JPS61228566A - Document producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit a designating action carried out with operation of keys within a range of characters to be edited by recognizing a range of characters corresponding to the editing unit with which a display character string is designated based on the position of the designated character and then carrying out the designated editing process. CONSTITUTION:A keyboard 1 contains an editing unit designation key, a cursor shift key and an editing indication key of a memory, etc. A character input part 2 has the function of a KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI (Chinese character) converting means. An editing unit recognizing part 7 recognizes a character range corresponding to the editing unit with which the character string displayed on a CRT display 3 is designated. The characters, paragraphs and the ends of paragraphs can be designated as editing units by deciding the positions of the editing process start and end characters. When a range of characters is recognized, a character editing part 5 performs the editing process to the recognized character range. This can omit a designating action carried out with operation of keys within a range of characters to be edited.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a document creation device having editing and proofreading functions such as a Japanese word processor.

(b) Conventional technology r7-1'7'o-4=T? r Japan J 5WP-10
00 Operation Manual” r I 3, text? As disclosed in Edit J, in conventional document creation devices, editing units such as deletion and insertion are basically one
It was a character position or a line unit. In addition to deletion, when editing multiple characters other than line by line using editing functions such as the memory function and search function, first move the cursor to the beginning of the character string to be edited. After that, an editing instruction is given using a delete key or the like, and then a range of characters to be edited is specified by operating a cursor movement key. Thereafter, the execution key is pressed to instruct the start of editing processing.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention In the conventional technology, the editing function can be easily executed only when the editing unit is one character or line, and when multiple characters are to be edited. In some cases, a key operation to specify the character range is always required, which increases the frequency of keystrokes and is troublesome.

B) Means for Solving the Problems The document creation device of the present invention includes an editing unit specifying means for specifying one of a plurality of different editing units set in advance, and a character string to be displayed according to a display position. , a character position specifying means for specifying a character position of a part of the editing unit; and when a compilation instruction is given to the editing unit specified by the editing unit specifying means, the character position specifying means specifies the position of a part of the character position; and editing unit recognition means for recognizing a character range corresponding to a specified editing unit of a displayed character string based on the specified character position.

(E) Effect In the present invention, a desired editing unit is specified from among a plurality of different editing units set in advance, such as one sentence, two paragraphs, etc., and furthermore, a character position specifying means such as a cursor is used to change the displayed character string. When you specify the character position of a part of the editing unit to be edited and instruct editing processing such as deletion, the editing unit certification means selects the specified editing unit of the displayed character string based on the specified character position. The document editing section identifies a character range corresponding to , and performs the instructed editing process on this character range.

Therefore, it is not necessary to specify the range of characters to be edited using key operations.

(F) Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, in which (1) is provided with editing instruction keys such as an editing unit designation key, a cursor movement key, a deletion key, and a memory key. Keyboard, (2) Character input section including conversion means such as ephemeral Kanji conversion means, (3) CRT display as a display device, (4) Printing section for printing documents, (5) Deletion, memory , a document editing section that executes various editing processes such as search, (6) is a document file that registers the created document, and (7) is a part that certifies the character range corresponding to the specified editing unit of the displayed character string. This is the editorial unit certification department.

In this embodiment, the editing unit is a two-character clause.

Four units of nine paragraphs of sentences can be specified, and the character range corresponding to the editing unit is identified (1), specifically, by determining the character position at which the editing process starts and the character position at which the process ends.

Therefore, a method for identifying each editing unit of two characters, two clauses, two sentences, and one paragraph, that is, a method for determining the processing start character position and the processing end character position, is shown in the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 to 5, respectively.

First, in the case of character units, the character position of the cursor may be set as the processing start and processing end character positions, as shown in FIG. In the case of phrase units, we usually focus on the fact that the phrase consists of ``kanji + hiragana'' or ``katakana + hiragana,'' and process the character position that changes from kanji or katakana to hiragana. Processing ends when the character position changes to kana. It's written literally. Furthermore, in this case, punctuation marks, spaces, periods, and commas are also determined as clause breaks.

In the case of sentences, the position of each character is determined by focusing on the fact that sentences are separated by periods, periods, and spaces. In the case of paragraphs, character positions are usually determined by focusing on the following five points: at the beginning of a paragraph, the character is moved one character lower, and at the end of a paragraph, a full stop, a period, and a blank space. There is.

Here, it is assumed that characters are input from the keyboard (1) to create a document as shown in FIG. 6 (0), and deletion processing is performed in this state.

First, when the editing unit specification key of the keyboard+IJ is pressed, an editing unit specification field as shown in FIG. 6(b) is displayed at the bottom of the screen. To delete a phrase unit, select the number "2", move the cursor to the character "yo" in a part of the phrase you want to delete, and press the delete key, as shown in Figure 6 (b). , the editing unit certification unit (the unit determines the character position to start processing and the character position to end processing based on the cursor position information, as shown in the flowchart in Figure 3). In this case, the character position to start processing is the cursor position. "Yo"
Then, the processing end character position is determined to be "i" of "good". In this way, when a character range is certified by the editing unit certification section (7), the document editing section (5) performs editing processing on the certified character range. ), the phrase ``yoi'' from ``yo'' to ``i'' will be deleted.

Similarly, when the cursor position is at "yo", if you press the number "3" and select a sentence as the editing unit, the editing unit recognition section (7) will determine the processing start character position according to the flowchart in Figure 4. Since the character position at which the processing ends is determined to be "." in "It is weather.", the sentence "Today is good weather." is deleted. Similarly, if you press the number "4" and select a paragraph as an editing unit, the processing start character position will be "Now JK" and the processing end character position will be "Desho." according to the flowchart in Figure 5. ", so the paragraph "Today is nice weather. Tomorrow the weather will continue." will be deleted. In addition, when specifying by character, only "yo" will be deleted as before. ..

In the above explanation, deletion was explained, but when specifying a character string to be stored in the memory function, or when specifying a character string to be searched in the search function, processing in the desired editing unit can also be performed. is possible.

By the way, the recognition methods for each editing unit shown in Figures 2 to 5 are merely examples; for example, in the case of bunsetsu, other methods such as matching with a dictionary may also be used. good.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, even when editing multiple characters other than line by line, there is no need to specify the range of characters to be edited by key operation, so editing work is unnecessary. The operator's effort can be reduced. Also, rather than units that are completely unrelated to the document content, such as line units,
This is very convenient because editing can be done in editing units related to the document content, such as two sentences and two paragraphs.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Figures 2 to 5 are flowcharts showing the certification method for each editing unit, and Figures 6 (a) to (c) are tables during editing work. It is an explanatory view showing an example. Explanation of main figure numbers (1)...keyboard, (3)...CRT display, (5)...document editing department, (7)...editing unit certification department. Applicant Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. and one other agent Patent attorney Shizuo Sano Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A character input means for inputting characters, a display device for displaying the character string inputted by the means, and an editing unit specifying means for specifying one of a plurality of different editing units set in advance. , in the character string displayed by the display device, an editing instruction is given to a character position specifying means for specifying a character position of a part of the editing unit, and to the editing unit specified by the editing unit specifying means. If
an editing unit recognition means for recognizing a character range corresponding to the specified editing unit of a displayed character string based on the character position specified by the character position specification means; and editing processing for the character range recognized by the means. A document creation device characterized by comprising a document editing section that performs the following operations.