JPH08166951A - Text display editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To dynamically change display contents corresponding to conditions such as operation environment without changing the contents of text data. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with a word and phrase data storage part 5 storing words and phrase data obtained by coordinating a code and a character string, a code character string converting part 10 converting a code included in text data to a corresponding character string in accordance with data stored in this word and phrase data storage part 5, and a display position calculation part 4 calculating the display position of each character in text data through the use of the converted character string. Thus, the device converts a code read out from a text storage part 1 for text display to a corresponding character string and calculate the proper display position of the converted character string to display on a display part 6 so as to change the storage contents in the word and phrase data storage part 5, e.g. to change the display contents without changing text data itself in the text storage part 1 and without specifying by users the display position of the character string to be converted from a code one by one.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text display / editing apparatus, and more particularly to a text display / editing apparatus for editing a state in which text data consisting of symbols such as characters and small figures and codes representing specific character strings is displayed on the display apparatus. It relates to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, text data is displayed on a screen,
A text display editing device that edits the screen display of text data by using a computer to add, change, delete, etc. symbols such as characters and small figures in the above display or control codes such as tabs and line breaks is proposed. Has been done.

FIG. 4 shows a configuration example of a conventional text display / editing apparatus. In FIG. 4, in the text storage unit 41,
Various text data including characters and symbols are stored. The text data in the text storage unit 41 is displayed on the display unit 45 via the read unit 43 and the display position calculation unit 44.
Is given to the user and the text is displayed.

That is, in the text data stored in the text storage unit 41, the characters and symbols included in the text data are sequentially read out one by one by the reading unit 43 and given to the display position calculation unit 44. In the display position calculation unit 44, the text data given from the reading unit 43,
The display position on the display unit 45 is calculated character by character based on the data of each character or symbol contained therein. Then, the text is displayed at the display position on the display unit 45 calculated in this way.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional text display / editing apparatus, when the text data in the text storage section 41 is changed, the display in the display section 45 is changed in conjunction with the change. . That is, the display on the display unit 45 could not be changed unless the contents of the text data in the text storage unit 41 was changed by giving an instruction to the storage contents change unit 42 using a keyboard, a mouse, or the like.

As described above, in the conventional text editing apparatus, since the user needs to specify the portion to change the text display by using the keyboard or the like, the display is dynamically changed according to the conditions such as the operating environment. Could not be changed to. Also, when searching for a certain phrase in the text and automatically converting it into another phrase, if there is a character string containing that phrase in the text, the character string will also be converted incorrectly. There was a chance that it would end up.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and enables a display to be dynamically changed according to a condition such as an operating environment without the user giving a display change instruction. In addition, the purpose is to enable display editing without changing the contents of the text data.

[0008]

A text display / editing device of the present invention includes a text storage unit for storing text data having at least a code representing a specific character string, a code representing the specific character string, and a code for the code. The code in the text data read from the text storage means is converted into a corresponding character string according to the word / phrase data storage means that stores the content and the character string in association with each other, and the data stored in the word / phrase data storage means. The code character string converting means and the display position calculating means for calculating the display position of each character of the text data using the character string converted by the code character string converting means are provided.

Another feature of the present invention is that the word data storage means stores a plurality of types of data in which different character strings are associated with the same code.
A selection means for selecting any one of a plurality of types of data stored in the word / phrase data storage means is provided.

Another feature of the present invention is that any one of a plurality of types of data stored in the word / phrase data storage means is selected according to the display position calculation result by the display position calculation means. It is characterized in that the selecting means is configured to select.

Another feature of the present invention is that the display mode of the character string converted from the code by the code character string converting means is displayed differently from other characters. It is a thing.

[0012]

Since the present invention comprises the above technical means, the code in the text data read from the text storage means at the time of displaying the text is converted into the corresponding character string by the code character string conversion means and is obtained by this. An appropriate display position of the character string is calculated by the display position calculation means according to information such as the number of characters. That is, the code itself in the text data stored in the text storage means is not changed, and when the code is read from the text storage means for displaying the text, the code is converted into a character string, The appropriate display position of the converted character string is calculated and displayed.

According to another feature of the present invention, when a plurality of types of data in which a code and a character string that is the content of the code are associated with each other are stored in the phrase data storage means,
Any one of these data is selected by the selecting means and used in the conversion process from the code to the character string in the code character string converting means.

According to another feature of the present invention, the optimum data among the plurality of types of data stored in the phrase data storage means is automatically selected according to the calculation result of the display position. The selected data is used for the conversion process from the code to the character string in the code character string conversion means.

