annotation addition portion before and after the current designated range.

By pressing the "previous key" once in the display state shown in FIG. 11, the user moves to the previous addition portion and presses the "confirmation key". The display state is as shown in FIG. In FIG. 12, an annotation display screen 82 is provided on the document display screen 78. In this annotation display screen 82,
The comment sentence stored for the sentence "First, think" in the document body is displayed. The display example shown in FIG. 12 is a case where only one annotation sentence is added to the designated range.

In the display state shown in FIG. 12, "correction key"
When is pressed, the annotation text correction mode as shown in FIG. 13 is entered. In this correction mode, when an annotation is input (see FIG. 10).
All the functions that can be used when editing the document body can be used, as in (See Reference). It can also be used for adding annotations.

"Delete key" in the display state shown in FIG.
Pressing deletes the displayed annotation from the document body. Alternatively, the annotation text may be deleted by pressing the “delete key” in a state where the annotation is simply displayed as shown in FIG. 12 without once entering the correction mode.

When a plurality of comment texts are added to one comment text addition position, all the comment texts are displayed in, for example, three comment display screens 84, 86, as shown in FIG.
88 is displayed. In this case, by pressing the "confirmation key" described above, one of the annotation display screens 84, 86, 88 is displayed at the top of the screen, and the contents can be referred to. Then, the above-described correction processing and deletion processing are performed on the displayed annotation display screen.

The outline of the document processing program executed by the CPU 32 will be described below to show how the various functions described above are realized. Before describing the flow of processing of this program using a flowchart, the document storage format, which is closely related to the structure of the program, will be described with reference to FIGS. Note that FIG.
The storage form of a document as shown in is called a linked list structure.
It has already been implemented.

Referring to FIG. 15, the document storage area includes a clause hierarchy storage area 90, a paragraph hierarchy storage area 92, a sentence hierarchy storage area 94, a clause hierarchy storage area 96, and a word hierarchy storage area 98. Character storage area 100, 102
Including and. Each of these areas 90, 92, 94, 9
6, 98, 100 and 102 form a hierarchical structure.
The details of the hierarchical structure are as follows.

For example, the node hierarchy storage area 90 is an area 90 for storing fixed-length data in order on the memory.
a, 90b, ... Individual fixed length data area 90
a, 90b, ... Store the address on the memory for designating a predetermined storage location of the next lower hierarchy, that is, the paragraph hierarchy storage area 92. The end of each storage area is an area shaded in FIG. In these end areas, a special value which is not normally used is stored as an address in order to show that it is the end of the storage area.

In FIG. 15, the content of area 90a indicates the address of storage area 92a of paragraph hierarchy storage area 92. Similarly, the area 90b is a paragraph hierarchy storage area 92.
The value indicating another address of is stored.

The paragraph hierarchy storage area 92, like the clause hierarchy storage area 90, has a plurality of fixed-length data areas 92a.
.., 92e, ... Each data area 92a to 92e has a layer one level lower, that is, a sentence layer storage area 9
The address for designating the predetermined location of 4 is stored.

In this way, the sentence hierarchy storage area 94
Includes data areas 94a to 94h, the phrase hierarchy storage area 96 includes data areas 96a to 96b, ..., The word hierarchy storage area 98 includes data areas 98a to 9a.
8f, ... are included. A value indicating the address of a predetermined data area in the next lower layer is stored in a certain data area in each layer. Then, the character storage areas 100 and 102 are finally reached by sequentially tracing the data area of the node hierarchy from the data area of the node hierarchy at the top.

Character storage areas 100 and 102 in the lowermost layer
Also has a plurality of fixed length data areas. One character is stored in each fixed length data. Character storage area 1
In the data area at the end of each of 00 and 102, special characters that are not normally used are stored to represent the end.

Using this hierarchical structure, for example, one sentence is displayed as follows. A sentence contains multiple clauses in sequence. Each clause also contains one or more words. Each word consists of one or more letters.

Therefore, the procedure of "displaying one phrase" is called in sequence for each lined phrase.
In each of the procedures for displaying one phrase, the procedure of "displaying one word" is sequentially called for each word that constitutes the phrase. Similarly, the "display one word" procedure calls the "display one character" procedure.
In this way, the entire sentence is displayed by sequentially descending the hierarchy and sequentially displaying the characters of each clause constituting the sentence.

