JPH10187714A - Device and method for document preparation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for document preparation that enable an operator to easily grasp how many characters overflow from a layout frame for a document when a character string is inserted into the frame. SOLUTION: When a composition part 204 detects a character string inputted from a character input part 201 or character string storage part 202 being too long to enter the frame for laying out a document stored in format information 207 when the character string is inserted into the frame, a composition control part 203 calculates the amount of the excessive characters by an overflow information generation part 206 and displays the calculation result at a display part 205.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus and method for setting an editing area such as a frame in a document and inputting / laying out a character string in the area, such as a word processor or DTP. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional document creation apparatus can create a document having various layouts by setting a plurality of frames in a document and inputting and laying out characters and images for each frame.

In an actual editing operation, first, a plurality of frames are set by designating a position and a size in a document.
Set the format in the frame for each set frame. Thereafter, a desired frame is selected and characters and images are input.

However, when a character string is input, a case of "character overflow" occurs in which all the intended characters cannot be included in the frame. In such a case, the size of the frame in which the characters overflow must be changed to a size that can accommodate all the necessary characters.

[0005]

In such a conventional document creating apparatus, it is necessary for an operator to predict how much character string has overflowed from the frame and to correct the size of the frame accordingly. For this reason, there has been a problem that it is necessary to repeat trial and error many times before determining the size of the frame in which all the necessary character strings are contained.

The present invention provides a document creating apparatus and a document creating method that allow an operator to easily understand how many characters have overflowed from a frame when inserting a character string into a frame for laying out a document. The purpose is to do.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION To solve this problem, the present invention provides a storage means for storing information on a frame for laying out a document, an input means for inputting a character string in the frame, and an input means. Detection detecting means for detecting that the character string input from can not fit within the frame, calculating means for determining the amount of the character string which could not fit within the frame in response to detection by the detecting means, Display means for displaying the determined amount of the character string.

Thus, when a character string is inserted into a frame for laying out a document, a document creating apparatus that allows an operator to easily understand how many characters have overflowed from the frame is obtained.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage means for storing information on a frame for laying out a document, an input means for inputting a character string in the frame,
Detection detecting means for detecting that the character string input from the input means cannot be included in the frame; calculating means for determining the amount of the character string which cannot be included in the frame in response to detection by the detecting means; Display means for displaying the amount of the character string obtained by the means, when the character string can not fit in the frame, displays the amount of the character string that can not fit, to the operator Inform.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a hardware block diagram of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
101 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as “CPU”) for controlling the apparatus.
), A random access memory (hereinafter referred to as “RAM”) 102 for storing programs and character information for the CPU 101 to control, 103 a keyboard for inputting data, 104 a C for displaying data.
RT and 105 are auxiliary storage devices for storing created document data and the like, 106 is a pointing device (for example, a mouse) for indicating a window or the like displayed on the CRT 104, and 107 is a printer for printing out data.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the document creating apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, when a character is input by an operator, the character information is stored in a character string storage unit 202 through a character input unit 201. The character strings stored in the character string storage unit 202 are stored in the typesetting control unit 20.
3 when a typesetting request is generated,
Passed to 4. The typesetting unit 204 refers to the format information 207 and calculates a display position for each character in the character string.

Here, the typesetting process of the typesetting unit 204 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3A, the typesetting unit 204 refers to the format data of the format information 207 to calculate the character position. In the format data, the height and width of the area in which the characters are arranged, whether the text is to be vertically or horizontally set, the character size, character feed, line feed, and the like are set.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the typesetting unit 204
First, referring to the set direction of the format data, it is determined at which position in the area the first character is to be arranged. Normally, the area is arranged at the upper right end of the area in vertical composition and at the upper left end in horizontal composition. When the first character position is determined, the next character position is calculated by advancing the character feed in the format information 207 with reference to the center position of the character. The character feed direction is normally downward in vertical composition and right lateral in horizontal composition. Hereinafter, the character coordinates are sequentially determined.

As shown in FIG. 3C, when characters are sequentially arranged in the character feed direction, the characters eventually protrude from the area. In this state, the character reference position is moved in the line feed direction with reference to the line feed value of the format information. The moving direction is usually the left horizontal direction in the vertical composition and the downward direction in the horizontal composition. When the new line position is determined, the character position at the head of the line is determined, and the character position is determined.

As shown in FIG. 3D, the above processing is repeated, and when the character string data is lost, the typesetting processing is completed. In the process of determining the next line position, if the next line position comes out of the area, it is an overflow state.

In the above-described normal typesetting / displaying procedure, the typesetting unit 204 notifies the typesetting control unit 203 whether or not all the characters have been accommodated in the character area as a result of the typesetting. When the typesetting control unit 203 receives the notification from the typesetting unit 204 and fits in the character area, it requests the display unit 205 to perform normal display. On the other hand, if you can not fit,
The overflow information creating unit 206 is called to calculate and record the overflow information.

The overflow information creating unit 206 includes a typesetting unit 204
The number of characters overflowing is calculated and stored from the result returned from and the data in the character string storage unit 202. If the number of overflowing lines is required, the overflow information creating unit 206 issues a formatting request to the formatting control unit 203, and the formatting unit 204 performs formatting to calculate the number of lines. The typesetting result is returned to the overflow information creating unit 203 and is not passed to the display unit 205. When the number of overflow lines is returned from the typesetting control unit 203, the overflow information creating unit 206 creates display data to display the information. The created display data is sent to the display unit 205 through the typesetting control unit 203 and displayed on the output device.

Next, a specific example of execution will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4A shows an example of a document layout. When creating a document, first, an area for storing characters, illustrations, and images is created (areas A to A).
Region F).

FIG. 4B is an enlarged view of a region E in FIG. 4A. When character string data as shown in FIG. 4C is input to this area E, "Naninuneno" in FIG. When the typesetting control unit 203 receives this state from the typesetting unit 204, the typesetting control unit 203 sets the overflow information creation unit 20
6, overflow information is created and displayed as shown in FIG.

In the example shown in FIG. 4D, the number of overflowing characters and the number of lines are displayed in reverse video, and an asterisk is displayed to emphasize the overflow state. The operator enlarges the area E in order to get out of the overflow state, or deletes the input character string shown in FIG.

FIG. 4E shows a state where the area E is enlarged. When the operator gives an instruction to enlarge the area, a series of character typesetting processing is performed immediately after that, and overflow information is also updated. For this reason, the overflow information is not displayed in FIG.

FIG. 4F shows a case where the input character string is deleted. When you edit the input string, for example, 1
Recomposition occurs in the area E at the timing of character insertion / deletion, and as a result, overflow information is updated and displayed. In the example of FIG. 4F, three characters have been deleted.
The mark and "two characters per line" are displayed.

Next, the overflow information display / update processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the document creating apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. This flowchart is
This is realized by the CPU 101 executing a program stored in the RAM 102.

As shown in FIG. 5, when a character is input, deleted, or replaced, the character is received by the character input unit 201, and a process of inputting, deleting, or replacing the character is performed (step 501).

The character string data is updated according to the type of character input, deletion, and replacement processing in step 501 (step 502).

The updated character string data is transmitted to the typesetting controller 20.
3 and typesetting within the area is performed based on the data (step 503). In the typesetting, each character is arranged in the area, coordinates are determined, and up to which character in the character string data the typesetting was completed is returned. To indicate the final typesetting character in the character string data, use the data address where the character is stored.

Here, the storage of character string data will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG.
(A) is character string data to be typeset. This data is stored in the RAM 102 in order. In order to refer to the contents of data stored in the RAM 102, an address (data indicating a position in the memory) is used.

FIG. 6B shows a state where the character string data of FIG. 6A is stored in the memory. It is stored from address 0x0000 to address 0x002E. Since Japanese characters have more characters than the alphabet, two bytes represent one character. Therefore, two bytes of memory are required to store one Japanese character, and the address advances in units of two bytes. When data is stored, a data start address and a data end address are recorded.

As shown in FIGS. 6C and 6D,
The typesetting unit 204 sequentially reads characters from the character string data in the memory and performs typesetting. When terminating the typesetting, a typesetting end address is recorded in order to store the position of the typesetting in the character string data. If the typesetting end address matches the data end address at the time of character string data recording, all of the character string data has been typeset, and if the address of the final typesetting character is small, "overflow" has occurred.

The above determination processing is performed in step 504.
As a result of the typesetting, when all the characters fall within the area, the characters are displayed according to the coordinate data (step 510). On the other hand, if it does not fit in the area, the process proceeds to step 505, where the overflow information creating unit 206 performs the process.

The overflow information creating unit 206 calculates the number of overflow characters and the number of overflow lines. To calculate the number of overflow lines, the overflow characters must be typeset in the current typesetting area. For a large number of overflow characters, it is necessary to enlarge the typesetting area in the line feed direction in order to calculate the number of lines accurately.

In step 505, the character following the final typesetting character obtained from the result of the typesetting in step 503 is set as the overflow start character, and up to the last character of the character string data is set as the overflow data character string.

In order to calculate the number of overflow lines, step 50 is executed.
The area used in the typesetting process 3 is expanded in the line feed direction, for example, to the end of the sheet (step 506). It is a guide to the end of the sheet, and may be even larger if it corresponds to a large number of lines. However, since the enlargement of the area is temporary for obtaining the number of overflow lines, the area is restored when the typesetting processing in step 507 described later is completed.

The typesetting process is performed again using the overflow character string data and the extended typesetting area (step 507). From the result of the typesetting processing, the number of lines and characters that have been typeset is obtained (step 508). Display data of the number of overflow characters and the number of overflow lines is created and added to the display data created in step 503 (step 509).

When the process of step 509 is completed, the process proceeds to step 510, where a display process is performed based on the display data. The display position of the overflow information is preferably superimposed on the final typesetting character in the typesetting area so that the operator can easily associate the occurrence of the overflow.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention, a storage means for storing information on a frame for laying out a document, an input means for inputting a character string in the frame, and a character input from the input means Detection detection means for detecting that the column cannot fit within the frame, calculation means for determining the amount of the character string that could not fit within the frame in response to detection by the detection means, and character string calculated by the calculation means Display means for displaying the amount of
When a character string cannot be accommodated in the frame, the amount of the character string that cannot be accommodated is displayed and notified to the operator, so that the operator does not have all the input data. Can be clearly understood. In addition, the operator obtains information that serves as a guide when performing a layout change operation such as how much the area of the frame should be expanded in order to store all the character string data and a change operation of the character string data. Therefore, the operability is remarkably improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a hardware block diagram of a document creation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a typesetting process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a display explanatory diagram of “overflow information” in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a document creation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a storage state of character string data in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 Central processing unit (CPU) 102 Random access memory (RAM) 103 Keyboard 104 CRT 105 Auxiliary storage device 106 Pointing device 107 Printer 201 Character input unit 202 Character string storage unit 203 Typesetting control unit 204 Typesetting unit 205 Display unit 206 Overflow information creation unit 207 Format information

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing information relating to a frame for laying out a document, an input unit for inputting a character string in the frame, and a character string input from the input unit being completely contained in the frame. Detecting means for detecting that there is no character string; calculating means for calculating the amount of the character string that could not fit within the frame according to the detection by the detecting means; and displaying the amount of the character string obtained by the calculating means. And a display unit for performing the above operation. 2. An input device for inputting data, a storage device for storing data, and a display device for displaying data, wherein the storage device stores information relating to a frame for laying out a document. A character string input from an input device is inserted into a box stored in a storage device, and all the character strings to be inserted into the box are included in the box. Judgment as to whether or not it fits, and if it is judged that it does not fit in the frame, the amount of character string overflowing from the frame is calculated, and the amount of overflowing character string is displayed on the display device. How to create a document. 3. An input device for inputting data, a storage device for storing data, and a display device for displaying data, wherein the storage device stores information on a frame for laying out a document. A character string input from an input device into a frame stored in the storage device, and all the character strings to be inserted into the frame are stored in the storage medium. Judge whether or not it fits within the frame, and if it is judged that it does not fit within the frame, calculate the amount of character string that overflows from the frame and display the amount of character string that overflows on the display device. A storage medium storing a program characterized by the following.