JPH07219933A - Method for processing ruled line and document processor using the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To constitute master and slave ruled lines by a required form and to plot ruled lines by utilizing the master and slave ruled lines. CONSTITUTION:The width and interval of respective ruled lines are inputted by a specified master/slave ruled line panel and stored. An operator selects a line sort and plots a ruled line by the selected line sort. When display is selected, the existence of plotted data is judged (step 164), and when data existence is judged, whether the data are the specified master/slave ruled lines or not is judged (step 165). In the case of the specified master/slave ruled lines, the previously inputted width and interval are read out (step 167) and the ruled lines are displayed (step 168). Thus the master and slave ruled lines can be plotted by specifying the width and interval of respective lines to respective values.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ruled line processing method and a document processing apparatus using the ruled line processing method, for example, when a table is constructed with ruled lines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some conventional document processing apparatuses have a function of drawing a ruled line for a frame such as a table. As the type of ruled line, there is a ruled line called a parent-child ruled line composed of two or more lines in addition to a simple line or a broken line. In such a parent-child ruled line, it was possible to change the line width of the parent ruled line which is the main line.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, the widths of all the lines constituting the parent-child ruled line, such as the width of the child ruled line accompanying the parent ruled line and the line spacing between the parent ruled line and the child ruled line. And I couldn't change the interval,
The ruled line desired by the document creator could not be drawn.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and it is possible to freely change the configuration of a parent-child ruled line composed of a plurality of lines as components and to draw a desired ruled line. An object of the present invention is to provide a ruled line processing method and a document processing apparatus using the ruled line processing method.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the ruled line processing method of the present invention has the following configuration.
That is, a ruled line processing method for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, comprising a width specifying step of specifying the width of each of the component lines, an interval specifying step of specifying the interval between the component lines, and A storing step of storing the width of the component line designated by the width designating step and the value of the spacing designated by the spacing designating step, a drawing step of drawing a desired shape using the parent-child ruled line, and a drawing by the drawing step. Shape,
And a display step of displaying with parent-child ruled lines having the widths and intervals of the component lines stored in the storage step.

Another configuration is as follows.

A ruled line processing method for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, the step of displaying a parent-child ruled line setting screen for setting the width and interval of each component line of the parent-child ruled line, and the parent-child ruled line. Parent-child ruled line setting step of inputting line width and interval according to the display of setting screen, step of displaying line type designation screen for designating line type of ruled line, and input line type according to display of the player designation screen Line type designation step, a drawing step of drawing a desired shape with the line type designated by the line type designation step, and the parent-child ruled line setting when the line type designated by the line type designation step is a parent-child ruled line And a step of displaying the shape drawn in the drawing step with a parent-child ruled line according to the width and the interval input in the step.

The image processing apparatus of the present invention has the following configuration. That is, a document processing device that handles a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, the width designating unit designating a width of each of the component lines, the space designating unit designating an interval between the component lines, and Storage means for storing the width of the component line designated by the width designating means and the value of the spacing designated by the spacing designating means, drawing means for drawing a desired shape using the parent-child ruled line, and drawing by the drawing means Display means for displaying the formed shape as a parent-child ruled line having the widths and intervals of the component lines stored by the storage means.

Another configuration is as follows. That is, a document processing apparatus that handles a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, a means for displaying a parent-child ruled line setting screen for setting the width and interval of each component line of the parent-child ruled line, and the parent-child ruled line setting. Parent-child ruled line setting means for inputting line width and spacing according to the display on the screen, means for displaying a line type designation screen for designating the line type of the ruled line, and input line type according to the display on the player designation screen Line type designating means, drawing means for drawing a desired shape with the line type designated by the line type designating means, and when the line type designated by the line type designating means is a parent-child ruled line, the parent-child ruled line setting means And a means for displaying the shape drawn by the drawing means with a parent-child ruled line according to the width and the interval inputted by.

[0010]

With the above configuration, the widths and intervals of the component lines of the parent-child ruled line are designated, and a desired ruled line is drawn with the designated parent-child ruled line.

[0011]

【Example】

<Description of Apparatus> FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the arrangement of a document processing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a CRT display device for displaying a document being edited and various message menus. Two
Is a video RAM (VRAM), which expands and stores an image displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 1. A bit move unit (BMU) 3 controls data transfer between memories or between a memory and each device. Reference numeral 4 is a keyboard having various keys for editing a document, 5 is a pointing device (PD) used for pointing an icon on the screen, and 6 is a CP.
In U, each unit of the apparatus is controlled based on a control program (a program for editing a document and an error processing program, as well as a program for realizing the processing of the present embodiment to be described later) stored in the ROM 7. Control.

Reference numeral 8 is a RAM used as a work area when the CPU 6 executes the above-mentioned various programs and a temporary save area for error processing. Reference numeral 9 is a hard disk drive (HDD) and 10 is a floppy disk drive (FDD). Show. Each disk is used to store application programs, data, libraries, etc., which will be described later. Reference numeral 11 denotes a communication network interface (Net-I / F), which performs data control and diagnosis on the network in order to transfer data with another document processing apparatus via the network. 12
Is an I / O bus (comprising an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus) that connects the above-mentioned units.

The program stored in the ROM 7 in this embodiment may be stored in a storage medium such as a hard disk (HD) or a floppy disk (FD) directly connected to the apparatus. In this case, the program is read from the HDD 9 or FDD 10 into the RAM 8 and executed by the CPU 6 there. Further, the program may be stored on another device connected by the network. As described above, the control program according to the present embodiment can be supplied to the system or the device via the storage medium such as the FD or the HD or the network.

<Outline of Table Set> The table set is a form in which a table is expressed as a part of a document in the processing program on the apparatus of FIG. In the table set, a cell can be created by using a ruled line editing function using various line types, and a character can be input into the cell by using a character editing function using a character modification or an emphasized typeface. Further, the character string in the cell is displayed after typesetting based on the cell attribute (information such as alignment). With such a table grouping function, it is possible to represent a table that has undergone complicated editing.

<Structure of Table Set Data> FIGS. 2 to 1 show the data structure when the table set data processed on the apparatus of FIG. 1 is edited.
4 shows.

When the table set is edited, the table set data exists in the RAM 8 of FIG. 1 divided into two areas, an edit data area 21 and a local data area 22, for convenience of processing, as shown in FIG. Table group control information section 23 of edit data area 21
The portion 24 other than (detailed description in FIG. 3) holds temporary data that is created / erased only during editing.

The local data area 22 holds information about each element such as ruled lines and characters that make up the table set,
When the data is saved after the editing is completed, the data in the save format is created from the data in this area and the table setting control information 23.
The work area management information 25 (described in detail in FIG. 4) is information for managing each information in the edit data area 21 and the local data area 22. 26 and 27 are break information (Fig. 12
The detailed description) and a dedicated reserved area (same size as the break information) for creating new break information are mixed and gathered areas. Here, each piece of information has a format in which the delimiter information holds delimiter information, and the reserved area holds a pointer to the next information and a pointer to the previous information between reserved areas. Information is traceable. This data format is also used for other data, and the data structure of this format is called a "list structure" in this embodiment.

28 and 29 are cell information (described in detail in FIG. 8)
And a reserved area dedicated to creating new cell information (same size as cell information) are mixed together. This part also has a list structure. 30, 31, 3
Reference numerals 2 and 33 represent the diagonal ruled line information (detailed description in FIG. 5), horizontal ruled line information (detailed description in FIG. 6), vertical ruled line information (detailed description in FIG. 7), and new ruled line information. A reserved area (same size as each ruled line information) dedicated for creating a is a mixed area. This part also has a list structure in which ruled line records are linked to each other. Note that the diagonal ruled line information, the horizontal ruled line information, and the vertical ruled line information have the same size because a dedicated reserved area for creating new ruled line information is commonly used.

Reference numerals 34 and 35 are areas in which the substance of the cell attribute information (detailed in FIG. 10) and a reserved area dedicated to creating new cell information (same size as the cell attribute information) are mixed and collected. is there. This part also has a list structure. 36,
Reference numeral 37 denotes an area in which the substance of the optional cell attribute information (detailed description with reference to FIG. 11) and a dedicated reserved area (same size as the optional cell attribute information) for creating new cell information are mixed and collected. This part also has a list structure. The option cell attribute information has the same size regardless of the type of the option attribute because the dedicated reserved area for creating new option cell attribute information is commonly used.

FIG. 3 shows the detailed structure of the table control information section 23 of FIG. Reference numeral 41 is a table start command indicating the start of table data, and 42 is a flag relating to the editing of the entire table set, such as information indicating whether or not to automatically expand the cell when a character is input. A cell is an area surrounded by ruled lines and in which characters, mathematical expressions, etc. are written.

Reference numerals 43, 44, 45 and 46 are information indicating the version of each processing program when the table data is created. 47 indicates the final address of the cell, and 48 indicates the final number of the group used in the table data. 49
Is a reserved area in preparation for changes in the data format due to future function expansion.

Numerals 50 to 53 are information relating to the measure (grid), and numeral 50 is a flag indicating display / non-display of the grid and a grid designation unit. 52 and 53 are values indicating the grid interval. Reference numeral 53 is a reserved area in preparation for a change in data format due to future function expansion.

Reference numerals 54 to 56 are information relating to the designated parent-child rule, and are composed of an upper line width 54, a line interval 55, and an underline width 56. In the case of the present embodiment, the parent-child ruled line is called an upper line / underline rather than a parent line / child line because a plurality of lines are equal. The same applies to vertical and diagonal rules.

The detailed structure of the work management information 25 shown in FIG. 2 is shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 61 is an ID for identifying edited data. 62 is the start address of the edit data area (21 in FIG. 2), 63 is the secured edit data area (21 in FIG. 2)
The total size, 64 indicates the effective size of the edited data.
Reference numeral 65 is a pointer to the table control information edit data area (23 in FIG. 2), and 66 is an empty portion of the edit data area (2 in FIG. 2).
Management information of a portion other than the portion occupied by the valid editing data in the portion 4).

67 is a local data area (2 in FIG. 2).
Area for information regarding ruled lines in 2) (30 to 32 in FIG. 2)
It is a pointer to the first record of the list of the diagonal ruled line information existing in. Similarly, 68 is a horizontal ruled line, and 69 is a pointer to each top record of a vertical ruled line. Reference numeral 76 is a pointer to the first record of the list of reserved areas for ruled line information.

Reference numeral 70 is management information of cell information, which holds the number of cells, a pointer to the cell information of the current cell, and the like. Reference numeral 71 is a pointer to the first record of the list of cell information existing in the information area (28 to 29 in FIG. 2) regarding the cell in the local data area (22 in FIG. 2). Reference numeral 74 is a pointer to the first record in the list of reserved areas for cell information.

72 is a local data area (22 in FIG. 2)
Area for information about cell attributes in the cell (34 to 35 in FIG. 2)
It is a pointer to the first record of the list of cell attribute information existing in. Reference numeral 77 is a pointer to the first record of the list of the reserved area for cell attribute information.

73 is a local data area (2 in FIG. 2).
It is a pointer to the first record of the list of reserved areas for the break information existing in the break information area (26 to 27 in FIG. 2) in 2). Reference numeral 75 is a pointer to the first record in the list of reserved areas for character data.

Reference numeral 78 denotes a local data area (2 in FIG. 2).
2) optional cell attribute information area (36 to FIG. 2)
37) is a pointer to the first record of the list of the reserved area for the option cell attribute information existing in 37).

Reference numeral 79 is Undo control information for cancellation processing during table group editing, and 80 is table group operation information indicating current information being edited (menu type being processed, etc.).
Reference numeral 81 indicates a selected ruled line information header indicating the selected ruled line (see FIG. 13).
, And 82 is a selected cell information header (which will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 14) indicating the selected cell.

Reference numeral 83 is a work area, and 84 is local data area free space management information for managing a free area (38 in FIG. 2) in the local data area (22 in FIG. 2).

FIG. 5 shows the detailed structure of the diagonal ruled line record.