Similarly, when displaying a higher hierarchy, for example, a paragraph, the following is done. That is, in the procedure of "displaying one paragraph", the procedure of "displaying one sentence" is called in the order of sentences for each of the sentences forming the paragraph. Each sentence includes one or more clauses. Call the "display one clause" procedure for each clause. Each clause contains one or more words. Invokes the "display one word" procedure for each word in turn. Finally, for each word, the entire sentence is displayed by calling the "display one character" procedure.

The constituent units in the arbitrary range of the arbitrary hierarchy can be designated as follows. For example,
Consider the case where the hierarchy for specifying the range is the hierarchy of clauses. Referring to FIG. 16, the second 96b to the seventh 96g of a certain sentence (sentence corresponding to data area 94b)
Consider the case where up to are specified as the annotation addition range. The following annotation management table is used for this specification.

FIG. 17 shows a part of the annotation management table. This annotation management table shows the hierarchy of each annotation added range,
This is for managing the range in which annotations are added in the hierarchy and the name of the document file in which the annotations added to the range are stored, as one set for each annotation. Figure 1
In FIG. 7, a “tier” column stores a value indicating which tier is adopted as a unit for specifying a range. As shown in FIG. 17, this value is composed of a set of information that specifies a section number, a paragraph number, a sentence number, a clause number, a word number, and the like. In the designation method shown in FIG. 17, a word number, a clause number, a sentence number including a range to which an annotation is added in order from the right side,
Values are arranged in the order of paragraph number and section number. "range"
Column, the annotation addition range in the layer specified by the value of the “layer” is stored in the form of a set of values of the start point 1 and the end point 1 of the annotation addition range among the constituent elements of the layer. Has been done.

For example, the annotation addition range as shown in FIG. 16 is the range from the second sentence to the fifth sentence in the second sentence of the seventh paragraph of the fifth paragraph from the beginning of the document. Is specified as the annotation addition range. In this case, the value for specifying the hierarchy including the annotation addition range is (...
7, 5, 2, 0, 0). In the current example, the annotation range is specified above the hierarchy of letters and words, so
The value indicating the position of the constituent element of those layers is “0”. From the "Range" column, the second to fifth items of this clause
It can be seen that annotations are added up to the first.
Also, from the "Content" column, the content of this annotation is "comm.
It can be seen that it is stored in a document file named "txt".

The annotation management table shown in FIG. 17 is expanded on the memory 34 when a document is edited. The annotation management table is managed by the annotation statement management means 70 shown in FIG. With reference to FIG. 5, the annotation sentence adding unit 72 and the annotation sentence deleting unit 74 update this annotation management table via the annotation sentence managing unit 70. The annotation text search means 76, the annotation range display means 68 shown in FIG. 4, the annotation range designation means 60 and the annotation range selection means 64 shown in FIG. 3 are respectively managed by the annotation text management means 70. Refer to the table.

When the document is stored, this annotation management table is stored in an external storage device such as a flexible disk set in the fixed disk 36 or the flexible disk driver 46 as a file different from the original document body. In the annotation management table file, in addition to the contents of the annotation management table, information for specifying the name of the original document body is recorded.
Therefore, if you read the file contents of this annotation management table,
You can get the name of the document body and all annotations attached to it.

Using this annotation management table (see FIG. 17),
When a part of a document is specified, the corresponding comment text is searched for as follows. First, it is assumed that the hierarchy of the selection range is the "bunsetsu" hierarchy. The specified clause can be specified from the cursor position at the time of specification. Further, since the cursor holds the position in the hierarchical structure of the whole sentence, it is possible to specify which sentence the phrase is a part of. You can also see which paragraph the sentence is part of. Therefore, by searching the “hierarchy” column of the annotation management table, all the annotations added to the clause can be obtained.

Next, an annotation including the specified position in the annotation addition range is obtained from the information indicating the position of the cursor at the time of the designation, which section of the sentence, and the information in the "range" column of the annotation management table. be able to.

The annotations satisfying these two conditions become the annotation texts corresponding to the designated positions, and the annotation texts are read by accessing the document file having the name shown in the "content" column of the annotation management table. be able to.

FIG. 18 is a schematic flowchart of the main routine of the document processing program executed by the CPU 32 of FIG. Referring to FIG. 18, first, step S010
Then, a determination is made as to whether the selected process is the creation of a new document. When creating a new document, the process proceeds to step S020, otherwise, the process proceeds to step S040.

In step S020, a predetermined process necessary for creating a new document is performed, and step S0
Control proceeds to 30.

In step S030, a process of shifting control to the document input mode is performed. This document input mode will be described in detail with reference to FIG. Step S0
The post-processing of step 30 proceeds to step S050.