Further, according to another feature of the present invention, the display mode (for example, display size, font, display color, etc.) of the character string converted by the code character string converting means is different from that in the text data. It is displayed in a display mode different from that of the characters.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a text display / editing apparatus according to this embodiment. In FIG.
A text storage unit 1 stores various text data including characters (including symbols such as small figures) and codes representing specific character strings (phrases). The text data stored here is given to the display unit 6 via the reading unit 3, the character / code identifying unit 8, the display position calculating unit 4, and the display position holding unit 7, and the text is displayed. It is supposed to be done. It is possible to use, for example, a CRT or a liquid crystal bitmap display for the display unit 6.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a storage content changing unit, which allows the user to give an instruction to the storage content changing unit 2 using a keyboard, a mouse, or the like (not shown) to display the contents of the text data stored in the text storage unit 1. It is possible to change. In addition, the reading unit 3 described above
Reads out the text data stored in the text storage unit 1, and sequentially reads out the characters and codes forming the text data one by one.

The display position calculation unit 4 calculates the position of the text to be displayed on the display unit 6 one by one for each character included in the text or each character of the character string represented by the code. is there. That is, the display position calculation unit 4 calculates the display position by calculating the relative position with respect to the area necessary for displaying the character string corresponding to the character or code in the text on the display unit 6 and the surrounding characters and symbols. Calculate.

That is, in the display position calculation section 4, where a certain character should be displayed is as follows: (a) Display position of characters around the character (usually previous character) (b) Size of the character It can be calculated by Here, the information of (a) can be obtained from the display position holding unit 7, and the information of (b) regarding the character string can be obtained from the code character string conversion unit 10 described later via the data exchange unit 9. You can

The display position calculation unit 4 calculates the display position of the character string corresponding to the character or code according to the identification result by the character / code identification unit 8. That is, the character / code identifying unit 8 identifies whether the data read from the text storage unit 1 via the reading unit 3 is a normal character or a code. Here, since the size of the characters included in the text to be displayed on the display unit 6 is determined, if the data read by the reading unit 3 is a normal character, that character The display position calculation unit 4 can calculate the display position of the character based on the data.

When the data read by the reading unit 3 is a code, the data is exchanged with the code character string converting unit 10 via the data exchanging unit 9 to correspond to the code. Get a string. Then, the display position calculation unit 4 calculates the display position of the character string based on the number of characters and the display size of the character string thus obtained.

The data of the display position of the character calculated by the display position calculation unit 4 is given to the display position holding unit 7 and held together with the data of the character. Then, according to the character held in the display position holding unit 7 and the data of the display position, the corresponding text is displayed on the display unit 6. The display position holding unit 7
The data used in this embodiment is the display position calculation unit 4 described above.
It is read as required by the request of.

Next, 5 is a word / phrase data storage unit, which is a character string (word / phrase) representing the above-mentioned code and the content of the code.
A so-called term dictionary in which is associated with is stored. The term data storage unit 5 stores a plurality of types of term dictionaries (first data A, second data B, ...),
Any of these data is the phrase data selection unit 11
And is used for conversion processing in the code character string conversion unit 10.

The code character string conversion unit 10 is based on any of the term dictionaries in the word / phrase data storage unit 5 selected by the word / phrase data selection unit 11 from the display position calculation unit 4 through the data exchange unit 9. The given code is converted into a corresponding character string. The data of the character string converted by the code character string conversion unit 10 is given to the display position calculation unit 4 via the data exchange unit 9 and used for calculation of the display position.

Although each of the blocks 1 to 5 and 7 to 11 described above is composed of a microcomputer system including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, etc., it may be structured in hardware.

Here, the outline of the text display performed by the text display editing apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to the example shown in FIG. Here, text data including a code as shown in FIG. 2A is stored in the text storage unit 1 shown in FIG. 1, and a case of performing text display using this text data will be described as an example. . In FIG. 2, the “NS
"C" and "elelab" are codes corresponding to specific character strings.

In this example, a term dictionary showing the correspondence between codes and character strings (words) as shown in FIG. 2B is stored as the first data A in the word data storage unit 5, It is assumed that this term dictionary has been selected by the term data selection unit 11. In this case, the code read from the text storage unit 1 is converted into a corresponding character string by the code character string conversion unit 10 based on the selected term dictionary. As a result, for each code included in the text data of FIG. 2A, information regarding the number of characters required to display the corresponding character string, the display size, and the like can be obtained.

The display position calculation unit 4 calculates the display position of the character string according to the information on the display of the character string thus obtained. Moreover, since the size of the normal character portion other than the code in the text data to be displayed on the display unit 6 is determined, the display position is calculated according to the information on the character size. Then, the above character and character string are displayed at the display position on the display unit 6 calculated in this way. As a result, FIG.
The text as shown in (c) is displayed on the display unit 6.

Here, the term dictionary as shown in FIG. 2B stored as the first data A in the word / phrase data storage unit 5 is shown in FIG. b)
By changing the abbreviations of the words and phrases shown in to the term dictionary having the contents, it is possible to change the display contents on the display unit 6.

That is, by changing the content of the term dictionary as the first data A as shown in FIG. 2D, the content of the character string converted by the code character string conversion unit 10 is changed. Then, the display position calculation unit 4 calculates an appropriate display position according to the information regarding the display of the character string thus changed, and the text is displayed at the display position.
As a result, the text display on the display unit 6 is as shown in FIG.
It is changed from (c) to FIG. 2 (e).

Thus, according to this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
The display content on the display unit 6 can be changed without changing the text data shown in (a). Moreover, when the content of the term dictionary in the word / phrase data storage unit 5 is changed, an appropriate display position is calculated by the display position calculation unit 4 based on the character string converted according to the changed term dictionary. Even if the user does not specify the display position of each character of the character string to be displayed, it can be displayed at an appropriate position.

Further, for example, even when searching for the word "Japan" in the text and automatically converting the word into the word "US", it is displayed as shown in FIG. 2 (c). The text string "Nippon Steel Works, Ltd." in the text is represented by a single code "NSC", so it may be erroneously converted to "New American Steel Works Co., Ltd." Disappear.

In the present embodiment, the display content of the same text data is variously changed by selecting appropriate data at that time from a plurality of types of data stored in the word / phrase data storage unit 5. You can also do so. The selected data can be changed automatically according to the calculation result of the display position by the display position calculation unit 4. It is also possible to change the data selection by the user externally giving an instruction to the code character string conversion unit 10 using a keyboard, a mouse or the like (not shown).

The following is an example of automatically changing the selection according to the calculation result of the display position by the display position calculating section 4. That is, when the display position of the character calculated by the display position calculation unit 4 becomes a position that is not suitable for displaying on the display unit 6 (for example, the area required for text display becomes too large, and a certain character is displayed). If the position is out of the display area of the display unit 6), the word / text selection unit 11 changes the data selection according to the calculation result by the display position calculation unit 4 to display the entire text. It is possible to change it.

For example, in the phrase data storage unit 5, as shown in FIG.
It is assumed that the term dictionary shown in (b) is stored as the first data A and the term dictionary shown in FIG. 2 (d) is stored as the second data B. At this time, the phrase data selection unit 11 selects the first data A, and the display position calculation unit 4 calculates the display position of each character using the character string converted based on the first data A. In the middle of
When the number of characters or the number of lines exceeds a certain level and the characters cannot fit in the defined display area, the word / phrase data selection unit 11 changes the data to be selected from the first data A to the second data B.

After that, the display position calculation unit 4 uses the character string converted based on the second data B newly selected by the word / phrase data selection unit 11 to display each character from the beginning of the text data. Recalculate position. This allows
The text display on the display unit 6 is changed from FIG.
(E) is dynamically changed according to the operating environment. As described above, according to the present embodiment, the display content on the display unit 6 can be dynamically changed according to the operating environment without changing the text data in the text storage unit 1.

Next, the operation of the text display / editing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 for realizing the above functions will be briefly described.
In the apparatus of FIG. 1, first, the reading unit 3 is used to read the text data stored in the text storage unit 1 character by character. When the character / code identification unit 8 determines that the read data is normal character data, the display position calculation unit 4 determines the display position of the character according to the size determined for the character. The calculation is performed and the calculation result is stored in the display position holding unit 7.

On the other hand, when the character / code identifying unit 8 determines that the read data is a code representing a specific character string, the display position calculating unit 4 determines the size of the character string corresponding to the code. To the code character string conversion unit 10. The code character string conversion unit 10 converts the inquired code into a character string based on any data in the phrase data storage unit 5 selected by the phrase data selection unit 11 at that time. Then, the character string thus converted is returned to the display position calculation unit 4 via the data exchange unit 9 as an answer to the inquiry. Display position calculator 4
Using the character string obtained from the code character string conversion unit 10,
The display position of each character is calculated, and the calculation result is stored in the display position holding unit 7.

When the display positions of all the characters included in the text for one screen and the character string represented by the code are determined by repeating the above-described processing one character at a time, the display position is held. The text is displayed at an appropriate position on the display unit 6 according to the character display position data stored in the unit 7.

Here, when the content of the character string corresponding to the same code is changed by changing the data selected by the word / phrase data selecting unit 11, the display position calculating unit is based on the changed character string. 4, an appropriate display position is newly calculated. Thereby, even when the content of the code dynamically changes, the word or phrase corresponding to the code can be displayed at an appropriate position.

In the above embodiment, both the character string converted from the code and the normal character are displayed in the same size in the display unit 6.
However, it is also possible to display the size of the character string converted from the code differently from the size of a normal character. Further, only when the character string is dynamically changed according to the operating environment, it is possible to display the character string with a size different from that of other characters. Further, in the above cases, it is possible to display the display in various display modes such as the font and color of the display instead of the display size.

By doing so, just by looking at the text displayed on the display unit 6, whether each character in the text is stored in the text storage unit 1 as normal character data, or as a code, the text storage unit is displayed. It becomes possible to easily grasp whether or not it is stored in 1.

For example, when the size of the character string converted from the code is displayed differently from the size of a normal character, the display size of the character string is displayed in addition to the above-mentioned phrase data storage unit 5. A storage unit for storing data is provided. Then, the data of the size read from this storage unit is supplied to the display position calculation unit 4 via the data exchange unit 9 together with the character string data converted by the code character string conversion unit 10. The display position calculation unit 4 calculates an appropriate display position using the data of the character string and the display size. By doing so, the display size of the character string converted from the code can be changed and displayed on the display unit 6.

Further, when the character string is displayed differently from the size of other characters only when the character string is dynamically changed according to the operating environment, the configuration as shown in FIG. 3 may be adopted. Good. The configuration of the text display / editing device shown in FIG. 3 will be described with reference to the example of FIG. 2 described above.
For the character strings (phrases) as shown in (b) and (d), the display size storage unit 1 stores the data of the normal display size.
2 is stored as the first data a, and the data of the display size smaller or larger than usual is displayed as the second data a.
It is stored as the data b.

Then, depending on whether or not the selection of the data in the phrase data storage unit 5 by the phrase data selection unit 11 is dynamically changed, the display size determination unit 13 causes the display size determination unit 13 to select the first data a or the second data a. By selecting any one of the data b, the size to be displayed on the display unit 6 is determined. And, the information of the size determined in this way,
The character string converted by the code character string conversion unit 10 is supplied to the display position calculation unit 4 via the data exchange unit 9.

By doing so, the data selected by the phrase data selection unit 11 from the phrase data storage unit 5 moves from the data of FIG. 2B to the data of FIG. 2D, or vice versa. When a character is changed, only the character string converted based on the changed data can be displayed differently from the size of other characters.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, the code contained in the text data read from the text storage means is determined based on the data stored in the word / phrase data storage means in association with the character string. Since the corresponding character string is converted and the display position of each character in the text data is calculated by using the converted character string, the code read from the text storage means is corresponded when the text is displayed. It can be converted into a character string and displayed at an appropriate position. For example, by changing the storage content of the phrase data storage means, the display / editing can be performed without changing the text data itself stored in the text storage means. It can be performed. Moreover, at this time, even if the user does not specify the display position of the character string converted from the code, the character string can be displayed at an appropriate position.

According to another feature of the present invention, a plurality of types of data in which a code and a character string that is the content of the code are associated are stored in the phrase data storage means, and any one of them is stored. Since the data is selected by the selecting means, the display content can be changed without changing the text data by changing the selected data at a certain point during text editing.

According to another feature of the present invention, any one of a plurality of types of data stored in the word / phrase data storage means is selected according to the display position calculation result by the display position calculation means. Since this is done, it is possible to automatically select the optimum data according to the calculation result of the display position, and dynamically change the display content according to the operating environment such as the displayable area. You can

Further, according to another feature of the present invention, since the display mode of the character string converted from the code by the code character string conversion means is displayed differently from other characters, the user can display the text. It is possible to easily determine whether each character in the character string is a normal character or a character string corresponding to a code, and it is possible to facilitate text editing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a text display editing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an outline of text display performed by the text display editing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the text display editing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a conventional text display editing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Text storage unit 2 Storage content change unit 3 Reading unit 4 Display position calculation unit 5 Word / phrase data storage unit 6 Display unit 7 Display position holding unit 8 Character / code identification unit 9 Data exchange unit 10 Code character string conversion unit 11 Word / phrase data selection unit Part 12 Display size storage part 13 Display size determination part

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A text storage unit for storing text data having at least a code representing a specific character string, and a phrase storing a code representing the specific character string and a character string which is the content of the code in association with each other. Data storage means, code character string conversion means for converting a code in the text data read from the text storage means into a corresponding character string in accordance with the data stored in the word data storage means, and the code character string conversion And a display position calculating means for calculating the display position of each character of the text data using the character string converted by the means. 2. The phrase data storage means stores a plurality of types of data in which different character strings are associated with the same code, and a plurality of types of data stored in the phrase data storage means. The text display editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a selection unit that selects any one of the above. 3. The selecting means selects any one of a plurality of types of data stored in the word / phrase data storing means according to the display position calculation result by the display position calculating means. The text display editing device according to claim 2. 4. The display mode of the character string converted from the code by the code character string converting means is displayed differently from other characters. The text display editing device according to item.