JPH07129584A - Attribute changing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To change a character to be changed into a character with a desired attribute by correctly knowing the desired attribute character from a menu. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a first specifying means 104 specifying the character to be attribute-changed from among a display part and the characters displayed in the first area of the display part, a storage means 102 storing plural characters with different attributes by each group of the same semantic contents, a retrieving means 109 retrieving the inside of the storage means 102 and reading out the plural characters of the group of the same sematic contents with the character specified by the first specifying means 104, a display means 103 displaying the plural read characters in a second display area different from the first display area in the display part, a second specifying means 104 specifying a desired character from among the plural characters displayed in the second display area and a changing means 109 changing the character specified by the first specifying means 104 into that specified by the second specifying means 104.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to characters such as characters, figures, images, and paragraph marks with the same meaning and different attributes (for example, in characters, Osaka font, Kyoto font, Mincho font, Gothic font). And fonts such as standard, italic, underlined, bold, etc., and size) to an attribute changing device for changing to a character.

2. Description of the Related Art This type of attribute changing device is generally incorporated in a document creating device represented by a word processor, and fulfills one function in the document creating process or editing process of the document creating device. It is a thing.
That is, when the operator is creating or editing a document with the document creating device and wants to change the character displayed on the screen of the document creating device to a character having the same meaning and different attribute, the attribute changing device The function of accepting the instruction of the operator and changing the displayed character of the attribute to the character of the attribute desired by the operator is as described above in the document creation apparatus. It is a necessary device to realize the essential function of changing the character attributes. The conventional attribute changing apparatus processes the character on the display screen of the document creating apparatus as follows to change the attribute. That is, a character whose operator desires to change the attribute (hereinafter referred to as a changed character) is accepted via the keyboard provided in the document creation device.
After accepting the changed character, a menu for changing the attribute is displayed on the display screen. In this menu, names showing attributes (for example, if the character whose attribute you want to change are characters, Mincho type font, Gothic type font, italic type, underline, bold type, etc.) are listed, and the representative character In some cases, a plurality of characters that have the same meaning and different attributes as the representative character (hereinafter referred to as representative character) are listed. After showing these menus, wait for the operator to select the name indicating the attribute or the representative character from the menu via the keyboard, and accept the instruction from the operator, the same as the changed character. In terms of meaning and content, the character which is the attribute indicated by the name just indicated or the attribute of the representative character is searched out, and the changed character on the display screen of the document creation device is changed to the character just searched out.

However, among the above-mentioned conventional attribute changing devices, in the case where the menu is listed by the attribute name, the operator must know the attribute name and the attribute indicated by the name. For example, the operator cannot find the desired attribute from the menu, and there is a problem that the changed character cannot be changed to the character with the desired attribute.If the menu is listed with multiple representative characters, the representative character is Since the selected character is not selected as the same meaning content character, the representative character and the modified character may not have the same meaning content. In such a case, it may be difficult to accurately imagine the changed character whose attribute has been changed from the listed representative characters, and it is difficult to change the changed character to a character having a desired attribute. The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and even if the operator does not know the name of the attribute and the attribute indicated by the name, by further accurately knowing the desired attribute character from the menu, the changed character It is an object of the present invention to provide an attribute changing device capable of changing a character having a desired attribute.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for attaining the above object, an attribute is changed from a display section and a character displayed in a first area of the display section. A first designating means for designating a desired character, a storage means for storing a plurality of characters having different attributes for each group having the same meaning and content, and a first designating means for searching the storage means. Search means for reading out a plurality of characters having the same meaning content as the character specified by, and display means for displaying the read out plurality of characters in a second display area different from the first display area on the display section. A second designating means for designating a desired one from a plurality of characters displayed in the second display area, and a second designating character designated by the first designating means. The invention according to claim 2 further comprises the configuration of the invention according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit is read by the retrieval unit. A plurality of characters having the same meaning content are stored so that they can be displayed in a state in which the first attribute is expanded in the first direction as a parameter and the second attribute is expanded in the second direction as a parameter. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first or second aspect of the invention, the display means includes a plurality of characters having the same meaning content read by the search means including three or more attributes. In this case, a plurality of characters having 1 or 2 attributes as parameters are displayed in the second display area, and when one character among them is designated, the display content of the second display area is designated as the above. Ki Tractor includes an attribute and includes a display content rewriting means for rewriting the character of different remaining attributes, the second specifying means, second
If one of the displayed characters is specified in the display area of, and there are no undisplayed characters,
It is characterized in that the designated character is output to the changing means.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the first display unit
When the operator designates the character whose attribute is to be changed from the characters displayed in the area of No. 1 in the first designating means, the searching means stores the same meaning content as the designated character from the storage means. The plurality of characters in the group are read out, and the display means displays the read out plurality of characters in the second display area. When the operator operates the second designating means to cause the operator to designate the character desired to be designated from the plurality of characters displayed in the second display area,
The changing means changes the character specified by the first specifying means to
Change to the character designated by the second designating means and complete the modification of the attributes. When the operator selects a character with a different attribute, the operator selects a character in the second area of the display unit.
