JPS62177585A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device that manually edits a document.
In particular, it relates to an advanced document processing device that creates beautiful formats and edits them based on typesetting rules.

[Conventional technology]

Recently, word processors have become widespread, and document input has been mechanized and streamlined, but this is limited to streamlining character string input, such as kana-kanji conversion and romaji conversion. Therefore, there is no high-resolution output device for printing or displaying high-quality documents, that is, easy-to-read and beautiful documents, and there is no function such as devising the arrangement of characters, which is called a typesetting rule in the printing world. Therefore, it was difficult to create documents that exceeded a certain level.

On the other hand, in the world of printing, a vast amount of typesetting know-how is accumulated as the knowledge of experts, and the creation of high-quality documents requires a complicated process, as manual tasks such as how to fill in characters and the format of columns are required. It was expensive.

In particular, a created document can be proofread only after it has been output in the form of a galley or the like, and the problem is that repeated corrections result in a long and repetitive process.

Therefore, a document processing system that displays the definition of format parameters, the method of arranging characters such as headings based on typesetting rules, and its printing format on a display, and selects a quick-responsive document editing method using a keyboard pointer leg device. was provided.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional word processor. In conventional word processors, all characters are input at a fixed pitch, so it is easy to align a specific character with the X coordinate of any character in the upper row. In other words, as shown in the figure, in order to align the number "1" on the second line with the X coordinate position of the number "1" on the first line, input it before the number "1" on the first line. Enter the same number of characters (in this case 7) on the second line, followed by the number °°1”
I was able to accomplish this by entering the . In general, inserting spaces,
I fixed it by deleting it.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of input to a document processing device that arranges and edits beautiful formatting based on typesetting rules. 5
01 shows the result of performing the same input as the input in FIG. As shown in the figure, although there is a virtual fixed pitch, the character positions are determined based on the formatting rules, so even if you enter the same number of characters in the first and second lines, the length of the character string will be the same. It won't happen.

Therefore, the number “1” on the first line and the number “B” on the second line
If you want to align the coordinates, the conventional and common method is to insert a space before the number "1" on the second line. It is. If there are 6 spaces in 502, the second
The xi mark of the number “l” on the first line is the X of the number “1” on the first line.
It becomes larger than the coordinates. So delete one space.

However, as shown in 503, the X coordinate of the number "1" on the second line is now smaller than the X coordinate of the number "1" on the first line, and it cannot be adjusted by inserting or deleting spaces. First, the X coordinate of the number "l" on the first line cannot be the same as the X coordinate of the number "1" on the second line. Also, all you have to do is set a tab in front of the number “1”.
In the case of something like the example shown, it would be troublesome to set it each time.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In this way, when defining character positions contrary to predefined typesetting rules, it became a burden for the operator.

For example, after entering Japanese text in the first line, insert a space,
Enter the numbers. Next, if you insert a Western character in the second line, then add a space and then add a number, even if you adjust the spaces to align the numbers in the first and second lines, they generally do not line up. The only way to do this was to reset the tab in that area, which was a heavy burden for the operator.

(Means for Solving the Problem) In order to solve this problem, the present invention includes a storage means for storing a virtual fixed pitch and an instruction means for matching character position data with the virtual fixed pitch.

(Function) When an instruction is given by the instruction means, character position data is matched to the virtual fixed pitch, so character positions can be aligned by matching arbitrary characters to the virtual fixed pitch for each line.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a CRT display unit using the rask scan display method, 2 is a video RAM (VRAM) that stores one screen of pattern development information, and 3 is a VR
A display control unit that controls pattern expansion to AM2 and pattern readout to CR7 display unit 1, 4 a microprocessor (MPU) that controls the main control of the device of this embodiment, and 5 a third
The main memory is composed of a ROM containing a control program according to the flowchart shown in the figure, a typesetting program, a character generator CG, etc., and a RAM for data processing, and the RAM indicates the cursor position. X, YPo
It has a storage area called TEXT in which 1nter and manually written characters are stored, and FP in which a virtual fixed pitch in the X direction is stored. 6 is an external magnetic disk device that stores document files, etc.; 7 is a pointing device (PD) that manually specifies the position of the display screen; 8 is a keyboard; 9 is an I10 bus that connects each of these blocks and the MPU 4;
0 is the printer. 11 is a single character tab key, which has the function described below.

The virtual fixed pitch is coordinate data given at equal intervals in the X direction, and is stored in the FP as numerical data such as (0, 10, 20, 300).

Character data entered manually from the keyboard 8 or pointing device is stored in the RAM that indicates the cursor position under the typesetting control program stored in the ROM.
It is stored in the text memory TEXT together with the coordinate data indicated by inter. And under the typesetting control program, there is an X indicating the position of this cursor, 'l point
The data in er is updated and held as position data for the next character to be input. X indicating the position of this cursor
, Y Po1nter is a character when displaying data in the text memory TEXT, which holds coordinate data expressed in dot units when displayed on the CRT display section l or printer 10, on the CRT display section l or printer 10. The data is converted into a dot pattern by a character generator CG and developed on the VRAMZ according to the coordinate data given for each character.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart in this embodiment. First, in step S1, it is determined whether the single character tab key 11 has been input. If the single character tab key 11 is not input, the process ends. When the one-character tab key 11 is pressed manually, the process moves to step S2, and the position of the character immediately before the cursor position is determined on the virtual fixed pitch. That is, it is determined whether the value obtained by adding the character width to the X component of the coordinate data given to the immediately preceding character data is in the FP storing the virtual fixed pitch. If the right end of one character in the virtual fixed pitch matches the right end of the character immediately before the cursor, the process moves to step S3 and no changes are made. If the right edge of one character in the virtual fixed pitch does not match the right edge of the immediately preceding character, the process moves to step S4 and the XPo
1nt, the value of er or the X given to the next character data
Update the coordinate data and exit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing this embodiment. When a one-character tab is inserted before the number "1" in the first line at 503 in Figure 4, the space corresponding to the immediately preceding character does not end on the virtual fixed pitch line according to step S2 in Figure 2, so step S
Moving on to step 4, remove the character string after the number °°bi' so that the number ゛°1'' starts from the left end of the next character in the virtual fixed pitch.In the same way, the number °゛1'' in the second line When a one-character tab is inserted before , the process moves to step S4 according to step S2 in FIG. expel the string.

As mentioned above, by inserting a single character tab, the first
The X coordinate of the number "1°" in the first row matches the X coordinate of the number "BI'" in the second row.

In the embodiment of the present invention, one-character tab was used only in one place, but Japanese characters are used in conventional fixed-pitch formatting in document processing systems that perform typesetting processing that fills up characters by alternately typing characters and one-character tabs. This will produce exactly the same output as a word processor.

As described above, by using the present invention, character strings can be easily aligned, reducing the burden on the operator.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the procedure of an embodiment of the present invention, and Figs. 3 and 4 explain conventional display examples. 5 are diagrams showing display examples according to the present invention. 1--CRT display unit, 2-m-video RAM (VRAM), 3-m-display control unit, 4-m-microprocessor (MPU), 5-11 main memory, 61--external magnetic disk 7--pointing device (PD), 8-11 keyboard, 9--I10 bus, 10-m-printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An input means for inputting character data, a fixed pitch storage means for storing a virtual fixed pitch, and a coordinate data indicating the position of the character data inputted from the input means. A document processing device comprising: a text memory; and instruction means for matching coordinate data stored in the text memory with a virtual fixed pitch stored in the fixed pitch storage means.