KR20190047208A - Method for outputting document by aligning paragraph with vertical ruler and apparatus using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, disclosed is a document output apparatus which comprises: a display for outputting a frame of a screen representing a graphic user interface (GUI), a character and/or an object in a document while executing a document writing application module including a computer command executed by a document output method on the screen; and a control unit for controlling the display to represent a spacing by a blank and a spacing by the character and/or the object input through an input device except the blank on a main window of the module. According to the present invention, a paragraph spacing can be displayed and adjusted by using a vertical ruler.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document output method for adjusting a paragraph using a vertical ruler and a document output apparatus using the same.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document output method for adjusting paragraphs using a vertical ruler and a document output apparatus using the same, and more particularly, to a method for editing, displaying, and printing a document by adjusting a paragraph spacing using a vertical ruler And a document output apparatus using the same.

A ruler is used to match the width and height of text, graphics, tables, or other elements in various editing applications running on a computer, such as a word processor and a retouching application used to edit an image do.

In particular, when a document is edited using a word processor, various ruled margins such as top margin, bottom margin, header, footer, left margin Icons and right margins are displayed on a horizontal ruler or a vertical ruler.

The user can adjust the margins through the margin resizer displayed on the horizontal ruler with the mouse, without having to enter a number with the Margin Settings dialog box open to adjust the left or right margins of the document. have. This horizontal ruler can be hidden or shown on the document editing screen through the user preferences.

The vertical ruler is often placed on the left side of the document editing screen. The vertical ruler can also be hidden or displayed on the editing screen through user preferences. The vertical ruler also displays an icon or number that displays the top / bottom margins and header / footer margins.

1 shows an execution screen of a document editing application executed in a personal computer according to a conventional technique.

Referring to FIG. 1, various kinds of indicators are shown on the horizontal scale, including a left margin marker. The vertical ruler also shows the top margin and heading, and the top margin adjuster and the heading adjuster.

A margin or an indentation / indentation function of a document can be processed using a user interface by using various markers or resizers displayed on a horizontal ruler or a vertical ruler.

The utilization of the icons or indicators displayed on the vertical ruler is remarkably low as compared with the case where various indicators or icons related to the writing / indenting displayed on the horizontal scale are used. This is because an indicator displayed on a vertical ruler in a word processor is limited to functions related to margins and conventional word processors can not provide various functions using a vertical ruler on a user interface.

In order to improve the low utilization of the vertical ruler, the present invention proposes a technique for utilizing the vertical ruler.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a document output method and a document output apparatus capable of increasing the utilization of a vertical ruler.

A further problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a document output method and a document output apparatus in which an indicator indicating practical information is displayed on a vertical ruler.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a document output method and a document output apparatus in which a spacing formed by an input character and / or an object is displayed on a vertical ruler.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a document output method and a document output apparatus capable of controlling paragraph spacing using an icon having high practicality displayed on a vertical ruler using an input device.

A document outputting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a document creation application module including a graphic user interface (GUI), a computer instruction executed in accordance with a document output method indicating a character and / a display for outputting a frame of a screen on which an editor application module is executed; And a control unit for controlling the display to display on the main window of the module a spacing by a blank space and a spacing by a character and / or entity input via an input device other than a blank space .

Here, the spacing may include paragraph spacing and line spacing.

The control unit includes a paragraph marker generator for generating a paragraph marker for displaying a paragraph spacing on a vertical ruler displayed as a GUI on the main window.

Here, the control unit controls the display so that a paragraph marker is displayed in a caret state or an object selection mode.

Here, the paragraph markers include a paragraph start icon indicating the beginning of the paragraph and a paragraph end icon indicating the end of the paragraph.

Here, the paragraph marker is in the form of a bracket, and in particular, a single corner bracket and a double corner bracket are used as paragraph markers.

Here, the controller may generate a cursor position icon for displaying the current position of the cursor and control the cursor position icon to be displayed when the paragraph start indicator or the paragraph end indicator is selected.

Here, the document output apparatus may further include an input device for inputting characters and / or objects necessary for document creation according to a user's input.

Here, the control unit may further include a paragraph marker setting unit for specifying an attribute of the paragraph marker according to the input of the input device.

