JPS6023353B2 - Document format control method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document format control system, and in particular, when a document is created using a document creation device, the margin settings that determine the character arrangement position in the document can be set using the cursor when creating the document. The present invention relates to a document format control method that can be easily performed using a moving means.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, characters are input from a keyboard 1, processed by a processing device 2 for document processing and screen display processing, and displayed on a display 4. In a document creation device that allows you to create a document while looking at the document, and to store the document created in this way in the document file 3, the document creation device allows you to create a document within the range that can print characters on the paper, which is necessary when creating a document. It is necessary to perform an operation that indicates the following.
For this purpose, conventionally, as shown in FIG. 2, it is necessary to press a format change key provided on the keyboard, display a format pattern on the display 4, and select the desired pattern.

That is, when the operator presses the format change key, the format change program runs, for example, the second
As shown in the figure, a document creation range A is displayed on the display 4. This document creation range A starts document creation with a left margin of m from the left side of the display 4,
This means that characters are displayed from the right side up to a point with a right margin of m2. Therefore, the length A
determines the number of characters displayed in one line, and left margin m determines the starting position of the line. Then, as shown in Figure 2, these format patterns F,, F2,...Fn are displayed one after another on the display 4, so when the required format is displayed, the operator presses the execution key. This was selected and the document was created according to that format pattern. Of course, this format pattern can be changed even during document creation, and if necessary, the format change key is pressed to display it at an appropriate position on the display, and the desired one is selected. However, when changing such a subordinate format pattern, the number of patterns is determined by the storage capacity of the format storage unit that stores it, so the number of stored format patterns is limited. However, there were restrictions on the ability to freely determine formats in detail depending on the document.

Therefore, the present invention provides a document format control method that improves these drawbacks and allows the operator to freely set the left and right margins and determine the format by moving the cursor. For this purpose, the document format control method of the present invention has an input means for inputting characters and a display means, and the characters necessary for creating a document are inputted from the input means. cursor position control means for controlling the position of the cursor on the display surface of the display means; cursor position pupil holding means for holding the position of the cursor; A left margin storage means for storing the margin, a right margin storage means for storing the right margin, and a margin change start position holding means for holding the position of the document at which the margin change should be started are provided. coordinate data held in the margin change start position holding means when changing the margin of a part of the already created censure; The present invention is characterized in that the margins of a part of the created document can be changed based on the new margins newly stored in the left margin register and the right margin register at that time.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6.

FIG. 3 shows the display surface according to the present invention, FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 5 and 6 show the display surface when changing the margin.

In the figure, 4 is a display, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a keyboard processing unit, 7 is a cursor register, 8 is a "11" force counter, 9 is a "11" force counter, 10 to 13 are gates,
14 is a left margin register, 15 is a right margin register, 16 to 18 are gates, 19 is a margin change start register, 20 is a gate, 21 is a display control unit, 22
23 is a margin processing section, 23 is a screen buffer, and 24 is a gate.

The display 4 not only displays characters input from the keypad 5 or when a document stored in a document file is displayed, but also a format display line for setting the left margin and right margin. 4-1 is displayed.

In this format display line 4-1, a triangular mark 4-2 indicating a left margin and a triangular mark 4-3 indicating a right margin are displayed. Keyboard 5 displays the characters of the document to be created,
In addition to various character keys 5-1 for inputting symbols, etc., there are left margin setting keys 5-2, right margin setting keys 5-3,
Margin change keys 5-4, execution keys 5-5, and cursor movement keys (4 types: cursor back, cursor forward, cursor up, and cursor down) 5-6
etc. are provided.

The keyboard processing unit 6 identifies the signal transmitted from the keyboard 5 and performs control accordingly. For example, when the cursor movement keys 5-6 are pressed, this is recognized and the counters 8, 9 are controlled to change the cursor coordinate values held in the cursor register 7, and the cursor coordinate values on the display 4 are changed accordingly. The input character is transferred to the screen buffer 23 by turning on the gate 20 by identifying when the character key 5 is pressed and transmitting the input character to the screen buffer 23. is displayed on the display 4. The cursor register 7 is
This is a register in which the X and Y coordinate values on the display 4 that control the cursor position are set. A cursor is displayed at the position indicated by the coordinate value and Y coordinate value. The X and Y coordinate values set in the cursor register 7 are changed to the "10 IJ counter" when the gates 12, 13 or 10, 11 are turned on or off by the operator operating the cursor movement keys 5-6. 8 or "11" counter 9 operates and changes the X and Y coordinate values of the cursor position that had been set in the cursor register 7 to "11".
One or "one one". Based on this, the cursor is moved according to the changed coordinates. The left margin register 14 is a register in which the left margin in the document format when creating a document is set, and the right margin register 5 is also a register in which the right margin is set.