Since a plurality of characters having the same meaning content as the character and different attributes can be shown, the operator can select the character with a desired attribute by the second designating means. The character after the attribute change can be correctly recognized and selected. According to the invention of claim 2, the character displayed in the second display area of the display unit is
By displaying the difference in the attribute of the character in the first direction and the difference in the second attribute in the second direction and displaying, the operator can display the character of the character displayed in the second display area of the display unit. It is possible to simultaneously specify two attributes while accurately grasping the first attribute and the second attribute. According to the invention described in claim 3, when the plurality of characters having the same meaning content read by the search means include three or more attributes,
In the second display area of the display unit, one attribute is displayed as a parameter, or two attributes are displayed as parameters, that is, as in the invention according to claim 2 described above. After that, the operator designates one of the characters. Then, the display content rewriting means rewrites the display content of the second display area to a character in which the designated character includes an attribute and the remaining characters have different attributes. When there is only one remaining attribute, as in the above case, one attribute is displayed as a parameter, and when a character in it is specified, there is no character with an undisplayed attribute, so the above specified The character is output to the changing means to complete the attribute designation. When there are two remaining attributes, the two attributes are displayed as parameters in the same manner as in the above-described case in which they are displayed as in the invention described in claim 2 above, and when the character in them is specified, Since there is no character having the displayed attribute, the specified character is output to the changing means to complete the attribute specification. When the remaining attributes are three or more, the process returns to the case where the plurality of characters having the same meaning content read by the search means includes three or more attributes, and thereafter, the attributes are designated according to the processing, and the process is completed. That is, the designation of one attribute and the designation of two attributes can be combined, and the attributes can be designated in stages.

【Example】

(Embodiment 1) An embodiment of the attribute changing device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. This attribute changing device is incorporated in a document creating device represented by a word processor. Therefore, the configuration of the attribute changing device is incorporated in the basic configuration of the document creation device, that is, the external storage unit including a disk device, the computer body, the output unit including a CRT, and the input unit including a keyboard. It uses those functions. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of this attribute changing device. As described above, the attribute changing device includes the computer main body 101, the external storage unit 102, the output unit 103, and the input unit 104. The computer main body 101 includes an internal storage unit 105 and a central processing unit 106, and the internal storage unit 105 associates positional information and attributes of characters with each other.
07 and the position information 108 of the cursor on the screen of the CRT provided in the output unit 103 and the program 109 for changing the attribute of the character are stored. The central processing unit 106 reads and executes the attribute changing program 109 according to an instruction from the input unit 104. The external storage unit 102 stores characters (hereinafter, referred to as a group table 110) in which characters having different attributes are grouped according to the same meaning content. The output unit 103 includes the CRT as described above, and the character indicated by the correspondence table 107 stored in the internal storage unit 105 is displayed on the screen of the CRT according to the position indicated by the position information of the correspondence table 107. And the cursor is displayed on the screen of the CRT according to the cursor position information 108. Input section 10
4 changes the content of the cursor position information 108 to C
Move the cursor on the RT screen and specify the character on the CRT screen. The correspondence table 107 includes a first correspondence table and a second correspondence table. For convenience of explanation, the second correspondence table will be referred to later, and the first correspondence table will be described with reference to FIG. In this table, the left column is taken as coordinates and the right column is divided into two parts, meaning information and attribute information. The coordinates are two-dimensional coordinates determined by the horizontal axis and the vertical axis with the screen of the CRT of the output unit 103 as a plane having the horizontal axis and the vertical axis (hereinafter, the CRT screen specified by these coordinates. The upper area is the first window W1
Called. ), This coordinate is the first window W of the CRT
It is position information indicating the position on 1. The semantic information and the attribute information represent information that constitutes one character. The information that makes up one character is
There are two types of information, meaning information indicating meaning contents and attribute information added to the meaning information and indicating attributes. The meaning information is the difference between types such as characters, figures, image paragraph marks, and the types thereof. And the attribute information indicates the difference in attributes such as size, font, typeface, color ... Detailed description will be made by taking the one shown in the first row of FIG. 2 as an example. The meaning information of this character is “noble” (Since the meaning information and the attribute information are a set to indicate a character as described above, the meaning information alone does not make it an independent character. For the sake of convenience, and hereinafter, even if only the semantic information is displayed, it may be displayed with the above character for convenience of explanation.In this case, the character is displayed surrounded by "". ), The attribute information is standard in size, Mincho font in font, and standard in typeface. A character created by combining this semantic information and attribute information is shown in FIG. It is the first character C1 of the first window W1 of the CRT shown. The cursor position information 108 is expressed by coordinates as shown in FIG. 4, and the numerical value of the coordinates indicates the position of the cursor on the first window W1 of the CRT. This position information is the cursor K of the first window W1 of the CRT shown in FIG. Next, the group table 110 has semantic information in the left column and attribute information in the right column as shown in FIG. 5 as an example. Characters having the same semantic content but different attributes are defined from the semantic information. All can be read. The program 109 for changing an attribute includes a plurality of groups of the same meaning content as a character (hereinafter, referred to as a first designated character) whose attribute is to be changed in the first window W1 of the CRT designated by the input unit 104. The retrieval / storage program for reading out a plurality of characters from the group table and storing the read-out plurality of characters in the internal storage unit 105, and the character indicating the combination of the semantic information and the attribute information stored in the internal storage unit 105 are the first character. The second window W2 displayed on the screen of the CRT whose coordinate axis is different from that of the first window W1 (hereinafter referred to as the second window W2).
In the opening program and on the first window W1,
And a change program for changing the first designated character to a character having the same meaning information as the first designated character and different attribute information (hereinafter, referred to as a second designated character). The search storage program will be described in detail. When the first designated character is designated by moving the cursor in the first window W1, the position information of the cursor in the internal storage unit 105 indicates the coordinates of the first designated character. , The coordinates of the position information of the cursor are read, the first correspondence table is searched by using the coordinates as a search key, and the semantic information (hereinafter, referred to as the first semantic information) corresponding to the coordinates is read. . The external storage unit 10 uses the first semantic information as a search key.
Search the column of semantic information in the group table of No. 2. This search starts from the first row of the group table, the second row, the third row
.. Semantic information that matches the search key is checked in the order in which the search keys sequentially descend, and if there is semantic information that matches the search key, the attribute information stored corresponding to that semantic information Is read, and a mark indicating the search start position is placed on the storage stage in which the read attribute information is stored. Then, in the internal storage unit 105, a correspondence table similar to the first correspondence table, except that the attribute information column is blank and only the coordinate numerical values in the coordinate column are given (see FIG. 6). An example is shown), and the first meaning information is stored in the first row of the meaning information column of this correspondence table, and
The read attribute information is stored in the first row of the attribute information column. Next, the group table is searched to find the position of the mark, and the row immediately below the row in which the attribute information with this mark is stored is set as the starting point, and the first meaning information is set as described above. Start the search with the search key. It should be noted that if the step in which the attribute information with a mark is stored is found, this mark is erased. And, as mentioned above,
As a result of the search, one attribute information corresponding to the first meaning information is read out, the storage stage of the read out attribute information in this group table is marked, and the second stage of the meaning information column of the correspondence table is marked. The first semantic information is stored, and the attribute information is stored in the second column from the top in the attribute information column. After that, find the mark in the correspondence table, start the search from the storage stage below the mark, read the attribute information, store the correspondence table from top to bottom, and store it from the group table. This is repeated until the first meaning information is exhausted. The correspondence table completed in this way is the second correspondence table. FIG. 7 shows an example thereof. Then, in the internal storage unit, position information is created in a region different from the position information of the cursor, and the coordinates (1, 1) are stored in that position. (Hereinafter, in order to distinguish and call these two pieces of position information, the position information provided first is referred to as first cursor position information, and the position information provided later is referred to as second cursor position information). In the second window opening program, the second correspondence table 111 is stored in the internal storage unit 1.
