JPH0769913B2 - Document editing device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a document editing device, and more particularly to a document editing device for editing a document structure.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, what is considered to be related to the editing of a document structure related to a document editing apparatus is found in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-84773. This is to facilitate the change of the document structure by introducing a representative phrase that briefly represents the contents of a character string that constitutes the document and creating and changing the relations among them. For the automatic creation of the table of contents, see
Reference is made to JP-A-60-17552.

[Problems and Objectives to be Solved by the Invention] However, the following problems have been encountered in the conventional document structure editing. The first problem is that since there is no means for presenting the document in a globally understandable manner by omitting the details of the document, it is difficult to visually recognize the mutual relation of the structural units of the document structure. is there. That is, it is difficult to grasp the document structure even though it is intended to edit the document structure. The second problem, which is related to the first problem, is that the display of the document details cannot be realized simultaneously with the global presentation of the document structure, and it is difficult to edit the document itself. there were.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, to provide a means for facilitating visual recognition of a document structure and facilitating editing of document details.

[Means for Solving the Problem] A document editing apparatus of the present invention is configured such that an input unit for inputting a document and a range of one or more lines of the input document are structural units for structuring the document, and are marked. With respect to the structural unit setting means to be set, a plurality of structural units set by the structural unit setting means, a relationship designating means for designating a relationship between the structural units, and the indicator according to the relationship designated by the relationship designating means. In a document editing device comprising a structure diagram display means for displaying a document in which the structural units are set as a structural diagram by arranging the structural units, a part of the contents included in the structural unit is set. Is provided with a display location setting means for setting whether or not to display, and the structural drawing display means displays a part of the contents included in the structural unit by the display location setting means. The structural units have been made, characterized in that a part of the content is a means for displaying included in the structure diagram.

[Operation] In the document editing apparatus of the present invention, the structural unit setting means sets a range of one or more lines of the document input by the input means as a structural unit for structuring the document, and sets it with a marker. The relationship designating unit designates a relationship between the structural units regarding the plurality of structural units set by the structural unit setting unit. The display location setting means sets, for the structural unit to be set, whether to display a part of the contents included in the structural unit. The structure diagram display means displays the document in which the structural unit is set as a structural diagram by arranging the markers according to the relationship designated by the relationship designating means, and at the same time, displays one of the contents included in the structural unit by the display location setting means. For structural units that are set to display parts, some of this content is included in the structural diagram and displayed.

[Examples] In order to further clarify the configuration and operation of the present invention described above, preferred examples of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a document editing apparatus as an embodiment of the present invention. The means within the dotted line represents means corresponding to the main part of the present invention, and is stored in the means storage device 12. First, the device will be described. In the figure, a double line with an arrow indicates a signal transmission line, and an arrow indicates a transmission direction. Reference numeral 11 denotes a processing device that controls internal processing, and performs signal processing for controlling the input / output control device 13 and for starting and executing the case means stored in the means storing device 12. The means storage device of 12 stores the means necessary for system operation such as system start-up and initialization in addition to the means within the dotted line, and maintains consistency so that competition does not occur during operation. Reference numeral 13 denotes an input / output processing device, which, according to an instruction from the processing device 11, controls the order of signal input / output between the processing device 11 and the operating device 14, the display device 15, and the storage device 16 to exchange signals. . The operating device 14 is a device for converting an instruction from outside the device into a signal and inputting the signal (for example, a keyboard or a pointing device). The display device 15 converts a signal transmitted from the processing device 11 via the input / output processing device 13 as information for displaying characters, graphics, etc., into corresponding characters, graphics, etc. and displays them (eg CRT or liquid crystal). Display). The storage device 16 stores a signal transmitted from the processing device 11 via the input / output processing device 13 as information for registering a document, information for editing a document, or reads a stored symbol, that is, a registered content. It is a storage device for transmission.

Each of the above-mentioned devices mainly displays functions in FIG.
The actual device configuration is shown in FIG. CPU2 as a processing unit
1, a memory 22 as a means storage device, an input / output processor (IOP) as an input / output processing device, and a combination of memories 23 used for IOP control signal storage and input / output signal buffer 23, a keyboard 24 as an operating device, and a CRT 25 as a display device A floppy disk drive and a floppy disk 26 are used as a storage device. Each unit is translated into a signal string and stored in the memory 22. In the above embodiments, a pointing device may be added to the operating device, a liquid crystal display may be used as the display device, and a magnetic tape, a magnetic drum or the like may be used as the storage device.

