JPH0764975A - Document preparing device and page calling method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document preparing device and a page calling method whereby a page is called through the use of a page number in a displayed document and information suggesting the page. CONSTITUTION:A user operates a keyboard 2 and designates the reference page number in the document displayed in CRT 4. By this, a page calling controller 8 inputs the designated page through a document editing device 1 so that designated page number data is read from document data 63 inside a document buffer 6 so as to be preserved in a page reading control table 7, a document page position indicating that how many pages of the document are turned from first before the preserved page number is formed is obtained and its preserved in the document control table 7. After that, the page calling controller 8 gives the document page position to the document editing device 1, the document corresponding to the document page position is displayed on the screen of CRT 4 so that the document corresponding to the page number inside the document which is designated by the user, is called on the screen by a simple operation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document generating device, and more particularly to a method for calling an arbitrary page in an input document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional document creating apparatus can create pages by adding pages to a plurality of documents. When a user wants to display a page of a document created in this way on the display screen, the user uses the page-by-page calling function such as the next page function or the previous page function to change the page until the desired page is displayed. Repeat page or
Alternatively, the user has no choice but to call the desired page on the screen by using the page calling function to input the page number on the screen from the keyboard by the user. Therefore, when the page number of the reference page is described in the currently displayed document, the reference page cannot be called up on the screen by directly using this page number. Therefore, even if the reference page number is described in the document, there is no choice but to call the reference page by the method described above, and the displayed reference page number is directly used to efficiently display the desired page on the screen. It had the drawback of not being able to call.

[0003]

As described above, when it is desired to call an arbitrary page on the screen from a document of a plurality of pages input to the conventional document creating apparatus, the reference page of the document currently displayed on the screen. The document corresponding to the reference page could not be called up on the screen by using the number or the like. Therefore, by repeating the page break until the reference page comes out by using the document calling function in units of one page, or by using the page calling function in which the user separately inputs the reference page to be called, the reference page is called. It had to be called, which was disadvantageous in that it took time and effort.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and directly uses the page number or information suggesting the page in the displayed document, so that the page can be called simply and quickly, and a page calling apparatus. It is intended to provide a way.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus having a function of managing page information of a plurality of pieces of document information, and is described in the document information displayed on the screen of a display device. Page specifying means for specifying the information for specifying the page information, and reference page information indicating the number of the document information of the page number specified by the information specified by the page specifying means from the beginning of the document information. And a calling means for obtaining the document information having the page information specified by the information specified by the page specifying means based on the reference page information searched by the searching means and displaying it on the screen. It has a configuration including.

Further, according to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus having a function of managing a plurality of documents by adding pages, a plurality of pages described in a document displayed on a screen of a display device are specified. A page designating means for designating a page information group, and a searching means for obtaining each reference page indicating how many pages from the top of the document the document of each page number specified by the page information group designated by the page designating means corresponds to And a calling means for sequentially searching documents having pages specified in the page information group based on each reference page searched by the searching means and displaying the documents in order on the screen. .

Further, according to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus having a function of managing a plurality of documents by adding pages, desired page numbers are displayed in a predetermined area in the document displayed on the display device. Based on the reference page searched by this searching means, and a searching means for obtaining a reference page indicating the number of the document from the beginning of the document of the page number described in the area And a calling means for searching the document corresponding to the page number in the area and displaying it on the screen.

[0008]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the page designating means allows the user to designate the page information for specifying the page described in the document displayed on the screen of the display device. The retrieving means obtains a reference page indicating which document from the head of the document the page number specified by the page information specified by the page specifying means corresponds to. The calling unit searches for a document having a page specified by the page information based on the reference page searched by the searching unit and displays it on the screen. As a result, the page can be called easily and quickly by simply specifying the page information described in the document.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creating apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a document editing device for controlling the creation or editing of a document and for activating a page call control device 2. Reference numeral 2 is a keyboard for inputting character readings and various function commands. And a display controller 6 for displaying the input document in the document buffer 6 or a designated page on the screen of the CRT 4,
Is a document buffer for storing format information 61 such as pagination information, page information 62 including address information of documents constituting each page, and created document data 63, and 7 is a page number in the document for a page to be called. A page call management table 8 for holding the actual page position, 8 retrieves the page number in the document or recognizes the page to be called, and finally makes a page display request to the document editing apparatus 1. This is a page call control device. Note that the document buffer 6 and the page call management table 7 are set on a memory such as a RAM, but the document buffer 6 may be set on an external storage device such as a hard disk.