The margin change start register 19 is used to indicate, when a part of the document displayed on the display 4 using already set margins is to be displayed using a different margin, the first position of the document part to be changed to the different margin. This is a register that is set. The display control unit 21 is
It performs various controls for displaying on the display 4, such as X for displaying a cursor.
, Y coordinate values, and X, Y coordinate values for displaying characters input from the keyboard 5.

The margin processing unit 22 performs margin processing when creating a document, and processes characters input using the character keys 5-1 based on the margins set in the left margin register 4 and right margin register 15, respectively. It transmits control signals for accurate display on the display 4 to the display control section 21.

The screen buffer 23 is a buffer in which display items such as characters and symbols to be displayed on the display 4 are set according to the display position on the display 4.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be explained as follows. When changing to a margin, we will explain when the '4' margin is determined. {1) When creating a document with margins set.

■ To set margins when creating a document,
First, press the left margin setting key 5-2 on the keyboard 5.
As a result, the keyboard processing section 6 is connected to the display control section 2.
1, the display control section 21 transmits the margin setting control signal to the display 4, as shown in FIG.
A format display line 4-1 is displayed, a left margin indicator 4-2 and a right margin indicator 4-3 are displayed at the left and right ends thereof, and a cursor 4-4 is positioned at the left end.

At this time, among the X and Y coordinate values of the cursor register 7,
The coordinate value is "0" indicating the start position of the x coordinate. ■
The operator operates a cursor movement key 5-6 provided on the keypad 5 to move the cursor 4-4 to the left margin setting position.

As a result, the gates 12 and 13 of the "11" counter 8 are turned on, and the value set in the cursor register 7 is incremented by "11" each time the cursor 4-4 moves to a unit feldspar.

Then, when the cursor 4-4 moves to a predetermined position,
Outside the operation, press the left margin setting key 5-2. This turns on the gate 16, and the address of the cursor 4-4 at that time is set from the cursor register 7 to the left margin register 14. Then, the display control unit 21 moves and displays the left margin indicator 4-2 to the left margin setting position, as shown at the beginning of FIG. 3, to display the margin setting position. (2) Next, the operator operates the cursor movement keys 5-6 again to move the cursor 4-4 to the right, and when it reaches the right margin setting position, presses the right margin setting key 5-3.

As a result, the gate 17 is turned on, and the address of the cursor 4-4 at that time is set from the cursor register 7 to the right margin register 15 in the same way as in the case (2) above. If the operator moves the cursor 4-4 too far to the right, use the cursor movement keys 5-6 to move it to the left.
, the coordinate value when the gates 10 and 11 are turned on and the cursor moves too far to the right is received from the cursor register 7 to the "-1" register 9, and the coordinate value is -1 every time the cursor is moved to the left by a unit length. can do. When the right margin setting key 5-3 is pressed after correctly positioning the cursor 4-4 at a predetermined position, the gate 17 is turned on and the coordinate values of the cursor register 7 are set in the right margin register 15. At this time, the display control unit 21
As shown in FIG. 3C, the right margin indicator 4-3 is moved to the right margin setting position. Thus the left margin indicator 4-
2 and the right margin indicator 4-3, the margin for creating the document is set. ■ Oberei
In the evening, if you input a character from the character key 5-1, the above left margin register 14 and right margin register 1 will be input.
The margin set to 5 is transmitted to the margin processing section 22, which transmits a margin processing signal to the display control section 21, so that the display control section 21 converts the character input by the character key 5-1 into the set character. The document is set in the screen buffer 23 according to the margins set, and a document created accordingly is displayed on the display 4.

) if you want to change the preset margins.

■ The operator operates the cursor movement keys 5-6 to
Place the cursor 4-4 at the left margin setting position to be newly changed and press the left margin setting key 5-2.

Since the coordinate values of the cursor 4-4 at that time have been set in the cursor register, these are set in the left margin register 14 from the cursor register 7 via the gate 13. (2) The operator moves the force-sol 4-4 to the right margin setting position changed in the same manner as in (2) above, and presses the right margin setting key 5-3. As a result, the coordinate values of the cursor 4-4 at that time are set in the right margin register 15 from the cursor register 7 via the gate 17. ■ By moving the cursor to the margin change position light in this way and pressing the left margin setting key 5-2 and right margin setting key 5-3, the changed margin will be displayed in the left margin register 14 and right margin register 1.
Since it is set to 5, the sentence responsibility will be created based on these margins.