When it is stored in 05, a second window W2 on the screen of the CRT is opened, and a character shown by combining the semantic information and the attribute information of the second correspondence table is displayed on the second window W2, and 2 The cursor is positioned on the second window W2 according to the coordinates of the cursor position information. When the second correspondence table is deleted from the internal storage unit 105, this second window W2 is deleted from the CRT screen. The change program changes the coordinates of the second cursor position information, and when the cursor of the second window W2 is moved to specify the second designated character, the coordinates are changed from the second cursor position information of the internal storage unit 105. Is read, and the second correspondence table is searched using this coordinate as a search key,
The meaning information and attribute information corresponding to the coordinates are read out, and the meaning information and attribute information of the first designated character in the first correspondence table are changed to the meaning information and attribute information of the second designated character. After that, the internal storage unit 10
The second correspondence table of No. 5 is deleted. Next, the braking operation of the central processing unit 106 will be described by taking the following case as an example. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the first window W1 of the CRT is displayed as "Your company Masmasu", and the operator has a different attribute for the third letter "ma" from the beginning. If you make a change to. 8 and 9 show flowcharts of the braking operation of the central processing unit 106.
First, the operator moves the cursor on the screen of the CRT to the above-mentioned “M” via the input unit 104 and designates the attribute change (S101). The first cursor position information at this time is shown in FIG.
As a result, it is read that the coordinates of "mama" are (1, 3), and the first correspondence table shown in FIG. 2 is searched with the coordinates (1, 3) as a search key. In the first correspondence table, the coordinates (1, 3) are located in the third row from the top, and the semantic information "MA" is read (S102). next,
Group table 11 shown in FIG. 5 using this “MA” as a search key
Search within 0. In the second correspondence table in which the attribute information (standard, Mincho font, bold type) in the middle of the group table 110 is read and only the numerical values of the coordinates shown in FIG. 6 are written. In the first row, the semantic information "MA" and the attribute information (standard, Mincho font, bold) are stored (S104). Further, the second correspondence table is searched using the meaning information “M” as a search key. In this case, the search is started from the column after the column in the second correspondence table, which is the previously read attribute information. As a result, if there is suitable semantic information, the attribute information corresponding to it is read out, and the semantic information and this attribute information are written in the second correspondence table as described above.
Further, the process returns to S103 and the above search and writing are repeated.
If there is no matching semantic information, the process proceeds to the subsequent stage (S10).
5). Next, a second window W2 is opened on the CRT of the output unit 103 (S106), the stored meaning information and attribute information are read out, and a character composed of this meaning information and attribute information is set in the second window W2. It is displayed in a list (S107). The state is shown in FIG. At this time, the cursor is located at the leading character of the second window W2. The operator is the second window W2
A desired character is designated through the cursor from the plurality of characters displayed in (S108). FIG. 11 shows the screen of the CRT at this time. After that, the first
The "window" of the window W1 is changed to the currently-designated "window", and the second window W2 disappears from the screen of the CRT (S109). Therefore, the character whose attribute is desired to be changed can be changed to the character whose attribute is desired by the operator. FIG. 12 shows the screen of the CRT at this time. (Embodiment 2) An embodiment of the attribute changing device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. This attribute changing device stores the matrix forming program, the display content rewriting program, and the cursor changing program in the internal storage section of the attribute changing device shown in the first embodiment. The matrix forming program reads the second correspondence table stored in the internal storage unit, rearranges the order of the attribute information of the read second correspondence table as follows, and the second correspondence table is arranged. It is stored in an area different from the table (hereinafter, the one stored in this other area is referred to as a temporary second correspondence table). That is, when the characters shown in the second provisional correspondence table are arranged in a matrix according to the coordinates corresponding to the characters, the characters arranged in the same row or the same column are different in only one attribute from each other. (Hereinafter, those arranged in a matrix will be referred to as a matrix.) An example is shown. In FIG. 13, the matrix forming program rearranges the order of the attribute information of the second correspondence table shown in FIG. For example, coordinates (1,1) to (1,5), (2,1) to
(2, 5) are coordinates (hereinafter referred to as an attribute group) which are in a relationship of being arranged in the same line, and attribute information having the same font and typeface but different sizes is arranged at these coordinates, and Coordinates (1, 1) to (4, 1),
(1, 2) to (4, 2) are coordinates that are in a relationship of being arranged in the same column, and attribute information having the same typeface and size but different fonts is arranged at these coordinates. FIG. 14 shows the information shown in the coordinates (1, 1) to (4, 5) of the second correspondence table arranged according to the coordinates. Coordinates (1, 10) to (6, 10) are attribute groups, and attribute information having the same size and font but different typefaces is arranged at these coordinates. Shown in. Display content rewriting program 2
01 divides the temporary second correspondence table into one or more matrices in which each row and each column is an attribute group, and the second correspondence table is one of the divided ones (hereinafter referred to as the first When the first candidate is displayed on the second window W2 of the CRT in the output section, and the operator then specifies a character having a desired attribute from the displayed character. , The second correspondence table changed to the first candidate is changed to the following classification. That is,
Of the different attributes that the first candidate characters have, the attribute group of characters that includes the attribute that the specified character has and that has a difference in attributes other than this attribute (hereinafter referred to as the second It is referred to as a candidate of No.). The second candidate is displayed on the second window W2 of the CRT of the output unit. As an example, in FIG. 16, the display content rewriting program 201 divides the temporary second correspondence table shown in FIG.
17 shows the second candidate of the second correspondence table of FIG. 13. When the second correspondence table is changed into two sections, the cursor changing program changes the cursor on the display on the second window W2 of the CRT to the one extending in the row direction and the one extending in the column direction. The operator specifies the row and the column separately, and causes one character to be specified. Next, the braking operation of the central processing unit 106 of the second embodiment will be described. The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment only in that the character displayed in the second window W2 of the CRT for changing the attribute and the arrangement thereof are different. Flowchart of Embodiment 1 In FIGS. 8 and 9, S101 to S106 and S109.
Are common, and the portions corresponding to S107 and S108 are different, and are as shown in FIG. That is, C of the output unit 103
After opening the second window W2 on the RT, the stored semantic information and attribute information are rearranged (S201).
The rearranged version is shown in FIG. afterwards,
From the rearranged ones, two categories are taken out (S
202) and the second correspondence table is changed (S203). As a result, these two attribute groups are displayed on the second window W2 of the CRT. This display is shown in Figure 1.
9 is shown. When the operator moves the cursor on the second window W2 and designates a character as shown in FIG. 19 (S204), it has an attribute of the designated character and an attribute having a difference between the undesignated attributes. The group is read from the rearranged one and changed to the second correspondence table (S205). As a result, C
This division is displayed on the second window W2 of the RT. This display is shown in FIG.
After that, the operator moves the cursor on the second window W2 to specify the character as shown in FIG. Therefore, the attributes could be divided and designated in stages.

According to the present invention, when the operator changes the attributes of a character, the characters having different attributes can be displayed to the operator, so that a character having a desired attribute can be accurately recognized and selected. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an attribute changing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a first correspondence table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a first window.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing position information of a first cursor.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a group table.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an incomplete second correspondence table.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a second correspondence table.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a central processing unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a central processing unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen of a CRT.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a screen of a CRT.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a screen of a CRT.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a temporary second correspondence table.

FIG. 14 is the coordinates (1, 1) to the second correspondence table of FIG.
(5, 4) It is a figure which shows what was put side by side.

FIG. 15 is the coordinates (10, 1) to the second correspondence table of FIG.
(10, 6) It is a figure which shows what was put in order.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a first candidate.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a second candidate.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a central processing unit according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a screen of a CRT.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a screen of a CRT.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 computer main body 102 external storage unit 103 output unit 104 input unit 105 internal storage unit 106 central processing unit W1 first window W2 second window

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A display unit, a first designating unit for designating a character whose attribute is to be changed from among the characters displayed in the first region of the display unit, and a plurality of characters having different attributes. Storage means for storing the same meaning content for each group, and search means for searching the storage means to read out a plurality of characters of the same meaning content group as the character designated by the first designating means, The multiple characters read out are
Display means for displaying in a second display area different from the display area, second specifying means for specifying a desired character from the plurality of characters displayed in the second display area, and the first specification An attribute changing device comprising: a changing unit that changes the character designated by the unit to a character designated by the second designating unit. 2. The storage unit stores a plurality of characters having the same meaning content read by the search unit in a first direction.
The attribute changing device according to claim 1, wherein the attribute changing device stores the attribute so that it can be displayed in a state where the attribute is expanded as a parameter and the second attribute is expanded as a parameter in the second direction. 3. The display means displays a plurality of characters with one or two attributes as parameters in a second display area when the plurality of characters having the same meaning content read by the search means include three or more attributes. When one of the characters is displayed, the display content of the second display area is displayed by the specified character, and
In the case where one of the characters being displayed is specified in the second display area and the character having the undisplayed attribute does not remain, the second specifying means includes the display content rewriting means for rewriting to the character having the remaining attributes different from each other. The attribute changing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the designated character is output to a changing unit.