Next, the page calling operation of this embodiment will be described. When the user inputs a character string or the like from the keyboard 2, the document editing device 1 inputs it via the input control device 3, performs kana-kanji conversion, etc., and saves it as document data 63 in the document buffer 6, and A part of the created document is displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 via the display control device 5. The operation when the user calls an arbitrary page other than the document page currently displayed on the CRT 4 after the document data is thus stored in the document buffer 6 will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation when a document displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 has a reference page number, for example, and the document of this reference page is called up on the screen. First, when no document is displayed on the CRT 4, the user operates the keyboard 2 to put the device in the document calling mode, and then designates the document to be called to the document editing device 1. As a result, the document editing device 1 searches the document data 63 in the document buffer 6 for the document designated by the keyboard 2 in step 201, and displays the corresponding document on the screen of the CRT 4 via the display control device 5. A user who sees the document called up on this screen is referred to by the reference page number (15
Page) and want to retrieve the document with this page number,
The keyboard 2 is operated and a cursor or the like is moved to the reference page number to specify the page number. As a result, the document editing apparatus 1 refers to the page information 62 from the designated position of the page number displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 in step 202, and the page number is displayed as the document data 63 as shown in FIG. After recognizing which position is stored, the process proceeds to step 203.

The document editing apparatus 1 reads the page number data as shown in FIG. 3 (C) recognized in step 203 from the document buffer 6, and stores it in the page call management table 7 as shown in FIG. 3 (D). After storing the data in step S204, the process proceeds to step 204. In step 204, the document editing apparatus 1 retrieves the pagination start position of the document from the format information 61 in the document buffer 6 and recognizes how many pages from the beginning of the document are the top document with page numbers. Then, the process proceeds to step 205.
Here, the number of pages from the front cover of the document with the first page as shown in FIG. 4 is the reference page (third from the front cover in this example).
As described above, the document editing apparatus 1 recognizes the reference page as shown in FIG. 4B and registers it in a work area or the like on a memory (not shown). In step 205, the document editing apparatus 1 calculates the number of the specified page number from the beginning of the document, and uses this as the document page position in the page call management table 7 as shown in FIG. Save to. Thereafter, the document editing apparatus 1 fetches the address of the document position corresponding to the called page number stored in the page call management table 7 from the page information 62 in step 206, and the address of the corresponding page is read from the document data 63 by this address. The document data is searched for as shown in FIG. 3 (E), the corresponding page is displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 via the display control device 5 as shown in FIG. 3 (F), and the process ends.

Here, the information regarding the calling page described in the document displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (A), instead of the page number itself, there may be a sentence such as "refer to previous page" or "described on next page". Even in such a case, the user operates the keyboard 2 to bring the cursor to the page that specifies the page to be called, and specifies the page information of the page to be called to the document editing apparatus 1. Display / editing device 1 After confirming the storage position in the document data 63 of the document buffer 6 in which the designated page information is stored, the page number of the document in which the page information is described is determined by the format information in the document buffer 6. Refer to 61 for reading. After that, the document editing apparatus 1 obtains the calling page number specified by the page information based on the page number. For example, when the page number is 5 and the page information is “previous page”, the calling page is 5-1 = 4.
(Page), which is obtained by the document editing device 1,
It is stored in the page call management table 7. Subsequent processing is the same as when directly specifying the page number to be called from the above-mentioned document.