Of course, when changing only one margin, it is sufficient to move the cursor only to the one to be changed and press the corresponding setting key. '31 When changing a part of the already displayed document to a different margin.

■ For example, as shown in Figure 5 A, a document that has been created with 1 line L and the number of characters can be changed to a document with 1 line L and 2 characters as shown in Figure 5 A by changing the margins after the part indicated by the circle R. When creating a document, operate as follows.

■ The operator presses the cursor movement key 5- on the keyboard 5.
6, move the cursor under the circle R in FIG. 5A, and press the margin change key 5-4.

As a result, the gate 18 is turned on and the coordinate value of the circle mark R set in the cursor register 7 is set in the margin change start register 19. ■ Next, move the cursor outside the operation to the new left margin position and press the left margin setting keys 5-2.

This turns on the gate 16 and sets a new margin from the cursor register 7 to the left margin register 14. Then, the operator moves the cursor to the new right margin position and presses the right margin setting key 5-3, and the new right margin is similarly set in the right margin register 15. (2) Then, when the operator presses the execution key 5-5 on the keyboard 5, the display control unit 21 reads out the characters from the corresponding part of the screen buffer 23 based on the coordinate values set in the margin change start register 19.

Then, the gate 24 is turned on to temporarily hold this in the margin processing section 22. Then, the left margin register 14 and the right margin register 15 are sent to the margin processing unit 22.
The characters read from the screen buffer 23 are transferred to the screen buffer 23 again based on the new margin transmitted from the screen buffer 23. In this way, as shown in Figure 5, a part of the document that has already been input can be created with new margins. Of course, in this case, instead of setting the new margin for the document from circle R to the end, if you want to set the new margin for the middle part of the document, create another register in the margin change start register and move the cursor to this register. Set the margin change end coordinate value specified in . This allows the display control unit 21 to determine the range in which the margin should be changed, and create a document accordingly. '4'
When is the margin determined?

In the present invention, as explained in the above sections '1' to '1', the margin can be set freely by simply moving the cursor and pressing the margin setting key.

This can be done freely even in the middle of document creation. In extreme cases, margins may be set for each line. Therefore, you must decide when to establish the margins for each line. For example, when creating a document by entering characters halfway down a line, move the cursor and press the right margin setting key to set the right margin once. However, when a document is subsequently input, if the previous right margin setting is insufficient and a margin is set several characters further to the right, the setting value is stored at a timing when the cursor moves to the next line. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, if the right margin is set at the right margin index 4-3, and you change it to the right margin index 4-3' midway, the document created at that time Temporarily create a line with the margin indicated by the right margin indicator 4-3, and when the cursor moves to the next line, the previous line is created with the margin indicated by the right margin indicator 4-3'. The display control section 21 controls the display controller 21 so that the next line of document is created at the right margin index 4-3'. By doing so, the margin can be determined accurately. Of course, even in a document created in this way, the margins can be changed using the above procedure (2). As described above, according to the present invention, margins can be set or changed by moving the cursor as part of document creation, and detailed format control can be freely performed on a line-by-line basis.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document processing bag forgery, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of conventional margin setting, Fig. 3 is a display surface in the present invention, Fig. 4 is a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, Figs. 6th
The figures each show the display surface when changing the margin. In the figure, 4 is a display, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a keyboard processing unit, 7 is a cursor register, 8 is an "11J power counter, 9 is a "11" power counter, IQ to 13 are gates,
14 is a left margin register, 15 is a right margin register, 16 to 18 are gates, 19 is a margin change start register, 20 is a gate, 21 is a display control unit, 22
23 represents a margin processing section, 23 represents a screen buffer, and 24 represents a gate. O size 6 size Z size 3 size size 4 size S size

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a document creation method that has an input means for inputting characters and a display means, and in which characters necessary for document creation are inputted from the input means and displayed on the display means, the display means A cursor position control means for controlling the position of a cursor on a display surface, a cursor position holding means for holding the position of the cursor, a left margin storage means for storing a left margin, a right margin storage means for storing a right margin, and a margin. A margin change start position holding means is provided for holding the position of the document at which the change should be started, and when setting the margin, the cursor is positioned at a predetermined position and the position is stored in the margin storage means,
Furthermore, when changing the margin of a part of a document that has already been created, the coordinate data held in the margin change start position holding means and the new margin newly stored in the left margin register and right margin register at that time are used. A document format control method characterized in that it is possible to change the margins of a part of the created document.