JPS59117621A - Document editing and proofreading system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability, by using a common editing and proofreading command for different kinds of data such as patterns, pictures, and sentences to reduce the number of commands for editing and proofreading various kinds of data. CONSTITUTION:When a key on a keyboard 313 is depressed, a key code corresponding to the depressed key is generated by a keyboard driver 312 and is stored in a register 309. A CPU301 starts a program stored in a memory 302 in accordance with data stored in the register 309 to perform a required processing. A CRT driver 310 stores the position of a cursor displayed on the screen of a CRT311 in a register 305. When a unit designating key is depressed, and the CPU refers to coordinates of the cursor stored in the register 305 to find data, which has a size corresponding to the data unit and is designated by the user, in a memory 304, where document data is stored, and stores pointer data, which indicates the position of this data in the memory 304, and the size of data in a register 303.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Field of application of the invention] TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document editing and proofreading method, particularly for graphics.

The present invention relates to an editing and proofreading method that can improve operability when editing and proofreading a document composed of different types of data such as images and nine sentences.

[Prior art]

Documents generally contain not only text (strings of characters), but also simple figures for explanations and images, such as photographs.

Contains tables, etc. Therefore, when editing and proofreading a document using an electronic device, it is desirable to be able to edit and proofread these different types of data using the same device. However, conventional document editing and proofreading devices, such as word processors, can only edit and proofread sentences (character strings); for figures and images, they either edit and proofread them using another device, or use handwritten documents. After writing the text, they would paste it on the paper. Furthermore, even if the same device is capable of editing and proofreading text and graphics, when it is used, it is divided into a text editing and proofing mode and a graphics editing and proofing mode.

That is, although the hardware is the same, completely different devices are used for text editing and proofreading and graphic editing and proofreading, and there is no compatibility between these tasks. therefore,
Such devices have the disadvantage that there are many types of data manipulation languages (commands), it takes time to learn them, and the operability is not good.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a proofreading method for editing and proofreading various data that has good operability by reducing the number of commands for editing and proofreading various data.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve this object, the present invention is characterized in that a common editing and proofreading instruction is used for different types of data such as nine figures and two images.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, an explanation will be given using one embodiment of the F1 present invention. Figure 1 shows
1 is a schematic diagram of a display device 1 and a keyboard 2 used in the method of the present invention. As the display device 1, for example, a dot refresh type graphic display is used, and a cursor 11 for indicating a position on the display device is displayed on the display screen. As the keyboard 2, for example, a JIS layout keyboard is used, and it includes at least a cursor movement key 21 for moving the cursor 11 on the screen, a unit specification key 22 for specifying the unit of operation of data for editing and proofreading, and an editing and proofreading key. It is assumed that it has a function designation key 23 for designating commands. Note that in the method of the present invention, it is not necessarily necessary to provide the keyboard 2 with a special group of keys as described above, and the alphanumeric and kana keys of a normal keyboard may be provided with the above functions.

The following describes the procedure for editing and proofreading a document containing four figures, one sentence, two tables, etc., using the method of the present invention.

Using the cursor movement key 21 on the keyboard 2, move the cursor 11 on the display device 1 near the character 1 figure 9 table that you want to edit and proofread. After moving the cursor 11 close to the desired data, press the unit specification key 22 for specifying the editing proof data to specify the editing proof data (hereinafter, this operation will be referred to as "picking data" or simply "picking 1 bit"). After picking the data, press the function designation key 23 that specifies the editing and proofing function to perform the actual editing and proofing work on the picked data.This process is repeated as many times as necessary. Get the desired document.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the system of the present invention.

When a key on the keyboard 313 is pressed, the keyboard driver 312 generates a key code corresponding to the pressed key and stores it in register a309. The CPU 301 is
Activate the program stored in memory a 302 according to the data stored in register a 309,
Perform necessary processing. Further, the CRT driver 310 is
The position of the cursor displayed on the CRT 311 on the screen is stored in the register b305. If the pressed key is the cursor movement key 21, the CPU 301 calculates the coordinates of a new cursor according to the value of register b and the movement direction specified by the key 21, and moves the screen buffer 306,
Display on the CRT 311 using a screen display adapter 307. If the pressed key is the unit specification key 22,
Referring to the coordinates of the cursor in the register b305, the CPU transfers data specified by the user according to the data unit described later to the memory b30 in which document data is stored.
4 and stores pointer data indicating the location of the data in memory b and the size of the data in register C30.
Store in 3. Further, the CPU 301 controls the register C30
3 and the data in register b, it searches for data in the screen buffer that corresponds to the data instructed by the user, instructs blink, reverse, etc., and shows the picked data to the user. If the pressed key is the function designation key 23, the CPU 301, memo! A program that executes the function of the pressed key is started from within Ja302. According to the started program, CPU30
1 acts on the data pointed to by the contents of register C304,
The document data in the memory b304 is updated, and based on the updated data, the data in the screen buffer 306 is updated and displayed on the CRT 311 through the screen display adapter 307.

FIG. 3 is an example of a document that is edited and proofread using the present invention. As shown in this figure, the document forms a certain area when displayed on the display device 41.

A physical document is written on a piece of paper, and the area on the display device 41 corresponding to this piece of paper is called a basic area 42. The basic area 42 is further divided into subsets of the basic area called partial areas 43. The partial area 43 is an area in which the data displayed therein is the same type of data.

FIG. 4 is an example of how to express document data when using the method of the present invention. This representation method is based on an example of a data specification unit shown in FIG.

In FIG. 5, one text, one figure, and two tables are each divided into three hierarchical units, but they can be further divided as necessary. Further, FIG. 6(1) is an example of a processing flow for realizing the method of the present invention, and FIG. 6(2) is an example of a processing flow of data pick processing therein. The details of the process will be explained below with reference to FIG. A key pressed by the user is received in a key read routine 601. If the pressed key is the cursor movement key 21, the CPU 301
starts the cursor movement processing routine 603. The cursor movement processing routine 603 refers to the coordinates and movement direction of the cursor currently displayed on the display device, determines the coordinates of the cursor after movement, and displays the cursor at the position of the coordinates on the display device.

After that, return to the beginning of the key read routine 601,
Accepts the next key. If the pressed key is the unit designation key 22, the CPU starts a data pick processing routine 604, which will be described later. When the processing in the data pick processing routine 604 is completed, the key read routine 601
Return to the beginning of and accept the next key. If the pressed key is a function designation key, CPU 301 starts a routine 607 that executes the designated function. This routine 607 performs necessary processing on the data picked by the data pick processing routine 604. When the necessary processing is completed, the process returns to the beginning of the key read routine 601 and receives the next key. The pressed key is
If none of the above applies, it is assumed that a function other than the function using the present invention has been specified, and the processing flow shown in FIG. 6(1) is omitted. Next, details of the data pick processing routine 604 will be explained using FIG. 6(2). Upon entering the data pick processing routine 604, the cursor position on the display device is read (608). Using this cursor position and the position data 502 of the partial area,
It is determined which partial area includes the current cursor position (609).

After that, when the type 503 of data included in the determined partial area is stored, the pointer 503 to the data is also stored.
05 to transfer control to the area containing data.

Pointer 505 to data is 511.521,531
(610). Next, according to the pressed unit designation key 22, a delimiter indicating a data division is set. This depends on the unit settings in FIG. Using the example in Figure 5, if it is a sentence, it is according to the unit, if it is a small unit, it is the length of the code necessary to represent one character, a space symbol to indicate the spacing between words, - a period to indicate the end of a sentence, a figure. If so, the information includes the length of data necessary to represent one picture element, a function code indicating the end of a pattern, a function code indicating the end of a picture, etc. (611). next,
Based on the cursor position, locate the location in memory on the display device that corresponds to the data closest to the cursor. If the cursor is in the text area, the number of characters from the beginning of the data closest to the cursor can be determined by using the starting position, character pitch, and line pitch of the text.

In the graphic area, since the graphic data itself includes position data, the closest data can be found by comparing it with the coordinates of the cursor. In the case of a table area, you can tell which column of the table the frame closest to the cursor is based on the starting position of the table, row size, column size, and size of one frame. From this, the position of the data in that frame is found (612)
. As above, if the data closest to the cursor is found, the length of the data until it fits the delimiter set earlier,
Alternatively, the length of data set by unit specification is set in a predetermined area.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, by using the method of the present invention, a user can program a program that determines the unit of operation for each data subject to editing and proofreading operations, and determines this as a data division. By creating , common operations can be performed on different types of data, and there is no need to consider the type of data to be edited and proofread. Therefore, operability is improved and learning becomes easier.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a display device and keyboard when using the method of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the method of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is an editing proofreading diagram using the method of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of how to express document data when using the method of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of unit setting. Process when implementing this method Figure 3 Figure 5 Figure 2 (1) ■

Claims (1)

[Claims] An arithmetic device that executes arithmetic processing, a storage device that stores data representing documents and instructions given to the arithmetic device, an input device that inputs commands, and a display device that displays document data in the storage device. By comparing the document data in the storage device with a delimiter code indicating a predetermined data delimiter, the document data is divided into delimiter codes for each set of different types of data such as sentences, figures, 2 tables, etc. IW data obtained by a position specifying means that specifies the position of the data displayed on the display device is divided into unit sets divided into unit sets, and specified regardless of the data type by comparing the display position data of the unit set with the position IW data obtained by the position specifying means. The storage address of the unit result determined by the means for determining the unit set corresponding to the document displayed at the position is stored in a predetermined register, and the processing specified by the command input from the command input device is executed. A document editing proofreading method characterized in that when performing processing, a common editing command is used for different types of data by processing a unit set at an address stored in the register.