According to this embodiment, the user uses the keyboard 2 to display page information such as "previous page" and "next page" for specifying the page number and page number described in the document displayed on the CRT 4.
The document having the page number can be called up on the screen of the CRT 4 by simply operating and specifying with a cursor or the like. Therefore, the page number in the document or the page number in the document can be eliminated without using the function of calling the document page by page as in the past, or the page calling function in which the user newly inputs the page to be called. A document of a desired page can be immediately called by directly using page information, and the document calling efficiency in such a case can be improved. In particular, a document having a table of contents, an index, or the like and a plurality of page numbers is described can obtain a more remarkable effect.

By the way, the document displayed on the screen of the CRT 4 is an index or a table of contents, and a plurality of page numbers are described therein, and the user can select a group of page numbers from the plurality of page numbers. When collectively designated using a cursor or the like, the page call control device 8 collectively finds document positions corresponding to the group of page numbers, and stores the obtained document positions in the page recall management table 7 together with the page numbers. . Thereafter, the page call control device 8 reads the document of the page number from the document buffer 6 via the document editing device 1 in the ascending order of page numbers in the page call management table 7 or in the order specified by the user, and reads it out from the document buffer 6 of the CRT 4. Display on screen.

Further, a calling page writing area is displayed in the document displayed on the screen of the CRT 4, and when a page to be called occurs while the user is reading the document, the page to be called in the area. By writing the number by operating the keyboard 2, the page to be called is designated, and thereafter, the designated page is subjected to the same processing as steps 203 to 206 of FIG. 2 and called on the screen. It is also possible to display the document of the desired page.
This configuration is similar to the conventional page calling function, but the page calling function can be activated by writing the page number in the area without switching the device to the page calling function mode, and the operation is simpler than the conventional one. You can

[0017]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus and the page calling method of the present invention, the page number and the information suggesting the page in the displayed document are directly used to call the page easily and quickly. be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process of calling a designated page by the apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific example of a calling order of designated pages by the apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method for checking how many pages of a page number document to be called are from the beginning.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Document editing device 2 ... Keyboard 3 ... Input control device 4 ... CRT 5 ... Display control device 6 ... Document buffer 7 ... Page call management table 8 ... Page call control device 61 ... Format information 62 ... Page information 63 ... Document data

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus having a function of managing a plurality of pieces of document information by adding page information to the document information, and information for specifying page information described in the document information displayed on the screen of the display device. And a search means for obtaining reference page information indicating the number of the document information of the page number specified by the information designated by the page designation means from the beginning of the document information, and this search A calling means for searching the document information having the page information specified by the information specified by the page specifying means based on the reference page information searched by the means and displaying it on the screen. Document creation device. 2. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information designated by the page designating means is page number information. 3. A page information group for specifying a plurality of pages described in a document displayed on a screen of a display device in a document creation device having a function of managing a plurality of documents by adding pages. And a search means for obtaining each reference page indicating the number of the document of each page number specified by the page information group designated by this page designation means from the top of the document, A document comprising: a calling unit that sequentially searches documents having pages specified in the page information group based on each reference page searched by the searching unit and sequentially displays the documents on the screen. Creation device. 4. The document creating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the calling means displays on the screen the documents in page units retrieved in the order of request. 5. In a document creation device having a function of managing a plurality of documents by adding pages, a desired page number is written in a predetermined area in a document displayed on a display device. In the area based on the description means, the search means for obtaining the reference page indicating the number of the document of the page number described in the area from the beginning of the document, and the reference page searched by the search means And a calling means for retrieving the document corresponding to the page number and displaying it on the screen. 6. A method of calling an arbitrary page of a document in a document creation device having a function of managing a plurality of documents by adding pages, wherein the document is currently displayed on a screen of a display device. Specify the page information that identifies the page being
After obtaining the reference page indicating the number of the document of the page number specified by the designated page information from the beginning of the document,
A page calling method, characterized in that a document having a page specified by the page information is searched based on the reference page and displayed on the screen.