JPS6210765A - Documentation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of documentation by reading out and displaying an optional document already registered at another portion of a display device and fetching in the area of a document indicated by a cursor voluntarily to the document in generating. CONSTITUTION:An outside memory 4 consists of a floppy disk or a fixed disk device and is able to store a generated document under the control of a controller 2 and also, stores a system program which controls a whole device. A display device 5 consists of a CRT display and is constituted so that the document in generating is displayed in order at the left half of a display picture and at the right half, the document which an generater wants to refer or utilize is read out and displayed from the outside memory 4. Also, at the right half of the display picture, a pair of cursors are always displayed to indicate the area of the document to be requested to fetch in. Thereby, with referring or utilizing the document already registered, the documentation can be performed and the efficiency of the documentation can be remarkably improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a document creation device such as a word processor.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Document creation devices such as word processors have been widely used in recent years, but while there is no problem when creating a document according to a manuscript, it is possible to create a document by referring to an already created document or, in some cases, using a part of it. It is somewhat inconvenient when trying to create a .

That is, in the above-mentioned case, a method is usually used in which a document that has already been created and registered in memory is called up, and a new document is created by adding corrections, insertions, deletions, etc. to the document.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, with the above method, even if you want to use only a small part of a registered document, you have to call up the entire document, and you have to delete all unnecessary parts. However, there was a problem that the operation became complicated.

Furthermore, it has been impossible to use multiple registered documents to create one document.

The present invention eliminates such problems and provides a document creation device that can easily create a document while referring to or using registered documents.

Means for Solving Problems In the present invention, a document being created is displayed on a part of the display device, and any registered document can be called up and displayed on another part of the display device, and a cursor is displayed on another part of the display device. This allows you to import the area specified in the document into the document you are currently creating.

Effect: With the above configuration, it is possible to create a document by referring to any registered document during document creation and using it as necessary.

EXAMPLE Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1st
The figure is a block diagram of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a keyboard for inputting a document to be created and various control commands; This is a control device for creating document data containing Chinese characters with the help of a dictionary 3 as needed, and for controlling an external memory 4 and a display device 5. The external memory 4 consists of a floppy disk device and a fixed disk device, and the created documents are stored in the control device 2.
can be stored under the control of A system program for controlling the entire device is also stored in this external memory 4.

The display device 5 is composed of a CRT display, and the document being created is sequentially displayed on the left half of the display screen, and the document that the creator wants to refer to or use can be read out from the external memory 4 and displayed on the right half. It is configured as follows. Additionally, a pair of cursors are always displayed on the right half of the screen to indicate the area of the document to be imported.

The operation of this device will be explained below, taking as an example the case of creating a letter. FIG. 2 shows the screen of the display device 5 in operation, where 51 is the left half area where the document being created is displayed;
Reference numeral 52 denotes a right half area where a document to be referenced or used is displayed. Suppose now that you have begun to create a letter by inputting from keyboard 1, and the work has progressed to ``Dear Sir'' as shown in Figure 2. Here, it is necessary to insert a greeting for an appropriate time, but in this embodiment, an appropriate greeting can be easily inserted into the document as follows. That is, examples of seasonal greetings collected in advance are read out from the external memory 4 (since they are unique, the example sentences are read out from the external memory 4 by a command from the keyboard 1, and displayed in the area 52 on the right half of the display device 5). FIG. 2 shows this state, in which greetings for various seasons are displayed in the right half area 52.

If you wish to use the greeting "It's time for Kaoru Wakaba" in the sample sentence, move the cursors 521 and 522 to the front and back of the above greeting as shown in FIG. By pressing the specified key, the above greeting will be imported into the document being created.
Document creation progresses. Note that if you wish to use the document displayed in the right half area 52 with some modifications rather than using it as is, you can enter input from the keyboard 1 as usual while looking at the document.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, documents can be created by referring to or using already registered documents with simple operations, and the efficiency of document creation is greatly improved. Therefore, as the number of registered documents increases, the efficiency of document creation will further improve.

The present invention is particularly effective when creating a document that is similar to or partially in common with an already registered document.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a display device of the same device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A keyboard for inputting documents to be created and inputting various commands, a display means, an external memory,
Control to synthesize documents based on input from the keyboard, display the synthesized document in the first area of the display means, and store the synthesized document in the external memory based on commands from the keyboard. means for causing the control means to display a specified document stored in the external memory in the second area of the display means, and to display a portion of the displayed document specified by the cursor in the second area of the display means. 1. A document creation device further comprising a means for extracting and inserting data into a document being synthesized displayed in one portion of the document.