JPS63245760A - Document shaping device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily read out a sentence by feeding a line at a position in the sentence where is not unnatural in both pronunciation and meaning. CONSTITUTION:An original sentence is sent to a document management part 3 or the original sentence is called from an original sentence storing part 2 and sent to a document management part 3 when the original sentence has been already inputted. The document management part 3 sends the original sentence to a double-line detecting part 4. The detecting part 4 divides the sentence in each clause based on the contents of a clause decision rule dictionary 5, detects a position where a clause is written in two lines and determines a position to be shaped and the number of characters to be processed. A shaping part 6 shapes the document based on the position to be shaped and the number of characters to be processed determined by the double-line detecting part 4. The shaped sentence is displayed on a display part 8 by a display control part 7.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention relates to a document formatting device that performs prohibition processing for each phrase when displaying (printing) a document.

(Prior Art) When displaying (printing) a document, if the number of characters in a - line is determined and mechanically separated, line breaks may occur at positions that would be impossible in a handwritten document. Therefore, it is necessary to format the document so that line breaks occur at readable positions.

Currently, in general display (printing) systems, punctuation marks,
Characters that are prohibited at the beginning of a line, such as closing brackets, and characters that are prohibited at the end of a line, such as an opening parenthesis, are registered as prohibited characters, and when displayed, the characters at the end of a line and the beginning of a line are detected by matching these prohibited characters, and prohibited processing is performed. There is. In addition, some systems separate the end of a line and the beginning of a line to detect numeric strings that cross lines, and perform Kinoku processing. However, it does not deal with strings of letters and symbols such as English words that often appear in modern Japanese documents, and does not do anything about the important words and phrases of Japanese sentences, so it is extremely inadequate. In English, there are systems that detect English words and perform formatting processing, but the method of detection based on spaces between words cannot be applied to Japanese sentences.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in conventional document formatting devices, when determining and displaying the number of characters in a line, only formatting processing is performed for illegal characters and line-crossing of numeric strings. Ta. As a result, it is often difficult to understand the meaning of the document due to the use of important Japanese phrases and strings of English symbols, and in this respect, it is inferior to handwritten documents in terms of readability and beauty.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to display (print) a document whose meaning is easy to understand and easy to read by performing a formatting process so that words and phrases having a phrase as a unit are not spread all over the place.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention includes an input means for inputting document data, a means for dividing a sentence into clauses, and a method for dividing a document so that the clauses divided by the means do not cross over. The apparatus is characterized by comprising a formatting processing means for formatting, and a display means for displaying the document formatted by the formatting processing means.

(Function) When a computer displays a document, the present invention allows a computer to detect a place where phrases each having a phrase as a unit are distributed, and perform formatting processing.

(Example) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

The original text is called from the input section 1 or from the original text storage section 2 if it has already been input, and sent to the document management section 3.

The document management section 3 sends this original text (including the line feed code as one sentence) to the line crossing detection section 4.

The line-crossing detection unit 4 divides the sentence into clauses based on the contents of the clause judgment rule dictionary 5, detects the places where the words of the clauses extend over two lines, and determines the places to be formatted and the number of characters to be processed. decide.

The formatting processing unit 6 formats the document based on the formatting processing location and the number of characters to be processed determined by the line crossing detection unit 4.

The formatted sentence generated here is displayed on the display section 8 by the display control section 7.

The operation of the present invention will be described below with reference to the example shown in FIG. 2(,). The line crossing detection unit divides the sentence up to the input line feed code into clauses, for example, according to a line crossing detection algorithm as shown in FIG. 3(a).

31 Arrange the number of characters in each separated clause in order W(g).

Store in W■, . (Refer to algorithm ■) Second
In the example shown in the figure, values from W■ to Wo are stored as shown in (b). Note that the total number of characters 5W=26.

Therefore, when displayed, we search for locations where the character at the end of a line and the character at the beginning of the next line are in the same clause. As shown in ■ of the algorithm, - from the number of columns in the row C to W■, W
■, ... in order, and if C = φ, the end of the line matches the break of the bunsetsu, so proceed to the next line, and if C does not become φ but becomes negative, it is a line crossing. It is determined that there is. In the example, Cuxlam=18, so when Wo is subtracted, C=-5, and it can be seen that the phrase "block diagram" indicated by Wo is overlapping.

The number of characters to be processed and the position to be formatted for formatting this line transition are determined by the algorithm (■). Let Top be the number of characters in the front part (the part that becomes the end of the line) of the bunsetsu that crossed lines, and let End be the number of characters in the back part (the part that becomes the beginning of the next line).
It is necessary to select either one of adding the Top character to this line and expelling this phrase to the next line, or pulling in the End character. As shown in Figure 3(b), in the former case, the formatting point is from the first (eff+1) character of the line to the character immediately before the line-crossing clause (s-w(i)); in the latter case, the line-crossing clause Including, up to the S-th character. In this example, Top is 1 with only "B", and End is 5 with "Rock Diagram".

By selecting the one with the smaller number of characters to process, Top=
1 is selected, and the formatting location is determined to be from the 1st character to the 177th character.

The formatting processing section performs formatting processing for the determined number of characters to be processed at this formatting processing location. For example, ``--character removal'' is performed like a general prohibition process, and a formatted sentence as shown in FIG. 2 (Q) is generated.

Furthermore, depending on the capabilities of the display or printer, the formatting process can be performed using variable pitch, which manipulates the character spacing at the formatting location.

Furthermore, various processing methods can be considered by proofreading the sentence itself, such as inserting dots, changing words, and converting full-width alphanumeric character strings to half-width.

Next, the operation of the present invention in the example of FIG. 4(a) will be described.

If this - sentence is displayed using 22 columns, line crossings will occur at two locations, one at the second line and the other at the end of the second line, as shown in FIG. 4(b). The algorithm in Figure 3(a) uses a sequential detection method that detects these from above and determines the formatting location and the number of characters to be processed in order from the detected ones.
(10) Detect the crossing. However, the -th line is not included in the formatting area for this. If you format from the -th line,
- This is because the end of the line and the end of the clause are misaligned, causing line crossing. If you have no choice but to use the -th line as a formatting point, either remove "in rIXM of W" or bring in "Will it be executed" in Wo, that is, Top=
4, End=7, and the number of characters to be processed should be determined. This method is not used here, and only the second line is formatted. Therefore, if the number of characters to be processed is +2, the shaping locations are determined as shown in FIG. 4(c), and if the number of characters to be processed is -6, the shaping locations are determined as shown in FIG. 4(d), respectively, as shown by dotted lines. If you select the former, the next line will be the rIXM controller of W(12), with Top=7°End=3, and the latter will be the W(12) rIXM controller.
Top = 5 in (13) “The receipt is added.”
End=3, and the respective formatting locations and the number of characters to be processed should be determined as shown in FIGS. 4(e), (f), (g), and (h).

In this algorithm, the one with the smaller number of characters to be processed is selected, so (c) is selected first, and only (f) is generated.

In actual processing, (e), (f), (g), (h
), an algorithm can be considered that generates all four sets of formatting points and number of characters to be formatted, creates and displays formatted sentences for each, and determines the optimal formatted sentence based on selection instructions from the user.Depending on the formatting method, The system may select and determine the one that is easier to format.

In addition, in addition to adding the conventional prohibitions to the detection of passages in phrase units, we also add subscripts that indicate references to references, etc., as shown in Figure 5 (a), and characters with many digits as shown in Figure 5 (b). Handling of numerical sequences and expressions as shown in (c), especially (d)
Special cases that should be formatted, such as page transitions in fractions, can be formatted by setting a separate detection rule.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, by starting a line at a place that is not unnatural from both a pronunciation and a semantic point of view, it is not only easier to read aloud, but even when reading silently, many people read aloud consciously. It becomes easier to understand the meaning of the sentence. In addition, such constraint processing that brings the document closer to what humans think of as a natural document can be automatically performed without the user's intervention.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of an input document, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a line crossing detection algorithm and its operation, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an input document. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of different types of passing.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An input means for inputting document data, a means for dividing sentences in the document data into clauses, a formatting means for formatting the document so that the clauses divided by the means do not overlap, and the formatting. 1. A document formatting device comprising: display means for displaying a document formatted by a processing means.