JPS59128683A - Tabulating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To form a high tabulating function by a word processor or the like by setting up the line arrangement of a text in a table automatically, setting up a ruled line output position corresponding to the arrangement automatically and correcting the format and contents of the formed table simply. CONSTITUTION:Data are inputted from a terminal keyboard 1 and a tabulation display output is shown on a display device 13. The tabulation is controlled by an input controlling part 2, a field definition controlling part 7, a text arrangement controlling part 9, and an output controlling part 12 under control by a whole control part 4. A text inputted by said procedure is arranged in each field until field border specification appears, and a text character string exceeding field length is arranged by folding it in each field. End/continuation border specification is stored in each field and a lateral ruled line by each field border specification is displayed respectively.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a tabulation method, and particularly relates to a tabulation method that easily specifies a complicated table format, automatically determines grids of the table, and arranges and outputs text. The present invention also relates to a table format for text editing systems, word processors, etc., which can output ruled lines.

[Prior art]

Vouchers often contain simple tables with each line divided into fields of uniform length, whereas general text has fewer simple formats and more complicated formats. A table in a format is included. The first complex form
The second problem is that the vertical and horizontal grid sizes are not uniform, and the second problem is that the text is arranged over multiple lines within one grid. In contrast to the first and second formats above, the tabulation function of conventional word processors only has a tab function and a ruled line display function, so it is especially important to support the second format above. I can't. Furthermore, since table text content and ruled line display are performed independently, the user must also change the ruled lines when changing the text content. Therefore, with the conventional tabulation function, there is no problem when creating a simple table, but when creating a general table, it requires a large number of input operations from the user, and It becomes extremely complicated to modify. As mentioned above, the tabulation function of conventional word processors is limited to the tab function and ruled line display function of typewriters, so the user must decide in advance the arrangement of characters in each field line by line, and then Therefore, it is necessary to input it. In the case of a type of table in which explanatory text is crammed into an area, the initial input is complicated, and it is also complicated to change the format (for example, field length) of the table once it has been input.

Additionally, although it is originally appropriate for the ruled line display position to be determined in accordance with the format of the table, in reality it is specified in an i-vertical manner, which results in wasteful user operations. Furthermore, there is a problem that the display of ruled lines is not linked to changes in the text format (tab definition). Conventional word processors have difficulty creating basic grid tables when the area consists of multiple lines.

In addition, conventionally, other tabulation methods have been used, such as giving text string division and ruling line specification information multiple times, and using horizontal layout specification as horizontal ruled line specification. As the number increases, there is a problem in that the degree of freedom in the format of the table to be output is lost.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to improve these conventional problems,
To provide a tabulation method capable of automating a text line device in a table, automatically setting a ruled line output position according to text arrangement, and simplifying correction of the format and contents of a created table.

[Summary of the invention]

The tabulation method of the present invention specifies and inputs the number of vertical divisions (fields) in the table, the length of each field, and the boundary specification that also serves as the field boundary of the text and setting/non-setting of the horizontal division. Place the input text in each field until the boundary specification appears, wrap text strings that exceed the field length within each field, and remember the end/continuation boundary specification for each field. The feature is that a vertical ruled line based on a boundary specification and a horizontal ruled line based on an end boundary specification are respectively output.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, the principle and embodiments of the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1 to 4 are diagrams for explaining various format examples and input/output examples regarding tabulations.

Before explaining the figures, some terms will be defined.

When looking at a table in units of vertical division, each unit is called a field, and the width of the field is called the field length.

The rectangular area created by dividing the field horizontally is
called an area. The length of the area in the vertical direction is called the depth of the area.

An example of a simple matrix chart is shown in FIG.

The table of FIG. 1 consists of field divisions in which horizontally adjacent areas have the same depth and the same face plate.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a table with a non-substrate pattern that is more complicated than that in FIG. 1.

As a non-substrate table, a table having the following properties can be considered. (1) The field division changes in the middle of the table; (2) the bottom edges of adjacent areas are different;
(3) There is an area that straddles the changed position of field division.

Tables of force properties like this are not particularly unusual as tables that appear in general texts, and it is natural for text editing systems and word processors to have functions that allow them to be easily created. .

By the way, in order to support the table creation function for both basic and non-substrate patterns, it is necessary to have at least a water function. (1) field definitions can be changed mid-table, (2) area depth can be automatically determined based on the amount of text rather than predetermined, and (3) the lower limit of areas for multiple fields is consistent. (4) As a result of the above, ruled lines can be automatically output in accordance with the format of the table to be realized.

In addition to providing these basic functions, it is desirable to show the user a simple input method and output table text according to the input method.

For users, it is convenient to enter table text in large amounts from the left field to the right field, and within the same field, input from top to bottom. be. As a unit, one area of text can be considered, but it is not desirable to limit it to this. Therefore, the unit in which the texts in one file are collectively input is one area or an arbitrary part thereof, and when the input of that unit is completed, the input of the next field is performed. Two types of delimiter designation keys (continuation key and end key) are input at the boundaries between fields. The end key indicates that text input for one area of the field has ended. Further, the continuation key indicates that input of text in the field area is incomplete.

Outputting ruled lines at the boundaries of each area can be done automatically. In order to specify the area of the table and the output of ruled lines in detail, you need to specify the output method of the outer frame, the output method of each field boundary line in the field definition, and the output method of the area boundary line by specifying the ending delimiter for the table metal body. It is sufficient to specify the output method.

In conclusion, the table-based input method of the present invention has the following key points.

(1) It has a field definition means, and this field definition can be changed even in the middle of the table.

(2) Text input is performed in order from the left field to the right field. Further, the amount of text input in the same field is free as long as it does not exceed the range of one area.

(3) Text field boundaries are specified using the continuation delimiter key and the end delimiter key.

(4) The continuation/end delimiter key indicates the boundary of a field and indicates whether input of text in the area of the field is incomplete or complete.

(5) Instructions for the ruled line output method are given in the form of the presence or absence of an outer frame of a table, the presence or absence of a field boundary line, and the presence or absence of an area boundary line.

In the tabulation method of the present invention, table text is created in the following manner for inputs given as described above.

(1) The text in each area is automatically folded and output according to the field length.

(2) Automatically adjust the lower limits of the corresponding areas of each field to match.

(3) Automatically display ruled lines at the boundaries of the determined field/area. However, the display of ruled lines may be partially suppressed according to the specified display of ruled lines.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the input order of the tabulation method showing the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the output result for input (9) in FIG.

In Figure 3, the boxed areas indicate inputs with special meanings, such as commands for the tabulation function. and end, between which the length of each field is entered, separated by punctuation marks. Also, ED”
and CD'' are end/continuation delimiter keys, respectively.

Characters not enclosed in a square are normal character input parts. In other words, in Figure 3, the numbers 1, 3, and 3 surrounded by the start ``FB'' and the end ``FE'' of the field definition.
, 3.2 each indicate the field length in units of character size. Next, they are arranged as A, Bt t
Bt e Bs t C1+ Ct *Cse...
...... is the character that will be placed in each field defined earlier, and the delimiter key inserted between them will be 'ED' because all the text in the area has been input.
".The next field definition is 1, 3, 6.2 surrounded by "FB" and "FE", and each of those fields
F, G in the area.

(10) H1 to H4, It * It are entered. Among them, F, It, and It are separated by CI)'' because the lower limit of the area is not finished and the input is incomplete, and the other characters are separated by ED'' because the input is completed. Although a detailed explanation will be omitted below, the information is input sequentially in the same way.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a tabulation system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

The tabulation processing device shown in FIG. 5 includes a keyboard 1, an input control section 2
, key buffer 3, overall control section 4, character string buffer 5,
It is composed of a mode register 6, a field definition control section 7, a field definition memory 8, a text arrangement control section 9, an allocation control memory 10, a text memory 11, an output control section 12, and a display 13.

Input is performed using the terminal keyboard 1, and table display output is performed on the terminal display 13. Control is performed by the input control section 2, field definition control section 7, text arrangement control section 9, and output control section 12 under the management of the overall control section 4.

(11) The input control unit 2 sets the key input in the key buffer 3. For example, if the keys are pressed manually in the order shown in Figure 3, FB, , 1, 3, 3, 3, 2°PE, A...
... are stored in the key buffer 3 in this order. The overall control unit 4 sets only the character string information among them in the character string buffer 5. That is, A * Bt + B2 *
Bs + Ct + Cz + Cs + Dt e
They are stored in the order of Dz +D3...

The overall control unit 4 sets the table creation mode in the mode register 6. The field definition memory 8 converts the field definition information into display positions via the field definition control unit 7, and stores the values thereof. The layout control memory 10 receives information from the field definition memory 8 via the text layout control unit 9, and receives work information necessary for layout,
Stores information such as the field number currently being placed. The text memory 11 stores the result of text arrangement, that is, the tabulation result as shown in FIG. 4, under the control of the text arrangement control section 9.

Key information entered from keyboard 1 is input (12) The control unit 2 stores the key buffer 3 in the key buffer 3.

That is, all the information input from the keyboard 1 is set in the key buffer 3, so that a mixture of control information and character information is stored. Control information includes the start and end of a table (referred to as BB and BE keys, respectively), the start and end of a field definition (referred to as FB and FB keys, respectively), field end delimiter and continuation delimiter (respectively, ED and CD keys). ). The overall control unit 4 checks the information in the key buffer 3 and inputs character information (A+ Bl m 82 m in FIG. 3).
B3 + CI+C* e C3+ DI・・・・・・
(such as normal character keys that are not control information), the data is transferred to the character string buffer 5, and when control information is detected, the following processing is performed. First, when the control information of "BB" is detected, the table top mode is set in the mode register 6.

When the control information of 'BE' is detected, the table end mode is set in the mode register 6. Also, 'FB' is detected.

In the case of the control information 'FE', control is passed to the field definition control unit 7. Furthermore, 'ED'.

In the case of the 'EC' key, the text layout control section 9 (13
). When control is returned from the text placement control unit 9, the output control unit 12 outputs the data to the display 13 and displays it on the screen. The overall control section 4 repeats the key check operation of the character key control information key stored in the key buffer 3. Next, the operation of each section, especially the operation of the field definition control section 7 and the text arrangement control section 9, is performed. will be explained in detail.

FIG. 6 is an information storage state diagram of the field definition memory in FIG. 5.

The field definition control unit 7 initializes the field definition memory 8 using the FB key, and stores the field definition information of the key buffer 3 in the field definition memory 8 using the FE key. That is, the field definition memory 8 holds the values of N and 5o-8, as shown in FIG. N is a value that sets the number of fields, and So is a value that indicates the output position at the left end of the table, which is a separately determined value. The following S+ (i=1.2...N) indicates the first character position of the i-th field, and is determined by the following formula.

(14) S+=S+-++F+ ・・・・・・・
(1) However, FI is the length of the first field and can be obtained directly from the field definition.

This information is referred to by the text placement control unit 9. The text layout control unit 9 checks the mode register 6, and if there is a table header mode, creates a ruled line information for the header of the table in the text memory 11 according to the SL information in the field definition memory 8, and sets the mode. - Update register 6 to midway mode.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing ruled line information at the beginning of a table created by the text layout control unit.

That is, the control information (from the input key) in the order shown in FIG.
When FB, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2FE) is input, the text placement control unit 9 refers to the information in the field definition memory 8, that is, the value of the start position indicated by the control information, and places the text at that position. Has ruled lines and 1, 3, 3, 3.2 respectively
The ruled line information at the beginning of the table having a field length of is written to the text memory 11.

(15) FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the information storage state of the control memory with the layout in FIG. 5.

The text layout control unit 9 creates the ruled line information at the beginning of the table in the text memory 11, and sets the value of the current field number 101 of the layout control memo IJ 10 to "1".

As shown in FIG. 8, the control memory 10 is assigned a current field number 101, a blowout line list 102, a blowout column list 103, and a field flag list 1.
04 is stored. The current field number 101 holds the number of the field currently being arranged, and when the ruled line information at the beginning of the table is written to the text memory 11 as described above, the current field number 101 has a value of "1". be done. Further, the blowout line list 102 holds Riki Inuyama of each field. N L + is information indicating Rikiyuki Inuyama in the field. Blower output column list 10
3 holds the blowout output column number of each field.N
C+ indicates the blowout output column number of field i. For example, the control (16) information on the second line in Figure 3 is FB, 1, 3, 6.2 PE, so 1.3
, 6. The integer smaller than each digit of 2 is NC1°NC2, NC
s, written as NCa. Further, the field flag list 104 holds the continuation/end status of each field, and in the example on the second line of FIG.
CD, G, BD.

Ht, H2, Hs, FI4, BD, It
, Iz, and CD, the first and fourth fields are continuation delimiters, and the remaining second and third fields are end delimiters.

First, the text layout control unit 9 initializes the layout control memory 10 when switching from the table top mode to the table middle mode. In that case, the current field number 1 above
In addition to the setting value "1" of 01, the settings of the blowout output line list 102 (each element is equal and the next output line number is set),
Setting of blowout output column list 103 (NCI =8+-
t), setting of field flag list 104 (
all continuous state).

The operation (17) of the text placement control unit 9 in the mid-table mode will be described below. Let the value of the current field number 101 be i. At this time, in order to place the character string stored in the character string buffer 5 in field i of the text memory 11, the NCI column (TM(NLt)) is placed in the N L +th line of the text memory 11.

It is placed after NCI). For arrangement, first place one character in TM (NLt, NCI) and increase NC1 by one. However, when N Cr = 81 or l,
Increase N L + by 1 and set NCI=SL. After this, place the next character. For example, JI in the example shown in Figure 4
In case of J2J3J4JS arrangement, current field number 101
The value is "2", and the character string stored in the character string buffer 5 is JIJzJsJ4Js. One of these days J! In order to place NL! in field 2, NL! NC on line
Write in the t column (TM (NLt - NC2)). If you write J2 and Js in succession and increase NCR by 1, NC*=83, so increase NLt by 1 and return to NC*=S*. Similarly ・J4sJ1
1 is placed from the beginning of the field in the next line.

(18) Text of the string stored in string buffer 5
When the arrangement in the memory 11 is completed, the control key is set to "CD".
When , PL+ is in continuous state and the control key is 'ED'
When FL+ is in the final state, and the value of N L I is 1
Let N et be sI. Next, when i is smaller than the number of fields N in the field definition memory 8, i is increased by 1 (that is, the current field number 1 is
01 by 1) and returns control to the overall control unit 4.

where i is the number of fields in the field definition memory 8 N
When it is equal to , find the maximum value of NL for all j such that PL is in the final state, and find the maximum value of NL, for each NL,
Let the value of be this maximum value.

For example, if input is made in the order shown in FIG. 3, in the seventh line of FIG. 3, the number of fields in the field definition memory 8 N=
5, so when i=5, FLI, FLx
, FLs, and PL4 are in the finished state, so
Set the values of each of NLs, NLz, NLs, and NL4 to the maximum value among them (in this case, NLs = NL3 is the maximum).

(19) That is, for each j of J''J, N L 1 = N Lama . . .
...(3). At this time, the horizontal ruled line information of each field belonging to J is set in the text memory 11, and control is returned to the overall control section 4.

The overall control section 4 causes the output control section 12 to output the contents of the text memory 11 to the display 13, and then returns to the input mode again.

When the end of the table ``BE'' is detected, the overall control section 4 sets the table end mode in the mode register 6 and calls the text arrangement control section 9. The text layout control unit 9 sets the bottom ruled line information of the table.

In the example, it is assumed that ruled lines are output at the boundaries between fields and areas, but if you add a vertical ruled line output instruction in the field definition and a horizontal ruled line output specification for the end delimiter, the ruled lines at the boundaries of each field and area can be output. Output can be freely controlled. In the above, we assumed (20) that the ruled line itself does not take up the character width, but ruled lines with character width can also be handled in a similar manner. In addition, in the examples, all text is written horizontally, but vertically written,
By providing a horizontal writing mode, it is also possible to create a vertical writing table by simply changing the output control unit 12.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the line device of text in a table is automatically set, the ruled line output position is automatically set according to the arrangement, and the format and contents of the created table are automatically set. can be easily corrected, so it will be possible to realize advanced tabulation functions and reduce the number of inputs in text editing systems and word processors.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIGS. 1 and 2 are diagrams showing a table of base grains and a table of non-base grains created according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of input for creating a table of non-base grains. , FIG. 4 is a diagram of the output created by the input shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a diagram of the tabulation system according to the embodiment of the present invention (21), and FIG. 6 is the field definition of FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of the memory, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of how the top of the table appears, and FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of the control memory with the layout of FIG. 5. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Keyboard, 2...Input control section, 3...Key buffer, 4...Overall control section, 5-character string buffer, 6...Mode register, 7...Field definition control section, 8...Field definition memory, 9...Text arrangement control section, 10...Allocation control memory, 11.
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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Specify and input the number of vertical division #) (fields) of the table, the length of each field, and the end/continuation boundary designation that indicates both the text field boundary and the horizontal division boundary. In particular, place the entered text in each field until the field boundary specification above appears, wrap any text string that exceeds the field length within each field, and specify the end/continuation line for each field. A tabulation method characterized by storing boundary specifications and outputting vertical ruled lines based on each field boundary specification and horizontal ruled lines based on end boundary specification. 2. The tabulation method according to claim 1, wherein the number of fields and the length of each field are stored as information specifying the number of fields and the first character position of each field in a field definition memory. 3. The arrangement of the text in the field is performed by referring to the current field number in the control memory, the Inuyama column list, the Inuyama Riki column list, and the field flag list. Tabulation method according to claim 1.