JPH08227420A - Document creation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a device which enables a document to be edited on both a layout display screen and a normal editing screen and can easily switch them by providing a switching means which switches the specific 1st editing mode and 2nd mode. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with the switching means which switches the 1st editing mode wherein data can be edited on the layout display screen displayed on a display screen and the 2nd mode wherein a dedicated editing screen corresponding to plural edited data constituting the layout display screen is displayed and corresponding data are edited on the dedicated editing screen. Namely, a menu bar 100 of each editing task is provided with a switching menu 101. When the switching menu 101 is instructed with a cursor 110, a document manager operates and various processes can be selected with a new area generation menu 102 and an area operation menu 103. Consequently, the editing mode on the layout display screen and the normal editing mode can easily be switched by a user's instruction.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus, and more particularly, it displays a print image of an integrated document composed of a plurality of data of different types such as sentences and figures on a display screen and displays individual data on the screen. The present invention relates to a document creation device suitable for editing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A typical conventional device is "Jstar Workstation" (edited by Akihiro Uetani) (April 1986).
There is a workstation described on Mar. 25, published by Maruzen. In this workstation, edit data such as documents and figures are assigned to a frame, and individual data is edited within the frame. However, a one-page print image is displayed on the CRT screen being edited (the print image below). Displaying is called layout display), and individual data can be edited on it. By pointing the frame with the cursor,
The data within the designated frame is to be edited. It is also possible to easily change the page layout by moving the frame or the like.

[0003]

By the way, the layout display screen as described above is displayed on the screen after the characters are doubled or modified in the normal editing mode. Therefore, it takes some processing time to create a layout display screen and display it on the screen, and because the screen is created and the display is changed each time the page is updated,
When inputting, for example, a long sentence on the layout display screen, changing the display at the time of page updating becomes considerably troublesome. Therefore, when inputting a long sentence, it is preferable to be able to input in a normal edit mode.

An object of the present invention is to provide a document creating apparatus capable of editing a document in both the layout display screen and a normal editing mode and easily switching between them.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a document creating apparatus according to the present invention displays a print image image composed of a plurality of edit data display areas on a display screen and displays the print image. A first edit mode in which the edit data can be edited on the printed image
A switching means is provided for displaying a dedicated editing screen individually corresponding to the plurality of editing data and switching between a second mode in which the corresponding editing data can be edited on the dedicated editing screen. The first screen is displayed when the menu screen displayed on the display screen is instructed.
And a second mode switching operation is performed, and the image on the display screen is switched to the print image image or the dedicated editing screen in accordance with the mode switching operation.

[0006]

With this configuration, both the edit mode on the layout display screen and the normal edit mode can be easily switched according to a user's instruction, and the user's hand is greatly improved.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2A shows a logical structure 200 of a document and an example 210 of the document, which are adopted in this embodiment. The document consists of chapters, and chapters consist of pages. Further, a page is formed of a plurality of areas, and the layout of the page is determined by the position and size of the area. One data of a text, a figure, and a box is assigned to each area.
In this embodiment, the data is limited to three types, but this limitation is not an essential problem for the present invention. It is easy to extend this embodiment to handle data such as images.

The document data is composed of data of each area and structure data expressing a logical structure. In this embodiment, the structure data and the data of each area are held as individual independent files. That is, in the hierarchical file structure shown in FIG. 2B, the lowest directory 220 corresponds to one document, and structure data and area data are stored in each of a plurality of files 230 hanging under the directory 220. To be done. For example, the structural data in the file 230a is 23
0b, 230c and 230d are text data,
Graphic data and enclosure data are stored.

As shown in FIG. 3, the document editing program is composed of a document manager 300, an editing program 310, and a layout display program 320. The document manager 300 provides the user with a layout changing function and a chapter structure editing function, and also has an editing program 310.
And a layout display program 320 are collectively managed.

FIG. 4 shows an example of structural data. The structure data includes a chapter management table 400, a page management table 410, and an area management table 420. Chapter management table 4
00 manages the pointer to the page management table 410 of each chapter, and the page management table 410 manages the pointer to the area management table 420 included in the page. The area management table 420 is made up of an area number 421, a data type 422 indicating the distinction between the data of the body, the figure, and the enclosure, 423 indicating the position and size of the area, an area attribute 424, and a file name 425 of the data assigned to the area. Area attribute 4
Reference numeral 24 has a meaning only for the figure area and the enclosing area (the area to which the figure data is assigned is called the figure area. The text area and the enclosing area are also the same) and indicates the exclusion / non-exclusion. The text data is not poured into the exclusive area, and the text and the data in the area do not overlap. The text data is poured into the non-exclusive area, and the text and the data in the area overlap. The document manager 300 updates the structure data shown in FIG. 4 in accordance with instructions from the user such as deletion and addition of chapters and pages, and movement and deletion of areas. These document managers 30
Since the processing of 0 is not directly related to the present invention, its explanation is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 3, the editing program 310 is composed of three independent programs: a text editing program 310a, a figure editing program 310b, and a box editing program 310c. These editing programs 310
Reads and edits the area data stored in the file 230 (FIG. 2B). The editing program 310 is
Regardless of the configuration data and other area data, only the specified one area data stored in one file 230 is the object of editing. The layout display program 320 is also composed of independent programs of a text layout display program 320a, a graphic layout display program 320b, and a box layout display program 320c, reads area data from a designated file 230, and prints the data on the layout screen. Is displayed.

Now, these programs run on a multitasking OS, and when they run, they run as independent tasks.
It is managed by S. Therefore, when explaining the operation of each program, it is called a task rather than a program. In the present embodiment, it is realized on a multi-task OS having a very general function, and the details of the function and the structure thereof are publicly known and the description thereof will be omitted. Further, the functions such as starting / terminating tasks and exchanging messages between tasks used in the present embodiment are very general functions of a multi-task OS, and are known techniques, so that functions and implementation by the OS are realized. The method is not specifically described.

Reference numerals 330 to 332 in FIG. 3 represent the relationships between the tasks. 330 indicates that the document manager 300 activates the edit task 310 or the edit task 310.
To issue a message to. 331 is
The edit task 310 or the layout display task 320 issues and sends a message to the document manager 300. 332 means that the document manager 300 activates the layout display task 320.

Table 1 lists the types of messages. The message 331a is sent from the edit task 310 to the document manager 3
Message "00", which notifies that editing end is instructed during editing, "processing end", "outside area coordinates" indicating that coordinates other than the editing target area are instructed,

[0015]

[Table 1]

There are types such as "switching" indicating that an area switching instruction has been given, "scroll" notifying a scroll instruction, and "page change" notifying that a page change is required. The message 330 notifies the edit task 310 that the document manager 300 has received the message 331a and completed the layout screen change processing according to the type. The message 331b indicates that the layout display task 520 has completed the instructed layout display to the document manager 300.

Before explaining the processing of each task, first, referring to FIG.
The editing method on the layout display screen will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIGS. 1 (a) to 1 (d) show an example of the CRT screen during the editing work using the present embodiment. 1
00 is a menu bar for the user to select an editing function, 101 is a switching menu, 102 is a new area creation menu, 103 is an area operation menu, and 104 is an end menu. A layout display 120 represents one page of the document being edited. 121 is the text area of the page, 122
Is a graphic area, and 123 is an enclosed area. 110 is a CRT
A cursor that indicates a position on the screen, and the position is controlled by an input device such as a mouse.

FIG. 1D shows a state in which the document manager 300 is operating, and the document manager 300 waits for an input from the user. For example, when the user gives an instruction to modify an already edited document stored in the floppy disk, the document manager 300 and the layout display task 320 are sequentially activated, and the layout display task 320 is displayed.
Reaches this state after completing the layout display.

When the user points the area 122 with the cursor 110, moves the cursor 110 to the menu 100, and points the area operation menu 103, the pull-down menu 600b of FIG. 6B is displayed. If "Edit" in the figure is selected and instructed, the state shown in FIG. 1A is obtained. In FIG. 1A, a graphic editing task 310b is operating, and a menu for graphic editing is displayed on the menu bar 100. In FIG. 1A, the area to be edited is displayed in this embodiment, and the other areas are displayed in broken lines, but this display method is not essential to the present invention, and lines of the same kind are all used. The seed may or may not be displayed.

In the state shown in FIG. 1D, the menu bar 100
When the new area creation menu 102 of FIG.
The pull-down menu 600a of (a) is displayed. 6
When any of the text from 00a to the box is designated, a corresponding area is newly displayed in 120. By setting the size and position of this area, a new character area, enclosing area, or the like that does not yet have edit data is set.

In the state shown in FIG. 1A, graphic editing can be performed in the graphic area 122. Figure editing task 310b
Indicates that the position designated by the cursor 110 is in the graphic area 122.
If it is within the range, graphic editing processing is performed. Also, the user
By pointing the menu bar 100 with the cursor 110, a desired editing function can be input. As a method for inputting the editing function, a method using a keyboard can be used in addition to the menu bar 100. In this state, for example, if the cursor 110 is used to point to the enclosed area 123, the enclosed area 123 becomes the edit target area and the state shown in FIG. 1B is entered, and the enclosed edit task 310c operates and the menu bar 1
A box editing menu is displayed at 00.

As described above, by designating the area on the layout display screen, different data can be edited one after another while switching the editing tasks 310. However, when the text area 121 is being edited in the state of FIG. 1C, the text area 121, the graphic area 122, and the enclosing area 123 overlap each other, so that the user moves the cursor 11
Does 0 indicate the position in the body area 121,
It may be difficult to determine whether it is pointing to another area (122, 123). For example, in FIG.
Since 22 attributes are non-exclusive and the text area and the graphic area 122 are displayed in an overlapping manner, part of the text is moved to the cursor 11
It is extremely difficult to determine whether 0 is designated or the graphic area 122 is designated.

In this embodiment, a switching menu 101 is provided in the menu bar 100 of each editing task 310 in order to clarify instructions in other areas in such a case. When the switching menu 101 is designated by the cursor 110, the document manager 300 operates and the state shown in FIG. In this state, as described above, various functions can be selected from the new area creation menu 102 and the area operation menu 103.

Next, the processing of each task will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 7 to 10. 5 and 7 show the document manager 30.
It is a figure explaining the management method of the area | region of 0, and the management data used during edit work. The document manager 300 manages the position and size of the area in the paper coordinate system. 12 of FIG.
0'represents a sheet to be edited. The paper coordinate system is the dot coordinate system shown in FIG. 5A with the origin 510 at the upper left corner of the paper. The positions and sizes of the regions 121 'to 123' are determined by the coordinates of the upper left corner of the regions (531, 541, 5
51) and the lower right corner coordinates (532, 542, 552). These coordinates are the area management table 420 of FIG.
No. 423 is stored. FIG. 5B shows a CRT screen 5
00 shows the layout of the paper displayed on the display screen 00. On the CRT screen 500, as shown in FIG. 5B, a coordinate system having an origin 520 at the upper left corner of the screen excluding the display area of the menu bar 100 is set. Figure 5 (b)
Numbers marked with ′ are coordinates on the CRT screen 500 corresponding to the paper coordinate system, 510 ′ is the origin of the paper coordinate system, and the others are coordinates of the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the area. The document manager 300 has a coordinate data table 560 for managing the area displayed on the CRT screen 500 during the editing process (FIG. 5C). 561 is the area number being edited, 562 is the reduction / enlargement ratio for display, 563-i
(i = 1, 2, 3) is the area number i stored in 421
Is set, and 565-i holds the upper left corner coordinates and the lower right corner coordinates of the area. For example, in FIG. 5, coordinates 531 'and 532' are at 565-1 and coordinates 54 are at 545-2.
1'and 542 'will be retained. 564-i indicates the type of data (text, figure, box) assigned to the area of number i.

Reference numeral 700a in FIG. 7 is a program management table for associating the edit data with the edit task 310 and the layout display task 320, which is a table held by the document manager 300. 701 indicates the type of edit data, 702
The edit task number is stored in, and the layout display task number is stored in 703.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the document manager 300. When activated, the management data and the menu are initialized in the work area to display a menu on the menu bar 100 at 801. At this time, the layout of the page to be edited is displayed on the CRT screen 500, and the reduction / enlargement ratio of the display is set to 562 of the coordinate data table 560. If the area has already been set, the area number is set to 563, the type of data assigned to the area is set to 564, and the coordinates of the area are set to 565. After that, it waits for input (840a). When the function as described in FIG. 6 is input, the content to be processed is determined according to the function (802). In the case of creating a new area, the edit data file 230 shown in FIG. 2B is generated in 803, and the area management table 420 is added to the configuration data of FIG. Further, the number and coordinates of the new area are added to 563 and 565 of the coordinate data table 560 of FIG. 5, and the type of edit data designated by 564 is added. The number of the newly generated area is set in 561. When the layout is changed due to the exclusivity of the area, the layout display is changed. Area operation menu 1
When editing is instructed in the pull-down menu corresponding to 03, the number of the designated area is set in 561 of the coordinate data table 560. To determine the area number,
This is performed by comparing the coordinates designated by the cursor 110 with the area coordinates 565 of the coordinate data table 560.
When an area is deleted, moved, or another menu is instructed, the processing corresponding to the instruction is performed, but since it is not directly related to the present invention, it is omitted in FIG.

In process 805, coordinate data table 560
Area number i set to 561 of
The type of edit data assigned to the area number i is known from 4-i. And 7 of the program management table 700a
The edit task number corresponding to the edit data is obtained from 01 and 702, and a request to activate the task is issued to the OS. At this time, the coordinate data table 560 is used as a start parameter.
The reduction / enlargement ratio 562, the display coordinates 565 of the area, and the file name 425 of the edit data of the area management table 420 stored in the area are notified to the edit task 310 to be activated. After that, at 840b, a message is waited to be received from the editing task 310, and the activated editing task 310 starts activation.

When the message is received, the document manager 30
0 restarts the operation, and the process 806 judges the message. If the message type is "switch", process 85
When 0, the menu is displayed on the menu bar 100 and the layout is displayed again. At this time, it is possible to display the frames of all the areas and clearly indicate the positions of the areas. After that, the input is awaited at 840a.

When the processing of the message is "end",
The end processing such as issuing an end notification to the OS is performed and the edit processing is ended (810).

In the case of the "outside area coordinates" message, the coordinates designated by the cursor 110 are given as a parameter. The document manager 300 compares the coordinates given in the process 830 with the area coordinates 565 of the coordinate data table 560, determines the specified area, and sets the area number to 5
It sets to 61 and performs processing 805.

When the message processing is "scroll" or "page change", the display content of the CRT screen 500 is changed in step 820. In the case of “scroll”, the scroll direction and size are given from the editing task 310 as message parameters, and the image on the screen is moved accordingly. In the case of "page change", all the images of the paper on the CRT screen 500 are erased. Then, the page management table 410 of the configuration data is searched for the management data of all the areas forming the next page, and the coordinate data table 5 is searched.
The area number 563 of 60 and the edit data type 564 corresponding to the area are reset. After that, the paper frame is displayed.

In process 821, the redisplay range of the layout and the area coordinates 565-i are compared one after another, and if there is an overlap, the layout display task 320 corresponding to the area is displayed.
Is issued from the program management table 700a and an activation request is issued to the OS (however, the area that is currently the editing target area is excluded). At this time, as the startup parameter,
There are area coordinates 565-i, a reduction / enlargement ratio 562, and a corresponding edit data file name 425. 840 after startup
At “c”, the “layout display completion” message from the layout display task 320 is awaited (840c). When the message is received, it is determined whether or not the display of all areas has been completed (822). If there is an undisplayed area, processing 821 is performed.
To processing 822 are repeated. When the display of all areas is completed, “Layout change completed” is displayed in the edit task 310.
A message is transmitted (823), and the message from the editing task 320 is awaited at 840b.

The layout display and change processing in the processings 801, 803 and 850 are also the processings 821 to 82.
Follow the same procedure as in 2.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of the edit task 310. When activated from the document manager 300, the file name in which the edit data is stored is obtained from the activation parameter, and the edit data is read from the corresponding file 230 (901). In step 902, work data used internally is initialized and a menu is displayed on the menu bar 100. In addition, in the case of creating a new area, the file 230 storing the edited data has been created,
Since the edit data is not yet written in the file 230, it is necessary to initialize the edit data. 94
The input is awaited at 0a, and if there is an input, the input is determined at 903. Menu 104 that means input is complete or switching
If the value is or 101, or if it is the coordinate value pointed to by the cursor 110 and the coordinate value is not included in the range of the display coordinates 565 of the area passed by the start parameter, first, in step 910, the edit data is edited. The message is stored in the file 230 and a message corresponding to the document manager 300 is issued in step 911. Then, the end processing 912 such as issuing an end notification to the OS is performed and the processing is ended. At this time, the document manager 30 waiting to receive the message
Since the message is issued to 0, the OS puts the document manager 300 into the operating state, and the processing of the document manager 300 is restarted.

When scrolling is instructed by the scroll key or the scroll bar, a message corresponding to the document manager 300 is issued in process 920, and the process waits to receive a message from the document manager 300 in 940b. OS
Then, the document manager 300, which has been waiting for the message, is activated and the processing of the document manager 300 is restarted. The editing task 310 to which the message is sent from the document manager 300 restarts the processing from the processing 921. In process 921, the portion newly displayed by scrolling is displayed, and the input wait 940a is set.

For other cursor coordinates or key code input, edit processing corresponding to the input is performed in step 930 and the result is displayed in 932, or the result is determined in 931 by, for example, text editing. If it is found that the display extends to the next page, the corresponding message is issued to the document manager 300 in process 920. At 921, the edited data of the new page and the processing result at 930 are displayed together.
The editing task converts the input coordinates into relative coordinates with the coordinates of the upper left corner of the area of the paper coordinate system as the origin, using the area display coordinates 565 and the reduction / enlargement ratio 562 given by the start parameters, and waits as edit data. When displaying, the coordinates of the edited data are converted into the coordinates of the coordinate system of the CRT screen 500 by the reduction / enlargement ratio 562 and the area display coordinates 565 and displayed.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the layout display task 320. When started by the document manager 300, the edit data is read from the corresponding file 230 by the edit data file name 425 given by the start parameter in the process 1001. Processing 100
The reduction / enlargement rate of 5 given by the startup parameter in 2 as well
62 and the area display coordinates 565, the coordinates of the edit data are changed to the coordinate system of the CRT screen 500, and the edit data is displayed in the area indicated by 565. When the display of the edited data is completed, a “layout display completion” message is issued to the document manager 300 in 1003, and the OS is displayed in 1004.
The end notification is issued to and the process ends.

According to this embodiment described in detail above, 2 in FIG.
When editing a document having the document structure indicated by 00 on the layout display screen, it is possible to select a desired area as an edit target, no matter how complicated the areas forming the pages overlap. In addition to the above, when the overlapping of areas is simple, the object to be edited can be switched and the corresponding program can be started immediately by simply specifying the areas, which has the effect of greatly simplifying the user operation. .

As another effect of this embodiment, since each editing program and each layout display program have an independent structure as a program, for example, when a new English function is newly added, The English editing program and the English layout display program can be developed completely independently of the structure and editing data of other editing programs, which improves the development efficiency. Documents created by the system before the addition of the English function can be edited by the new system with the English function added, and compatibility at the upper document level is guaranteed.

Now, according to the embodiments described so far,
Until the switching is instructed, the area outside the edit target area is not displayed again, so that the graphic area 12 in FIG.
When the figure is deleted during the editing of item 2, part of the text data is erased by the display process, and the erased data cannot be recovered until the switching is instructed.

Two other embodiments of the present invention for solving this problem will be described. In the first embodiment, the processing of the document manager 300 and the processing of the editing task 310 are shown in FIG.
And the addition of the “redisplay” message to 331a in Table 1. When the document manager 300 receives the "refresh" message, the document manager 1101 in FIG.
The processing of 1104 is performed. That is, an area that overlaps with the redisplay range (described later) given by the parameter of the message is determined from the coordinate data table 560 (1101).
At this time, the area currently being edited is excluded. 1102
In 1103, the layout display tasks corresponding to the edit data of the overlapping areas are activated one after another, and when the redisplay of all areas is completed, the “layout change completion” message is issued to the edit task 310 in 1104 and a message input wait Becomes The edit task 320 redisplays the result after the edit processing 930 as shown in FIG.
0). After that, it is determined at 1111 whether redisplay is necessary (redisplay is required by erasing the figure, etc.). Range of the area that requires redisplay (on the CRT screen 500 at the upper left corner and the lower right corner). A "redisplay" message is issued with the rectangle represented by the coordinates as a parameter (1112).

Another embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 11 (A) and FIGS. 15 and 16. The process of the document manager 300 is the same as that already described. In the processing of the edit task 310, when the switching menu 101 is instructed as shown in FIG. 15, a pulldown menu 600c is displayed to instruct processing of either area switching or redisplay. When it is determined in the input determination process of 903 that redisplay is instructed, a "redisplay" message is issued to the document manager 300 in 1601 and a "layout change end" message from the document manager 300 is waited in 1602. Set the coordinates of the area as a message parameter. 1 when receiving a message from the document manager 300
Redisplay is performed at 603.

According to the former embodiment, since the latest layout is always displayed, there is an effect that the print image can be edited while viewing the print image at any time, but there is a drawback that the editing process becomes slow. In the latter embodiment, the latest layout is not always displayed, but in comparison with the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9, the speed of the editing process is not reduced and the user's request is met. The effect is that it can be displayed again at any time.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the contents of a CRT screen 500 of another embodiment in which two editing modes, a layout editing mode and a word processing mode, are provided.
The figure (A) is a CRT being edited in the layout edit mode.
The contents of the screen 500 are displayed. In all the embodiments described above, the same layout as the print image is displayed on the CRT screen 500 as shown in FIG. The layout editing mode in this embodiment can be realized in the same manner as in the above-mentioned embodiments. FIG. 3B shows the contents of the CRT screen 500 in the word processing mode. On the CRT display screen in the word processor mode, a display similar to that of a conventional general word processor is performed. That is, the display screen is managed in line columns, and the vertical and horizontal double angles and italics are represented by symbols. For example, the symbol 1201 in FIG. 12 is a symbol that represents a vertical and horizontal double angle, and the symbols 1202 and 1203 are a symbol that represents a vertical double angle and italic, respectively. The symbol 1204 represents a line break. In the word processing mode, neither the line spacing nor the character spacing is reflected in the display of the CRT screen 500.

A method of realizing the word processor mode of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 13, 14 and 17. In order to realize the word processor mode, a word processor editing program 340 which operates in the word processor mode is added as shown in FIG. Reference numeral 350 indicates that the document manager 300 activates the word processor editing program 340, and reference numeral 351 indicates a message. There are two types of messages, a "switch" message and a "process end" message.

The program management table 700b shown in FIG.
Is the task number 704 when the editing word processor editing program that operates in the word processing mode 700a (FIG. 7) is operated.
Is added. A mode management table 1300 is provided as a management table for the document manager 500, and a menu 1310 for switching between the layout editing mode and the word processing mode is provided on the menu bar 100. The normal display of the menu 1310 indicates the layout edit mode, and the reverse display indicates the word processing mode.

The process flow of the document manager 300 is shown in FIG.
Alternatively, the processing is the same as that of FIG. 11A, but the individual processing is slightly different from that of the above-described embodiment. First, in the initialization process of 801,
The layout edit mode is set to 1300. Then 80
When it is determined that the menu 1310 is instructed by the processing determination of 2, the menu 1310 is highlighted and the mode opposite to the mode set to 1300 is set to 1300. Finally, in the edit task activation process 805, the mode 1300 is determined, the edit task 340 indicated by 704 is activated in the word processing mode, and the edit task 320 indicated by 703 is activated in the layout edit mode. When starting the edit task 340, the start parameter is only the file name in which the edit data is stored.

The processing flow of the edit task 340 is shown in FIG. After reading the edit data, the work area is initialized at 1401, the menu is displayed, the layout display is erased, and the edit screen is displayed. For example, in the case of editing the text, the display in FIG. 12 (A) is changed to the display in FIG. 12 (B). Menu bar 1
The contents of 00 are the same as the contents of the menu bar 100 of the editing task 310. When it is determined in 1401 that the input is the instruction of the menu 101 or 104, the processing of 910 to 912 described in FIG. 9 is performed, and the editing processing ends. For other inputs, edit processing and display processing of the result are performed at 1405 and 1410. The editing function is almost the same as that of the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, but the coordinate system of the CRT screen 500 can be set by the editing task 340, so that the coordinate system which makes the coordinate conversion very simple is different.
For example, in the text editing, as set in FIG. 12, the dot coordinate system is not used but the line digit coordinate system is used. When the dot coordinate system is used, it is necessary to determine the character pointed by the cursor 110 from the coordinates designated by the cursor 110 in consideration of the line spacing and the character spacing. It is only necessary to convert the coordinates to the row and column coordinates and obtain the character located in the obtained row and column, which makes the processing simple and the processing speed fast.

According to the word processor mode of the present embodiment, it is not necessary to perform complicated calculation by coordinate conversion, and the processing speed is high. Especially in text editing, when displaying on a CRT screen, double-width processing and character processing are performed. Since it is not necessary to perform modification processing, there is an effect that the display of the edited result becomes extremely fast. In addition, since there is no concept of page in the display in the word processing mode, it is not necessary to change the display every time the page is updated, which can be an extremely effective means especially when inputting a very long sentence.

Another embodiment provided with the word processing mode will be described. In another embodiment, instead of storing the task number in a part of 702 and 704 of the program management table 700b, a special symbol distinguishable from the task number is stored. If the special symbol is stored in the field where the task number of the edit task 340 or 310 to be activated is stored, the document manager 300 activates the edit task in another mode.

For graphic editing, for example, since there is no great difference in processing contents and speed between the layout editing mode and the word processing mode, the graphic editing task 340b in the word processing mode is not developed, and the line corresponding to the graphic data 704 is written. Try to store special symbols. Even if the text editing is performed in the word processing mode, when the graphic area is designated, the layout is displayed by the document manager 300, and the graphic editing task 310b can be edited on the layout display screen.

Further, it is possible to release the setting of the special symbol to the user. A conventional word processor provides a means for the user to create data necessary for editing such as a user dictionary or a fixed phrase, register it in the system, and use it for editing work. By means similar to that means, a special symbol can be set by the user in 702 and 704 of the program management table 700b, and the result can be registered in the system area of the hard disk or floppy disk. Then, the document manager 300 reads the contents at the time of initial processing, and the program management table 700b
702 and 704.

In such an embodiment, the user can selectively use the functions of the document creating apparatus in accordance with his / her work content, and the efficiency of document creation is improved.

[0055]

According to the present invention, it becomes easy to switch between a mode in which editing can be performed on the layout display screen and a word processing mode in which normal editing can be performed. Since it is possible to input at high speed on the same screen, there is an effect that the function can be selectively used according to the purpose.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing display contents of a CRT screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a document data structure diagram used in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a program structure diagram.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing control data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a coordinate system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of input means.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing control data.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing display contents of a CRT screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing control data.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of input means.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart of a program according to an embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a program structure diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

 100 ... Menu, 110 ... Cursor, 121-123 ... Area, 120 ... Paper, 200 ... Document data structure, 230 ... Data file, 300 ... Document manager, 310, 340 ... Editing task, 320 ... Layout display task, 330, 331 , 351 ... Message, 420 ... Area management table, 560 ... Coordinate data table, 700 ... Program management table, 600 ... Pull-down menu.

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Naomichi Nonaka, 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Inside the Microelectronics Device Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Keiichi Nakane 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Bunch Co., Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics Equipment Development Laboratory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first edit mode in which a print image image composed of a plurality of edit data display areas is displayed on a display screen, and the edit data can be edited on the displayed print image image, And a second mode in which a dedicated editing screen individually corresponding to the plurality of editing data is displayed and the corresponding editing data can be edited on the dedicated editing screen. , The first and second menu screens displayed on the display screen are instructed.
The document creation apparatus is configured to perform the mode switching operation of (1) and switch the image on the display screen to the print image image or the dedicated editing screen according to the mode switching operation.