Here, the control unit controls on / off of the paragraph markers through the attribute designation.

Here, the control unit controls the input device to directly control the spacing using the GUI without creating a new window on the main window of the screen displayed by the frame.

Here, the control unit controls the movement indicator to display a movement indicator of the paragraph marker in real time.

Here, the controller may control to display a tool tip indicating a current paragraph spacing and a movable range when a paragraph marker is selected and / or moved.

Here, the control unit controls a process related to a paragraph marker, a movement bar, a cursor position display, and a tool tip using a horizontal ruler in the vertical writing state of document editing.

A document output method according to another embodiment of the present invention is a document output method including a graphic user interface (GUI), a document creation application that includes a computer instruction executed in accordance with a document output method that represents a character and / Outputting a frame of a screen on which the module is executed; And controlling the spacing by the margins and the spacing by characters and / or entities input via an input device other than margins on the main window of the module.

Here, the spacing may include paragraph spacing and line spacing.

Here, the controlling step may include generating a paragraph icon to display a paragraph spacing on a vertical ruler displayed as a GUI on the main window.

Here, the controlling step is characterized in that the display is controlled so that a paragraph marker appears in a caret state or an object selection.

Here, the paragraph markers include a paragraph start icon indicating the beginning of the paragraph and a paragraph end icon indicating the end of the paragraph.

Here, the paragraph marker is in the form of a bracket, and in particular, a single corner bracket and a double corner bracket are used as paragraph markers.

Wherein the step of controlling further includes the step of generating a cursor position icon to display the current position of the cursor and controlling the appearance of the cursor position icon when the paragraph start indicator or the paragraph end indicator is selected do.

Here, the document output method may further include an input step of inputting characters and / or objects necessary for document creation according to a user's input.

The controlling step may further include a paragraph marker setting step of specifying an attribute of the paragraph marker according to the input of the input device.

Here, the paragraph marker setting step may be configured to control on / off of a paragraph marker through the property designation.

Here, the controlling step may further include controlling an input device to directly control spacing using a GUI without creating a new window on a main window of a screen displayed by the frame.

Here, the step of controlling may further include a step of controlling the movement indicator to display a movement indicator of the paragraph marker in real time.

Here, the step of controlling may further include controlling the display of a tool tip indicating a current paragraph spacing and a movable range when a paragraph marker is selected and / or moved.

Here, in the step of controlling, the processes relating to the paragraph markers, the movement bar, the cursor position display, and the tool tips are controlled using the horizontal ruler in the vertical writing state of the document editing.

According to the present invention, utilization of the vertical ruler in the document output apparatus and the document output method can be increased.

Further, in the document output apparatus and the document output method, an icon indicating practical information can be displayed on the vertical ruler.

In addition, the spacing formed by the characters and / or objects input in the document output device and the document output method can be displayed on the vertical ruler.

In addition, the paragraph spacing can be adjusted through the practical icons displayed on the vertical ruler using the input device in the document output device and the document outputting method.

1 shows an execution screen of a document editing application according to a conventional technique executed in a personal computer.
2 is an exemplary diagram of a system including a document output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram of the control unit of Fig.
5 is a block diagram of a document output apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart of a document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is an exemplary diagram of a dialog box in which attributes of a paragraph marker according to an embodiment of the present invention can be specified.
9 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
10 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
11 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
12 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
13 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of a document output apparatus and a document output method using the same according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention is not limited to a document output apparatus and a document output method using the same, but includes a viewer-only viewer, a viewing method using the viewer, a document output apparatus performing editing, display, and printing functions, and a document output method using the same .

 Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements. Furthermore, specific structural and functional descriptions for embodiments of the present invention are presented for the purpose of describing an embodiment of the present invention only, and, unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms Have the same meaning as commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the contextual meaning of the related art and are to be interpreted as ideal or overly formal in the sense of the art unless explicitly defined herein .

Hereinafter, a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

2 is an exemplary diagram of a system including a document output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the system includes a user terminal 100, a server 300, and a network 400 corresponding to the document output apparatus 100.

The user terminal 100 is an apparatus for outputting an electronic document. The user terminal 100 is an apparatus for outputting an electronic document, which is a general purpose apparatus for document output and a document editing apparatus, a document editor, a document editing apparatus, an electronic typewriter A terminal, and a wireless terminal capable of performing an operation of the wireless terminal.

Various embodiments of the wireless terminal may be implemented in a cellular phone, a smart phone having wireless communication capability, a personal digital assistant (PDA) having wireless communication capability, a wireless modem, a portable computer having wireless communication capability, A gaming device with wireless communication capability, a music storage and playback appliance with wireless communication capability, a portable unit incorporating such a combination of Internet home appliances capable of wireless Internet access and browsing, But are not limited to, terminals.

The server 300 may include a file server, an update server, an FTP server, and a web server. However, the server 300 may include various files necessary for updating the document creation application module stored in the user terminal 100, Stores patches, extensions, and service packs, and allows access to user terminals to provide application updates by downloading files.

The network 400 includes, but is not limited to, a LAN, a wired network in the form of a WAN, a short-range wireless network such as WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and various types of cellular wireless communication networks.

The document output apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention corresponding to the user terminal 100 stores the document creation application module including the computer instructions constituting the document output method according to the embodiment of the present invention in an installed form do.

The document output apparatus 100 can read media loaded with an uninstalled document creation application module, install it, and install it in the document output apparatus 100. The media includes optical storage media, such as CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. Also, the document creation application module may be provided in the form of a downloaded binary file from the server 300. [ The document output apparatus 100 can download various files from the server 300 via the network 400 and update the application module. The document output apparatus 100 will be described in detail.

3 is a block diagram of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the document output apparatus 100 includes an input device 110, a display 120, an output device 130, a storage device 140, A communication device 150, a power device 160, and a control unit 170. The control unit 170 includes a control unit 170,

The input device 110 includes a keyboard, a touch screen, a mouse, an electronic pen, and a voice input device, for example, a microphone, which performs input of information necessary for document creation and various parameters of a user's work environment It is not. Through substantially user input, the input device 110 inputs characters and objects into the document. Here, a character is a concept including a space, and an object includes various kinds of form objects such as an icon, a figure, a figure, a table, and a chart.

The display 120 includes a cathode-ray tube (CRT), a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display panel (PDP), a light emitting diode but are not limited to, light emitting diode (LED) displays, organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays.

The output device 130 includes, but is not limited to, a printer, a plotter, a beam projector, a text to sound (TTS) device, a speaker and an earphone.

The storage device 140 may be any type of removable / non-removable from the document output device 100 and may be a magnetic storage device such as a magnetic tape, a magnetic drum, a floppy disk, a ZIP drive, and a hard disk drive Devices such as a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-ROM drive, a blu-ray disc drive, a CD-ROM drive, an electronic storage device using flash memory such as an SD card, a USB memory and a solid state drive (SSD) Optical storage devices such as, but not limited to, optical storage devices.

The communication device 150 includes a communication module corresponding to various communication networks of the wired / wireless communication network 300, for example, a Bluetooth module, a WiFi module, an Ethernet interface card, a USB module, a cellular wireless communication module, a modem and a wireless router But is not limited thereto.

The power supply 160 may include, but is not limited to, a power supply that converts AC to DC, an adapter, a secondary battery such as a SMPS and a lithium ion battery, a lead acid battery, a fuel cell, and a bioethanol battery, and a primary battery . Hereinafter, the control unit 170 will be described in detail.

4 is a block diagram of the control unit of Fig.

Referring to FIG. 4, the control unit 170 includes a memory loaded with a processor (CPU), an operating system, and a document creation application module. The control unit 170 includes a paragraph marker generating unit 171 and a paragraph marker setting unit 172 in the memory area, among the document creating application modules including the computer instruction for executing the document outputting method according to the embodiment of the present invention . The control unit 170 controls each component in the document output apparatus 100 so that a document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.

Specifically, the control unit 170 receives a user input through the input device 110 by the document output apparatus 100 to display a document creation process according to the document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention, a display A process of outputting a screen frame through the output device 130, a process of outputting a created document on paper or outputting it by voice, a process of storing the created document in the storage device 140, A process of transmitting a created document to the server 300 or an external terminal via the network 400 using the communication device 150 and a process of supplying power through the power supply device 160 to the processor ), An operating system (OS), and a document author that includes computer instructions on how to output a document in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. And controls, using the application memory module is loaded.

The document output apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention corresponding to the computing device 500 can be described in more detail through other embodiments.

5 is a block diagram of a document output apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5, the document output apparatus 100 corresponding to the computing apparatus 500 includes an input interface apparatus 510, an output interface apparatus 520, a memory 531, a storage apparatus 532, a power supply apparatus 540 A processor 550, a network interface device 560, a wireless communication device 570, and a bus 580.

The input interface device 510 inputs characters or objects necessary for document creation according to the input of the user. The input interface device 510 includes, but is not limited to, a keyboard, a touch screen, a mouse, a stylus pen, and a pen tablet.

The output interface device 520 includes a display for displaying a document and a printer for printing out a document. The output interface device 520 also includes a speaker, a head-phone, and a head-set for outputting characters in the document by voice using a text to speech (TTS) engine do.

The processor 550 may execute computer instructions contained in the memory 531 and / or the document creation application module relating to the document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention stored in the storage device 532. [ The processor 550 may refer to a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), or a dedicated processor on which the methods according to the present invention are performed. The memory 531 and the storage device 532 may be composed of a volatile storage medium and / or a non-volatile storage medium. For example, the memory 531 may be comprised of read only memory (ROM) and / or random access memory (RAM).

The wireless communication device 570 includes devices for short-range wireless communication, wireless data communication, and wireless voice communication.

Each component included in the document output device 500 is connected by a bus 580 to communicate with each other.

3 and 6, a document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the document output apparatus 100 described above is implemented through execution of a computer command included in a document creation application module, will be described.

6 is a flowchart of a document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 6, a document output method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes steps S110 to S162.

First, the input device 110 inputs characters and / or objects necessary for document creation according to a user's input (S110).

7 is an exemplary view of an output screen of the document output apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, an input device 110, e.g., a keyboard, inputs text and / or objects necessary for document creation in the context of a document or in a menu execution according to user input. That is, the input device 110 can input an object such as a table, a figure, a graph, an expression, and a figure from the outside through the local area or the network 400 including characters in the document contents.

Next, the display 120 outputs a frame of a screen representing a graphic user interface (GUI), an input character and / or an object (S120). Referring again to FIG. 7, a part of the frame of the output screen of the document output apparatus 100 is shown. A vertical ruler appears on the left of the output screen. The right side of the vertical ruler shows the content of the document you are creating. Wherein the document comprises at least two paragraphs.

Next, the paragraph marker generator 171 generates a paragraph marker to display the paragraph spacing on the vertical ruler represented by the GUI on the main window (S130).

Next, the paragraph marker setting unit 172 designates the attribute of the paragraph marker according to the input of the input device 110 (S140).

The steps S130 and S140 may be performed in a different time sequence. That is, the control unit 170 may set or change the attribute after creating the paragraph marker, or may generate the paragraph marker after setting the attribute of the paragraph marker in advance.

8 is an exemplary diagram of a dialog box in which attributes of a paragraph marker according to an embodiment of the present invention can be specified.

Referring to FIG. 8, in the configuration dialog box, the control unit 170 can preset whether to turn on / off the paragraph start / end indicator on the vertical ruler in the guitar / display item. When this option is on, paragraph markers appear on the vertical ruler.

Next, the control unit 170 uses the paragraph markers to specify spacing by characters and / or objects input through the input device 110, other than spacing by margins and margins, in the main window of the execution screen of the document creation application module (S150).

Here, the spacing by margins refers to spacing formed in the margins and headers shown in Fig. 1 according to conventional techniques. And spacing by characters and / or entities other than margins refers to spacing formed by lines and paragraphs formed within the body of the document. Briefly, a paragraph marker represents the spacing of paragraphs filled with content other than empty space, such as margins or headings in the document.

In addition, the line spacing can also be displayed on the vertical ruler. Instead of being displayed for each line, the line spacing is displayed in units of paragraphs, but when the line spacing is changed compared to the previous paragraph, Can be displayed using mm, pt, or multiples.

 According to the conventional technique, it is not easy to grasp the line spacing and the paragraph spacing, which are not displayed on the screen for editing the document, and the line spacing or the paragraph spacing is changed visually. In particular, when a space is added to a paragraph image, it is difficult to grasp it if it is below a certain interval, and it is difficult to grasp whether a space is added before the paragraph or whether a space is added after the paragraph.

Referring again to FIG. 7, the control unit 170 displays the paragraph markers 1s and the paragraph markers 1e on the area of the vertical ruler corresponding to the vertical width of the paragraph where the caret is located. Thus, the paragraph indicator includes a paragraph start indicator (1s) indicating the beginning of the paragraph and a paragraph end indicator (1e) indicating the end of the paragraph.

As the paragraph markers, brackets can be used. Here, the parentheses include parentheses, brackets, curly brackets, arrow parentheses, and dots, and include, but are not limited to, single single parentheses and double parentheses. On the vertical ruler, parentheses are displayed as well as numbers are displayed.

Referring again to FIG. 7, a double dash is used as a paragraph marker. In particular, any of the single corner brackets and double corner brackets frequently used in languages of countries using the vertical writing method, for example, Japanese or Chinese, can be used as paragraph markers. These symbols indicate the starting and ending points in the vertical direction. It is further a feature of the present invention that a closing bracket can be used as a paragraph start indicator and a closing bracket can be used as a paragraph end indicator.

9 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, paragraph markers are displayed in the form of bands instead of parentheses and distinguished from colors of vertical rulers. In this case, the paragraph marker separates the space (2b) added before the paragraph and the space (2a) added after the paragraph. Therefore, the user can intuitively grasp the position of the space between the paragraphs using the paragraph markers displayed on the vertical ruler. In this embodiment as well as the previous embodiment, the user can adjust the interval of paragraphs by clicking and dragging the beginning (2s) or the end (2e) of the band indicated by the paragraph marker. The present embodiment is distinguished from the previous embodiment in that the paragraph markers do not indicate the beginning and end of a paragraph but indicate the end of the previous paragraph and the beginning of the following paragraph between the paragraphs.

In particular, the controller 170 may be configured to display the caret state or the paragraph indicator on the vertical ruler only when an object such as, for example, a figure, figure, table, chart is selected by the input device 110, 120).

7, in the state where the caret 1c, which is an input icon representing the caret state, i.e., the text entry point, is located in the text, the paragraph markers 1s and 1e indicate the beginning and end of the paragraph where the caret is located .

Here, the controller 170 generates a cursor position icon indicating the current position of the cursor when the paragraph marker is selected by the input device 110, for example, a mouse, and displays the cursor position icon on the paragraph display 120, (S151).

10 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

10, when the input device 110, for example, a mouse selects any one of the paragraph markers, for example, the paragraph start markers 1s, according to the input of the user, the paragraph marker generator 171 ) Identifies the point at which the cursor is positioned at present, and displays the current cursor position 1c using the cursor position icon on the vertical ruler using the horizontal bar (1m).

In this case, if the cursor is not located within the paragraph to which the selected paragraph marker belongs, the control unit 170 sets the cursor position to any point in the paragraph to which the selected paragraph marker belongs, for example, Can be displayed. This is to inform the user of the position of the cursor positioned according to the keyboard input, which is another input device 110, when the position of the cursor of the paragraph marker is not mismatched after scrolling the mouse independently.

The controller 170 may also be configured to select a cursor position icon indicating the current position 1c of the cursor that moves according to the operation of the input device 110, for example, the direction key of the keyboard, (1m) is displayed on the vertical ruler.

10, the controller 170 causes the position 1c of the caret to be displayed as the current position icon 1m on the vertical ruler. The user may navigate in the document using the input device 110, e.g., the scroll key of the mouse, and then manipulate the directional keys of the input device 110, e.g., the keyboard, at a specific location. If the point at which the caret is located is not on the currently displayed frame, the currently displayed frame is rapidly shifted to the wrong area. To prevent this, the position of the caret is displayed on the vertical ruler, and the user can sense whether the position of the caret is within the frame currently being displayed or not.

Next, the control unit 170 controls the input device 110 that directly controls the spacing using the GUI without creating a new window on the main window of the screen displayed in the frame (S160). Step S160 is performed on the main window of the state in which the document creating application module shown in Fig. 1 is executed. Furthermore, the adjustment of the spacing is performed using a new window on the main window, for example a menu opened by a mouse click, or a paragraph marker on the vertical ruler, without an independent dialog box being opened.

Referring again to FIG. 10, paragraph markers 1s and 1e display the beginning and end of the paragraph where the caret 1c is located. Then, the position of the caret 1c is indicated in the paragraph, and the position icon 1m is displayed on the vertical scale. The paragraph start mark (1s) is selected by clicking the mouse and dragged upward, so that the paragraph spacing can be adjusted narrower than before.

Here, the controller 170 controls the movement indicator to display the movement indicator of the paragraph marker in real time. That is, the paragraph marker generating unit 171 generates the moving bar 3s-1, and the control unit 170 displays the movement status of the paragraph markers in real time (3s-2) according to the input of the input device 110, (S161). The movement bar 3s-2 indicates the final step, and the movement bar 3s-1 moves along the paragraph marker 1s while the paragraph marker is dragged.

In addition, the controller 170 controls to display a tool tip indicating the current paragraph spacing and / or the movable range when the paragraph marker is selected and / or moved. That is, the tool tip generation module of the document creation application included in the document indicator creation unit 171 or the control unit 170 systematically generates the tool tip, and the control unit 170 controls the display 120 to output the tool tip (S162).

11 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 11, the tooltip 4 indicates that there is a paragraph spacing of 14.8 pt below the paragraph when the paragraph end indicator 1e is selected by the input device 110, e.g., a mouse click. Specifically, when the tool tip 40 appears at a position of 14.8pt below the paragraph using one of the units in which the paragraph spacing is set at the time of a mouse click, for example, mm, pt, and multiples, and the paragraph end marker 1e is dragged down The number becomes smaller and the interval below the last paragraph is displayed as an arbitrary number when the paragraph end marker 1e stops at the position where the movement bar 3e-2 is located.

A tool tip that indicates the current paragraph spacing and / or movable range may be displayed on a vertical ruler in another embodiment of the present invention.

12 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

12, when a paragraph start indicator 2s is selected by the input device 110, for example, a mouse click, a tooltip is displayed on the vertical ruler indicating that the interval between the above paragraph and the lower paragraph is 25.2pt have. When the selected paragraph start indicator 2s is dragged up and stopped at the position of the movement bar 3s-2 at an arbitrary position, the last paragraph interval will be displayed smaller than 25.2pt.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, in the vertical writing state of the document editing, the paragraph marker, the movement bar, the cursor position indication, and the tool tip can be controlled to be displayed on the horizontal scale.

13 is an exemplary view of an output screen of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

13, when the paragraph mark marker 1e is selected by clicking the input device 110, for example, a mouse, the movement bar 3e-1 and the tool tip 4 are displayed on the horizontal ruler , When the selected paragraph end marker 1e is dragged to the left, the movement bar 3e-2 is moved and displayed, and the tool tip will be displayed smaller than the first.

The methods according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded on a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the computer readable medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the computer software.

Examples of computer readable media include hardware devices that are specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The document output device 100, which is the hardware device described above, can be configured to operate with at least one software application module that is coupled with the hardware to perform the document output method in order to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to adjust the paragraph spacing in the document by using the vertical ruler by the document output apparatus 100 and the document output method using the same.

Also, prior to the spacing being adjusted in the document using the vertical ruler, the spacing itself can be displayed on the vertical ruler. And spacing is the spacing between individuals, for example, the spacing between paragraphs and the line spacing. Since the spacing between lines is a factor that maintains uniformity in the same document, it is not meaningful to adjust it. By placing the mouse on the vertical ruler, it is displayed on the tooltip or vertical ruler that pops up without opening a separate dialog box It is convenient that the numerical value can be grasped by the changed line interval value.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, I will understand the point. Accordingly, the technical scope of the present invention should be determined by the following claims.

Claims (28)

A display for outputting a frame of a screen on which a document creation application module including a computer instruction executed in accordance with a document output method, which represents a graphic user interface (GUI), a character and / or an object in the document, is executed; And
And a controller for controlling a display on the main window of the module, the spacing by characters and / or entities input via an input device, other than margins and spacing by margins using an indicator The document output apparatus comprising: The method according to claim 1,
The spacing,
A document spacing, a line spacing, and a line spacing. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
And a paragraph marker generator for generating a paragraph icon to display a paragraph spacing on a vertical ruler represented by a GUI on the main window. The method of claim 3,
Wherein,
And controls the display so that a paragraph marker appears in a caret state or an object selection. The method of claim 3,
The paragraph markers include:
A paragraph start icon indicating the start of the paragraph, and a paragraph end icon indicating the end of the paragraph. The method of claim 3,
The paragraph markers include:
Characterized in that it is in the form of a bracket, and in particular a single corner bracket and a double corner bracket are used as paragraph markers. The method of claim 3,
Wherein,
And when the paragraph marker is selected, generates a cursor position icon indicating the current position of the cursor and controls to display the cursor position icon. The method of claim 3,
The document output apparatus includes:
Further comprising an input device for inputting a character and / or an object necessary for creating a document according to a user's input. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
And a paragraph marker setting unit for specifying an attribute of the paragraph marker according to the input of the input device. The method of claim 9,
Wherein,
And controls on / off of the paragraph markers through the attribute designation. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
And controls an input device that directly adjusts spacing using a GUI without creating a new window on a main window of a screen displayed by the frame. The method of claim 11,
Wherein,
Wherein a movement indicator for displaying the movement state of the paragraph markers in real time is displayed. The method of claim 11,
Wherein,
When the paragraph marker is selected and / or moved, a tool tip for displaying the current paragraph spacing and / or the movable range is displayed. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 13,
Wherein,
A document output apparatus characterized by using a horizontal ruler in a vertical writing state of document editing to control a process relating to a paragraph marker, a movement bar, a cursor position indication, and a tool tip. Outputting a frame of a screen on which a document creation application module including a computer command executed according to a document output method, which represents a graphic user interface (GUI), a character and / or an object in the document, is executed; And
Displaying on the main window of the module spacing by margins and spacing by characters and / or entities input via an input device other than margins using an indicator. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > Document output method. 16. The method of claim 15,
The spacing,
A document spacing, a line spacing, and a line spacing. 18. The method of claim 16,
The document output method includes:
Further comprising generating a paragraph icon to display a paragraph spacing on a vertical ruler represented by a GUI on the main window. 18. The method of claim 17,
Wherein the control step comprises:
Wherein the display is controlled so that a paragraph marker appears in a caret state or an object selection. 18. The method of claim 17,
The paragraph markers include:
A paragraph start icon indicating the start of the paragraph and a paragraph end icon indicating the end of the paragraph. 18. The method of claim 17,
The paragraph markers include:
Characterized in that it is in the form of a bracket, and in particular a single corner bracket and a double corner bracket are used as paragraph markers. 18. The method of claim 17,
Wherein the control step comprises:
Further comprising generating and displaying a cursor position icon indicating the current position of the cursor when the paragraph marker is selected. 18. The method of claim 17,
The document output method includes:
Further comprising an input step of inputting a character and / or an object necessary for creating a document according to a user's input. 23. The method of claim 22,
The document output method includes:
Further comprising the step of setting an attribute of the paragraph marker according to the input of the input device. 24. The method of claim 23,
The step of setting attributes of the paragraph markers comprises:
And controlling on / off of the paragraph markers through the attribute designation. 23. The method of claim 22,
The document output method includes:
Further comprising the step of directly adjusting spacing using a GUI without creating a new window on a main window of a screen displayed by the frame. 26. The method of claim 25,
Directly adjusting the spacing may include:
And a movement bar for displaying the movement state of the paragraph markers in real time is displayed. 26. The method of claim 25,
Directly adjusting the spacing may include:
Further comprising the step of: displaying a tool tip indicating the current paragraph spacing and / or the movable range when the paragraph marker is selected and / or moved. The method of any one of claims 16 to 27,
The document output method includes:
Wherein in the vertical writing state of the document editing, the steps of the paragraph marker, the movement marker, the cursor position indication, and the tool tip are performed using the horizontal ruler.

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