JPS62267858A - Producing and editing device for intra-rectangle character string - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the editing function by producing a character string within a rectangle and deciding automatically the character size, the space and the line feed of the character string. CONSTITUTION:An information processor 2 converts the data stored in a relative information memory device 1 into the graphic information by an intra-rectangle character string ID recognizing means 4 by means of the identification label ID of each data. These data undergo each processing by an input command via a rectangle production processing means 5, an intra-rectangle character string production processing means 6, a rectangle editing processing means 7 and an intra-rectangle character string editing processing means 8 for conversion into the graphic information. Then the data are stored in the device 1 via a data storage processing means 9. Thus the information on the rectangle and the relative information on the intra-rectangle character string are unified to perform such editing processes as the shift, copy, magnification/reduction, etc. in addition to the production, editing and display of those patterns limited especially to a rectangle and the intra-rectangle character string. Furthermore the line feed is automatically performed when the character string is displayed in a rectangle of an optional size and the automatic line feed is also possible with the character string within a rectangle.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention displays character strings within a rectangle in document creation,
The present invention relates to a rectangular character string creation and editing device that recognizes the semantic connection between the rectangle and the character string and automatically edits the character string according to the size of the rectangle.

(Prior art) Fig. 3 is an example of a graphic image displayed on a graphic display device, but in a conventional graphic editing device, the display information is simply a character string and a rectangle, such as character font, coordinates, etc. Was. In other words, a means for storing related information between a rectangle and a character string, and a means for converting the related information into graphic information;
Furthermore, there was no means to automatically break a line within a rectangle or to edit the rectangle and character string as one unit.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the prior art, when a rectangle and a character string are displayed inside the rectangle, in order to understand the relationship between the two using a graphic display device, the user must independently store the character string. It was necessary to store or search the rectangle and character string data and understand the relationship between the two from information such as position and size. Further, as a graphic display device, there was no function to automatically display a character string with a line break or a function to edit a rectangle and a character string within the rectangle as one unit.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device for editing and displaying figures using a computer, in particular, to limit figures to rectangles and character strings within rectangles.
In addition to simply creating, editing, and displaying each, it is also possible to move, copy, enlarge/reduce, etc. the related information of the rectangle and the character string within the rectangle as a whole, and also edit the rectangle and the related information of the character string within the rectangle. By having a function that automatically performs a line break when displaying a character string, and also automatically performs a line break for the character string within the rectangle each time the rectangle, the size of the character string within the rectangle, or the character string itself is modified, This is an attempt to solve the above problems.

(Means for Solving the Problem) A related information storage device that stores character string data drawn in a rectangle as a character string within the rectangle, and stores information related to the character string within the rectangle and the rectangle; When creating and editing a character string within a rectangle using the related information storage device, calculate from the size of the rectangle and the character string, perform a line break in the character string within the rectangle so that the character string fits within the rectangle, and store the related information. A rectangular character string creation/editing device is obtained, which is characterized by comprising an information processing device that converts the graphic information into graphic information, and a graphic display device that displays the graphic information.

(Example) The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of a system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 indicates a related information storage device that stores rectangular data and character string data of a character string within a rectangle and related information between the data. 2 converts the data in the related information storage device 1 into a rectangular character string I using the identification label ID of each data.
D The recognition means 4 converts it into graphic information, and the rectangle creation processing means 5 creates a character string inside the rectangle according to the input command 98! The embedding means 6, the rectangle editing processing means 7, and the rectangular character string editing processing means 8 perform respective processing and convert it into graphic information, and when specifying termination, the data storage processing means 9
1 shows an information processing device 2 that stores data in a related information storage device 1. 3 indicates a graphic information display device that displays graphic information processed and converted by the information processing device 2. As shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be explained using an example. Second
FIG. 1 (aXbXc) is a diagram showing an example of information stored in the related information storage device 1. As shown in FIG. Figures (a) and (b)
In the data section shown in FIG. 3, rectangular data ((a) in the same figure) and character string data within the rectangle ((b) in the same figure) are each stored with an ID assigned as an identification label. The ID is also used when processing data display. The numbers 300 and 400 shown on the vertical and horizontal axes in FIG. The number of lines of the inner character string is three, and 1 shown in the border display column means that a rectangular display is performed. If the data in the border display field is set to O, the rectangle will not be displayed and only the character string within the rectangle will be displayed. In addition, 50.3 shown in the font size column of the same figure (b)
0 means that the character size of the character string in the IDI rectangle is 50 dots wide and 30 dots wide, 10 shown on the character spacing side means the character spacing is 10 dots, and 24 shown in the number of characters column means the number of characters is 24. It means to be. Also, the same figure (c
) stores the relationship between rectangular data and character string data within the rectangle by matching the IDs. The contents of the diagram (C) are displayed on the graphic display device 3 using the information processing device 2.
What is shown above is FIG. In the figure, each data is displayed as a character string within a rectangle.

The flow up to displaying the graphic information, which indicates the coordinates such as the position and size of a rectangle and a character string within the rectangle, and the character string code, passed from the information processing device 2, on the graphic display device 3 as a diagram as shown in FIG. 3 will be described below. This will be explained using FIG. First, a rectangular character string ID and a corresponding rectangle ID are given to graphic information by the rectangular character string ID recognition means 4 of the information processing device 2,
They are recognized by rectangle ID recognition processing 11 and rectangle character string ID recognition 13, respectively. Next, a rectangle is displayed based on graphical information such as the position and size of the rectangle recognized in rectangle display processing 12, and the position, size, and character string of the character string within the rectangle recognized in rectangle character string display processing 14. A character string is displayed within a rectangle using graphical information such as a code.

The following 4 processes are handled by the character string creation and editing device within this rectangle.
These include: By registering the rectangle creation command, rectangle string creation command, rectangle editing command, rectangle update command, rectangle addition command, and rectangle string editing command in advance by associating them with keys on the keyboard, you can Keys corresponding to each command are input within the rectangular area, and Uke passes graphical information necessary for input processing of each command.

■Rectangle creation process This is a function to create a rectangle. For example, as shown in Figure 4, the third
This is a process of adding one rectangle to the diagram shown in the figure. The flow of the process will be explained using the examples shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 (aXbXc) and the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, a rectangle creation command is received in a rectangle creation command input process 21, and a rectangle ID recognition process 22 is performed as shown in FIG.
The ID of the rectangular data in a) is recognized as 3, and it is converted into graphic information and passed to the graphic display device 3. Next, the number of lines definition process 23 defines that the number of lines for rectangle ID3 in FIG. 5A is 4, and the border display process 24 defines whether or not to display the border of rectangle ID3 in FIG. Then, by the rectangle data registration process 25, the same figure (
Data is input into each item of rectangle ID3 in a).

Through the above processing, the contents of the related information storage device 2 change from FIG. 2 to FIG. 5, and the rectangle creation process ends.

■ Rectangle character string creation process This function adds a character string to the rectangle created by the rectangle creation process to create a rectangle character string.

For example, as shown in Figure 6, the process is to create a character string standardization technique and toolpa in the diagram shown in Figure 4, and add one character string within the rectangle. Figure 7 (a
This will be explained using the example of XbXc) and the 7o-chart in FIG.

First, a rectangular character string creation command input process 31 receives a rectangular character string creation command, and a rectangular character string ID recognition process 32 determines that the ID of the rectangular character string data in FIG. 7(a) is 7. is recognized, converted into graphic information, and passed to the graphic display device 3. Next, font size definition processing 3
3, it is defined that the character size of the character string ID7 in the rectangle in FIG. It is defined that the interval is 12, and data is input into each item of the rectangular character string ID 7 in FIG.

Further, after receiving a character string creation command in a rectangle in the character string creation command input process 31, the rectangle ID3 corresponding to the character string ID7 in the rectangle is recognized by the corresponding rectangle ID recognition process 36, and the data related registration process 37, the character string ID7 in the rectangle and the rectangle ID3 are associated with the data-related part in FIG. Rectangular character string line break processing 3 that detects the line break position so that the character string fits within the rectangle based on the character size, character spacing, and number of characters of the rectangular character string
8, the line break of the character string ID7 in the rectangle is automatically performed. Through the above processing, the contents of the related information storage device 29 change from FIG. 5 to FIG. 7, and the rectangular character string creation process ends.

■Rectangle editing process This is a function that edits the rectangle after creating a rectangle and a character string within the rectangle through rectangle creation processing and character string creation processing within the rectangle.

For example, this is a process of changing the size of a rectangle and the number of lines in the diagram shown in FIG. 6, as shown in FIG. The flow of the process will be explained using the examples shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 (aXbXc) and the flowchart shown in FIG. 15.

First, a rectangle editing command is received in a rectangle editing command input process 41, and a rectangle ID recognition process 42 is performed as shown in FIG.
The ID of the rectangle data in a) is recognized as 3, and a rectangle update command or rectangle addition command is accepted in the rectangle update/addition command input process 43. The former changes the data for the specified rectangle ID of the rectangle data, so the same ID
The rectangles of all strings inside the rectangle that use the rectangle will change. In the latter case, one new rectangle is added to the rectangle data,
By changing the rectangle ID corresponding to the character string within the rectangle to be edited, only the rectangle of the specified character string within the rectangle is changed.

This example shows the latter. In response to the rectangle addition command, the ID of the corresponding character string in the rectangle is recognized as 27 by the rectangle character string ID recognition process 44, and the size and number of lines of the rectangle are corrected in the judgment 45. A size and line number correction process 46 is executed.

Since the decision 47 adds a rectangle instead of updating the rectangle, the rectangle data addition process 49 adds data to each item of the rectangle TD4 in FIG. The rectangle ID corresponding to the character string ID2 is corrected to 4, and the line break for the character string in the rectangle ID2 is automatically performed by the line feed processing 50 for the character string in the rectangle. Through the above processing, the contents of the related information storage device 2 change from FIG. 7 to FIG. 9, and the rectangle editing process ends.

■ Rectangular character string editing process After creating a rectangular character string by rectangular character string creation processing,
This is an editing function. For example, this is a process of changing the size of a character string in a diagram shown in FIG. 8, as shown in FIG. 10.

The flow of the process will be explained using the examples shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 (aXbXc) and the flowchart shown in FIG. 16.

First, a rectangular character string editing command input process 51 receives a rectangular character string editing command, a rectangular character string ID recognition command 52 recognizes that the ID of the rectangular character string is 2, and then judgment 53 We will correct the font size, so
Character size correction processing 54 is executed. The character string data update process 55 corrects the character size data of the character string ID2 in FIG. 11(a), and the character string within rectangle line break process 56
The line break of character string ID2 is automatically performed. Through the above processing, the contents of the related information storage device 2 change from FIG. 9 to FIG. 11, and the rectangular character string editing process ends.

(Effects of the Invention) According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an editor that creates a character string in a rectangle and edits it as a whole, and also automatically edits the character size, spacing, and line breaks of the character string. This has the effect that the user can handle the rectangle and character string as a character string without having to create and edit the rectangle and character string separately.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a basic configuration diagram of the system of the present invention, and Figure 2 (a) (
bXc), Figure 5 (aXbXc), Figure 7 (aXbXc)
), Figure 9 (aXb) (c), Figure 11 (aXbXc)
1 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of information stored in the semantic information storage device of the present invention, and FIG. 3, FIG. 4, FIG. 6, FIG. 8, and FIG. 10 are screen images on the graphic display device of the present invention. FIG. In addition, Fig. 12, Fig. 13, Fig. 14, Fig. 15, Fig. 1
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flowchart for each process of display, rectangle creation, rectangular character string creation, rectangle editing, and rectangular character string editing. In the figure, 1 is a related information storage device, 2 is an information processing device, 3 is a graphic display device, 4 is a character string recognition process in a rectangle, 5 is a rectangle creation process, 6 is a character string creation process in a rectangle, and 7 is a rectangle editing Processing, 8 is character string editing processing within the rectangle, 9 is data case 2
11 (a) (b) 5 (o) (b) 1,000 7 (o) (b) 9 (a) (b) 11 (a) (b) 14 (b) half 14 (15) I6 Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] A related information storage device that stores character string data drawn within a rectangle as a character string within the rectangle, and stores information related to the character string within the rectangle and the rectangle; When creating and editing a character string, an information processing device calculates from the size of the rectangle and the character string, performs a line break in the character string within the rectangle so that the character string fits within the rectangle, and converts the related information into graphic information. and a graphic display device for displaying the graphic information.