Returning to FIG. 1, each means in the means storing device 12 will be described. An editing unit 1000 that executes editing, an output unit 2000 that outputs information to be displayed such as a document or an instruction for the next operation to the processing device 11, and an instruction to the processing device 11 to register a document or information necessary for document editing. It is composed of three parts, a storage-drawing part 3000, which manages the registration of information to be read and the registration to be read. The editing unit 1000 further includes a character string editing unit 1200 for inserting, deleting, replacing, moving, copying, etc. of a character string, and a structure editing unit 1100 for editing the document structure.

Each means constituting the structure editing unit 1100 will be described next. The unit definition part 1110 has four means 1111-1114 belonging to it.
The document is divided into parts, and each part generated by the division is declared as a structural unit (hereinafter referred to as a unit) for grasping the document structure, and a mark indicating the content is attached to the unit or a unit. It is a means to specify a parallel or subordinate relationship between them. Each of the four means will be described in more detail later.

The structure diagram creation unit 1120 analyzes the document structure, that is, the global mutual relationship of the unit groups, from the definition of each unit and the array of unit groups,
This is means for creating a structural diagram such as that shown in FIG. 4 based on the analysis contents. The structural diagram editing unit 1130 is a means for changing the analysis content and the structural diagram by the structural diagram creating unit 1120, directly executing editing for the unit group on the structural diagram, and indirectly analyzing the result. Give back to the content. The means for editing the structural diagram is divided into 1131 to 1137. Details of each will be described later. The document construction unit 1140 is a structure diagram editing unit 11.
It is a means for arranging the units according to the analysis contents changed by 30, and constructing a document. At that time, the number changing section 1141 is a means for adding or re-assigning titles such as chapters and sections according to the designated format, and the table of contents creation section is to create the table of contents of the document by extracting the signs attached to the units. 1142.

Hereinafter, as an example of editing the document shown in FIG.
The details and operation of the document editing apparatus of the embodiment will be described.
The flow of operation is shown in FIG. When the document editing device is activated, a new document can be created or an existing document can be selected (step S100). The document in FIG. 3A is created by selecting the creation of a new document at this point and activating the character string editing unit 1200. When you finish creating a new document and finish editing the character string (step S110), or select a previously created document (step S120), you can edit the structure automatically or according to the user's prescribed operation. The section 1100 is activated (steps S130 and S140). In the existing document that has undergone the structure editing, structural units are defined and their mutual relationships are clarified. Therefore, immediately move to the structural diagram creation (step S160), but as in the document of FIG. 3 (a). Since the unit of the newly created document is undefined, the unit definition unit 1110 is called (step S150).

The operation flow in the unit definition is shown in FIG. 9 (a).
First, the range specifying unit 1111 specifies a character string to be used as a unit. Units useful for structure editing can be grouped in line units like normal paragraphs, so the range of units is specified by the start line and end line (steps S200 to S220). FIG. 3B shows how the range is specified. Here, the range delimited by the dotted line is the part where the unit definition has already been completed, the part where the background is reversed is the character string to be defined as the next unit, and the specified range can be changed with the up and down cursor keys.
After determining the range, the part can be declared as a unit by appropriate keystroke (step S210).

When the declaration is completed, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), an area (window W1) for displaying another display content independent of the display content up to that point is taken on the screen (step S23).
0), and the process moves to the numbering unit 1112 (steps S240 and 250).
The numbering unit 1112 is a unit that enables identification of parallel or subordinate relationships between units. In the embodiment, this is realized by adding a column in which integers and period symbols are alternately arranged. A hierarchical structure can be obtained by classifying parallel and subordinate relationships. The period symbol distinguishes the hierarchy, and units with columns of equal length exist in the same hierarchy (parallel or independent). A difference only in the last integer indicates that the units on one layer to which it depends are the same (locally parallel). Specifically, 0 in the title
If you add, add a column starting with "0." to the unit of the document, and if Chapter 1 is "0.1", Chapter 1 Section 1 is "0.1.
1 ”, and the first item in Chapter 1, Section 1,“ 0.1.1.1 ”, the second item should be“ 0.1.1.2 ”. In this last case, the abbreviation ".2" is also allowed. Considering that the title of a document does not always exist, the number "0"
The equivalent of may be attached to any unit. It is possible to have no number at all, in which case a separate document is considered to exist in the structural analysis. The number may be "A.", "A.", or "α". Instead of the number, a tab code of the number corresponding to the structure may be placed at the beginning of the sentence, or in Fig. 3 (d). As shown, the structure can be expressed by shifting the display digits of the sentence.

