JPS61863A - Block processing system for document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To cope with the complicated block processing required to a commercial printed matter containing documents put into a set area or to cope with the setting and alterations of a block of an optional form, by providing a flow- in inhibition area to a block data group. CONSTITUTION:A flow-in inhibition area 92 is designated by the block data having the lower priority than the block data that designates an area 91 being a subject for flow-in at present. Then the flow-in processing is carried out for a line L2. In such a case, a line disposition processing part 85 first obtains a boundary segment based on the coordinate information fed via the areas 91 and 92 and calculates the position information on the intersecting points P1-P8 distant away by the line width (m) from the boundary segment. Then the results of calculations are compared and discriminated in size in the line direction, and sections P2-P3 and P6-P7 are detected as the flow-in enable sections. Thus an area processing part 86 decides the result of detection as a document disposition area. Thus it is possible to cope with the complicated block processing required to a commercial printed matter by applying a line head-line end matching rule, etc.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [A. Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device, and in particular, to a document processing device that places a document specified by document data in a document pouring area specified by block data, and processes the placement result. , display device, printing device,
The present invention relates to an improvement of a block processing method in a document processing device that outputs to an output means such as a storage medium.

[0, Prior Art] The technology for assembling and arranging characters as documents has improved dramatically in recent years in conjunction with computers. For example, the spread of word processors and electronic typesetting systems has greatly improved the editing and output work of assembling the documents mentioned above.
This contributes to improved efficiency.

However, the editing work described above was largely manual and could be improved. For example, in a newspaper, one page is composed of 155 columns of 90 lines with 15 characters per line. Further, in the patent publication, one page is constructed by providing two columns of 22 characters and 44 lines per line.

When one page is composed of a certain simple fixed pattern as in these two examples, it is relatively easy to mechanize editing such as correction, deletion, insertion, and movement.

- For example, in a word processor such as that disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 58-195945, the ruled line information composing a table or the tab position information etc. are set as 10 block specification information, and this block specification information is specified. The documents are arranged within a rectangular area.

[C1 Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As mentioned above, the conventional techniques are aimed at processing documents with relatively simple layouts, and cannot cope with complex editing required for commercial printed matter. It wasn't something.

In other words, in the conventional technology, it is possible to deal with setting and changing an area of arbitrary shape, arranging a document in the set area, dealing with arbitrary line widths that vary in the same document, and dealing with the setting and changing of areas in one document area. It was not possible to handle complex layout typesetting processes, such as arbitrarily inserting other document areas or placing documents either inside or outside the laid out area. For this reason, there were many difficulties in mechanically filling (assembling) documents within a designated area, and methods such as manually pasting in characters were used.

[21 Measures to solve the problem 1 First, the present invention will be explained in detail using FIG.

There are two upper and lower blocks (areas #2 and #3) in a paper surface 1 (area #1) of an arbitrary size, and characters are arranged vertically in each block. Then, insert another 10 squares of the polygon (area #4) into each of the upper and lower blanks.
is oriented, and the characters are set horizontally within this block.

The layout regarding the size, shape, placement, etc. of each block (area #2 to #4) in multiple sets is free, but how to create a document with such a layout, and various The purpose of the present invention is how to edit the data.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the basics of the present invention that solves the above object, and its outline is as follows.

(a) First, as an information source for executing the layout, a block data group (21) consisting of a plurality of pre-ranked blocks [1 block data (described later)], for example, the block (area #2 in FIG. 1). ~#4) is set as the document pouring area. At this time, blocks specified by individual block data may interrupt each other.

(b) Furthermore, in addition to the above block data group, desired document data (22) is supplied, and the contents of the document to be processed (for example, character type, font, character size, functions such as paragraphs, writing direction, line (width, feed pitch, character filling pitch, etc.).

(C), and among this set block data group,
A document based on the given document data is placed (23) L in the pouring area specified by the n-th (usually from n=i-th) block data.

(d) When arranging a document in the flow area specified by the n1l)-th block data, the present invention arranges the flow area specified by all the block data after the n+1-th block data. Treated as a prohibited area.

If the prohibited area and the flow-in area overlap and overlap, the document is placed only in the predetermined flow-in area while changing the prohibited area slowly.

(e) Furthermore, when a new document is placed as described above, information indicating the placed area is additionally set as document placement block data (24) at the bottom of the current block data group. .

Therefore, the document arrangement block data added and set at the lowest position will act as a new area where the next order of block data will be placed, as described below.

(f) Furthermore, the present invention relates to the document data, and when it is necessary to arrange the document successively, in other words, the document specified by the document data cannot be accommodated in the flow area specified by the n-th block data. First, if there is a remainder in the document, update the ranking by ``+1'' (25)L.The above-mentioned arrangement of the document and corresponding arrangement are performed for the area specified by the flow block data of the next ranking. The additional setting process for the document layout block data is repeatedly performed.

(g) Of course, as a special case of the document layout program data, it is also possible to set in advance a space (injection prohibited area) for allocating photographs and the like.

(h) The document placement result obtained as above is
It is output (26) to an appropriate output means.

[Effects of the Invention] FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a block data group initially set as a block information source for specifying a layout, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a block data group shown in FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing each area specified by , and the number with # indicates the rank of each block data.

Each of these block data is composed of the following information.

(a) First, the first column (a) is pointer information indicating the storage address of the next block data at the same level, and the second column (b) is the storage address of the block data at the lower level. This is pointer information indicating an address.

Each block data is ranked based on this pointer information. Furthermore, by changing the contents of the pointer information, it is possible to arbitrarily change the order of each block data.

In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, #1 is upper block data indicating a page area (corresponding to page 1 in FIG. 1), and #2 to
An example is a case where #4 is lower block data indicating various areas within the page.

(b), the information in the third column (C) is area attribute information that indicates the attribute of the area specified by the block data, for example, the top of the page *a property listed in the figure, the pouring area attribute, or the information described later. There are attributes such as document placement area attributes.

(C), the information in the fourth column (d) is flow direction information that specifies the flow direction of document data within the area specified by the block data, and is vertical direction specification, horizontal direction specification, or document data dependent. There are directions, etc.

The vertical direction designation and the horizontal direction designation designate forcibly running the document vertically or horizontally (formatting the document), regardless of the composition direction specified in the document data. On the contrary, the document data dependent direction designation specifies that the document be flowed in the direction specified in the document data.

The information in (d) and 58th (e) is information indicating the number of coordinate points that specify the range of the area specified by the block data.

(e), the information after the sixth column (f) is a series of coordinate information indicating the range of the area specified by the block data. Then, the inside of a closed curve in which points corresponding to the coordinate information are successively connected is designated as a pouring area or a pouring prohibited area.

The process of actually arranging documents based on the block 1-1 provided with the information described above will now be described.

FIG. 5 shows an example in which the given document data is sent to area #2 (the area specified by block data #2).

As is clear from the example in FIG. 5, when placing a document in the pouring area #2 specified by the block data #2, the area #4 specified by the block data #4 is set as a pouring prohibited area. Processing.

That is, more generally speaking, when placing a document within the flow area specified by the n-th block data, the present invention allows all blocks after the (n+1)-th block data to be
The area specified by
It has become so.

Then, like area #2 and area #4 shown in FIG.
If the pouring area and the prohibited area overlap and intrude into each other, the culture is placed within the predetermined pouring area while avoiding the prohibited area.Furthermore, the present invention is capable of placing a new document in the above J manner. In this case, one block data is generated in the block data indicating the arranged area, and this is added to the lowest position of the current block data fff.

FIG. 6 shows the block data group after the additional setting,
#5 has been added to the 19-specified sentence distribution block [1 piece data].

It should be noted that the document distribution pub [I-tsuk data added to the lowest level will act as a new flow-prohibited area when arranging the document to be opened in the next block data.

Furthermore, the present invention relates to the document data, and when it is necessary to successively arrange a document, for example, in FIG. 5, if the required document cannot be accommodated in area #2, I:
In this case, the process of arranging the document described above and adding the document arrangement block data corresponding to the arrangement is repeated, targeting the next-ranked pouring area #3.

FIG. 1 shows an example where given document data is sent to area #4 (area specified by block data #4).

In this case, the flow direction information of block data #4 is as follows:
Since the document data dependent direction is specified, the document will be arranged according to the direction specified in the document (in this case, the horizontal direction).

FIG. 7 shows the state of the block data group when documents have been placed in all areas #2 to #4 through the process described above.

Note that if a change such as deletion is made to a part of the area in which characters have been placed, the corresponding document placement block data is updated and the size of the flow-prohibited area also changes. Therefore, by specifying again the flow area block data corresponding to the changed area, it is also possible to flow other document data into the area released by the deletion.

In addition, as a special case of the document layout block data,
It is also possible to set in advance a space for allocating photographs, etc. (non-flowing area 1).

[Example 8 of the invention] FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 8, (81) is a Bunko data memory that stores document data supplied from outside.
・Memorize the contents of the desired document that you want to perform block processing, such as the text format, layout direction, line width, feed pitch, and character spacing.

(82) is a block data memory for storing block data as already described in connection with FIG.

Further, (83) and (84) are registers in which rank information (N) and row number information (X) of block data currently being processed are set.

(85) is a row device processing unit that operates based on information from the memories (81), (84) and registers (83), (84).

As will be explained in detail later based on FIG. 9, this line device processing unit (85) calculates the area where text can be poured or the area where text is prohibited for the line currently being processed, and Output placement information indicating placement.

(86) is an area processing section that outputs information necessary for typesetting within the block to the output section (87) based on the line device information sequentially sent from the line device processing section (85).

Further, the area processing unit (86) includes the register (83),
It is determined whether predetermined processing has been completed for the block data and row specified by the setting contents in (84).

When the processing for the specified row is completed, the row number register (
84) is incremented by "+1".

Furthermore, when the processing for the specified block data is completed, the block data order register (83
) is incremented by "+1" and the row number register (84) is reset to "1".

Furthermore, the area treatment 11! When the processing for the block data designated as described above is completed, the unit (86) stores information indicating the area where characters are arranged based on the block data into the block data memory (82) as document arrangement block data. Output. At this time, the supplied document arrangement block data is additionally stored as data of a lower rank than the currently stored block data.

The document layout result obtained as described above is output to an appropriate output unit (87) such as a display device, a printing device, or a storage medium, and is used for monitoring desired block processing or for final character typesetting. .

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of processing contents in the row device processing section (85).

In FIG. 9, an area (91) indicates the area currently being poured, and an area (92) indicates the area (91).
) indicates a prohibited area for pouring specified by block data having a lower rank than the block data specifying the block data.

Ll and L2 indicate line numbers, and (93) and (94) are
The right side and the left side of the gender L2 are shown.

Furthermore, ml and D are a predetermined line width and line pitch given by the document data.

Hereinafter, a case will be described using as an example a case where the pouring process is executed for row L2.

The shape of the contour forming the regions (91) and (92) is as follows:
As already mentioned, each block data is specified by the coordinate information held by the corresponding block data.

That is, the boundaries of the area can be determined by line segments connecting points corresponding to these coordinate information.

The row unit processing unit (85) first calculates the boundary line segment based on the given coordinate information, and then calculates the intersection between the boundary line segment and two row sides separated by the line width m. The positional information of the intersections P1 to P8 is output.

Furthermore, the line arrangement processing unit (85) compares and determines the magnitude of the obtained position information in the line direction, and detects the intervals p2-P3 and p6-p7 that can be filled into one space.

The row arrangement processing section (85) or the area processing section (86)
These flowable sections are defined as document distribution areas in the relevant line p1. Then, by applying a conventionally known typesetting rule, for example, a line start line alignment rule, to the document distribution area, layout information (typesetting information) necessary for proper character layout as shown in the figure is generated and output.

