JPS63131261A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and securely execute the layout of a printed screen by constituting a titled device is such a way that plural frames are set on a display screen and frame attributes can be designated in respective frames. CONSTITUTION:If a cursor shift signal, a Japanese syllabary, a control signal and the like are inputted from an input device, these signals are respectively transferred to a cursor controller 11, a Japanese syllabary/Chinese character converter 12, and a document editing device 13. A CRT controller 10 sets a CRT 20 to display an inputted character-string or a graphic. Plural frames are set on the display screen of the CRT 20, and the frame attributes such as the direction of the character-string and that of the character itself are set in a frame attribute memory 15A. The document editing device 13 edits the document in the frame based on the set frame attribute.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document processing device, and particularly to a CR
Copying a character string on a display screen such as T (cathode ray tube) by changing its direction or the direction of the character itself, on the display screen,
The present invention relates to a document processing device with a movable function.

(Prior Art) In conventional document processing devices, character strings are usually displayed on the display screen in left-to-right writing mode, so when copying or moving these character strings, the direction of the character strings is changed and the batch copying is performed. , could not be moved.

That is, for example, on the display screen 22 in FIG.
As shown in No. 28, the first character string "Sales", which is displayed to the right in upward font along with the graph 26, is written as No. 2.
4, the second one displayed upwards in a left-facing typeface.
When copying or moving a character string, it is not possible to operate all at once, so create and register a custom character (character font) with the character font rotated 90 degrees, and then change each character one by one to the left by inputting the character code. However, there was no way to insert it within the desired frame.

Furthermore, even when printing in vertical writing mode, the display on the screen is horizontal writing, so it was not possible to check the print screen on the display screen.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The above-described conventional techniques had the following problems.

As mentioned above, in the conventional technology, it is not possible to change the direction of character strings and copy or move them all at once.
Moving operations were complicated, and it was difficult to increase work efficiency.

Furthermore, it is virtually impossible to display horizontally written text (character strings) and vertically written text together on one display screen. Furthermore, there is an inconvenience in that the vertical printing layout cannot be visually confirmed directly on the display screen.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems.

(Means and effects for solving the problem) In order to solve the above problem, the present invention sets frames (areas) of ring numbers on the display screen, and displays character strings within each frame. By making it possible to specify and change frame attributes such as the direction of the text and the direction of the text itself, even when printing vertically, you can check the text directly on the display screen, and also change the direction and copy or move it all at once. It is unique in that it makes it possible.

(Example) A detailed description of the invention follows below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. When a cursor movement signal, kana characters, control signals, etc. are input from the human power device 10, these signals are transferred to the cursor control device 11, kana/kanji conversion device 12, and document editing device 13, respectively.

The kana/kanji conversion device 12 refers to the character conversion dictionary 14 and converts the input kana characters into kanji. The document memory 15 and the working memory 16 are RAMs, and the document memory 15 stores the document format, character strings, character types, dimensions, etc., as in the case of a normal document processing device (so-called word processor). is memorized.

The CRT control device 17 reads the font 18 based on the contents of the document memory 15, develops it in the display memory 19, and displays the input character string or figure on the CRT 20 in the same manner as a conventional document processing device. .

The structure and operation of each of the above-mentioned parts may be the same as in a conventional document processing device. Note that, as shown in FIG. 1, the cursor control device 11 may of course be a mouse.

The first feature of the present invention is that a frame is set on the display screen of the CRT 20. The frame can be easily set using the same procedures and operations as those used in commercially available document processing devices or CAD.

For example, when the input device 10 is equipped with a keyboard including character keys 30, cursor keys 32, mouse 39, and function keys 36 as shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 4 shows the processing procedure for setting and creating frames. This is shown in the flowchart below. This process is executed by the frame setting section 13A in FIG.

This process is started by pressing the "frame" key in the function keys 36, and the start and end points of the desired frame are determined by operating the mouse 39.

Note that although the following description will be made assuming that the frame is rectangular, it will be easily understood that the same applies to other shapes as well.

Sll... Determines whether or not the "frame" key within the function keys 36 has been pressed.

S12: Determine whether or not the "cancel" key has been pressed, and if pressed, return to the initial (or end) state.

S13: Determine whether the left mouse button has been clicked.

S14: The (position) coordinates of the cursor on the screen are read, and this is regarded as one end of the diagonal of the desired rectangle, and is stored in the working memory 16. Thereafter, the cursor is instructed to move to the other end of the diagonal line.

The operator positions the cursor using the mouse 39 and indicates the position by clicking the right mouse button.

S15... It is determined whether the "cancel" key has been pressed, and if it has been pressed, the process returns to the initial (or end) state.

S16: Determine whether the right mouse button has been clicked.

S1? . . . When the previous determination is established, the position (coordinates) of the cursor is read, and this is regarded as the other end of the diagonal of the desired rectangle, and is stored in the working memory 16.

318...Display the specified rectangular area on the screen based on the coordinates of both ends of the diagonal line.

S19... Assuming that the frame is finally set, the fifth
．． The reference point and dimension information of the frame, as will be described later with reference to FIG. 7, are calculated and stored in the frame attribute memory 15A of FIG.

It is clear that a similar frame can be created by directly controlling the movement of the cursor position on the display screen using other cursor movement means and a point display cursor instead of the input using the mouse operation as described above. It is.

Furthermore, when a frame is set in this way, it is desirable to display the outline (range) of the frame on the screen as shown in Figure 2, but this outline should not be displayed unless it is particularly required. and must be prevented from being printed.

The attributes of the frame set as described above are, for example, as shown in FIG. Each point on the display screen 22 is arranged, for example, in an X-Y coordinate system with the lower left corner of the screen as the absolute origin (X=0.Y-Q).

Therefore, the reference points of the first and second frames 21.23, that is, the points A and B at the lower left corner of the screen, have the coordinates (Xi·,
Yl), (X2.Y2). Also, the points within each frame are relative to the reference point of the frame (x=0.
y-0) and relative coordinates (x, y).

For example, set the horizontal and vertical lengths of the first frame 21 to xb as shown in the figure.
l, ybl, the point C in the upper right corner has relative coordinates (xbl
, ybl). Furthermore, the absolute coordinates of the point C can be easily determined by adding the absolute coordinates of the point A to its relative coordinates. Of course, instead of using two types of coordinates in this way, all points may be represented by absolute coordinates.

Once the position (shape) and size of the frame have been set as described above, it is necessary to set the direction in which the character strings will be arranged within the frame and the orientation of the characters.

The direction of the character string is up, down, left, and right.

Also, the orientation of characters can be up, down, left, or right, but here we will only consider the orientation of characters upwards and horizontally to the left. The state is shown in FIG. In the figure, arrows indicate the direction of the character string.

Also, it is clear that left, right and downward text strings can be displayed in the same font, or that the text strings are upward facing.
This corresponds to a font rotated by 90 degrees.

Therefore, in the following explanation, it is assumed that two types of fonts are prepared, and each font #1 18 in FIG.
It is assumed that fonts A and #2 are stored in font 18B.

In addition, in a normal document processing device, character strings are oriented to the right, and the characters themselves are oriented upwards, so when a frame is first set using the procedure shown in Figure 4, the character string is set as an attribute of the frame. It is assumed that the condition is automatically set that the character is facing right and the direction of the character itself is upward. However, it is of course possible to set it each time.

Therefore, after setting the first frame 21 in FIG. 5, the character string A,
If B, C, and D are input, A-D will be displayed on the screen as shown in the figure.

If more characters are input than the storage capacity of the relevant frame, a message to that effect will be displayed and a warning will be issued, and the excessive character information will be discarded or temporarily stored in the working memory 16. can.

Such frame and character string information is stored in the frame attribute memory 15A for each page in the format shown in FIG. 7, for example.

In FIG. 7, page information 41 includes information directly related to the present invention, such as the number of frames set on the page (screen) and pointers to each frame information.

The frame information 43 includes absolute coordinates of a reference point indicating the position of the frame on the screen, information indicating the size and shape of the frame (in this embodiment,
F-eye ejection coordinate of the upper right corner of the rectangular frame with the reference point as the relative origin),
Contains the number of lines and direction of the string written in the frame. Regarding the first frame 21 illustrated in FIG.
As shown at 43A in FIG. 7, the absolute coordinates of the reference point (Xl.

Yl), relative coordinates of the upper right corner point of the frame (xbl.

ybl), the number of lines containing the character string - 1, and the direction - right are stored.

The line information 45 also stores the relative coordinates of the start and end points of each line within each frame (lower left corner and upper right corner in the example in Figure 5), and the number of characters included in each line or frame. .

Regarding the first frame 21 illustrated in FIG. 5, as shown at 45A in FIG. 7, the start point and end point coordinates (
xf 1. yf 1), Cxl 2゜yl 2) and the number of characters - 4 are stored.

The character information 47 includes a code 47A of the character written in each frame and a font type 47B used for the code.

Next, changing frame attributes will be explained. As mentioned above, in normal document processing devices, character strings are displayed on the screen in right-to-horizontal format, so if a frame is simply set, the same attributes as the original are set.

Therefore, if you want the inside of the frame to have a different attribute than the original, for example, to write vertically, it is necessary to change the frame attribute.

To change the frame attributes, the operator uses the mouse 39 to position the cursor on the frame line (or within the frame range, if desired), clicks the left button, and then presses the "attribute" key in the function keys 36. Initiated by operation. The procedure is shown in FIG.

S21: Determine whether the left mouse button has been clicked.

S22...Read the coordinates of the cursor and use this as frame information 4
The specified frame is determined by comparing it with the coordinate position of 3.

S23... It is determined whether the "attribute" key has been pressed.

S24...Reads various information related to the corresponding result (Fig. 7), displays the frame attribute sheet 42 on the screen as shown in Fig. 9, and instructs the operator to select the desired frame attribute. do.

The items "Complete" and "Cancel" in FIG. 9 have the same functions as those on the keyboard, and are particularly useful when selecting items by moving the cursor using a mouse.

Further, the ``content'' column displays the character string written in the relevant frame, and the ``direction'' column indicates the direction of the character string. FIG. 9 shows a case where the frame indicated by reference numeral 28 in FIG. 2 is selected.

In FIG. 9, the current frame attribute is indicated by hatching, and is actually displayed on the screen by inverting the corresponding portion.

S25: It is determined whether the "cancel key" has been pressed and whether the selection item "cancel" in the frame attribute sheet shown in FIG. 9 has been selected by cursor operation using the mouse. When the determination is satisfied, the state returns to the state before pressing the "attribute" key.

The operator uses a mouse to select a selected parameter in the frame attribute sheet 42 with a cursor, and clicks the left mouse button to indicate its position (for example, the direction
If you set it to the ``bottom'' position, the ``right'' reversal will return to its original state, and the ``right'' position will return to its original state.
” is reversed).

326... It is determined that the left button of the mouse has been operated.

S27: It is determined whether the "Complete" key (at this time, the attribute key becomes the "Complete" key) or the "Cancel" key is pressed. At the same time, the selection items "Complete" and "Cancel" in the attribute sheet 42 are also determined.

828...When the determination of the previous step is "complete", the frame information 43 in FIG. 7 is rewritten according to the information of the newly selected frame. At the same time, if necessary, the line information 45 and character information 47 (particularly the start point, end point coordinates and font type of each line) are also rewritten.

S29...Frame attribute sheet 42 displayed on the screen
Close (erase).

As a result of the above-described processing, the point G in FIG. 9 appears on the display screen 22.
A vertically written character string "Sales" is displayed using the reference point (however, illustration is omitted).

Note that such a change in frame attributes can be performed regardless of whether or not a character string has already been written in the frame.

Furthermore, it is not always necessary to display the contents on the frame attribute sheet 42, and which frame has been selected or specified can be displayed by blinking or reversing the frame and/or character string on the screen, and actually displaying the frame and/or character string on the screen. Before rewriting information, etc., it is also possible to change only the screen display so that visual confirmation can be performed.

The procedure for copying a character string in one frame to another frame is as shown in FIG. The operator places one end (first or last character) of the desired character string within the copy source frame,
The copying process is started by positioning the cursor by operating the mouse and clicking the left button of the mouse. As a specific example, assume that the character string B-D of the character strings A to D in the first frame 21 in FIG. 5 is transferred to the second frame 23, and the second frame 23 is It is assumed that the direction of the character string is set downward as shown in the figure and FIG.

S31: Determine whether the left button of the mouse has been operated.

S32...Read the coordinates of the cursor. These coordinates are compared and contrasted with the frame reference point and line starting point coordinates stored in the frame information 43 and line information 45 in FIG. The character specified by the cursor is determined on the character information 47 by referring to data such as the number of lines in the frame information 43 and the number of characters in the line information 45 and performing a predetermined calculation.

Then, this character is recognized and stored as either the first or last word of the character string to be copied.

In FIG. 5, if the cursor is placed on the position of the character B, it will be understood that from the coordinates, it can be easily calculated and determined that the character B is within the first frame 21. Thereafter, the user is instructed to move the cursor to the first or last word of the character string to be copied.

The operator accordingly positions the cursor using the mouse and clicks the right button of the mouse. For example, in FIG. 5, the operator specifies the text in the first frame 21. In FIG.

S33... It is determined whether the right button of the mouse has been operated.

S34: In the same manner as in the previous step S32, the other of the first or last word of the character string to be copied is determined, and based on this, the first and last words of the character string to be copied are determined. Based on this, the string to be copied is blinked or reversed.

In a specific example, the character string BCD in the first frame 21 is blinked or reversed.

S35: It is determined whether the "copy" key in the function keys 36 has been pressed.

S36: When the "cancel" key is pressed, the copying procedure is ended.

S37: Instructs to move the cursor to the copy destination frame (and, if necessary, the first character position within the frame). In accordance with this, the operator positions the cursor by operating the mouse and clicks the left button of the mouse.

53g: Determine whether the left mouse button has been operated. Here, it is assumed that the first character position is not specified, and the cursor is set at an arbitrary position within the second frame 23.

S39: The coordinates of the cursor are read, and based on this, the copy destination frame is determined in the same manner as in step S32. It also reads the direction of the character string in the copy destination frame, the font used, etc. from the frame information 43 and character information 47, etc., and sequentially copies the character string to the document memory 1 according to this.
5 to the specified address.

Note that if the first character position within the frame is not specified, the copied character string is written from the first position of the frame.

Here, the first character position within the frame is not specified, so the fifth
As shown in the figure, the character string BCD is written vertically from the top position of the second block 23, that is, from the upper right corner. A similar display is also made on the screen.

S40: The number of characters in the line information 45 and the character information 47 are rewritten according to the transcription result, and when the number of lines or the number of characters changes, the corresponding parts of the frame information 43 and line information 45 are also updated.

Through the above operations and processing, the designated character string can be transferred within the desired frame in the desired character string direction and character orientation.

In the case of moving a character string, it is clear that, as shown in FIG. 10, processing for erasing the copy source data in the document memory 15 for characters that have been copied is added.

In the above, the copy character string in the copy source frame and the copy destination frame are specified by operating the mouse 39 and its left and right buttons, but instead, the cursor key 32 and function keys 36 on the keyboard It is also obvious that the cursor point movement function may be used to specify the copy character string and the copy destination frame.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the following effects are achieved.

(1) Multiple frames (areas) can be set on the display screen, and frame attributes such as the direction of character strings and the orientation of the characters themselves can be specified within each frame, so that It is possible to mix horizontally and vertically written character strings, and it is possible to always match the display on the screen with the printed result based on this.

This makes the layout of the print screen extremely easy and reliable.

(2) Operations such as copying and moving character strings between frames with different attributes become easier. For example, you can easily change a horizontal text string to vertical text and then copy or move it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional example and in the present invention. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an example of a key arrangement of an input device suitable for the present invention. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing frame creation processing according to one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the coordinate system of the display screen in terms of frame attributes. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating various character string directions. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the format in the memory in conjunction with FIG. 5. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing frame attribute change processing according to one embodiment of the present invention. 9th
The figure is a diagram showing an example of a display screen during frame information change processing. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing copying processing according to one embodiment of the present invention. 10... Input device, 11... Cursor control device, 1
2... Kana/kanji conversion device, 13... Document editing device, 13A... Frame setting unit, 14... Dictionary for character conversion,
15... Document memory, 15A... Frame attribute memory,
16... Working memory, 17... CRT control device,
18... Font, 19... Display memory, 20.
...CRT, 21...first frame, 22...display screen,
23...Second frame, 30...Character key, 32...Cursor key, 36...Function key, 41...
・Page information, 42... Frame information sheet, 43... Frame information, 45... Line information, 47... Character information Attorney Michito Hiraki and 1 other person Fig. 2 39 Mouse Fig. 4 * Figure 5 (X-0, Y-0) ->X Figure 7 Figure 6 Figure 1: X0EX xXEOX ←--> Figure 8 Figure 9

Claims (5)

[Claims] (1) An input device for inputting characters, symbols, function signals, etc., a document editing device for editing character strings according to the input, a document memory for storing edited character strings, and a font for characters, symbols, etc. In a document processing device having a font memory for storing an edited character string and means for displaying said character string according to an edited character string and a font corresponding to the edited character string, at least one frame is set on a display screen of the display means. A document comprising a frame setting section and a frame attribute memory that stores attributes of the set frames, and wherein the document editing device edits the document within each frame based on the attributes of the frame. Processing equipment. (2) The attributes of a frame include the position of the frame on the display screen,
2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document processing apparatus includes the dimensions of the frame and the direction of the character string within the frame. (3) The document processing device according to claim 2, wherein the frame attributes include the position of each line within the frame, size information, number of characters, and font type. (4) The attribute of the frame can be changed by an input signal from an input device.
The document processing device according to any one of items 1 to 3. (5) The document processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the contents of the frame attribute memory are displayed on a display means.