When the numbers are assigned in steps S240 and S250, or the operation of the numbering unit 1112 is ended by ignoring the numbering operation, the control is performed by the numbering unit.
The processing moves to 1113 (steps S260, S270). Attached sign section 111
3 is a short sentence or phrase that suggests the content to the unit,
Alternatively, it is a means for attaching some kind of mark such as a symbol having nothing to do with the content. If you don't want to add a mark, you can ignore this step and proceed.

When the processing of the tagged portion 1113 is completed, an output designation is made as to whether to display the text of the unit displayed in the frame (later described) indicating each unit in the structural diagram from the first line or the second line. Then, the process proceeds to the process of the output designating unit 1114 which is a means for performing (step S28
0). Outputting from the second line is effective for structural editing without being obsessed with the signs such as Chapter No. originally attached to the unit. FIG. 3C shows the display in the window W1 in which the operations up to this point have been completed. When the window W1 is closed after exiting the output designating section 1114 (step S290), it is determined whether or not there is any text remaining (step S300). If there is any text, the procedure returns to the range designating section 1111 to perform steps S200 to S300. repeat. Since the start line of the range designation is set to point at the beginning of the sentence or the line next to the end line of the previous time, the unit on the document is continuous.
When the unit is defined, each unit is registered by the storing-drawing unit 3000 except the number, and the number and the correspondence between the unit and the number are registered separately (step S310).

When registration is completed and the unit definition unit 1110 of step S150 is completed, the structure drawing creation unit 1120 is called (step S16).
0). When there is a unit arrangement order and a number, the structure diagram creating unit 1120 analyzes the global mutual relationship of the unit groups according to the order and creates a structure diagram based on the analysis content. The unit definition was executed by adding a number that reflects the current structure to the document shown in FIG. 3 (b), adding a label that was taken from the content as it is, and designating that the second line should be output. An example of a structural drawing created from the results is shown in FIG.
Each unit is boxed to indicate it is a unit. The subordination relationship between units is expressed by the existence of line segments connected between frames, and it is expressed globally by aligning the horizontal positions of the left ends of the frames for units that belong to the same level. ing. The whole document is indicated by all units other than the title being subordinate to the title. If the title does not exist, an empty frame corresponding to the title is automatically created and displayed. If there are unnumbered units, they are not linked to the title and are placed in parallel as separate separate structures.

When the structural diagram is created and displayed, control is transferred to the structural diagram editing unit 1130 from that point (step S170). The processing flow in the structural diagram editing unit 1130 is shown in FIG. 9 (b). The structural diagram editing unit 1130 waits for an instruction (instruction by the input key) as to which method to call (step S400), activates the method as soon as the instruction is given, executes the editing means, and then returns to the next instruction. Wait (step S400). Hereinafter, each means called and executed according to an instruction will be described in detail.

A) Unit reference section 1131 (step S410) In the frame showing the unit in the structural diagram, in addition to the sign, a part of the text of the unit is displayed according to the designation by the output designating section 1114. Here, when it is desired to refer to a portion other than the one currently displayed, when this means is activated, the window W2 is opened (step S412) as shown in FIG. Is displayed (step S414). By moving the cursor CS up / down / left / right, the whole sentence can be referred to, and the character string editing unit 1200 is activated for the display of this window W2, and the sentence can be corrected (step S416). ). The cursor CS is displayed at the editable position. When the editing of the text is completed, the reference unit is updated and registered (step S418), and the window W2 is closed (step S419).

B) Connection unit 1132 (step S420) A unit that does not connect is connected somewhere, or a unit of a lower hierarchy that is connected somewhere is connected to another unit. Used for. First, call the connection unit 1132, move the cursor CS, and select the unit frame.The background in the frame of the unit B0 is highlighted to clearly indicate that it is the operation target, and then when you move the cursor CS, A virtual relationship line RL is displayed accordingly (FIG. 5 (b)).
reference).

At this time, even if the unit has a relation with somewhere, the display of the line segment representing it is erased. When the connected unit is determined, the cursor CS is moved to the connected unit to end the connecting unit 1132, and the dotted line becomes a solid line, and the connection is confirmed. All units that were subordinate to the target unit will also have a new subordinate relationship, and the hierarchy to which they belong may change. It should be noted that reconnection is effective for existing connections.

C) Separation unit 1133 (step S430) This is a means for eliminating the connecting line segments existing between two units and making their relationship independent. When the separation unit 1133 is called, some line segment is changed to a dotted line display. When the separating unit 1133 is finished here, the line segment is erased. Since the line segment displayed in dotted line changes cyclically one after another by the appropriate keystroke, it is possible to select the target line segment in this way.

D) Moving unit 1134 (step S440) This is means for moving the position of the unit frame to change the arrangement order of the units. When you call the move section 1134 and move the cursor CS to select the unit you want to move, the background in the frame of that unit will be inverted and it will be clearly indicated that it is the operation target, so move the cursor CS further and move it to the position you want to move. The moving unit 1134 may be ended. Fig. 5 (c)
In the example shown in, after selecting the unit B1 with the cursor CS, the cursor CS is moved to a desired position, and by performing a predetermined keystroke operation, the selected unit B1 is located at the position where the cursor CS exists. Move up to.

E) Copying unit 1135 (step S450) This is a means for creating a copy of the designated unit immediately below the position of the same position. The unit produced by copying has nothing to do with this point. Therefore, it has no relation to the original unit and has another registration. This method is especially effective for editing documents in which certain units are sometimes referred to multiple times while changing the shape little by little, and it is possible to identify at a glance where the units are used by a predetermined structure. Indexing is useful when you need to modify the entire copy.

F) Unit adding unit 1136 (step S470) This is a means for newly creating a unit or selecting an appropriate unit from the registered unit groups and adding it to the unit group on the structural drawing. When the unit adding unit 1136 is activated, a window is first opened (step S472), and it is displayed to select a new unit or an existing unit (step S474). When new is selected here, the character string editing unit 1200 is called in the window (step S416), and the sentence can be created there.
When the creation of the sentence is completed, this unit is registered (step S418) and can be used as an existing unit from the next unit addition. If you select to add from an existing unit group in step S474, the unit list in the format that is displayed in the unit frame is displayed in the window (steps S476, S478), so move the cursor CS. Then, a desired unit may be selected (step S480). If the number of registered units becomes large, it becomes difficult to select a desired unit from a simple list, so in the present embodiment, the list can be displayed with appropriate limitation ( Step S476). The limitation is, for example, a unit having an indicator containing a certain character string, a unit registered after a certain date, or the like.

G) Unit deletion unit 1137 (step S460) This is a unit for deleting a unit and all units dependent on it in the structural diagram. Place the cursor CS on the frame of the unit you want to delete and end the deletion section. The deletion here is only on the structural diagram, and the registration of the unit is not deleted.

After each of these processes is executed, the analysis contents are updated according to the respective processes (step S490), and the instruction waiting state is restored again (step S400). Further, the structure diagram editing unit 1100 is ended by selecting the end from the state of waiting for the instruction.

FIG. 6 exemplifies variously edited structure diagrams shown in FIG. 4 by the structure editing unit 1100 described above.

Next, the operation of constructing a document from the structural diagram (step S18
0) will be described. In the structure diagram editing unit 1130, the change of the analysis content that was internally executed in response to the change of the structure diagram, in addition to the change of the sentence of the unit, renumbering the unit number to match the diagram, It also includes updating the global interrelationship of units by giving numbers to unnumbered units. When the structural diagram editing unit 1130 is terminated, all the information necessary for the configuration of those documents is registered, so the document configuration unit 1140 arranges the units accordingly, that is, while interpreting the unit numbers. To go. FIG. 7A is obtained by the document construction unit 1140 as a document corresponding to the structural diagram illustrated in FIG. The unit arranged at the end is separated by a dotted line because it is recognized as another document. However, these are displayed in the same window, and it is possible to register them as a completed document as a group. If so, three usable sentences are created from the original document (FIG. 3 (a)), and the document resources are effectively used. Now, in FIG. 7 (a), since the chapter and section numbers of the original sentence remain, the number changing unit 1141 is activated to correct them. The number format is ". # ## Chapter. ## Section. ## Item" for each hierarchy.
Can be specified as follows.

This corresponds to the one used in the numbering section 1112 when just defining the unit, the title is unnumbered, `` 0.1.2.
The unit of the number "3" is a designation to name it as the third item. In addition, when changing the number, the sign attached to the unit is used as a new title also for the purpose of preventing an unintended number from being attached to a unit that was originally not planned to be numbered, and the start line of the text that follows is changed to According to the designation in the output designation section 1114 (the designation is not given the number consisting of the first line and the title). As described above, since the text following the dotted line in FIG. 7 (a) is a different document, the number changing unit 1141 is separately activated, and the number is added as an addendum. In summary, the document shown in FIG. 7 (b) is obtained. Except that the table of contents counts the number of pages in the specified number of lines,
It is obtained by not outputting the sentence of the unit when changing the number. FIG. 7 (c) shows an example in which the table of contents creating unit 1142 is activated and the table of contents is created by designating the first line as page 1.

According to the document editing apparatus of the above-described embodiment, it is possible to freely set the structural unit of a document and edit the structure of the document using the structural diagram composed of this structural unit. Therefore, it is possible to edit while considering the configuration of the entire document, and it is possible to support the editor's thinking. In addition, it is possible to display a sign indicating the contents of each structural unit or a part of the structural unit (first line or second line) on each structural unit of the structural diagram, so check the specific contents of each structural unit. You can edit the document while. Furthermore, since a structural unit can be added, a copy can be made, and a document in the structural unit can be corrected or added during the editing of the document by the structure diagram, the document can be created, edited and modified while considering the entire document.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various modes without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[Effect of the Invention] According to the document editing apparatus of the present invention described above, by arranging the markers according to the relationship designated by the relationship designating means, the document in which the structural unit is set is displayed as a structural diagram and is displayed. For structural units that are set to display a part of the content included in the structural unit by the location setting means, a part of this content is included in the structural diagram and displayed. The document can be edited while checking, and the document structure can be changed easily and accurately.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the functional configuration of the document editing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the hardware configuration of the document editing apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 3 (a) is used in the embodiment. And FIG. 3B, FIG. 3C, and FIG. 3D are explanatory views illustrating the operation when the unit definition unit 1110 is executed for the document example used in the embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view illustrating the structural diagram of the document example used in the embodiment, and FIGS. 5 (a), (b), and (c) execute the structural diagram editing unit 1130 for the document example used in the embodiment. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the structural diagram after editing the document example used in the example, and FIG. 7A is a diagram illustrating the document example used in the example Fig. 7 (b) is an explanatory view showing a display example of "." FIG. 7 (c) is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of the table of contents created by the table of contents creating unit 1142 for the document example used in the embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 9A is a flowchart illustrating an operation of editing a document in the document editing apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 9A is a flowchart illustrating an operation when the unit definition unit 1110 is activated in the document editing apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 9B is a flowchart illustrating an operation when the structural drawing editing unit 1130 is activated in the document editing apparatus according to the embodiment. 11 …… Processing device 12 …… Means Storage device 13 …… Input / output processing device 14 …… Operating device 15 …… Display device 16 …… Storage device 21 …… CPU 22 …… Memory 23 …… Combination of IOP and memory 24 ...... Keyboard 25 ...... CRT 26 ...... FDD

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting a document, structural unit setting means for setting a range of one or more lines of the input document as a structural unit for structuring the document, and setting with a mark, and the structural unit setting With respect to the plurality of structural units set by the means, the structural unit is set by arranging the relationship designating means for designating the relationship between the structural units and the markers according to the relationship designated by the relationship designating means. In a document editing device having a structure diagram display means for displaying a document as a structure diagram, a display location setting for setting whether or not to display a part of the contents included in the structure unit for the set structure unit The structural diagram display means is provided with a means, and the structural unit is set by the display location setting means to display a part of the content included in the structural unit. Document editing apparatus according to claim a portion that is a unit that is included in the structure diagram.