On the other hand, steps S010 to S0
If the control has proceeded to step 40, a process of reading the specified existing document is performed in step S040. After reading the document, the process proceeds to step S030 as in the case of creating a new document.

In step S050, step S030
As a result of the processing in the document input mode, the judgment is made as to whether or not the document to be processed has been updated. If the document has been updated, the process proceeds to step S060, and the process of registering the updated document in an external storage medium such as a magnetic disk is performed. In this case, the annotation sentence created in association with this document is also registered.

If it is not determined in step S050 that the document has been updated, or if the document has been updated in step S050.
When the process of registering the updated document in 060 ends, this main routine ends.

FIG. 19 is a schematic flowchart of the document input mode shown in step S030 of FIG. Referring to FIG. 19, first in S031, it is determined whether or not the annotation addition key has been pressed. If it is determined that the button has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S070. If it is determined that the button has not been pressed, the process proceeds to step S070.
Proceed to 032.

In step S070, execution of an annotation new addition mode described later is started, and when the annotation new addition mode ends, the process returns to step S031.

In step S032, it is determined whether or not the annotation selection key has been pressed. If it is determined that the annotation selection key is pressed, the process proceeds to step S080, and if not, the process proceeds to step S0.
Go to 33 respectively.

In step S080, processing in the annotation selection mode described later is started, and when the processing in the annotation selection mode ends, the control returns to step S031.

In step S033, it is determined whether or not the stop key has been pressed. If it is determined that the cancel key has been pressed, the document input mode ends and control returns to the main routine. If it is determined that the stop key has not been pressed, other input editing processing is performed in step S090. Since these input editing processes are the same as the conventional input editing processes, detailed description thereof will not be given here. Upon completion of these other input editing processes, the control returns to step S031 again.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart of the annotation new addition mode shown in step S070 of FIG. Referring to FIG. 20, first in step S071, it is determined whether or not the cursor movement key has been operated. If it is determined that the cursor movement key has been operated, the process proceeds to step S076, and if not, the process proceeds to step S072.

In step S076, the processing for moving the cursor in units of the constituent units of the current hierarchy is performed according to the processing of the pressed cursor movement key.
Details of the processing performed in step S076 are shown in FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to 23. When the process of step S076 ends, the control returns to step S071 again.

In step S072, it is determined whether or not any one of the keys ("up key" and "down key") for moving the hierarchy up and down has been pressed.
If it is determined that the pressure has been applied, the process proceeds to step S.
077, otherwise, the process proceeds to step S073.
To each.

In step S077, a process of changing the hierarchy of the structural unit for specifying the range by one step, up or down is performed.
The change in display in this case has already been described, and will not be repeated here. After step S077, the control returns to step S071.

In step S073, it is determined whether or not any one of the range enlargement / reduction keys ("← enlargement key""enlargement → key""→ reduction key""reduction ← key") has been pressed. If it is determined that the button has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S078; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S074.

In step S078, a process of enlarging or reducing the annotation addition range in a predetermined direction according to the designated key is performed with the constituent unit of the current hierarchy as a unit. After step S078, the control returns to step S071.

In step S074, it is determined whether the range confirmation key ("confirmation key") has been pressed. If it is determined that the button has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S079, and if not, the process proceeds to step S075.

In step S079, the mode is shifted to the document input mode. However, in this step S079,
It should be noted that the input is for the annotation text, not the document body. After step S079, the control proceeds to step S07A.

In step S07A, step S079
The document input in step 2 is registered as an annotation text, and the management information is stored in the annotation management table format. After step S07A, the control returns to step S071.

In step S075, it is determined whether or not the stop key has been pressed. If the stop key is pressed, it is determined that the end of the annotation new addition mode is instructed, and the control is returned to the original mode. If the stop key is not pressed, the control is again performed in step S.
Return to 071.

FIG. 21 is a more detailed flowchart of the annotation selection mode performed in step S080 of FIG. In this annotation selection mode, a process of selecting an annotation at a specific place in the document body and correcting / deleting it is performed.

First, in step S081, a process of displaying the annotation addition portion is performed in units of the constituent units of the current hierarchy. The post-processing of step S081 is step S082.
Proceed to.

In step S082, it is determined whether or not any of the forward / backward movement keys ("front key" and "rear key") has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process proceeds to step S088, and if not, the process proceeds to step S083.

In step S088, a process of moving the cursor to the front and rear annotation positions is performed in the constituent unit of the current hierarchy. Regarding the processing in step S088, FIG.
Will be described later with reference to. After step S088, control returns to step S081.

In step S083, it is determined whether or not one of the hierarchy up / down designating keys ("upper key" and "lower key") has been pressed. If it is determined that the pressure is applied, the control proceeds to step S089, and if it is determined that the pressure is not applied, the control proceeds to step S084.

In step S089, the process of changing the hierarchy of the structural unit for range designation up or down by one step is performed.
After step S089, the control returns to step S081.

In step S084, it is determined whether the selection confirmation key ("confirmation key") has been pressed. If it is determined that the pressure is applied, the control proceeds to step S08A, and if it is determined that the pressure is not applied, the control proceeds to step S085.

In step S08A, a process of displaying the content of the annotation sentence added to the confirmed range is performed. In this case, the content of the annotation text is read from the document file specified according to the annotation management table. The document file indexing method using the annotation management table has already been described. After step S08A, the control returns to step S081.

In step S085, it is determined whether the annotation correction key ("correction key") has been pressed. If it is determined to be present, the control proceeds to step S08B, and if it is determined not to be present, the control proceeds to step S086.

In step S08B, the mode is shifted to the document input mode. That is, the displayed annotation text is
The correction process is performed by using the same function as the function for correcting the document body. When the document input mode in step S08B ends, the control advances to S08C.

In step S08C, step S08B
The document corrected by is registered as an annotation text, and the management information in the annotation management table is updated. Step S0
After 8C, the control returns to step S081.

In step S086, it is determined whether the annotation deletion key ("deletion key") has been pressed. If it is determined that the pressure is applied, the control proceeds to step S08D, and if it is determined that the pressure is not applied, the control proceeds to step S087.

In step S08D, a process of deleting the selected annotation sentence is performed. In this case, a process of deleting the relevant part from the comment management table and deleting the document file of the relevant comment text is also performed. Step S
After 08D, the control returns to step S081.

In step S087, it is determined whether the stop key has been pressed. If there is a press, the annotation selection mode ends and control returns to the original mode. If it is determined that the stop key has not been pressed, the control returns to step S081 again.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing the rightward movement processing of the cursor movement, which is performed in step S076 of FIG. When moving to the left,
Since it is performed in the same manner as the process shown in 2, the details thereof will not be repeated here.

First, referring to FIG. 22, step S101.
Then, a determination is made as to whether the end of the current hierarchy has been reached. The current cursor position is which chapter, which section, which paragraph, which sentence, which clause, which word,
It is stored and managed in the form of which character. An area is provided for storing the cursor position in all layers, regardless of the current stage. Further, information on which layer is the layer currently being processed is also stored.

If it is determined in step S101 that the cursor has reached the end of the current layer, control proceeds to step S102, and if it is determined that the cursor has not reached the end of the current layer, control proceeds to step S107.

In step S107, a process of moving the cursor to the right by one unit is performed according to the designated unit of the current cursor range. After step S107, the control returns to the original routine.

In step S102, it is determined whether or not the current layer is the top layer. This judgment is made by checking the information on which stage the current hierarchy is, as described above. If it is determined to be the top layer, this routine ends immediately.
If it is determined that the layer is not the uppermost layer, the control is step S
Proceed to 103.

At step S103, 1 from the current layer.
The process of raising the hierarchy by one is performed. Step S10
After 3, the control proceeds to step S104.

In step S104, a process of changing the value indicating the cursor position so as to indicate the position one right on the next higher layer is performed. As a result, the position of the constituent unit of this hierarchy including the cursor moves to the right by one. After step S104, the control proceeds to step S105.

In step S105, the hierarchy is set to 1 again.
The process of lowering is performed. Succeedingly, in a step S106, a process of moving the cursor to the head of the constituent units of the current hierarchy is performed. After step S106, this routine ends.

By using the program of the routine as shown in FIG. 22, it is possible to move the cursor display to the right according to the pressing of the right move key and the current hierarchy.

FIG. 23 is a flow chart of a routine for moving toward the end of the sentence in the moving process of the display of the annotation added portion performed in step S088 of FIG. Since the display position of the annotation toward the beginning of the sentence can be moved in the same manner as this routine, this detail will not be repeated here.

First, in step S111, a process is performed to find the location of the currently displayed annotation addition range in the annotation management table based on the current cursor position.

Then, in step S112, step S1
A process of obtaining the content one behind the position obtained in 11 in the annotation management table is performed.

Further, in step S113, step S
A determination is made as to whether or not the contents obtained at 112 are in the same hierarchy as the present. If it is determined that they are in the same layer, control proceeds to step S114, but otherwise, this routine ends.

In step S114, a process of updating the annotation management table is performed. That is, according to the content obtained in step S112, the annotation range display is updated so as to correctly indicate the annotation position. After step S114, this routine ends. Note that, as described above, the information indicating which hierarchy is the current processing target is stored in association with the cursor. Therefore, the process of changing the hierarchy of the structural unit which is the current operation target up or down by one step is performed simply by changing the information indicating this hierarchy.

When the operation target is changed to the next higher layer, the position where the cursor is displayed is uniquely determined. But,
When changing the operation target to the next lower layer, there may be a plurality of places to move the cursor. Therefore, in this embodiment, the cursor is moved to the head position in the constituent unit of the next lower layer. For example, the cursor is 1
Consider a case in which the hierarchy of the operation target is changed to the hierarchy of the "bunsetsu" one level lower when one is pointing. In this case, 1
Since a sentence usually contains a plurality of clauses, the cursor after the change is set to the first clause.

When the range is specified at the time of adding the annotation, as described above, the annotation management table manages two pieces of information of the range start position and the range end position. Both of these two pieces of information have the same format as the information indicating the cursor position. When the range designation is expanded or reduced with the unit of the current hierarchy as a unit, the range start position information and the range end position information are respectively changed according to the value of the change. The information stored in the range start position and the range end position has the same format as the information indicating the cursor position as described above. Therefore, those changes are made by using the same method as the movement of the cursor 1 as shown in FIG.

The annotation management table shown in FIG. 17 usually includes a plurality of pieces of annotation range designation information. Every time the annotation management table is updated, the contents of the annotation management table are sorted using the values in the fields of "hierarchy" and "range" as keys.

Sorting is first performed for "hierarchy". The ones in the same layer are collected first, and those in the higher layers are arranged in order. As a result, for example, the comment added to the paragraph appears earlier in the comment management table than the comment added to the sentence.

Next, in the same hierarchy, the annotation range designation information is arranged in order from the document closest to the beginning of the document. As a result, for example, among the annotations added to the sentence, the one closer to the head of the document appears earlier in the annotation management table.

Finally, according to the value of the start position of "range",
The comment range designation information is arranged in order from the one closer to the beginning of the document. As a result, for example, among the annotations added to a plurality of clauses that form the same sentence, the annotation closer to the beginning of the document appears earlier in the annotation management table. When sorting is performed as described above, the width of the annotation addition range does not affect the sorting result.

Of course, such processing in the annotation management table is not always necessary, and the sorting may be performed in a different order from the above.

[0121]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to record a document in a hierarchical structure format, add a comment to a component in a desired range of a desired hierarchy, and edit the comment. . The comment text associated with the component of any range in any hierarchy of the document can be output and edited in relation to the range of the component, so that the comment sentence can be utilized more effectively. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a word processor as an example of a document processing device with an annotation function according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of input means.

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of output means.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of an annotation text editing unit.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen and an annotation text input screen.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen.

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen and an annotation text display screen.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen and an annotation text processing screen.

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of a document display screen and an annotation text display screen.

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram showing a storage system of a document hierarchical structure format.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of a hierarchical structure showing a method of specifying an annotation addition range.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an annotation management table.

FIG. 18 is a CPU of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart of a main routine of a document processing program executed in.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart of a document input mode.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart of an annotation new addition mode.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart of an annotation selection mode.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart of a cursor movement routine to the right.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart showing a routine for moving the cursor to the annotation position in the sentence end direction.

[Explanation of symbols]

 32 CPU 34 Memory 36 Fixed Disk 38 ROM 42 CRT 48 Keyboard 50 Input Means 52 Document Control Means 54 Document Storage Means 56 Annotation Text Editing Means 58 Output Means 60 Annotation Range Designating Means 62 Document Input Means 64 Annotation Range Selecting Means 66 Document Output Means 68 annotation range display means 70 annotation sentence management means 72 annotation sentence adding means 74 annotation sentence deleting means 76 annotation sentence searching means 78 document display screen 80 annotation input screens 82 to 88 annotation display screens

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document comprising an input means for inputting an electronic character string and a character string input by the input means,
Document storage means capable of storing in a hierarchical structure form, and a character string input by the input means are associated with constituent elements in an arbitrary range of an arbitrary hierarchy of a document stored in the document storage means. A comment text editing means for editing as an annotation and storing it in the document storage means, and updating it as necessary, and outputting the document stored in the document storage means, A document processing device with annotation function, comprising: an output unit capable of outputting an annotation sentence associated with an arbitrary component and stored in the document storage unit in association with a corresponding component.