JPH08137869A - Device and method for document processing - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To determine not only the position of a frame which moves as an index moves, but also the position of a frame which does not move by judging whether a frame moves or does not move as the index moves and adjusting the relative position of the frame to the index. CONSTITUTION: A CPU 6 controls respective parts of the processor according to a control program stored in a ROM 7. When different information is ar ranged in the frames and those frames are combined to create and edit a document, it is decided whether the position of the frame corresponding to the stored index information is fixed or movable; when the position of the index information is changed, stored relative position information is updated according to the kind of the frame corresponding to the index information to adjust the relative position of the frame to the index. Here, when 2nd information is arranged in 1st information as the different information in the frame, the 1st information is preferably document information and the 2nd information preferably includes document information, image information, and figure information. Consequently, the frame and position relation based upon the frame as the index are held in a natural state.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus and method,
More specifically, the present invention relates to a document processing apparatus and method for creating and editing a document by combining frames for expanding information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the spread of desktop publishing, it is possible to mix various kinds of information with a document, unlike an environment where a layout of only characters has been mainly used so far.

Generally, the information includes not only sentences but also figures and images, but in the future, images (moving images) will be provided.
And audio information can be mixed.

By the way, in general, 1
When combining two documents, set the "frame" to paste the information.

Now consider a frame for a graphic. For example, as shown in FIG. 17, it is assumed that a frame including “index” and “FIG. 2” corresponding to the index is arranged with the intention of arranging the character string “as in FIG. 2”. Then, as shown in FIG. 18, if a character string is inserted before the character string “as in FIG. 2”, the frame for it also moves (keeping the positional relationship with the index) as the index moves. The original intention of "arranging the character string near the character string" as in FIG. 2 "" is realized.

[0006]

On the other hand, there are cases where it is desired to use a frame that does not move even if the index moves.

However, in the conventional method, since the relative position of the frame with respect to the index is always stored in order to determine the position of the frame that moves with the movement of the index, the frame that does not move with the movement of the index is The position cannot be determined.

Therefore, for example, by using the conventional frame position determining method, as shown in FIG. 19, "frame including FIG. 1", "frame including FIG. 2", and "frame including FIG. 3" in order from the left. When a document in which is placed is edited, the positions of “frame including FIG. 1,” “frame including FIG. 2,” and “frame including FIG. 3” in FIG. The relationship is shown in FIG.
Will be changed to.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] and

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing apparatus and method capable of maintaining a natural state of a positional relationship between a frame and the frame as an index. is there.

Specifically, it is determined whether the frame moves with the movement of the index or the frame that does not move, and the relative position of the frame with respect to the index is appropriately adjusted, so that the index moves with the index. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device and method that can determine not only the frame but also the position of the frame that does not move with the movement of the index.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, the document processing apparatus of the present invention has the following configuration. That is, a document processing apparatus that arranges different information in a frame and creates and edits a document by combining at least the frames, and index information corresponding to a frame in which the second information is stored in the first information. Relative of the first storage means for storing, the determination means for determining whether the position of the frame corresponding to the stored index information is fixed or movable, and the frame corresponding to the index information. When the position of the index information is changed and the second storage unit that stores the position information is stored in the second storage unit according to the type of the frame corresponding to the index information obtained by the determination unit. And an updating unit that updates the stored relative position information.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is desirable that the first information is text information and the second information includes text information, image information, and graphic information. This makes it possible to increase the effect particularly when a document based on sentences is created.

Further, when the updating means determines that the relevant frame is a fixed frame, the updating means updates the second storage means with distance information based on the fixed frame and the changed index,
When it is determined that the frame is a movable frame, it is desirable to determine the position information of the frame with the relative coordinates in the state before the index is updated. This makes it possible to appropriately determine the position of both the fixed frame or the moving frame regardless of the change in the position of the index information.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

<Description of Outline> First, an outline of the operation of the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment will be described.

According to the method of determining the frame position in the embodiment, the movement of the index is only required if each index (or frame) in FIG. 19 is instructed to be a frame that does not move as the index moves. It is possible to arrange each frame as shown in FIG. 21 by determining whether the frame moves with the movement or the frame that does not move and appropriately adjusts the relative position of the frame with respect to the index.

The reason for associating a frame with an index is, for example, that there is a character string "as shown in the figure below" in the text (the index is set in this character string). This is to prevent the frame to be stored from being located at a distant place, and the frame to be moved to a distant place even though the character string “as shown in the figure below” is described as a result. That is, if there is a character string "as shown in the figure below", the index and the frame corresponding to the index are associated so that the character string is located at a certain distance from the character string.

If any index (or frame) is instructed to be a frame that moves with the movement of the index, the frame can be moved with the movement of the index. .

<Description of Apparatus> FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the arrangement of a document processing apparatus according to the embodiment.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a CRT display device for displaying a document being edited, various message menus and the like.
A video RAM (VRAM) 2 expands and stores characters, images and the like displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 1. Three
Is a bit move unit (BMU) that 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, and 5 is a pointing device (P) used for pointing an icon on the screen.
D) and 6 are CPUs based on a control program (a program for editing a document, an error processing program, and a program for realizing the process of the present invention described later) stored in the ROM 7 Controls various parts of the device. 8 is a RAM used as a work area when the CPU 6 executes the various programs described above, and a temporary save area for error processing, 9 is a hard disk drive (HDD), and 10 is a floppy disk drive (F).
DD), which is used for storing application programs, data, libraries, etc., which will be described later, on each disk. Reference numeral 11 denotes a 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. Reference numeral 12 denotes an I / O bus (address bus,
It consists of a data bus and a control bus).

The program stored in the ROM 7 in this embodiment may also be stored in a storage medium such as a hard disk (HD) or a floppy disk (FD) directly connected to the device. Further, it may be stored on another device connected to the network.

Further, the program of the present invention is FD or HD.
Can be supplied to the system or device via a storage medium such as or a network.

<Information Required in the Present Embodiment> In the present embodiment, the above function is realized by using the frame command position information, the frame position information, the offset information, and the frame type information.

As shown in FIG. 2, the origin is O, and the edit space is defined by the word direction (direction in which words are arranged) vector and the row direction (direction in which lines are arranged) vector. In this space, the frame command 2a and this frame command 2
The frame 2b for a can be present in pairs.

Each piece of information will be described below.

Frame Command Position Information FIG. 3 shows frame command position information. The frame command position information is the word direction position Cx (see FIG. 3) in the editing space of FIG.
No. 3a) and a row direction position Cy (stored in No. 3b in FIG. 3).

Frame Position Information FIG. 4 shows frame position information. The frame position information is composed of a word direction position Fx (4a) and a row direction position Fy (4b) in the editing space of FIG.

Offset Information FIG. 5 shows the offset information. The offset information includes a word direction offset OFFSETx (5a) indicating the word direction position of the frame with respect to the word direction position of the frame command, and a word direction offset OFFSETy (5b) indicating the line direction position of the frame with respect to the line direction position of the frame command. Composed of and.

Frame Type Information FIG. 6 shows the frame type information. The frame type information is composed of a frame type KIND (6a) that represents the type of frame. There are two types of frames: a “moving floating frame” that moves with the movement of the frame command and a “fixed floating frame” that does not move with the movement of the frame command.

However, in the editing space, a frame command and a frame corresponding to this frame command exist as a pair.

<Processing Flow in this Embodiment> FIG.
It is a flow chart which shows the operation processing procedure in an example. The program based on the flow chart shown is RO
It is stored in M7.

In the present embodiment, the frame command position change detection process (step 7a) and the frame type determination process (step 7).
b), offset calculation processing (step 7c), and frame position determination processing (step 7d).

Frame command position change detection processing (step 7)
In a), whether the position of the frame command has been changed (whether the frame command has moved) is constantly monitored, and the position of the frame command has changed (the frame command has moved).
If it is detected, the process proceeds to the frame type determination process (step 7b).

In the frame type discrimination process (step 7b), the frame type information of the frame command whose position has been changed (moved) is referred to, and if it is a moving floating frame, the frame position determination process (step 7d) is carried out. move on.

On the other hand, if it is a fixed floating frame, the process proceeds to offset calculation processing (step 7c).

In the offset calculation process (7c), an offset is calculated from the frame command position information of the frame command whose position has been changed (moved) and the frame position information of the frame corresponding to the frame command.

In the frame position determination process (7d), the position of the frame is determined from the frame command position information of the frame command whose position has been changed (moved) and the offset information of the frame command.

When the frame position determination process is completed, the process returns to the frame command position change detection process, and the monitoring of whether the position of the frame command has been changed (whether the frame command has moved) is started again.

Hereinafter, by using the example (FIG. 14) in which the fixed floating frame and the moving floating frame are rearranged by editing the document shown in FIG. 8 (after editing, FIG. 11), the respective processes will be described. Specifically,

Here, the frame command position information (9a, 9b), the frame position information (9c, 9d), the offset information (9e, 9f), and the frame type information (9g) regarding the frame command C1 in FIG. 8 are shown in FIG. It is assumed to be stored as. Further, frame command position information (10a, 10b) and frame position information (10c, 10) regarding the frame command C2.
It is assumed that each of d), the offset information (10e, 10f), and the frame type information (10g) is stored as shown in FIG.

Frame command position change detection processing (step 7)
a) In the frame command position change detection processing, whether or not the position of the frame command has been changed (whether the frame command has moved) is constantly monitored for each frame command. this is,
For example, with respect to each frame command, the frame command position information is referenced, and the frame command position information is compared with the frame command position information at the time of the previous reference (which is stored in the RAM 8). If they match, it is determined that the frame command position has not been changed (not moved), and if they do not match, it is determined that the frame command position has been changed (moved).

In FIG. 8, it is assumed that the character string "fixed floating frame and moving floating frame" is inserted before the character string "frame command position is changed by editing", and the result is as shown in FIG.

At this time, the frame command position information of the frame command C1 is (2
7,7) (see FIG. 9) to (63,7) (see FIG. 12)
The frame command position information of the frame command C2 changes from (46, 7) (see FIG. 10) to (17, 16) (see FIG. 1).
3) is detected, and the process proceeds to the next frame type discrimination process.

Frame Type Discrimination Processing (Step 7b) In the frame type discrimination processing, the frame command C1 in which the position of the frame command is changed is determined by the frame type information (12g) that the corresponding frame is a fixed floating frame. Then, the process proceeds to offset calculation processing.

On the other hand, when the frame command C2 in which the position of the frame command is changed is determined by the frame type information that the corresponding frame is the moving floating frame (13g), the process proceeds to the frame position determining process.

Offset Calculation Process (Step 7c) For the frame command C1 whose corresponding frame is determined to be a fixed floating frame, the offset information is calculated from the frame command position information and the frame position information in the offset calculation process ( It is stored in the reference numerals 12e and 12f in FIG. 12). When the offset calculation process is completed, the process proceeds to the frame position determination process.

In the state of FIG. 8, the position of the frame command C1 is "27" in the word direction and "7" in the row direction, and the corresponding fixed floating frame is relatively word-wise from the position of the frame command C1. It was "-22" in the direction and "13" in the row direction. In other words, the coordinates of the upper left corner of the fixed floating frame with respect to the origin O are "5" in the word direction and "20" in the row direction.

As shown in FIG. 11, since the position of the changed frame command C1 is 63 and 7 in the word direction and the line direction, the position of the fixed floating frame from that position is calculated by the following formula. it can. That is, word direction = 5-63 = -58 row direction = 20-7 = 13 This result is written in the reference numerals 12e and 12f in FIG.

Frame Position Determining Process (Step 7d) In the frame position determining process, the position of the frame for each frame command whose position is changed is calculated and stored in the frame position information (FIG. 15, FIG. 15). 16).
The contents of the calculation will be needless to say.

Further, although the explanation will be mixed up, when the document being edited is saved, the above-mentioned respective information is also saved in the hard disk 9 or the floppy disk 10.

<Description of Other Embodiments> In the above embodiment, the case where the target document is in horizontal composition has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the composition direction may be vertical composition. It's easy to imagine that exactly the same thing can be done.

In the embodiment, the case where the frame command is used as the index has been described. The present invention can be realized by exactly the same means even when the index uses the position of the editing area or another position.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to determine the positions of the frame that moves with the movement of the index and the frame that does not move, and the frame in the document creating apparatus that realizes a flexible frame arrangement. There is an effect that a position determination method can be provided.

According to the above embodiment, for example, when the position of the frame corresponding to the frame command C2 in FIG. 8 is positive in the word direction, when the frame command C2 is located at the end of the line, for example, The frame is located beyond the editing area. Therefore, in such a situation, that is, when the editing area (for example, the page frame) is exceeded, a message to that effect may be displayed. The user receives this message and performs an operation such as changing the position of the frame (moving floating frame) with respect to the frame command.

When the position of the frame is changed and the frame and the character overlap each other, the character of the part is arranged so as to avoid the frame.

In some cases, such a situation can be avoided by allowing the movable range of the frame only within the editing area. However, even in that case, it is desirable to inform the user that the position has been automatically changed.

Further, in the embodiment, the information contained in the frame is not particularly described, but it may be voice, video (moving picture, etc.), or text as well as figures and images.

The location of the frame command is not limited to the text information, but may be attached to other types of information.

When the frames of "FIG. 1" and "image image" are related to each other and it is desired to arrange them so that they are close to each other, by attaching a frame command to one of them, they are You could always be in close proximity.

As in the above embodiment, the frame command is
Normally, it is desirable that it is not displayed on the display screen and does not affect the layout of characters. However, in this case, since it is not possible to know at which position the frame command is present, the incorporated frame command is made visible when a predetermined operation, for example, an operation of inserting the frame command is performed.

[0061]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to maintain a natural state of the frame and the positional relationship using the frame as an index.

In particular, whether the frame moves with the movement of the index,
By determining whether the frame does not move and appropriately adjusting the relative position of the frame with respect to the index, not only the frame that moves with the index move but also the position of the frame that does not move with the index move are determined. Will be able to.

[0063]

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a method of arranging frames with respect to a frame command according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing frame command position information which is an embodiment of the frame command position management means of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing frame position information which is an embodiment of the frame position management means of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing offset information which is an embodiment of the offset management means of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing frame type information which is an example of the frame type management means of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a flow of frame arrangement processing in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a document for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a diagram showing the contents of frame command position information, frame position information, offset information, and frame type information of a fixed floating frame in the document example of FIG.

10 is a diagram showing the contents of frame command position information, frame position information, offset information, and frame type information of a moving floating frame in the document example of FIG.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a state where the position of a frame command is changed when editing is performed in the document example of FIG.

12 is a diagram showing the contents of updated frame command position information, frame position information, offset information, and frame type information corresponding to a fixed floating frame in the document example of FIG. 11.

13 is a diagram showing the contents of updated frame command position information, frame position information, offset information, and frame type information corresponding to the moving floating frame in the document example of FIG. 11.

14 is a diagram showing a state immediately after a frame position determination process is performed in the document example of FIG.

15 is a diagram showing frame position information of a fixed floating frame in the document example of FIG.

16 is a diagram showing frame position information of a moving floating frame in the document example of FIG.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of a document using a frame.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example in which an edited frame is moved.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of another document using a frame.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a problem after editing.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing an example of solving a problem in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CRT 2 Video RAM 3 BMU 4 Keyboard 5 Pointing device 6 CPU 7 ROM 8 Working RAM 9 Hard disk 10 Floppy disk 11 Network interface 12 I / O bus.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document processing apparatus for arranging different pieces of information in a frame, and at least combining the frames to create and edit a document, which corresponds to a frame in which the second information is stored in the first information. Corresponding to the index information, a first storage unit for storing the index information to be stored, a determination unit for determining whether the position of the frame corresponding to the stored index information is fixed or movable. Second storage means for storing relative position information of a frame, and when the position of the index information is changed, the second storage means is stored according to the type of the frame corresponding to the index information obtained by the determination means. A document processing apparatus comprising: an updating unit that updates the relative position information stored in the storage unit. 2. The first information is text information, and the second information is text information.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information includes text information, image information, and graphic information. 3. The updating unit updates the second storage unit with distance information based on the fixed frame and the changed index, when the frame is determined to be a fixed frame, The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when it is determined that the frame is a movable frame, the position information of the frame is determined with the relative coordinates in the state before the index is updated. 4. A document processing method for arranging different information in a frame, and at least combining the frames to create and edit a document, which corresponds to a frame in which the second information is stored in the first information. A first storing step of storing the index information to be stored, a determination step of determining whether the position of the frame corresponding to the stored index information is fixed or movable, and corresponding to the index information A second storage step of storing relative position information of a frame, and when the position of the index information is changed, the second storage step is performed according to the type of the frame corresponding to the index information obtained in the determination step. An updating step of updating the relative position information stored in the storing step. 5. The first information is text information, and the second information is text information.
5. The document processing method according to claim 4, wherein the information includes text information, image information, and graphic information. 6. The updating step, when determining that the corresponding frame is a fixed frame, sets the information stored in the second storing step as distance information based on the fixed frame and the changed index. If the frame is updated and it is determined that the frame is movable, the position information of the frame is determined with the relative coordinates of the state before the index is updated. Document processing method described.