JPH08202716A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To enable page shift processing when displaying or printing a document even when a user prepares or edits the document without being especially conscious of the position of an index when the index exists in the document and it is desired to display or print any specified index from the head of a page concerning the document processor provided with the function of an outline processor. CONSTITUTION: When preparing or preserving a document 3 according to input information such as the input of document data 3a, the update of the document and the designation of printing, setting index erasure information 3b for each prepared document 3 or outputting the prepared document 3 to a display device 5 or a printer 6, a document processing means 1 performs processing for outputting the document data 3a of the document 3 to the display device 5 or the printer 6 according to the index erasure information 3b set for each document 3. When the instruction of index erasure is received at the document processing means 1, an index format transforming means 2 performs page shift processing to the document data 3a of the document 3 according to the index erasure information 3b.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus, and more particularly to a document processing apparatus such as a word processor having an outline processor function.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, some document processing apparatuses have an outline processor that supports the creation of long documents. The outline processor is a function for efficiently editing text while clearly grasping the structure and flow of a long document. That is, in a long document such as a book, a heading such as a large heading, a middle heading, and a small heading is often given a level, and a text is created under the heading. This function enables editing, such as moving or deleting, in headline units when creating documents of various configurations.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art With a conventional document processing apparatus having an outline processor such as a word processor, a long and complicated document can be created while viewing the entire document structure. That is, by displaying the document being created in outline mode, only the headings can be displayed. In this state, the composition of the entire document is assembled by changing the order of the headings, and each heading is grasped while grasping the composition of the entire document. It is possible to create the text of. In this outline mode, editing can be performed in units of headings. For example, when a headline is moved or deleted, the text belonging to that headline is also moved or deleted.

In a document with a headline, depending on the level of the headline, the document may be edited to be displayed or printed from the top of the page when the document is displayed or printed. For example, the headings "Part", "Chapter", and "Section".
If there is a document with three levels of
The heading of "part" may be arranged so that it is always located at the top of the page. In this case, by inserting a blank character or a carriage return / line feed symbol or a page break symbol before the heading, it is possible to ensure that the text after the heading starts from the beginning of the page.

[0005]

However, if the headline is moved by editing the outline of the document, the headline may come to the middle of the page without the user's knowledge. In this case, the entire document is reviewed, a headline placed in the middle of the page is found, a page break symbol is inserted, and the headline is placed at the top of the page.

As described above, when the heading is moved by outline editing or the like and the heading is to be displayed or printed from the top of the page, the entire document is reviewed and corrections such as inserting a page break symbol are made. Since it has to be done, it takes time and effort to review and input, and there is a problem that such a correction must be made every time the headline is changed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and when a headline symbol is present in a document and a specific headline is to be displayed or printed from the top of the page,
An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device that performs page break processing when a document is displayed or printed even when the user is not particularly aware of the position of the index mark when creating or editing the document.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention for achieving the above object. In this figure, a document processing device for creating and printing a document according to input information includes a document processing means 1 and a heading format conversion means 2. The document processing means 1 creates the document 3 according to input information such as input of the document data 3a, update of the document, designation of printing, and the like, and saves the document 3 in a storage device such as the main storage device or the hard disk 4, or the created document. The heading eviction information 3b is set for each item 3, or the created document 3 is displayed on the display device 5 or the printer 6, for example.
When outputting the document data to the display device 5 or the printer 6, the document data 3a of the document 3 is output to the display device 5 or the printer 6 according to the heading-out information 3b set for each document 3. The headline format conversion means 2 responds to the document processing means 1 receiving an instruction to displace the headline, and the document data 3 a of the document 3 is sent.
Is processed according to the heading-out information 3b.

[0009]

According to the above-mentioned means, in addition to the document data 3a for each document 3, when the document 3 is displayed on the display device 5 or printed by the printer 6, which level of the heading in the document is selected. Heading eviction information 3b indicating whether to display or print the heading from the top of the page is set.
When the document processing means 1 receives the input of the heading-out instruction, the document processing means 1 requests the heading format conversion means 2 to perform processing, and the heading format conversion means 2 reads the document data 3a and the heading-out information 3b from the document 3 and Document data 3a
A page break process according to the heading-out information 3b is performed.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing of the document processing apparatus of the present invention.

When the user wants to display or print the document 3 having the index mark, the index eviction information 3b is read from the document 3 stored in the hard disk 4 or the like in the form of a file (step S1). Next, the document data 3a is read from the document 3 (step S2). Here, for example, one character is sequentially read from the beginning of the document data 3a. It is determined whether or not there is a caption character in the read document data (step S3). Here, it is determined whether the read character is a character representing a headline. Here, if it is a character representing a headline, it is determined whether or not the drive-out level of the headline character matches the designated headline level, that is, the headline drive-out information set in the document 3 (step S4). If the ejection levels match, the heading is ejected to the next page (step S5).

Document data has a process of pushing the heading to the next page, that is, a page break process.
How to rewrite the page number of the line information such as what line of what page to the next page number, insert a page break symbol before the character string that matches the heading eviction information, or match the heading eviction information There is a method to fill the space before the beginning of the next character string with a space character.

In this page break processing, for example, an output work area (work file) is created in advance on the hard disk 4 or the like, and the page break processing is performed on the document data 3a read from the document 3 for output. It is advisable to take the method of outputting to the work area.

After the process of pushing out the heading to the next page, or in step S3 or S4, if the heading character does not exist or the heading-out level does not match, whether the read document data is the end of sentence or not. Is determined (step S6). Here, if it is not the end of the sentence, the process returns to step S2 for reading out the character of the next document data 3a, and if it is the end of the sentence, this processing ends.
If the document data 3a is read and output to the output work area while performing page break processing,
An operation such as renaming the output work area to the document name of the read document 3 is performed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen display example during document editing. On the screen shown in the figure, menu areas 11, 12, and 13 displayed as "basic", "edit", and "character attribute" necessary for operating the document processing apparatus are displayed at the upper part thereof, and below that are document contents. Is a display area 14 in which is displayed.

According to the illustrated example of the document being edited, "Xth
The headings described as “part” are large headings, the headings described as “Chapter x” are medium headings, and the headings described as “section x” are small headings. In this order, heading levels 1, 2 And 3 are defined. On the screen, the headlines of the heading levels 2 and 3 are displayed indented by one character, for example, from the heading of the higher level.

Further, in this document example, in particular, it is assumed that the heading "Part 2" of the heading level 1 is edited so as to be located at the top of the page, and as a result of repeated editing such as movement, the page This shows a case in which the heading of the heading level 1, which is the "second part" that should be located at the beginning of, has moved to the middle of the page.

If the user decides to display or print the level 1 heading from the top of the page,
"Edit" menu area 12 displayed at the top of the screen
Select with the cursor to display the menu.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of an instruction to dismiss a headline. When the user selects the "Edit" menu area 12 displayed at the top of the screen with the cursor,
The pull-down menu 15 appears there. From the pull-down menu 15, "exit headline" is designated.
Then, a window for setting the conditions for ejecting the headline is displayed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a window for setting the heading eviction. According to this example, in the heading eviction setting window 16, in addition to specifying whether the heading eviction is only for printing or to be performed during display, which level of the heading is targeted for eviction. In this example, heading eviction is targeted for display / printing, and level 1
The heading (part x in FIGS. 3 and 4) is set to be the target of eviction.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display after executing the heading-out. When the execution is selected after designating the target function and the target headline level in the window 16 of FIG. 5, the document 3 is read and the page break process is performed, and the result is displayed in the display area 14 of the display device. . In the illustrated example, the level 1 heading "Part 2" is displayed at the top of the next page.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a headline symbol is present in a document and a specific headline is to be displayed or printed from the top of the page, the specified headline is changed to the top of the page. It is configured to perform page processing. Therefore, the user can create or edit the document without paying particular attention to the position of the index mark, and the working efficiency of the document processing device can be greatly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of the document processing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a screen display example during document editing.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of an instruction to dismiss a headline.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a window for setting a headline ejection.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display after execution of heading-out.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Document Processing Means 2 Heading Format Converting Means 3 Documents 3a Document Data 3b Heading Ejection Information 4 Hard Disk 5 Display Device 6 Printer

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document processing apparatus that creates and prints a document according to input information, creates a document, sets heading eviction information for the created document, and outputs the created document. Document processing means for outputting the document data forming the document in accordance with the heading-out information set for each document, and when the document processing means receives the heading-out instruction, A document processing apparatus, comprising: a headline format conversion unit for performing page break processing on document data of a document in accordance with the headline dismissal information. 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heading-out information is a heading-out level. 3. The headline format conversion means has a page break processing means for performing processing for rewriting the page number of line information held in the document data.
Document processing device described. 4. The document processing according to claim 1, wherein the headline format conversion means has a page break processing means for performing a process of inserting a page break symbol before a character string that matches the headline eviction information. apparatus. 5. The headline format conversion means has a page break processing means for performing a process of filling a blank space up to the beginning of the next page before a character string matching the headline eviction information. Document processor. 6. The headline format conversion means has a page break processing means for performing the page break processing on the document data while outputting to the output work area, and thereafter performing a process of reflecting the document data on the document data. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: