JPS6231470A - Linking system for documentation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate editing of documents by shifting text data to frames linked together in accordance with the attribute of each frame when these frames or text information are inserted and deleted. CONSTITUTION:A compound editor 1 supplies the information given from a floppy disk 4, a scanner 5, a mouse 6 which shift a cursor and designates partly a text and a keyboard 7 via an input control part 2 and produces a document file to store it in a document file 9. This document file is also displayed on a CRT 8 via a display control part 3. The frames displayed with the designation given from the keyboard 7 are linked with each other. Then the text data is given to those linked frames according to the attribute of each frame stored in the file 9 when the frames or the text information are inserted and deleted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a linking method for a document creation device, and more specifically, a linking frame that allows text within a frame to have a connection relationship between frames so that one document can be easily edited. It is related to the method.

BACKGROUND ART Conventional Art 1 For example, there are no document creation devices such as word processors that use the linking frame method. In other words, in the conventional method, in order to create a document,
Documents could not be created without inputting new frames one by one.

When text is inserted in the previous frame, the overflowing text is either deleted or cannot be inserted, but the overflowing text automatically flows into the next frame. This makes document creation extremely convenient.

Purpose In order to meet such demands, an object of the present invention is to use linking frames so that text within a frame has a connection relationship between frames, so that an operator can understand documents including image graphs and text. An object of the present invention is to provide a linking method for a document creation device that facilitates editing.

Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the linking method of the document creation device according to the present invention includes a means for storing a plurality of frames forming a document, text information in the frames, and attributes of each frame, a means for specifying the frames, and a means for storing the attributes of each frame. A display means that is equipped with multiple types of cursors for specifying text that constitutes a frame and that displays multiple different pages on the same screen, and corresponding keys for selecting any item displayed on the screen of the display means. Inserting and deleting frames by linking frames displayed according to specifications from the input means.

Another feature is that when text information is inserted or deleted, the text data is moved to linked frames according to the attributes of each frame.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be explained in detail using examples.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a compound editor, which creates a document file according to an operator's instructions, and stores text and images received from the input control unit 2 in the document file. 2 is an input control unit which organizes input data from the scanner 5, keyboard 7, and mouse 6 and sends it to the editor 1. A display control unit 3 controls the screen of the CRT 8 and displays text, images, and frames on the CRT 8. 4 is a floppy disk, 5 is a scanner that receives image information, 6 is a mouse used for moving the cursor, specifying parts of text, etc., and 7 is an input character string (hiragana, katakana, alphabets, numbers, symbols, etc.) and a function code. 8 is a CRT display capable of displaying bitmap image information for displaying frames and text, and 9 is a document file. The document file 9 includes a document/chapter/page information table 9a (accommodating information such as the total number of chapters in the document, the number of pages per chapter, the number of frames per page, etc.), frame information (frame number of each frame, (contains information such as type, size, linking, cursor information, etc.) 9b, frame content record 9
It is a file consisting of three parts, and there are three types of frames: text, image, and graph.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of the document creation device shown in FIG. 1.

A description will be given of processing when a linking document is created by applying the present invention, and text is inserted, deleted, and frames are inserted, deleted, and changed.

The document consists of one chapter and each car consists of one or more pages. Each page can have one or more frames, and frames within frames. There are two types of frames: linking frames and regular frames; the former contains text, and the latter contains text, images, graphs, or a combination thereof. In the display screen of FIG. 2, the command line is divided into eight parts, which correspond to function keys 1 to 8 on the keyboard 7. 1~
By pressing any key of 8.

The corresponding command line command will be executed. Although the dashed lines in the display screen are not displayed on the screen, they represent linking. Here, among frames 0 to 6, frames 3 and 4.5 are linked. The first frame of linking is frame 3, and up to three linkings can be created in a document. When there is no text in frames 3, 4 and 5, start inputting text from frame 3, and when there is no longer any text in frame 3, the text insertion cursor moves to frame 4, and in this frame 4. The text is coming in. Furthermore, when text input continues and frame 4 becomes full of text, the text insertion cursor moves to frame 5, and text is inserted there.

Also, if frame 3 is full of text and frame 4 contains several lines of text, and you delete part of the text in frame 3, the number of characters smaller than the number of deleted characters will be deleted. Text flows from frame 4 into frame 3. Furthermore, it is also possible to create a new frame after frame 5 and add it to the linking, or to insert or delete a frame within the linking. The first line of each frame contains the frame No.
, type, and linked taleme number are displayed.

That is, as shown in Fig. 3, the first line of each frame contains: ■Frame No., ■Linking frame or normal frame, ■Frame type, ■Linking frame No., ■Linked frame number. Frame No., ■Other, and ■.

■ is displayed only when it is a linking frame.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, there are three types of cursors for inserting text, selecting frames, etc., namely, a cursor (insertion cursor), a start select cursor, and an end select cursor.

In addition, as shown in Figure 2, the message line at the top of the CRT display screen displays the document name (LINKIN G
), the chapter number, and page number are displayed, and the command line in the next row shows the options for creating a new page, deleting a page, creating a new frame,
Frame deletion, frame change, and frame insertion commands and affirmative and negative symbols Yes and NOl are displayed.

FIG. 5 is a linking document creation flowchart, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a linking document of pages 1 to 3.

Now, the operator creates a linking document as shown in FIG. 6 according to the flow shown in FIG. As shown here, linking may occur between pages. First, when creating four documents, a name is assigned (step 101), and a chapter is defined (step 102). The type of processing is determined whether it is a page definition, a frame definition, or inputting text into a defined frame (step 103). At the time of page definition, the definition process is performed and the process returns to the beginning (step 105). Also, when defining a frame, specify the frame type (step 106).
), it is determined whether a linking frame is defined (step 108). When not defining a linking frame, define a normal frame and return to the original (
Step 109). Furthermore, when defining a linking frame, the linking frame is specified (step 110), and after the linking frame is defined, it is determined whether or not the defined linking frame is to be linked (steps 111, 112). When linking, the frame to be linked is specified with the selection cursor, and the frame to be linked is specified with the insertion cursor (step 113). Then, a linking command is specified (step 114). Finally, when entering text.

Enter text into the link you created (Step 1)
07).

In this way, frame 1 and frame 4 of one page shown in FIG. This and frame 5 of page 2, this and frame 6, 7, 8, this and frame 9 of page 3, and this and frame 11 are sequentially linked.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the linking frame of the present invention and how to link the linking frames.

(a) Creation of linking document: Assume that frame 1 and frame 2 are now linked. Here, when linking frame 3 is linked after linking frame 2.

As shown in Figure 7, use the mouse to set the start select and end select at any position in frame 2 ("
”). Place the cursor on the frame 3 to be linked using the mouse (m) 0 Next, specify the linking command on the command line using the function key to execute linking. As shown in FIG. 6, there are text and image frames that are not linking frames within the page.

(b) Processing when text is inserted at any position in any frame in a linking document...When text is inserted, characters that cannot fit in the frame at the end of the link may occur. There is. When such a situation occurs, the operator is instructed to change the size of the last frame or link a frame after the last frame to eliminate characters that cannot fit. The processing at this time will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 9(a), text is inserted from the insertion cursor position (step 201). As a result, it is determined whether or not overflowing characters have occurred in the frame at the end of the linking (Step 202). If overflowing characters have occurred, the currently displayed page is the same as the page with the frame where overflow has occurred. It is further determined whether or not (step 203).

If the currently displayed page is different from the page with the overflowing frame, the currently displayed page and
The page with the overflowing frame is automatically displayed by the multi-window function (step 204).

If the currently displayed page is a page with an overflowing frame, the number of overflowing characters is displayed on the message line (step 205). Yes on the command line to change the size of the last frame.

or no (step 206). In the case of resizing, select change frame on the command line and resize the frame (step 207). After changing, it is difficult to determine whether or not there are no overflowing characters at all (step 208). If not, Return to step 205. Further, when resizing is not necessary, it is determined whether or not to link to a newly created frame or an existing frame within the same page by selecting yes or no on the command line (step 209). If it is not linked to the same page, it will be linked to the frame of the next page. In that case, it is determined whether the page has been created (step 210), and if it is not created, the next page is linked to the frame of the next page. Create a page using new page creation (step 211). If the page has already been created, the page to be linked is displayed using the multi-window function (step 212).

Let Pl be a page with a frame to be linked (denoted as Fl), and let F2 be a page with a frame to be linked (denoted as F2) (step 213). A start select and an end select are placed at arbitrary positions of Fl (step 214). Then, in FIG. 9(b), it is determined whether or not to create a new frame within F2 (step 215). When creating a new frame, a linking frame is created and this is designated as F2. In this case, N o of frames.

The type, etc. is displayed at the beginning of the frame (step 217
). Also, when not creating a new frame, F2
Place the cursor at an arbitrary position (step 216).

Then, it is determined whether F2 is a linking frame, Fl and F2 are the same type of frame, and F2 has not already been linked (step 218). If there is no linking, specify linking on the command line (step 219), set the LT of the frame information of Fl to the frame No of F2, and set the LF of F2 to the frame No of Fl. Fl and F2 on one screen at the same time
The display of LT and LF changes (step 220).

Let F2 be Fl. As a result, Fl becomes the last frame of linking (step 221). In this case, let Pl be a page that further contains Fl. As a result, it is determined whether or not characters that cannot fit in Fl have been generated (step 222). If so, the other windows are erased leaving only PO (step 223). If it has not occurred, only the page with the frame into which text has been inserted or the page with the resized frame is left and the other windows are deleted (step 224). The cursor is then automatically returned to the position where the text was inserted or to the position of the resized frame (step 225).
).

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a multi-window display.

To display the next page using the multi-window function, select the Display Next Page (Multi) command on the command line. Up to three windows (pages) can be displayed on the screen.

1/3 of each page is displayed, and the entire page can be displayed using the scroll key.

When you want to finish displaying the page, select Exit from the command line.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the structure of a document file.

The document file stores a document/chapter information table 9a shown in FIG. 10(a), a frame information table 9b shown in FIG. 10(b), and a frame content record 9c. In the information table 98.

The document descriptor is connected to the chapter list by a pointer, and the chapter list is connected to the page list by a pointer.

Furthermore, it is connected to frame information 9b by a pointer. Each frame number of frame information 9b.

A frame content record 9C is stored in each of the frames. The disc libter 9a stores the number of chapters, the total number of pages, the number of frames, etc., the chapter list stores the total number of pages in the chapter, etc., and the page list stores a pointer to the frame information table of page X. and
Further, in the frame information table 9b, the frame No., type, etc. are No.

It is stored separately. The details are, as shown in FIG. 10(b), the page, frame No., type, position (this indicates the starting point, and as shown in FIG. 10(c),
(indicates the starting point coordinates of the frame on the page), size (
This indicates the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the frame, as shown in Figure 10(c)), L or G (where L indicates a linking frame and G indicates a normal frame), LT, LF (
This is the number of frames that the LT is linking.
, that is, when LT is -1, it is the last frame, LF is the linked frame's No, that is, -1 is the first frame of linking, 0 is a linking frame but not linked, >0 is linking (frames within (excluding the first frame)) are stored.

(c) Processing when a part of any text in any frame is deleted in a linking document... When a part of text is deleted, there is no text at all in the frame at the end of the link. condition may occur. If no further text is likely to fit into this frame, the operator deletes the frame.

FIG. 11 is a processing flowchart when deleting a frame.

When a frame that contains no text is deleted, there may be no frames in the page at all. When this state occurs, a message is sent to the operator to inform the operator, and the operator is asked whether or not to delete the page.

As shown in FIG. 11, the operator uses start select and end select to specify the range of text to be deleted and delete the text (step 301).
There is no text at all in the last frame of the link,
Determine whether the frame is empty (Step 3)
02). If the frame is not empty, the start select and end select return the text to the position in the frame where the text was deleted, the size was changed, or the text was inserted (step 320). If it is an empty frame, the occurrence of an empty frame is displayed on the message line (step 303). At this time, let the last frame be F and the page with F be P (
Step 304). next.

It is determined whether P is the same as the currently displayed page (step 305), and if it is not the same, P is automatically displayed using the multi-window function (step 3).
06). Also, if it is straight, a start select and an end select are automatically installed at F (step 30).
7). A message line will ask if you want to delete F, so the operator can select yes, n on the command line.
o is selected and determined (step 308). If you do not delete F, the window displaying P will disappear (
Step 309), delete text and resize.

Alternatively, the frame is returned to the position where the text was inserted (step 320). On the other hand, when deleting F, specify the frame deletion command on the command line in step 3.
10), delete F (step 311). And F
The LT at the beginning of the frame linked to is displayed as -1, and the frame information is also set to -1 (step 312). Next, it is determined whether P is the last page of the chapter and there are no frames in P at all (step 313);
If it still exists, the window displaying P disappears (step 317), and if it no longer exists at all, the start select and end select are automatically placed at arbitrary positions within P (step 317). 314),
Then, a question as to whether or not to delete P is displayed on the message line (step 3°15). When deleting P, P is deleted and the page information is also deleted by specifying a page deletion command on the command line (step 316). After the window displaying P disappears, the linking frame linked to F is set as the last frame of linking. At this time,
The last frame may no longer exist (step 3
17,318). If there is one or more pages in the car, it is determined whether the page has one or more frames (step 319), and if so, the process returns to step 302; if not, the process ends.

(d) Processing when any linking frame is deleted in a linking document...Figure 12 shows the following:
12 is a flowchart illustrating processing when a linking frame is deleted.

In this case, the processing differs depending on whether the start, end, or other frames of the linking are deleted. When a frame is deleted and there is no longer any frame in the page where this frame existed, the operator is instructed whether or not to delete the page. That is, place the start select and end select at arbitrary positions of the frame to be deleted (step 401), specify frame deletion on the command line (step 402), and determine which frame in the linking should be deleted (step 403). . Consider whether the frame to be erased is at the beginning, end, or other times. First, when it is the first frame, it is determined whether there is a frame linked to the frame to be deleted (step 404), and if there is not, the select cursor is not displayed anywhere (step 407), and there is no link. If there is a frame, the LP of that frame is set to -1, and the LF of the frame information is also -1.
(Step 405). Furthermore, the selection cursor is moved to an arbitrary position in the linked frame (step 406). If you want to delete anything other than the beginning and end, press 1, T of the frame linked to the frame you are trying to delete.
Let be the LT of the frame to be erased, and let LF of the frame linked from the frame to be erased be the LF of the frame to be erased (step 40
8). Then, the select cursor is moved to any position in the frame linked from the frame to be erased (step 409). If the last frame is to be deleted, the LT of the frame linked to the frame to be deleted is set to -1 (step 410). Next, the select cursor is moved into the frame linked to the frame to be deleted (step 411). After these processes, the frame is deleted and the frame information of this frame is also deleted (step 412).

It is determined whether the page containing the deleted frame is the final page of the chapter and whether there are no frames in the page at all (step 413). Delete the page or show it on your message line.

The operator is asked to select yes or no on the command line (step 414). By specifying a page deletion command on the command line, the page is deleted and the page information is also deleted (step 415).

(e) Processing when changing the size of any linking frame in a linking document Figure 13 shows the following:
This is the processing brooch yard when changing the size of the linking frame.

If you reduce the frame size, the overflowing characters will flow into subsequent frames, and the last frame may contain characters that cannot fit. Also.

When you increase the size of a frame, text flows from subsequent frames, leaving the last frame with no text at all. This situation also occurred when inserting and deleting text.

In FIG. 13, the selection cursor is designated within the frame whose size is to be changed (step 501), and the size of the X and Y coordinates of the frame whose size is to be changed is designated (step 502). Next, the frame size is changed by specifying frame change on the command line (step 503).

Next, it is determined whether a frame is linked immediately after the changed frame (Step 504), and if the frame is not clicked, it is determined whether or not characters that cannot fit in the frame are generated (Step 59). If the frame size has not occurred, the process ends; however, if it has occurred, it is determined whether or not to further change the frame size (step 510).

Return to step 502 if no changes are made.

A frame is created on the same page, and text insertion processing is performed to insert the overflowing characters into this frame (step 511). Returning to the original, if a frame is linked immediately after the frame changed in step 504, it is determined whether or not a character that cannot fit in the frame occurs in the last frame of the linking (step 505).
If this has not occurred, perform text insertion processing (step 506); if it has occurred, determine whether the last frame of the link has become an empty frame that does not contain any text (step 507). However, if the frame does not become empty, processing ends.

When the frame becomes empty, processing for text deletion is performed (step 508).

(f) Processing when inserting a frame at any position (excluding the end and beginning) of linking in a linking document...
... FIG. 14 is a processing flowchart when inserting a frame.

In this case as well, it is conceivable that the last frame of the linking will be an empty frame that does not contain any text. First, display the page you want to insert (step 602),
It is determined whether or not to insert an already existing linking frame (step 602); if not, a linking frame is created (step 603). when inserting.

Place the select cursor at any position within the frame (step 604), place the cursor within the frame before the frame insertion position in linking, and if this frame is not on the same page, the multi-window function will display the frame Display the page (step 605)
, a frame insertion command is specified, and the text from the subsequent frame flows into the inserted frame (step 60).
6). The LT and LF of the frame preceding the inserted frame and the subsequent frame are changed (step 607).

At the same time, the frame information LT and LF are also changed.

Next, in step 60, it is determined whether the last frame of the linking is an empty frame that does not contain any text.
8) If the frame is empty, the text deletion process is performed (step 609).

If the frame is not empty, only the page containing the inserted frame is displayed, and if there is a multi-window on the screen, it is erased (step 610).

As described above, in this embodiment, by using the linking frame function, a multi-column form of one document can be formed, and the flow of data to subsequent pages can also be specified. Also, in a normal frame, when text data overflows one frame, a new frame is created and the continued text data is input.
By linking, even if text is inserted in the previous frame, the overflowing text can automatically flow into the next frame. Furthermore, when a change occurs to the last frame of a linking due to a change such as inserting text to any linking frame, the page with the last frame is displayed using the multi-window function, and the page with the last frame is displayed immediately. You can delete, resize, etc.

Effects As described above, according to the present invention, by using linking frames, a connection relationship is created between frames for text within the frames, and an operator can edit documents containing images, graphs, and text. It is possible to make it easier to do.

[BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation device showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the screen of the CRT display device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the cursor used in the present invention, Figure 5 is a diagram showing the display of the first line of each frame.
The figure is a flowchart of a linking document creation process showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a diagram of a linking document created according to FIG. 5, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing how to link linking frames, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of multi-window display according to the present invention, FIG. 9 is a processing flowchart when text is inserted into an arbitrary frame, and FIG.
The figure is a structure diagram of a document file according to the present invention, Figure 11 is a processing flowchart when text is deleted according to the present invention, Figure 12 is a processing flowchart when frame is deleted according to the present invention, and Figure 13 is when frame size is changed according to the present invention. FIG. 14 is a processing flowchart at the time of frame insertion in the present invention. 1: Conbound editor, 2: Input control section, 3: Display control section, 4: Floppy disk drive, 5: Scanner, 6: Mouse, 7: Keyboard. 8: CRT display device, 9: Document file,
9a: Document chapter page information table, 9b: Frame information, 9C: Frame content record. Patent Applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd. F-7, Figure 1 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 10 (a) Document Chapter Information Table Figure IQ Figure tb) Frame Information Table

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A plurality of frames forming a document, a means for storing text information in the frames and attributes of each frame, and a plurality of types of cursors for specifying the frame and the text constituting the frame, and It has a display means for displaying a plurality of different pages on the same screen, and an input means equipped with a corresponding key for selecting any item displayed on the screen of the display means, and displays according to specifications from the input means. By linking between linked frames, when frames are inserted or deleted, or text information is inserted or deleted, text data is moved to the linked frames according to the attributes of each frame. Features linking method of document creation device. (2) The linking method for a document creation device according to claim 1, wherein the frame attributes include at least frame type, position, size, and linking attributes. (3) When the above frames are linked, when text information is inserted or deleted in any frame within the link, the frame at the end of the link is displayed on the display screen, and the cursor is placed within the displayed frame. 2. A linking method for a document creation device according to claim 1, characterized in that the document creation device automatically moves the . (4) When text information is inserted or deleted within the above linking, once the processing of the last frame of the linking is completed, the cursor is displayed at the position where the text information was inserted or deleted, and the window other than the relevant page is displayed. 2. A linking method for a document creation device according to claim 1, characterized in that: .