JPS62138958A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare a document without paying attention to the layout beforehand by providing a means to store linearly a sentence, and a means to calculate the total number of the pages by the instruction of the size, the number of the lines per page, the interval of the printing line, etc. of the document to be prepared. CONSTITUTION:When the sentence to be prepared is completed, the size of the paper to be used is determined. Next, the number of the lines per page of a sentence is determined. Further, the number of the effective digits per line is determined. Here, it is determined how many digits are obtained for the right and left blanks of respective lines. Next, the mode of the printing line concerning whether or not all lines are used, whether or not printing is executed for every line, etc. By the conditions after the paper size and the quantity of the prepared sentence, it is calculated what pages of the document a system processor 7 come to be, and the result is displayed.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document creation device, and more particularly to a document creation device that shows the balance of the structure, layout, etc. of a document being created.

Prior Art In a conventional document creation device, when creating a document,
First, the creator was required to decide the size of the paper to be output, the number of lines per page, the number of digits per line, etc. In this case, the creator must create a document while being aware of the layout within the paper that inevitably arises from the initial decisions, which is not necessarily convenient for the creator.

In addition, recently, easy-to-use document creation devices have become popular, but many of these devices have small displays, making it difficult to grasp the balance of the overall structure, layout, etc. of the document being created. .

Purpose The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to solve the above-mentioned problems in conventional document creation devices, 1.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device that shows an overall balance such as -.

Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the present invention makes it possible to first input the text to be created and then decide the layout of the document according to the amount of text. A character input means, a means for storing a character string inputted from the character input means, and a means for editing the inputted character string.

In a document creation device having a means for displaying a human-written character string and an edited character string, and an output means for outputting the edited character string to an external medium, the text edited by the editing means is one-dimensionally means for inquiring the creator about the size of the document to be created, the number of lines per page, the spacing between printed lines, etc.; means for storing the results of the inquiry by the inquiry means; and the one-dimensional storage means. and means for calculating the total number of pages of the sentence 7F from the contents of the query result storage means of the query means.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the structure of this invention will be described in detail based on an Example.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a document creation device that is an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, l is a character input device such as a keyboard, 2 is an input character string storage unit that temporarily stores the character string input from the character input device 1 and the edited character string, and 3 is document information such as a display. A display section 4 is a display control section that controls the display section 3, and 5 is an input character string editing section that performs processing such as kana-kanji conversion processing, addition, and deletion on input character strings. Further, 6 is a document layout information request unit that obtains information necessary for laying out an input character string as a created document from the creator, and 7 is a document layout information requesting unit that obtains the amount of text in the input character string storage unit 2 and the document layout. A system processor performs calculations to predict the amount of sentences to be created from the information in the information request section 6, 8 is a printer, and 9 is a printer output control section.

The operation of the present embodiment cassette constructed as described above will be described below with reference to FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the document creation operation by the document creation device of this embodiment. In the figure, steps 11-1
Step 17 shows the operation performed by the creator. Step 18 is a step in which the creator answers an inquiry from the device.

First, enter the text (step 11), and then.

As in the case of general writing, the writing is refined (step 12). When the text to be created is completed, the size of the paper to be used is determined according to the requirements at that time (step 13).

Once the paper size is determined, the number of lines per page of the document is determined (step 14). Furthermore, the number of significant digits per line is determined (step 15). Here, decide how many digits to use for the left and right margins of each line.

Next, determine the print line format, such as whether to use all lines or print every other line (step 16).9 Depending on the paper size and subsequent conditions and the amount of documents created, the system processor The number of pages of the document is calculated and the result is displayed (step 17).

The creator looks at the display result in step 17, and if it is acceptable, inputs the result (step 18), and proceeds to printing using the printer. If the displayed result is not satisfactory, input the information to that effect (step 18), and repeat the processes of steps 13 to 17 to balance the entire document.

Note that the calculation of the number of pages in step 17 above is as follows.

For example, do as follows.

P=T÷(MXG+K) In the above formula, P is the number of pages to be sought, T is the total number of characters stored in the input character string storage section 2, G is the number of lines per page, M is the number of characters per line, K is a factor indicating whether to print every other line (in the case of printing one line in two lines = 2).

The technique shown in this embodiment is particularly effective for a document creation device such as a personal word processor, which has a small display screen and one or two display lines.

Effects As described above, according to the present invention, the text to be created is first input, and then the layout of the document is determined according to the amount of text, so it is easy to create the text. This effectively separates document creation and document creation, and has the effect that text can be created before step 31 without worrying about the layout within the document.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart explaining its operation. ■ = character input device, 2: input character string storage section, 3: document information display section, 5: input character string editing section, 6: document layout information request section, 7: system processor, 8: printer. Patent applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd. - Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) a character input means, a means for storing the character string input from the character input means, a means for editing the input character string, a means for displaying the input character string and the edited character string, A document creation device having an output means for outputting the edited character string to an external medium, a means for one-dimensionally storing the text edited by the editing means, and a size of the document to be created, a per page means for inquiring the creator about the number of lines, the spacing between printed lines, etc.; means for storing the results of the inquiry by the inquiry means; A document creation device comprising means for calculating the total number of pages.