Reference numeral 91 is the coordinates of the start point of the diagonal ruled line. Here, the starting point is the end point having the smaller y coordinate. Reference numeral 92 indicates a line type, and any one of a solid line, a dotted line, a one-dot chain line, a two-dot chain line, a broken line, a long broken line, and a hide-and-seek line is designated. Reference numeral 93 is a line width, and 94 is a flag indicating information such as ruled line lock.
Reference numeral 95 is information regarding rounded corners. 96 and 97 are information regarding the color of the line. 98 is the length of the line in the vertical direction, 99 is the length of the line in the horizontal direction, and only the horizontal length 99 can take a negative value. Reference numeral 100 is a pointer to the next diagonal ruled line record, which is NULL when the next record does not exist. Reference numeral 101 is a pointer to the preceding diagonal ruled line record, which is NULL for the first record. The diagonal ruled line record forms a list structure based on information in 100 and 101, and exists in the portions indicated by 30 to 33 in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows the detailed structure of a horizontal ruled line record.

The horizontal ruled line is represented by one record as one ruled line as long as it is continuous. In the screen operation, the unit divided at the intersection of the vertical ruled line and the diagonal ruled line is treated as one ruled line, but it is the information of the intersection with other ruled lines held by each horizontal ruled line record (“break information”). Figure 1
2 will be described in detail). However, if the line type and color have changed even with continuous horizontal ruled lines, or if a rounded corner is specified at the intersection with another ruled line, that part is regarded as another ruled line and is managed in another record.

Reference numeral 111 is the coordinates of the starting point of the horizontal ruled line. Here, the starting point is the end point of the smaller x coordinate. Reference numeral 112 denotes a line type, which is one of a solid line, a dotted line, a one-dot chain line, a two-dot chain line, a broken line, a long dashed hiding line, a double-pillar ruled line, a parent-child ruled line 1, a parent-child ruled line 2, a designated parent-child ruled line 1, and a designated parent-child ruled line 2. It is specified. 11
Reference numeral 3 is a line width, and 114 is a flag indicating information such as ruled line lock. Reference numeral 115 is information regarding rounded corners. 116,1
Reference numeral 17 is information regarding the color of the line. 118 is the length of the line. Reference numeral 119 is a pointer to the next horizontal ruled line record, which is NULL when the next record does not exist. Reference numeral 120 is a pointer to the previous horizontal ruled line record, which is NULL for the first record. The horizontal ruled line record forms a list structure by the information of 119 and 120, and exists in the portions indicated by 30 to 33 in FIG. 12
Reference numeral 1 is a pointer to information on the beginning of the horizontal ruled line. Reference numeral 122 denotes a serial number sequentially assigned from the y-coordinate value of the horizontal ruled line. Therefore, the same number is assigned to all horizontal ruled line records having the same y coordinate value.

FIG. 7 shows the detailed structure of the vertical ruled line record.

The vertical ruled line is represented by one record as one ruled line as long as it is continuous. In the screen operation, the unit divided at the intersection of the horizontal ruled line and the diagonal ruled line is treated as one ruled line, but it is the information of the intersection with other ruled lines held by each horizontal ruled line record (“break information”). Figure 1
2 will be described in detail). However, if the line type or color has changed even with continuous vertical ruled lines, or if a rounded corner is specified at the intersection with another ruled line, that part is regarded as another ruled line and is managed in another record.

Reference numeral 131 is the coordinates of the starting point of the vertical ruled line. Here, the starting point is the end point having the smaller y coordinate. Reference numeral 132 denotes a line type, which is one of a solid line, a dotted line, a one-dot chain line, a two-dot chain line, a broken line, a long dashed line, a hide-and-seek line, a double-column ruled line, a parent-child ruled line 1, a parent-child ruled line 2, a designated parent-child ruled line 1, and a designated parent-child ruled line 2. Is specified. 1
Reference numeral 33 is a line width, and 134 is a flag indicating information such as ruled line lock. Reference numeral 135 is information regarding rounded corners. 136,
Reference numeral 137 is information regarding the color of the line. 138 is the length of the line. Reference numeral 139 is a pointer to the next vertical ruled line record, which is NULL when the next record does not exist. Reference numeral 140 is a pointer to the previous vertical ruled line record, which is NULL for the first record. The vertical ruled line record forms a list structure by the information of 139 and 140, and exists in the portions indicated by 30 to 33 in FIG. 14
Reference numeral 1 is a pointer to the break information of the top of the vertical ruled line. Reference numeral 142 is a serial number sequentially assigned from the x coordinate of the horizontal ruled line value. Therefore, the same number is assigned to all vertical ruled line records having the same x coordinate value.

FIG. 8 shows a detailed structure of cell information.

A cell is a rectangular area completely surrounded by vertical and horizontal ruled lines. The number of ruled lines forming cells may be any number as long as it is four or more. One cell is managed by one cell information. In addition, the cell is a normal cell containing a character string,
There are two types of formula cells that contain calculation formulas.

Reference numeral 151 is a pointer to the horizontal ruled line record of the leftmost ruled line among the horizontal ruled lines forming the upper side of the cell. Reference numeral 152 is a pointer to the vertical ruled line record of the uppermost vertical ruled line among the vertical ruled lines forming the left side of the cell. 153 is the upper left coordinate of the cell, and 154 is the cell size. 155 is the number of horizontal ruled lines forming the upper side of the cell, and 156 is rounded corner information of each of the four corners of the cell. 1
57 is information obtained by obtaining the maximum line width of each side based on the information of the ruled lines forming each of the four sides of the cell. Reference numeral 158 is a character record (detailed description will be given with reference to FIG. 9) which is information about characters belonging to the cell. Reference numeral 159 is a pointer to information such as the character position of the result of typesetting the character string in the cell. 160 is valid only when the cell is a normal cell,
It is a pointer to information indicating the value of the cell to be passed to the calculation processing program when the cell becomes the calculation target at the time of calculation. 16
1 is a pointer to the next cell information, which is NULL when the next information does not exist. 16 cell information
A list structure is formed by the information of 1, 162, and the list structure of FIG.
It exists in the part shown by 4-35.

FIG. 9 shows the detailed structure of the character record.

The character record is information about characters in a cell that has a one-to-one correspondence with the cell information and is held in the cell information.

Reference numeral 171 is an area for storing the number of bytes of the entire character record when the table setting data is stored as a file and is not used during editing. Reference numeral 172 is a flag indicating cell lock, heading designation, and cell type (normal or formula). Reference numeral 173 indicates a group number when cells are grouped. Reference numeral 174 is valid only in the first member cell of the group and indicates the number of group members. 175 is valid only when the cells are grouped, and indicates the number of member in the group. Here, the group is
In a processing mode unique to a table set that is regarded as a plurality of cells and one cell by grouping, a character string input thereto is sequentially assigned to each cell according to the group member number from the top member of the group and displayed. Reference numeral 176 is a cell address, and the formula serves as an index for identifying the cell during the calculation process. Reference numeral 177 is a pointer to cell attribute information (described in detail in FIG. 10). Reference numeral 179 is information specifying the leading horizontal ruled line of the cell to which this character record belongs. 1
79 is information for managing a character string for each member cell in the case of grouped cells. Reference numeral 180 denotes a character data count, which indicates the size of the entire area of 183 for a normal cell and 185 for a formula cell by the number of characters. 181
Also indicates the size of the character data buffer by the number of characters as in 180. Reference numeral 182 is a pointer to the character data buffer.

When the cell is a normal cell, the character data buffer contains a character string (character editing command and character code).
It is occupied by only 184.

For formula cells, the character data buffer is 18
It is divided into 6 to 191 parts. Reference numeral 187 is a character string (command and character code for character editing processing) processed by referring to the calculated value display attribute that holds the calculation result as an option cell attribute (detailed description in FIG. 11), and 186 is the number of characters. Reference numeral 188 is an area for storing information on calculation results, and 189 is an area for storing information necessary for calculation, which is used by the calculation processing program during processing. Reference numeral 191 is the formula body held by the cell, which is data in the reverse Polish format, and 190 is the number of characters.

FIG. 10 shows a detailed structure of cell attribute information.

The cell attribute information must be 1 for each character record.
There is a case where one cell attribute information is referred to by a plurality of character records with only one piece of information.

201 is the number of bytes of the entire cell attribute information, and 202 is a value indicating how many character records refer to the cell information. A set flag 203 is information such as a set direction. Reference numeral 204 is a character flag, which is information such as a character type (full-width, half-width, etc.) and alignment of top, bottom, left, and right. Reference numeral 205 is standard typeface information about a typeface used when Japanese is input in a cell, 206 is European typeface information about a typeface used when inputting alphanumeric characters in a cell, and 207 is information about a background color of a character. Two
Reference numeral 08 denotes a space between lines, 209 a left margin, 210 a right margin, 211 an upper margin, and 212 a lower margin. Reference numeral 213 is information indicating which type of optional attribute this cell attribute has. The option attributes not included here use default option attributes. Reference numeral 214 is cell face type information, 215 is the number of indented characters, 26 is the number of indented characters, and 217 is a baseline adjustment amount for neatly displaying mixed Japanese and European sentences. Reference numeral 218 is a pointer to the option attribute information held by this cell attribute, and NU when no option attribute is held.
It is LL.

FIG. 11 shows the detailed structure of the option attribute information.

The option attribute is held in the form of one option attribute list for one cell attribute information. Here, the option attribute list is a list in which the option attribute information is connected as shown in 224 by the type specified by the option attribute flag (213 in FIG. 10) of the cell attribute information. 2 in the option attribute information
Reference numeral 21 indicates the type of the option attribute. The types of option attributes are Japanese emphasized typefaces 1-5 and European emphasized typefaces 1- 1.
There are 12 types: 5, formula calculation value display attribute, and tab information. Two
Reference numeral 22 is a data body of option attributes, in which data in a format according to the type is stored. The size of the data is the same for each type for convenience of processing. 223 is a pointer to the next option attribute information. Contains NULL if there is no next optional attribute.

FIG. 12 shows the detailed structure of the break information.

Reference numeral 231 is a pointer to the next break information, which is NULL when the next information does not exist. Reference numeral 232 is a pointer to the previous break information, which is NULL in the case of the top information. Cell information is 23
A list structure is formed by the information of 1 and 232.
It exists in the part shown by 6-27. Reference numeral 233 is a flag indicating the crossing direction, 234 is the coordinate of the break position, and 235 is a pointer to the ruled line record of the intersecting partner.

FIG. 13 shows the detailed structure of the selected ruled line information.

The selected ruled line information header is information about the selected ruled line and is held in the work area management information (81 in FIG. 4) in the local data area. Reference numeral 241 indicates the upper left coordinate of the entire ruled line range being selected, and 242 indicates the lower right coordinate thereof.
243 is a value indicating how many pieces of selection ruled line information can be stored in the memory reserved for the arrangement of the selection ruled line information.
When the area is insufficient, a new area is secured. 244
Is the number of ruled lines being selected, and 245 is the start address of the array of selected ruled line information. Each selected ruled line information is 246-2
It is composed of the contents shown in 49. 246 is a ruled line type that is vertical,
Either horizontal or diagonal ruled line. Reference numeral 247 is a pointer to the ruled line record. 248 and 249 are information for specifying a part of the ruled line (in units of division) when the part is selected.

FIG. 14 shows the detailed structure of the selected cell information.

The selected cell information header is information regarding the cell being selected and is held in the work area management information (82 in FIG. 4) in the local data area. Reference numeral 251 is a value indicating how many pieces of selection ruled line information can be stored in the memory that has been confirmed for the arrangement of the selected cell information. When the area is insufficient, a new area is secured again. 252 is the number of selected cells, and 253 is the start address of the array of selected cell information. Each selected cell information is composed of the contents shown in 254 to 255. 254 is a work flag used during processing, and 255 is a pointer to cell information.

<Creation of Specified Parent-Child Ruled Line> Next, a procedure for setting and drawing a parent-child ruled line using the data area will be described. First, FIG. 21 shows a flowchart of a setting process of designated parent-child ruled line data. This flowchart is based on R
The program stored in OM7 or RAM8 is stored in the CPU
It is realized by executing 6

As shown in FIG. 15, the setting is started from the state where the menu for selecting a desired process is displayed on the CRT 1. The menu display as shown in FIG. 15 is well known in the art.

First, in step 155, the "Settings" panel (FIG. 16) is opened by single-clicking on the "Settings" 145 on the'Ezps' panel in FIG. Next, in step 156, the "specified parent-child ruled line" 147 in the "setting" panel is single-clicked to open the "specified parent-child ruled line" panel (FIG. 17). In step 157, the upper line width 148, the line spacing 149, the lower line width 1 of the "designated parent-child rule" panel
50 is the width of the line which is the component of the parent-child ruled line.
Enter a value from 07 mm to 2.00 mm and step 158
Then press the "Set" button 151. At this time, the specified parent-child ruled panel may display the already set value. By doing so, it is possible to compare the current display state with the set numerical value, and it becomes easy to understand what values the width and the interval are set to obtain the desired ruled line.

When the desired line width and spacing values are specified by the above operation, the data of the specified parent-child ruled line is converted to the specified parent-child ruled information 54, 55 in FIG. 3 in step 159.
The data is stored in the internal data area 56.

The panels of FIGS. 15 to 19 are RO
This is image data stored in advance in M7 or RAM8. When the operator designates a portion to be selected using the pointing device 5 or the keyboard 4 on the CRT 1 and displays an intention to select the portion by clicking a switch or the like, the device displays the selected position based on the coordinate position. It is determined that the button corresponding to the position has been pressed.

Next, a flow chart of the drawing process is shown in FIG.
Shown in.

First, at step 160, the "tool" 146 of the "Ezps" panel of FIG. 15 is single-clicked to open the "tool" panel (FIG. 18). Next, in step 161, "Line type" in the "Tools" panel
Single-click 152 and select "Linetype" panel (Fig. 19)
open. Next, at step 162, either the designated parent-child ruled line 1 or 2 button (153, 154 in FIG. 19) of the "line type" panel is selected by single-clicking. In this example, the designated parent-child ruled lines 1 and 2 are obtained by interchanging the upper line and the lower line, so that information such as the line width and the space may be one set. However, in order to make the parent-child ruled lines 1 and 2 independent lines, an area for storing the information of the designated parent-child ruled line is provided in the table group control information 23 for each, and all the steps are performed by the procedure of FIG. The designated parent-child ruled information may be set.

If the parent-child rule to be drawn is selected in this way,
In step 163, the selected ruled line is written at the position designated by the operator to create drawing data. When a ruled line is selected, necessary information about the selected ruled line is written in the selected ruled line information header 81 and the selected ruled line information linked to it, and the ruled line is drawn. When the drawing of the ruled line is completed, the drawing result information is written in the ruled line record or the like. As the data, for example, RAM
Ruled line information areas 30 to 33 in the edited data area 21
Stores information such as the start and end points of the ruled line, the line type and the line color in the format of FIGS. 5 to 7, and the delimiter information of the ruled line in the areas 26 to 27 in the format of FIG. Although the description is omitted here because the description is centered on the ruled lines, the information regarding the cells formed by the ruled lines is not included in the areas 28 to 29 and the area 3.
4 to 35 are stored in the formats shown in FIGS. 8 and 10, and the data in the cells are stored in the format shown in FIG.

Next, a flow chart of the display process is shown in FIG.
3 shows.

First, in step 164, it is confirmed whether or not drawing data has been created in the RAM 8. If it has not been created, the display processing is terminated, and if it has been created, the process proceeds to step 165 to determine whether the drawing data is the designated parent-child ruled line.

If it is a designated parent-child ruled line, step 1
At 67, the designated parent-child rule information is read from the area (the areas 54 to 56 in FIG. 3) in which the designated parent-child rule information is stored. Next, in step 168, a ruled line image corresponding to the ruled line information including the designated parent-child ruled line information stored in the work area management information 25 and the cell information is created in the image data area in the RAM 8 and displayed. To do. If it is not the designated parent-child ruled line, in step 166, the corresponding process is performed and then the display process is performed.

In this embodiment, only the ruled lines are displayed for the sake of clarity, but it is natural that the document processing apparatus handles data such as characters in cells, and the cell information 28 to 29 is used as the cell information 28 to 29. Stored data in RAM8
The cell information is displayed together with the ruled line in accordance with the information such as the position and the written character or formula.

FIG. 20 shows an example of a frame formed by the ruled lines actually created using the designated parent-child ruled lines in which the upper line width, the lower line width, and the interval are set according to the above procedure.

As described above, the document processing apparatus of this embodiment is
A desired parent-child rule can be drawn by designating the line thickness of the parent-child rule and the line interval.

By setting the parent-child ruled line and the line type on the displayed panel, these settings can be easily performed.

The present embodiment is not limited to the case of parent-child ruled lines, and it is possible to set ruled lines of triple lines, quadruple lines or more in the same manner as in the above-mentioned embodiments. In that case, the thickness of each component line forming a ruled line and the interval between adjacent lines are designated and stored as ruled line information.

Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus.

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As described above, the ruled line processing method and the document processing apparatus using the ruled line processing method according to the present invention can freely configure a parent-child ruled line composed of a plurality of lines for each component line. The effect is that it can be changed and a desired ruled line can be drawn.

Further, since the ruled line configuration is set on the menu screen, the configuration can be easily changed.

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[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure (edit data area and local data area) at the time of editing table group data processed by the document processing apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure (table control information) at the time of editing table group data processed by the document processing apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure (work area management information) at the time of editing table group data processed by the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of a diagonal ruled line record.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of a horizontal ruled line record.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of a vertical ruled line record.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of cell information.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of a character record.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of cell attribute information.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of option attribute information.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of break information.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of selected ruled line information.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of selected cell information.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a panel display for selecting a process in the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a panel display for selecting a setting target in the setting processing in the document processing apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of a panel display for setting a designated parent-child rule in the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a panel display for making settings at the time of drawing in the document processing apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a panel display for making settings at the time of drawing in the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a frame created using a designated parent-child rule.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart of a setting process of designated parent-child ruled line data.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart of drawing processing.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart of display processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CRT 2 VRAM 4 keyboard 5 pointing device 6 CPU 7 ROM 8 RAM 9 HDD 10 FDD 11 network interface.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A ruled line processing method for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, comprising a width designating step of designating a width of each of the component lines, and a spacing designating step of designating an interval between the component lines. A storage step of storing the width of the component line designated in the width designation step and the value of the spacing designated in the spacing designation step; a drawing step of drawing a desired shape using the parent-child ruled line; And a display step of displaying the shape drawn in the step as a parent-child ruled line having the widths and intervals of the component lines stored in the storage step. 2. The method further comprises a step of storing information regarding cells drawn by the drawing step, wherein the display step displays the shape drawn by the drawing step with parent-child ruled lines and is formed by the parent-child ruled lines. 2. The ruled line processing method according to claim 1, wherein the characters in the cell are displayed. 3. A document processing apparatus for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, the width designating unit designating a width of each of the component lines, and the space designating unit designating an interval between the component lines. Storage means for storing the width of the component line designated by the width designating means and the value of the spacing designated by the spacing designating means, and a rendering means for rendering a desired shape using the parent-child ruled line. Display means for displaying the shape drawn by the means with parent-child ruled lines having the widths and intervals of the component lines stored by the storage means. 4. The apparatus further comprises means for storing information on cells drawn by the drawing means, wherein the display means displays the shape drawn by the drawing means with parent-child ruled lines and is formed by the parent-child ruled lines. 4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the characters in the cell are displayed. 5. A ruled line processing method for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, the step of displaying a parent-child ruled line setting screen for setting the width and interval of each component line of the parent-child ruled line, A parent-child ruled line setting step of inputting line widths and intervals according to the display of the parent-child ruled line setting screen, a step of displaying a line type designation screen for specifying the line type of the ruled line And a drawing step of drawing a desired shape with the line type specified by the line type specifying step, and when the line type specified by the line type specifying step is a parent-child ruled line, the parent-child And a step of displaying the shape drawn in the drawing step with parent-child ruled lines according to the width and the interval input in the ruled line setting step. 6. A document processing device for handling a parent-child ruled line formed by combining a plurality of component lines, and means for displaying a parent-child ruled line setting screen for setting the width and interval of each component line of the parent-child ruled line, Parent-child ruled line setting means for inputting line widths and intervals according to the display of the parent-child ruled line setting screen, means for displaying a line type specification screen for specifying the line type of the ruled line, and line type according to the display of the player specified screen And a drawing means for drawing a desired shape with the line type designated by the line type designating means, and when the line type designated by the line type designating means is a parent-child ruled line, the parent-child A document processing apparatus comprising: a parent-child ruled line according to a width and an interval inputted by the ruled line setting means, and means for displaying the shape drawn by the drawing means. 7. The document processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the parent-child ruled line display screen and the line type designation screen display menu items for setting and designating.