JPS61228572A - Document producing and editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp the relation between a text and a desired sentence by performing conversion among the frame original sentences included in the text in the prescribed order of frame priority and delivering the desired sentence according to the frame in a format corresponding to the text. CONSTITUTION:A document producing/editing device is provided with a translation part 10 which executes a translating function, an editor 12 which edits documents, an image scanner 14 serving as a system input device, a keyboard 16, an input control part 18 which controls an input device, a display device 20 which displays visually picture information, a display control part 22, a document file memory part 24 and a translated sentence temporary memory part 26. The frame original sentences included in a text are sent to the part 10 in the prescribed order of frame priority for production of a desired sentence. The original sentences are displayed at the upper half part of the screen 50 of the device 20 according to frames together with the desired sentence displayed at the lower half part of the screen 50 according to frames in a format corresponding to the text. Thus the relation between the original sentence and the desired sentence can be grasped and the desired document can be delivered in response to the text document.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Ittsujutsu! The present invention relates to a document creation and editing device, and more specifically to a document creation and editing device that creates a target sentence corresponding to an input original text.

Ai Bei and 1 Examples of such document creation and editing devices include automatic translation devices and document creation devices. In particular, in the pre-editing and post-editing of these devices, it is required to be able to easily understand whether or not an appropriate objective sentence has been created.

To this end, it is desirable that the target sentence be output in a format as similar to the original as possible, that is, for example, displayed on a CR7 display device or printed out on a printing device. For example, if the original document contains frames such as Figure 1, tables, columns, etc., the parts corresponding to those frames may be blank in the translated document, or
This may impede the ability to quickly determine the amount of flakes. Therefore, it is desirable that the translated document be output in a format that corresponds to the original document.

Further, when processing a sentence, the operator is required to clearly understand the correspondence between the original text and the translated text. Therefore, it is desirable to be able to display the translated text in a clear correspondence between the original text and the translated text with a simple operation, and in the same order as the sentences in the original document.

1-Plastic The present invention overcomes these drawbacks of the prior art.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation/editing device which outputs a target document in a format corresponding to an original document and allows the correspondence with the original document to be grasped by a simple operation.

Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes an input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame, a conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the frame, and data of the original document. and a storage means for accumulating data of the target document, an output means for outputting the original document and the target document, and a control means for controlling the conversion means, the storage means, and the output means in response to the input means. When the original document data is input, the means stores it in the storage means, sends the original text of the frame included in the original document from the storage means to the conversion means in accordance with a predetermined frame priority order, and causes the conversion means to create a target sentence. The present invention is characterized by a document creation/editing device which stores text in a storage means according to a frame, and outputs a target sentence in the storage means to an output means in a format corresponding to an original document according to the frame. Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment in which a document creation/editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device. This embodiment is a Japanese-English automatic translation device that translates a Japanese sentence input as an original sentence into a target sentence, in this example an English sentence. This basically consists of a translation unit 10 that performs its translation function, an editor 12 that edits the document, an image scanner 14 and a keyboard 1B as input devices for the system.
, a processing system including an input control section 18 that controls an input device, a display device j120 that visually displays image information, a display control section 22 that is a control device thereof, a document file storage section 24, and a translation temporary storage section 2B. ing.

The scanner 14 is a scanning device that is connected so as to be controllable by the input control section 1B and that optically reads the image information recorded on the original document 2 and inputs the image data to this system. This image data is input to the system in the form of data representing pixel dots.

The keyboard 16 is also connected so as to be controllable by the input control unit 18, and as shown in FIG. 2, is an input device having character keys 52 such as kana, alphanumeric, and symbols, and control keys. This receives a character string in the form of a character code by operating the single character key 52, and receives a control command in the form of a control code by operating the control key.

The character keys 52 include a space bar 52a.

In addition, the control keys include normal function keys such as the shift key.
4. Page movement key 5B1 Sentence selection cursor key 58° Character selection cursor key 80, translation execution key 82, etc. are included.

The page movement key 5B is a control key that gives an instruction to scroll the pages of the document displayed on the display screen 50 of the display device 20. The sentence selection cursor that specifies the target sentence in the source document or the target document is controlled, and as the sentence selection cursor is moved in the source document or the target document, whichever is displayed on the display screen 50, the sentence selection cursor in the other document is controlled. When the document displayed on one display screen 50 is switched to the other document by moving the position in the document where the value of the sentence selection cursor ownership flag is on in the frame content record 40 described later, the display up to that point is 0 character selection cursor key, which is a control key that has the function of placing the sentence selection cursor on the sentence in the other document that corresponds to the sentence where the sentence selection cursor was placed in the document that was previously displayed, and displaying the other document. Reference numeral 80 denotes a control key for moving a cursor that indicates a position for manually manipulating characters, such as insertion or overprinting. The translation execution key 82 is a control key that instructs execution of translation of the original text to be translated.

This keyboard 1B differs from that of a normal document editing device in that it includes a translation execution key B2 and a sentence selection cursor key 58. In this embodiment, a mouse B4 is connected to the keyboard 1B in order to create graph data with a simple operation.

In this embodiment, other input devices such as a communication line 30, a floppy disk device 32, and a magnetic tape device can also be connected to the input control section 18.

The input control unit 18 is an editor! It is a control device that identifies and organizes the input data received by these input devices, and sends it to the editor 12.

The display device 20 is connected to the first display control section 22, and has a second display screen 50 that visually displays image information including characters and graphics.
The display controller 22 controls the display device 20 and receives text, images, graphs, etc. from the editor 12 and displays them on the screen 50. It is a control device that allows This allows bitmap display in this embodiment. The text is code data composed of character codes, the image is data indicating pixel dots, and the graph is image data created, for example, by the graph creation function of the editor 12.

In addition to the display device 20 and the display control device 22, a printing device for printing out the target document and its control device may be configured to be connectable to the editor 12, and a file storage device such as a floppy disk or magnetic tape may be configured. The target document may be configured to be outputtable to a device or a communication line.

The editor 12 is a document editing device that responds to instruction commands input from the keyboard 18 by an operator. This creates a document file 34, stores data such as text, images, graphs, etc. transferred from the input control section 18 in the document file storage section 24, updates the contents, and stores the data in the translation temporary storage section 26. The purpose sentence text contained in the frame content record 40 of the document file 34 is stored in the frame content record 40 of the document file 34.

The translation unit 10 is a functional unit that forms the core of this device, and is connected to the editor 12 and has a translation function of converting the original text received from the editor 12 into a target text and sending it back to the editor 12. has a Japanese-English translation function that converts the Japanese W sentence into the English target sentence.

A document file 34 is stored in the document file storage device 24, which includes a document/chapter/page information table 38. Frame profile table 38,
and a frame content record 40.

Now let's touch on the structure of document data.

A document consists of one or more chapters, each chapter consists of one or more pages, and each page consists of one or more frames. "Frame" refers to one frame on one device, including characters, images, graphs, or a combination thereof.
It is a single processing unit. Therefore, one page itself constitutes one frame. Further, part or all of a frame may be included in another frame.

A frame can contain characters, images, and graphs, or a combination of two or three of them.
Depending on the combination, there are 7 types of frames from type 1 to 7. Type 0 is a frame with character CG> only, type 2
is a frame with only an image (I), and type 3 is a frame with only a graph (G).
), type 4 is a frame that includes C and I, type 5 is a frame that includes engineering and G, type 6 is a frame that includes C and G, and type 7 is a frame that includes C, engineering, and G.

An example of the original document is shown in FIG. 3. Frame 0 is of type 1, and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. 12. Frame l is of type 2, and its frame content record 40 is An example is shown in FIG. 14, which is image data in which pixel dots are shown in a hexadecimal array. Furthermore, frame 2 is of type 7, and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.

The document/chapter/page information table 36 stores document information such as the total number of chapters in the document, the number of pages for each chapter, and the number of frames for each page. The document chapter page information table 36, an example of which is shown in FIG. Chapter list 122 and page list 1
Consists of 24.

The document descriptor 120 includes document information such as the number of chapters, total number of pages, and number of frames, and a chapter list pointer, and the chapter list 122 is specified by this pointer.

The chapter list 122 is prepared for each chapter,
With information on all chapters of that document.

page list) Contains 124 pointers. The page list 124 is specified by this pointer.

In the page list 124, information on all pages of each chapter and a pointer to the frame profile table 38 are recorded.

The frame profile table 38 includes the frame position (coordinates), size, type, frame number (N
It accommodates frame information such as o, ). An example of this is the 11th
As shown in the figure. The frame profile table 38 is indicated by the pointer 124, and frame information and contents can be accessed using the frame number (In) as a key.

In frame profile table 38, "parent and child attributes"
"O" indicates that the frame has no child frames, rlJ indicates that there are child frames, and 1
``Type'' indicates the type of frame described above, and ``Position/Size'' indicates the starting point and ending point of the frame in millimeters. "Framework line attribute" indicates the attribute of the frame line forming the frame; 1 indicates a standard solid line, 2 indicates a thick solid line, 3 indicates a very thick solid line, 4 indicates a thin solid line, and 5 indicates a standard broken line.

Further, the frame content record 40 stores data regarding the content of the frame, such as a cursor ownership flag, flag, starting point, pitch, character code, and font information for each frame. The source text and target text are also stored here. An example is shown in FIG. This exemplifies frame O shown in FIG. 3, which is a type 1 frame.

As shown in FIG. 13, the starting point coordinates of a certain sentence in one frame are the first character phono of that sentence) 102a
is described in millimeters by the vertical and horizontal coordinates of the starting point 10B of the frame relative to the starting point 100 of that frame. Furthermore, the pitch 104 between character fonts 102 is described in millimeters. Note that it may be specified not in units of millimeters but in terms of the number of dots.

The maximum starting point and pitch is r FEJ, which in this example is a dot density of 12 dots per mm. Also 1
The octal code rFFFFJ indicates the end of the character.

Under the control of the editor 12, the translation temporary storage unit 26
This is a storage device that temporarily stores the target sentence texts sequentially transferred from the translation unit 10. Its contents are ultimately transferred to document file storage and stored in frame content records 40.

The operator operates the keyboard 1B and inputs the original document according to the operation flow shown in FIG. first.

The original document is defined by inputting data that defines the original document, such as giving a name to the original document (200). Next, define chapters, pages, and frames according to the above convention (202, 204, 208), and input the original text. In this way, frames, pages, and chapters are input in sequence to complete one original document. In accordance with this, the editor 12 creates a document file 34 for the document, and stores it in the storage unit 2.
Register on 4. The input original text is temporarily stored in the frame content record 40. Further, as will be described in detail later, the information is displayed on the display screen 50 in response to an instruction from the keyboard 1B.

An example of the original document input in this manner is shown in FIG.

As will be seen from now on, in this original document 140, one page constitutes a frame O, which includes original texts 1 to 9. Furthermore, this frame 0 has an image frame 1. It includes a graph image frame 2 and a character frame 3 consisting of original text a-C. Note that in this embodiment, these frame numbers indicate the frame identification as well as the priority order among them.

When the translation execution key 82 is operated, in response, the editor 12 executes translation processing according to the operation flow shown in FIG. Translation processing is performed sequentially on the strings included in each frame according to its priority order (2
34.238), frame pointer 231 (Figure 10)
indicates the frame to be translated (230.23
2.242.244).

The editor 12 first extracts a character part from the original document of the frame content record 40, and transfers the character part in text units together with a frame number to the translation unit 10 (238.240).
The text sent from the editor 12 is translated one by one and sent back to the editor 12 as a target sentence. This target sentence is temporarily stored in the translation temporary storage section 2B by the editor 12. In this manner, in this embodiment, only the text of the original document is sent to the translation unit 10 and converted into the target document.

The target document in the translation temporary storage unit 2B is stored in the document file 3 by the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIG.
It is stored in 4. In this flow, a target document, that is, a translated document is defined (280), and then a document/chapter/page information table 36 and a frame profile table 38 of the original document file are defined.
is copied (282).

Therefore, in the original document file, frame content record 40 cursor is added to the original text in the frame content record 40, and barrel 1-
While copying -1-2'+ (2B4)-The details of this JA process are shown in FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 8A and 8B, the frame number pointer 231 is first set to rQJ (285), and the frame profile table 3 indicated by the pointer 231 is
Extract frame type data from 8 (28B),
If the type is 1.4.6 or 7 -(2
B? ), sets the record pointer to the first record, ie, "0" in the work area reserved in the editor's memory for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document (288), and proceeds to step 269. In step 288, the flag field of the frame content record 40 in the work area is set to rQJ (Fig. 12), the starting point information of the translated text is calculated and set from the starting point information of the original text, and the first character code of the translated text is set as the character code. field and set the font type.

Next, set the record pointer in the work area for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document to the inflation menu)L(270
), if the character code of the translation is the end code (271
), set the 7-teg shelf of the frame content record 40 in the work area to rlJ, put the next character of the translated text in the character code field, and set the pitch and font type (272
).

If the character code of the translated text is the end code and there is a translated text in that frame (275), search for the next rQJ in the flag field of the frame content record 40 of the original document.2
7B), return to step 289. If there is no translation in that frame, that frame is the end, so set the flag to 1, the start point field to hexadecimal rFFFFJ, and write the contents of the work area to the document file of the target document.27? ) , search the next frame (
273).

If the frame type is not 1.4.6 or 7 in step 2B7, copy the frame content record of the frame pointed to by the frame number pointer into the document file of the target document, t, (278), and copy the next frame. Search (273).

In this way, the target document is created by sequentially incrementing the frame number pointer for each frame.

The process of storing in the document file 34 proceeds (273, 274), and in this way, the translations for each frame included in one chapter are sequentially stored in the frame content record 40.
is stored in

In this embodiment, the positional coordinates (X, Y) of the starting point of such a translated sentence are set as follows. Regarding the abscissa X, for the first sentence in the translation frame, that of the original sentence is set as is. For the second and subsequent sentences, it is set to the value of the abscissa of the last character in the preamble plus the width and pitch of that character. However, if this value plus the width of the first character of the sentence exceeds the right edge of the frame, a line break will be processed. , it is set as it is in the original text. In this example, for the lines below the second line, the difference between the ordinate Y2 of the sentence in the previous line and the ordinate Yl of the sentence in the previous line, Y2 - Yl, is the difference between the vertical coordinates in the corresponding original sentence. The ordinate Y2 is set to be )/1.58 times the difference in coordinates.

The pitch of characters in the translated text is set to satisfy the following equation.

(Average value of character width in font type used in translated text + pitch of translated text) = (Average value of character width in font type of original text + pitch of original text) 71.58 In this example, the value of this conversion coefficient is 1/1.58 is
This value was empirically selected so that the translated text can be accommodated in a format of the same size as the original text, taking into account the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese to English. Therefore, in this case, the translation frame accommodates approximately 2.5 times as many characters as the original frame.

This example is a Japanese-English translation device, but when performing translation between other languages, in the initial settings of this device, the starting point coordinates and pitch should be set to appropriate values according to the rate of change in the number of characters in the conversion. Select and set the conversion coefficient for .

The target document is displayed on the display screen 50 by giving instructions from the keyboard 18. At that time, purpose planning I+
At 6 hours a day, it is displayed at 171.58 times that in the 100-year book. An example of this target document is shown in FIG. 4 as a target document 142.

Corresponding to frames O to 3 in FIG. 3, frames θ to 3 are included in the same format or arrangement, and the original text 1
to 9, and translations 1 to 9 corresponding to a, b, and c,
Also includes a, b, and c.

Also, the characters “sales” and “month” in frame 2 of the original text
The text includes characters such as "5ales""Month", etc., which correspond to "5ales""Month", etc., and contains the same images and graphs as the original text.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 18 is operated, in response, the display control unit 22 and editor 12 move the sentence selection cursor in the document displayed on the display screen 50.The original document is displayed on the screen 50. If so, switch to display the target document. At this time, the target sentence corresponding to the original text indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the original document displayed on the screen 50 is indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the target document newly displayed on the screen 50.

Similarly, when the target document is displayed on the screen 50,
Switch this to display the original document. At this time, the original text corresponding to the target sentence indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the target document displayed on the screen 50 is indicated by the sentence selection cursor in the original document newly displayed on the screen 50.

Movement of the sentence selection cursor in the original document displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 9A to 8D.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 on the keyboard 1B is operated (302), if it is the cursor up key (30
4) Check whether there is a sentence previous to the sentence in the part displayed on the display screen of the frame containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently placed (30
8, 307), if the previous sentence does not exist, it is determined whether there is an earlier frame 308), and if the result is positive, the current frame content record 40 for the source document and the target document is checked. Turn off the cursor ownership flag (FIG. 12) that is on, and select the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the frame group of the document that is currently displayed on the display screen 50, either the source document or the target document. in the previous frame content record 40.

Turns on the cursor ownership flag of the last sentence displayed on the display screen, and turns on the cursor ownership flag of the sentence corresponding to the sentence whose cursor ownership flag is newly turned on in the document that is not currently displayed ( 314), Next, regarding the displayed document, display the cursor at the position indicated by the start point information of the line whose cursor ownership flag is rlJ in the frame content record 40 (322).
.

In steps 308 and 307, if the previous sentence is found to exist, the frames of the source and destination documents are
.

The cursor ownership flag of the statement immediately before the statement whose cursor ownership flag in system content record 40 is currently on.
- is turned on, the cursor ownership flag that was on until then is turned off (318), and the process moves to step 322.

Similarly, in step 304, the sentence selection cursor key 58
If the operation instructs the cursor to move down, a sentence after that sentence exists in the area displayed on the display screen of the frame that contains the sentence where the current sentence selection cursor is placed. If there is no later sentence, it is determined whether there is a later frame (312), and if the result is positive, the frame is checked for the source document and the target document. The currently on cursor ownership flag in the content record 40 is turned off, and the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the frame group of the document currently displayed on the display screen 50, either of the source document or the target document. Turn on the cursor ownership flag of the first sentence displayed on the display screen in the frame content record 40 next to the frame currently displayed, and turn on the sentence whose cursor ownership flag is newly turned on in the document that is not currently displayed. Turn on the cursor ownership flag of the statement corresponding to (31
B), proceed to step 322.

In steps 310 and 311, the previous sentence exists;
-shi4Z +-Ifis? 1.1も Turn on the cursor ownership flag of the sentence next to the sentence whose cursor ownership flag is currently on in the frame content record 40 of the letter of intent, and turn on the cursor ownership flag that was previously on. is turned off (320), and the process moves to step 322.

In this way, according to this embodiment, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including a frame, and when the display of the original document and target document is switched, they are compatible with each other. Since the original and target sentences can be clearly displayed using the sentence selection cursor, it is easy to associate the original and target sentences. Also,
Graphical information such as diagrams and graphs included in the original document is output to the target document along with their associated translations of the original language. Therefore, a target document corresponding to the original document can be obtained.

Class-1 According to the present invention, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including a frame, so that it is easy to associate the original text with the translated text. In addition, figures and graphs included in the original document are output to the target document along with their associated translations of the original language. Therefore, a target document corresponding to the original document can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a document creation/editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device. FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 3, and FIG.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a target document applied to the same embodiment. 5 to 9A to 8D are flowcharts showing examples of operation flows in the same embodiment, and FIGS. 1O to 15 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of document files in the same embodiment. It is. Description of codes for main parts io, translation section 12, editor 20, display device 22°. , display control unit 34, , document file 50°. 1 display screen 5θ0. . Page movement key 5 days 9. . Sentence selection cursor key

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame; Conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the frame; Data and purpose of the original document a storage means for accumulating document data; an output means for outputting the original document and the target document; and a control means for controlling the conversion means, the storage means, and the output means in response to the input means; When the original document data is input, the control means stores it in the storage means, sends the original text of the frame included in the original document from the storage means to the conversion means according to a predetermined frame priority order, and converts the original document data into the conversion means. Document creation characterized by causing a conversion means to create a target sentence and storing it in the storage means according to the frame, and outputting the target sentence in the storage means to the output means in a format corresponding to the original document according to the frame. Editing device. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frame includes at least one of a sentence and a figure, and the control means sends only the sentence included in the frame to the conversion means. A document creation and editing device. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means includes a display means for selectively visually displaying the original text and the target sentence, and the input means controls display of the sentences on the display means. the control means, in response to the operation of the operation means, causes the display means to display the other of the original text and the target sentence, which corresponds to the one previously displayed on the display means; A document creation and editing device characterized by: