JPH1055357A - Document editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a proper dividing operation for the line return processing of data by defining and registering previously the information showing the dividing positions to a group of data as the composition information and dividing the data to perform the line return layout based on the dividing position information. SOLUTION: The line length is calculated for the intra-line layout (50), and the presence or absence of the remaining line length is checked (51). If the remaining line length is confirmed, the type of data is decided (53). In a small composition mode, the image data is acquired based on an ID for recognition of the small composition length and this length is compared with the remaining line length (55, 56). Then the nearest dividing position set within the remaining line length is decided and divided into two parts among plural image dividing positions which are previously registered for the image data having the small composition length larger than the remaining line length (58). Then the contents are updated and registered as images ID-1 and ID-2 (59). At the same time, the small composition of a data structure is also divided into ID-1 and ID-2 (60).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing system, in which a character string of text data is continuously added to a character string of text data in a paragraph of text data mainly composed of characters. and Embeddi
ng), HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), etc.This is related to the processing of image data when the line wrapping position is mixed with image data created using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) etc. ,
Examples of the document editing system include, for example, a word processor, an electronic document editor, and an electronic typesetting device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the following, using an example of an electronic typesetting system,
The present invention will be described. In the electronic typesetting of various printed materials using a computer, if the contents are all text data with character codes in the information processing device, or bitmap image data such as photographs are mixed in the text data However, if the arrangement position of the image data is fixed and separated from the edited composition of the text data, the line wrapping method by the conventional composition technique does not cause a problem. Also, for example, even in specialized books such as mathematics where complicated mathematical expressions frequently appear, mathematical expressions themselves are often converted to character codes, and typesetting can be performed by appropriate paragraph changing processing and wrapping processing. is there. (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-2
92561) However, in electronic typesetting of a printed matter in which image data is continuously mixed with a character string of text data in the same paragraph, the line wrapping position is determined by the character wrapping position after the character insertion. For example, a problem occurs in the processing of the image data when the image data is just encountered.

[0003] That is, in this case, the image data is handled by electronic composition in the following two ways. One is a method in which the image data is forcibly divided at the line end on the system side, and the other is that the user divides the set of image data at an appropriate position and reads again. This is a method of registering the document again.

FIG. 8 shows an output example of such a conventional electronic typesetting system. (1) is an original typesetting text in which an image data part is contained in a line. In the former case,
As shown in FIG. 8 (2), there is a problem that the symbols and characters are divided on the way because of the forced division.

[0005] In the latter case, if the divided image data does not fit in the line due to re-editing, the user re-enters the divided image data as shown in FIG. Had to be split at a position that would fit within the line, and re-read.

[0006] These problems arise from the fact that data treated as a group of image data or the like does not have positional information that can be divided. Hereinafter, FIG.
The outline of the overall processing flow of the conventional electronic typesetting system will now be described.

[0007] First, apart from those already digitized, the printed matter 80 to be digitized is subjected to step 81 for the text portion through means such as a word processor or OCR.
Is stored in the storage device as a text file 82 by the text input process. At this time, a special code called a small set having an image unique ID is inserted and placed in a portion where the image data is to be entered, so as to prepare for a later connection process with the image data.

[0008] The image data portion is stored in the storage device as an image file 84 to which an image unique ID is attached by the image data input processing of step 83 through means such as an image reader.

The text portion and the image data portion are matched and combined on the basis of the image unique ID given earlier in step 85, and a typesetting original document file 86, which is the basis of electronic typesetting, is created for the first time.

Based on the formalized original text file 86 created in this way, how to edit and format the original text file in terms of the character size, the indentation amount, etc., by using a formal information file 87 which defines and prepares the basic format in advance. In step 88, an electronic typesetting process is performed, and the result is output as a typeset file 89 and a typeset printed material 90.

[0011]

As described above, with respect to the line wrapping processing of a group of data such as image data, it is possible to correct the forced division of the group of data by the system and to improve the productivity of the user. It is a technical problem to eliminate an artificial image division operation while watching the output of a low typesetting process.

In view of such a point, the present invention relates to an electronic typesetting process in which text data and image data existing in the same paragraph are continuously arranged, and in particular, a line of a group of data such as image data. Regarding the return processing,
It is an object to provide means for enabling appropriate division by adding division position information.

[0013]

The above object is achieved by an electronic typesetting system which performs a document editing (typesetting) process configured as follows.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.
That is, in an electronic typesetting system that performs document editing processing,
A typesetting information storage unit for defining and registering information indicating one or more division positions for a group of data as typesetting information in advance, and the division position when the data does not fit in a row or a column during a document allocation process. A division output unit that divides the data based on the information and outputs the divided data is provided. By performing line wrapping assignment for a group of data, the typesetting process can be automated.

[0015]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention, which is configured as follows. That is, a typesetting original text file that stores a continuous arrangement of text data and image data in an electronic character code, and a typesetting that is defined and registered in advance as typesetting information including one or more division position information at which image data can be line-wrapped. An information file, a formatted file having the same data structure as the formatted text file based on the electronic formatting processing based on the information, and a formatted format obtained by converting the coded information of the formatted file into bitmap information and outputting it; The electronic typesetting system is composed of the finished printed matter and the divided output means as a means for executing the electronic typesetting process.

In this electronic typesetting process, it is necessary to first read the image data mixed in the character string of the text data with a scanner, and to register information on division of the image data in the typesetting information file as typesetting information in advance. From the state of the registration processing, a specific description will be given based on the original typesetting text example ((1) in FIG. 8) used in the description of the conventional system.

FIG. 2 explains the registration processing of the image data division information of the present invention, and the operation is divided into three stages. First, as shown in (1), processing is performed to edit the image data portion read by the scanner, and the bitmap information can be edited as desired by the editor. Note that the storage expression of the image data is not limited to the rasterization (bitmapping), but may be a vector storage of coordinate expression. Second, as shown in (2), for the edited image data, the image data part is surrounded by a rectangle, and the area of the image data part is set. Next, as shown in (3), one or more positions in the vertical direction (horizontal direction are also possible) are specified in the image data portion where the area is set, as shown in (3). In this example, there are three places indicated by, but this means that line wrapping may be performed at these positions during the execution of the typesetting process.
Here, the division position of the image data portion is expressed as two-dimensional coordinates with one of the four corners (in this example, the upper left of the screen) of the rectangle surrounding the image data portion at the time of setting the area as the origin.

The image division information obtained by the above-described operation is summarized as one typesetting information file, and the stored data format is shown in FIG. As this content,
Including an image ID for specifying a plurality of image data, image size coordinates (X, Y), division directions (vertical / horizontal directions), the number of division positions, and a plurality of division position coordinates (X
m, Yn) are stored.

Next, FIG. 4 shows how the data structure is based on the typesetting original text example (FIG. 8) used in the description of the conventional system. The paragraph shown in this example consists of five lines, of which the second line contains text data character strings and image data, and insertion or deletion of text data character strings before the image data. If there is, there is a possibility that line wrapping of the image data of the present invention may occur. Therefore, FIG. 4 shows the data structure of this paragraph centering on the second line.

The data structure of a paragraph is based on a tree structure. First, there is a line structure below a paragraph ID unique to a paragraph, and a character string including a special character constituting the line is provided below each line. The search is performed from the upper to the lower or from the lower to the upper. In the second line of this example, a character string of “inside,..., Image” continues, and a special identification character of “small set” is inserted at the position where the image data part enters. To represent a unique sub-set, an identifier ID is added and “sub-set ID”
It is written. This ID is linked with the image ID in the data format of the image division information described above with reference to FIG. 3. When the typesetting is executed, the “image ID” data is inserted at the position of the “small set ID”. Become. Although not shown in FIG. 4, in each line and each character string of the data structure, for example, only a certain character string word is in italic uppercase except for the basic format commonly expressed on the typesetting information file. For example, it should be added that the unique format information of only that part is included in each line and each character string of the data structure.

Next, based on the typesetting information file including the image typesetting information described above and the contents of the typesetting original text file read from each storage unit, the electronic typesetting process is executed by any logic. This will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, at step 50, the line length for performing the allocation within the line is calculated, and at step 51, the remaining line length is checked.
If there is no remaining length, it is determined that the assignment of the line
Line at 52 and return to the beginning. If there is a remaining line length, the data type is determined in step 53; if it is text data, it is allocated as it is in step 54 and the process returns to the beginning; if it is a small set, it is determined based on the ID of this small set. Acquire the image data to be recognized, recognize the small group length by the image size,
The small group length and the remaining line length are compared in step 56, and if the remaining line length is longer, that is, if it is determined that the image data fits in this line, the image is allocated as it is in step 57, Conversely, if it is determined that the small group length is longer, that is, the image data does not fit in this line, it is necessary to perform image division, and in step 58, a plurality of image division positions registered in advance are set. , The closest division position within the remaining line length is determined and determined as the optimal division position, and the initial image data is divided into two at the optimally determined division position. As a result, the image ID-1 and the image ID
Step 60 at the same time as the content is updated and registered as -2
Then, the small set of the data structure is also divided into ID-1 and ID-2, and after the first half of the divided image data is allocated within the line, the line is changed at step 61 to return to the beginning, and the typesetting process for one line is completed.
This typesetting processing operation is repeated, and the processing for each paragraph is completed.

As a result of the above-described typesetting processing, in the example of the typesetting original sentence shown in FIG. 4 described above, a case where a typesetting original with a plurality of characters inserted before the image data is input will be described. FIG. 6 shows the output result. (1) in the figure is an output example of a formatted original text in which a plurality of characters (indicated by □) are inserted before the image data in the formatted original text example. In this example, as a result of the insertion of a plurality of characters, the typesetting process is performed in a state where the image data portion is approaching the line wrap position, and the image is divided from the second line to the third line. (2) shows the data structure at that time, and the second line shows “body ...
The third line is divided into small groups such as "image like small group ID-2 ...".

As described above, the embodiments of the electronic typesetting system including images have been described and developed by using mathematical formulas as image data. However, any other types such as chemical formulas which are difficult to express in character form may be used. It is not limited.

In the above description, the object of division is limited to image data. However, there is a case where it is desired to treat this as a group of data in the text data portion at the request of the user. An example of the application will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1A shows the data format of the divided typesetting information for the text data part to be divided. As in the case of the image data, the text ID is used as a key, the number of text data characters, and the dividing direction (vertical / horizontal direction). , Number of split positions,
Then, one or more division positions are held.

FIG. 2B shows the data structure of the original typesetting text in the case where the characters of "electronic typesetting" on the first line are to be divided in the example of the typesetting original text shown in FIG. As in the case of (1), the text ID is linked to the small set ID (in this case, a small set of texts), and the layout composition is performed by inputting such information.

[0028]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, in the electronic typesetting process for a printed matter in which a text data and an image data which are present in the same paragraph are continuously arranged, particularly, the image data or the like is used. Can be decomposed at a position desired by the user, and the inefficient work of rereading the data due to document editing can be eliminated. Since document editing is performed frequently, the elimination of the above-mentioned re-reading operation greatly reduces the burden on the user and contributes to the improvement of document editing productivity. It has the effect of making a contribution.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of registration processing of image division information according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a data format of image division (composition) information of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a data structure diagram of a typesetting original text according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an image loopback processing according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a data structure diagram of formatted data according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating division of text data according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 shows an example of a conventional electronic typesetting system output

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional electronic typesetting system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 50 to 61 Step No.S81, S83, S85, S88 Step No.80 Printed matter 82 Text file 84 Image file 86 Formatted original file 87 Formatted information file 89 Formatted file 90 Formatted printed material

Claims (5)

[Claims] In a document editing system for performing a document editing process, a storage unit for defining and registering information indicating one or more division positions for a group of data in advance, and the data being processed in a line by the document editing process. Or a division output means for dividing and outputting the data based on the division position information when the data does not fit in the column. 2. The document editing system according to claim 1, wherein the group of data is image data. 3. The document editing system according to claim 1, wherein said one set of data is a plurality of character data groups designated by a user to be treated as one set of data. 4. The division output means outputs the group of data based on division position information indicating a division position that is located at the end of a row or a column among the division position information and that is closest to each end position. 4. The document editing system according to claim 1, wherein the document is divided and output. 5. A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a document editing process, the program comprising: setting means for setting information indicating one or more division positions for a set of data; And a division output means for dividing and outputting the data based on the division position information when the data does not fit in a row or a column due to the document editing process. .