[0 Effects of the Invention 1 As variously stated above, the present invention is capable of distributing a document based on given document data within a 1ζ pouring area specified by block data. l. In the block processing method of a document processing device that outputs the arrangement result to an output means, a block data group consisting of a plurality of sets of block data ranked in advance is set, and set 0')
Within the small data group, the area specified by all block data after the n+1st block is set as a pouring prohibited area, and the document is placed within the pouring area specified by the nth block data, and the character Information indicating the area in which the document has been placed is newly added to the block data group as document placement block data, and then it is determined whether or not the document placement has been completed for the document data, and the remainder that cannot be placed is determined. When there is a document, the process of arranging the document and adding the document arrangement block data is repeatedly performed in an area specified by the next order of flow block data. .

By doing this, the present invention deals with setting and changing arbitrarily shaped blocks, deals with arbitrary line widths that vary wildly within the same document, and furthermore deals with setting and changing arbitrary shaped blocks, and also deals with arbitrary line widths that vary within the same document. The present invention provides a new method that can deal with complex block processing required for commercial printed matter, such as arbitrarily inserting documents or arranging documents on desired sides inside and outside blocks.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1, 4, and 5 are diagrams showing the over-operation of the block processing unit type according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing the basics of the present invention, and FIG. 6 and 7 are diagrams showing an example of document data used in the method of the present invention, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a configuration for implementing the method of the present invention, and FIG. It is an explanatory diagram of a purchase processing process. (91)...Pouring area (92)...Pouring prohibited area m...Row width D...Row pip

Claims (8)

[Claims] (1), within the pouring area specified by the block data,
In a block processing method of a document processing device that arranges a document based on given document data and outputs the arrangement result to an output means, a block data group consisting of a plurality of sets of block data ranked in advance is set, and the setting is performed. Among the block data group, the area specified by all the block data after the (n+1)th block data is set as a pouring prohibited area, and the document is placed in the pouring area specified by the nth block data, and the document is Information indicating the placed area is newly added to the block data group as document placement block data, and then it is determined whether or not the document placement has been completed for the document data, and the remaining documents that cannot be placed are A block processing method in a document processing apparatus, characterized in that, at a certain time, the process of arranging the document and adding and setting the document arrangement block data is repeatedly performed on an area specified by the flow block data of the next rank. (2) In the block processing method according to claim (1), the block data has pointer information indicating a storage address of the block data of the next rank, and the block data are ranked with respect to each other according to the pointer information. A block processing method in a document processing device characterized by: (3) In the block processing method according to claim (1), the block data is related to the attribute of the area specified by the block data, and whether the area is a pouring area or a document placement area. 1. A block processing method in a document processing apparatus, characterized in that the block processing method has area attribute information indicating that the block processing method is a block processing method. (4) In the block processing method according to claim (1), the block data has flow direction information for specifying the flow direction of document data within the area specified by the block data. A block processing method in a document processing device characterized by: (5) In the block processing method according to claim (4), the flow direction information may include longitudinal direction designation;
A block processing method in a document processing device characterized by specifying either a horizontal direction or a document data dependent direction. (6) In the block processing method according to claim (1), the block data has a series of coordinate information indicating a range of an area specified by the block data, and the coordinate information is A block processing method in a document processing apparatus, characterized in that a closed curve connecting corresponding points is set as a predetermined pouring area or a pouring prohibited area. (7) In the block processing method according to claim (6), the document data includes line width data, and two line sides separated by an interval specified by the line width data and the Find the position information of the intersection point where the closed curve intersects,
A block processing method for a document processing device, characterized in that the size of the position information in the row direction is further compared and determined to determine an area in which a document can be placed in the row, and the arrangement of the document is determined in the determined area. . (8) In the block processing method described in claim (1), it is possible to arbitrarily specify from which block data the arrangement of documents based on the document data starts. A block processing method in a document processing device characterized by: