JPH01292565A - Document editing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the document editing performance by displaying the page data to be moved and designated by a user onto a display screen in a form different from other page data and at the same time displaying the inserting position of said page data to be moved. CONSTITUTION:When an electronic pen 6, for example, is put down to the display position of the data on a page to be moved on the screen of a display 2 by a user, said page data is displayed with inversion, for instance, in a different form from other page data. Then the user puts the pen 6 down to the inserting position of the page to be moved. Thus said inserting position is displayed on the display 2 by an arrow head, for example, in such a form where the inserting position is specified before or after the certain one of plural page data. Then the data on the page to be moved is moved to its inserting position and the document information is changed within a floppy disk unit 10 storing the document information. Thus the replacement of pages is through. In such a way, the document editing performance is improved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding a document editing method that facilitates page-by-page replacement of a created document, the page can be replaced without errors by clearly indicating the position to which the page to be moved is to be moved. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document editing method with a better man-machine interface function, in a system having a processing device with a display, a plurality of pages created by a user and stored in a memory in the system. When page data representing each page of document information is displayed on the screen of the display, page data to be moved specified by the user is displayed in a format different from page data other than the page data, and the page data specified by the user is displayed in a format different from page data other than the page data. The specified insertion position of the page to be moved is placed consecutively on the display screen among the previous year's plural page data.

Display between two page data display areas, before the first page data display area, or after the last page data display area, and move the displayed page data to be moved to the displayed insertion position, The document information in the memory is configured to be changed.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a document editing method in a display-equipped processing device such as a personal computer, a word processor, or a multimedia multimedia communication terminal, and more particularly to a document editing method that facilitates page-by-page replacement of a created document.

[Conventional technology]

With the recent development of data communications, services for users are becoming increasingly sophisticated. There is a composite communication terminal as a communication terminal for providing such advanced services to users. This is capable of supporting multimedia communication services such as voice, images, and text, and sends document information including graphics, image information, etc. and drawing commands to the other party's terminal via the network, while continuing the conversation using voice. It is used for telewriting (graphical communication), such as adding underlines and comments to document information displayed on the display of the other party's terminal, and for creating documents to be sent as e-mails. ``An example of a block diagram of such a composite communication terminal is shown in FIG. 15. In the figure, ■ is a CPU.

A display 2 such as a CRT displays the contents of the video memory 3 under the control of a display controller 4. A transparent tablet 5 is installed on the display surface of the display 2. By bringing the electronic pen 6 into contact with the tablet, input can be performed via the tablet controller 7 while corresponding to the displayed content. Furthermore, the keyboard 8 can also be used as another input means. 9 is a main memory; 10 is a document information storage device, such as a floppy disk unit, for storing document information created for purposes such as e-mail; reading and writing of data is controlled by a floppy disk controller 11. Furthermore, 12 is a handset for telewriting, etc., 13 is a telephone control unit, 14 is a transmission control unit for sending input drawing data and document information as e-mail to the other party's terminal, and 15 is a common bus. be.

Conventional methods for editing documents created for the purpose of using e-mail, etc. as an example of service in a communication network having such a composite communication terminal, especially methods for replacing pages in documents created page by page. An example will be explained with reference to FIG. In the figure, 1 to 1 are displayed on the screen of display 2.
It is assumed that the page number 5 and the title of each page are displayed. □
゛Figure 16 (In al, the user says ゛ and
5. Assume that we want to exchange the program table '.

5 program table is to be moved, and when the user touches the display position with, for example, the electronic pen 6, that is, moves the pen down, this display area is, for example, reversed, indicating that it has become the movement target area. .

Next, the user moves the electronic pen 6 down again to the position to which he wants to move the "5 program table". Figure 16 (in bl'
If you want to move it to the position of ``3 Schedule'', move the pen down to this display area and move it to the position of ``3 Schedule'' on the screen.
For example, the display area is reversed, and the page to be moved is “5”.
The program table' display area is returned to normal display and is surrounded by a dotted line frame.

'The user moves the electronic pen 6 to ゛3 on the screen of the display 2.
When the schedule is moved away from the display position, that is, when the pen is raised, the program table is displayed under '3 schedule'' as shown in the same figure (C1), the page number is also changed, and page replacement is completed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional example of the page replacement method shown in FIG. 16, the user sets the position to which the page to be moved is to be displayed, for example, the "3 schedule" display position, and the user lowers the electronic pen 6 to this position.However, this instruction method In this case, the page to be moved is on the '3 schedule', that is, on the '2 schedule'.
Unless the user tries it once, he or she will not know whether it will fall between "President's Greetings" or between "4 Closing Remarks", and the functionality of the terminal as a man-machine interface may vary. There was a problem with it being bad.

An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing method that enables error-free page replacement by clearly indicating the position to which a page to be moved is to be moved, and provides a better man-machine interface function.

[Means and operations for solving the problems] A functional block diagram of the present invention is shown in FIG. First, the user
For example, when you move the electronic pen 6 down to the page data display position such as the page title of the page you want to move on the screen, the page data to be moved is displayed in a format different from other page data at step 16, for example, it is displayed in reverse video. be done.

Next, when the user moves the electronic pen 6 down to the position where he or she wants to insert the page to be moved, the screen is displayed in a format that allows the user to know at step 17 whether the insertion position is before or after the data in the plurality of page data. It is displayed on the screen of the display 2, for example, as an arrow.

At step 18, the page data to be moved is moved to the insertion position, and at step 1
At step 9, the document information is changed in the floppy disk unit 1-10 storing the document information, and the page replacement is completed.

As described above, in the present invention, the insertion position of the page to be moved is clearly specified by specifying the insertion position before the first page data, between two page data, or after the last page data. be able to. Although it is assumed here that the page to be moved is specified by the user before its insertion position, it is of course possible to specify the insertion position first.

〔Example〕

Since the document editing method of the present invention is used in the multifunction communication terminal shown in FIG. 15, using the numbers of the constituent blocks,
An example of page replacement will be explained with reference to FIG. In the figure, page numbers and page titles are displayed for pages 1 to 5. In the same figure (al), the user first selects display 2.
When, for example, the electronic pen 6 is moved down on the page to be moved, in this case the program table 5, on the screen, this display area is displayed in reverse, for example.

Next, when the user removes the electronic pen 6 from the screen of the display 2, the display area of '5 program table' is surrounded by, for example, a dotted line frame in (b), and at the same time, for example, 'Page, page title' and '1' are displayed at the bottom. An arrow pointing between the two display areas "" appears on the screen.

1- The user operates the electronic pen 6 or the keyboard '8, and (
C), move this arrow to the target page '5 Program table'
The position where you want to insert the ``3 schedule'' and ``
4.Move it between ゛ on the bed. After that, when the user removes the electronic pen 6 from the screen of the display 2 or presses the return key on the keyboard 8, the screen display changes to (
dl, and pages 4 and 5 in FIG. 4(a) are exchanged.

At the same time, necessary changes are made to the data stored in the floppy disk unit 10.

Reference data for explaining flowchart 1- of the embodiment will be explained using the page data format of FIG. 3 and the page data and arrow display area of FIG. 4. In Fig. 3, the document's gouge index includes information such as page title, data size, data start address, etc. for each page.
It consists of four items: and page number, and it is assumed that these data exist for the number of pages.

The number Lv of dots in the vertical width and the number RH of dots in the horizontal width are used as reference data indicating the crosshatch portion in FIG. 4, that is, the one-page data display area. The entire page data display area is determined by its vertical width (1-number RV), horizontal dot number (R)l, and coordinates of the starting point of the display area (Xo, Yo).
Hail to you.

Further, as reference data for indicating the arrow display area, the vertical width of the arrow, the number of dots Av, and the horizontal width of 1 to several AM are used.

Flowcharts of page replacement outlined in FIG. 2 are shown in FIGS. 5 to 9. When the user moves the electronic pen 6 on the screen of the display 2 by pen-down, pen-amplifier (releases the pen), or moves the pen, or performs arrow movement using keyboard input, all these operations are performed as an interrupt in the steps shown in Fig. 5. 21 will be analyzed. Here, it is determined whether the input is pen input or keyboard input, and in the case of pen input, it is further determined in step 22 whether it is pen down, pen amplifier, or pen movement.

2 (al), when the user moves the electronic pen 6 down to the page data display area of the page to be moved, the 6th
Move to the flow shown in the diagram. First, in step 23, it is determined whether a flag indicating that an arrow is already displayed is set. Here the arrow is not shown and step 2
In step 4, area analysis ■ is performed. This analysis is based on the starting point coordinates (Xo, Y
o) This is for determining whether the pen-down position is within the next step 257 page data display area using the vertical width Rv and horizontal width RH of the page data display area.

If it is determined in step 25 that the pen-down position is within the page data display area, a page search is performed in step 2G. In other words, the number of pages and coordinates (X
o, Yo), the vertical width Lv of the one-page data display area, and the above-mentioned RH to search which page the pen-down position indicates. Thereafter, in step 27, the display area of the corresponding page data is inverted, the corresponding page number is stored in the variable 'P' indicating the movement page number, and the process ends. At this time, the number 10 on the screen of display 2 is
It will be in the state shown in the figure. Further, if it is determined in step 25 that the page data is outside the page data display area, '0' is set in P and the process ends.

If the position where the user lowers the pen is exactly the same as the page the user wants to move, that is, if the user lowers the pen to the correct position, the user can move the electronic pen 6.
When the pen is released from the screen, the Zunawaji pen is raised and the flow shown in Figure 7 starts. First, in step 28, it is determined whether a flag indicating that an arrow is being displayed is set. Since the arrow is not displayed yet, the process moves to step 29. In step 29, the area to be moved that is being displayed in reverse returns to its original normal display, and the frame is changed to a dotted line. In the next step 30, a flag indicating that the arrow is being displayed is set, and in step 31, the arrow is displayed above the first page, and the variable R indicating the arrow position is set to "1°".
and complete the process.

At this time, the screen will be in a state as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, if the first pen-down position of the electronic pen 6 does not match the page to which the user wants to move =13-, the user does not immediately raise the pen and moves the pen on the screen of the display 2. I ended up having to
At this time, the flow shown in FIG. 8 instead of FIG. 7 starts. First, in step 32, it is determined whether the flag is set. Since no arrow is displayed here, the above-mentioned area analysis (2) is performed in step 33, and it is determined in step 34 whether or not the pen movement position is within the page data display area. If it is within the area, a page search is performed in step 35 to check which page the electronic pen 6 has moved to. In step 36, it is determined whether the page number of the search result matches the variable P indicating the movement page number, and if different, step 3
Return the highlighted area in step 7 to the original normal display, and enter the new page number of the search results in variable P in step 38.
In step 39, the new page data display area is inverted and the process ends. At this time, the screen will be in the state shown in FIG. 12.

If the page number of the search result matches the variable P in step 36, it means that the indicated page position remains the same even if the electronic pen 6 is moved, and the process ends. Furthermore, if it is determined in step 34 that the movement position is outside the page data display area, this will result in an input error, so in step 40 it is determined whether the movement page number P is .
If ゛, leave as is, and if not 0, step 4
At step 1, P is set to 0, and at step 42, the inverted area is returned to its original normal display, and the process ends.

When the user presses the pen after the correct page data to be moved is inverted by moving the pen on the screen of the display 2, the processes from steps 28 to 31 in the flow of FIG. The state shown in FIG. 11 is reached, and the user then starts specifying the position where the page is to be inserted.

That is, first, the user moves the electronic pen 6 down to the arrow pointing above the first page data on the current screen, and the process shown in FIG. 6 is started.

Since the flag has already been set here, the process moves from step 23 to step 43. Step 43 area analysis■
Now, among the reference data, the vertical width Av, the horizontal width AM of the arrow, and the above-mentioned (Xo, Yo), R+.

Lv and the value of the variable R are used to check whether the pen down position is at the arrow display position. If it is determined that the arrow display position is reached using the steering knob 44, the arrow is reversed in step 45, and the variable "S" is set to "°1'" indicating that the arrow is being selected.
Processing ends as . At this time, the screen will be in the state shown in FIG. 13. Further, if it is determined in step 44 that the pen-down position does not match the arrow position, step 45 is not executed (the process ends).

Next, the user generally moves the arrow to the position where the page he wants to move is inserted, and the flow shown in FIG. 8 when moving the pen begins. Here, since the flag indicating that the arrow is being displayed has already been set, the process moves from step 32 to step 46. In the area analysis (■) of step 46, the reference data AV, AM,'(X(l
,Yo).

Using Rs and the vertical width Rv of the page data display area, it is checked whether the pen movement position is within the arrow display area.

If it is determined in the next step 47 that the pen is outside the display area, it is assumed that the pen has moved outside the area due to a user error, and the process ends. On the other hand, if it is determined that it is within the display area, it is determined in step 48 whether or not the variable S is 1''.

If the user's operations have been performed correctly, this judgment is not necessary as the value is 371 at step 45 in Figure 6, but if the user makes a mistake and moves the pen without touching the arrow when the pen is down. , step 43 to step 4
This is for executing the process No.5. If S=1, area analysis (2) is performed in step 49.

In area analysis ■, it is determined whether or not it is necessary to move the arrow by pen movement, that is, whether the pen is still pointing at the arrow that has been displayed from the front using the reference data Av,
AM, (Xo, Yo).

R) Check using the values of l, LV, and variable R. In the next step 50, if it is determined that the arrow is pointing to a different position from the previously displayed arrow, then in step 51, the page number of the page data below the new pointing position is set to the variable R, for example, page 1 and page 2. If the interval = 17-, then enter 2゛, move the arrow display position in step 52, and complete the process, so that the screen becomes as shown in Fig. 14.

If the user performs the above operations without error and after the process shown in FIG. 8 is completed in step 52 or step 5o of FIG. After step 28, document information replacement processing is performed in step 53. That is, the document information is replaced within the floppy disk unit 10 that stores the document information using the variable P indicating the page to be moved and the variable R indicating the insertion position.

Thereafter, in step 54, O'' is assigned to all variables P, R, and S, the flag indicating that the arrow is being displayed is turned off, and in step 55, the screen display on the display 2 is corrected, and the process is terminated.

Figure 9 shows a case where the arrow movement is performed not with the electronic pen 6 but with input from the keyboard 8 after the processing up to step 31 in Figure 7 is completed and the screen is in the state shown in Figure 11. It's a coach yard.

If it is determined in step 21 of FIG. 5 that the interrupt is from the keyboard 8, the process moves to step 56 of FIG. In step 56, it is determined that the flag indicating the arrow is set, and therefore, court analysis in step 57 is performed. This code analysis analyzes which key the input code on the keyboard 8 corresponds to. When it is determined that the key is a down key that moves the arrow down, it is determined in step 58 which page the arrow is on. If the value of the variable R shown is the maximum value Q that the variable R can take, for example, the total number of pages is 5'', it is compared with Q = 6.Here, R = 6 is when the arrow is at the bottom of page 5. .If R and Q are not equal, step 59 sets R to R+
, 1 is substituted, and in step 60, the arrow is moved to the lower position by one position, and the process ends.

Each time the user presses the downward movement key on the keyboard I.'8, the processing from steps 56 to 60 is repeated, and the arrow moves down one position each time. When the arrow reaches the page insertion position and the user presses, for example, a return key, the code analysis in step 57 proceeds to step 53 in FIG. At steps 53, 54, and 55, the document information in the Fronopy Disk Unisoto 10 is replaced, the screen display is corrected, etc., and the processing power is completed in the near winter.

If the user forgets to press the return key on keyboard l-'8 when the arrow reaches the page insertion position and then presses the down key, the arrow will eventually reach the bottom position of the last page. If the user does not further press the downward movement key, R2O is determined in step 58, and the value of variable R is set to 1'' in step 61, and an arrow is displayed at the top of the first page, that is, at the top position, and processing is performed. In addition, if it is determined in step 56 that the flag is not set due to a user's mistake, or if it is determined in step 57 that the user has pressed a key other than the down key or the return key, , the processing ends as is.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to clearly specify the position where a page to be moved is to be inserted when replacing pages, and it is possible to improve the functionality of document editing as a man-machine interface of a processing device with a display. becomes possible.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, and FIG. 2(a) to
(d) is a diagram showing an example of page replacement in the present invention; FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the data format of page data; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing page data and arrow display areas; 9 to 9 are flowcharts of the embodiment (parts 1 to 5), FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the display state of the page to be moved (pen down position), and FIG. 11 is the display of the arrow for indicating the page insertion position. Figure 12 is a diagram showing the displayed state of the page to be moved (pen movement position), Figure 13 is a diagram showing the selection state of the arrow, and Figure 14 is a display of the insertion position of the page to be moved. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a composite communication terminal block. FIGS. 16 (al to (C) are diagrams showing a conventional example of a method for replacing pages of document information. 2... Display, 6...Electronic pen, 8...Keyboard, 10...Frosopy disk Unisoto.Patent applicant: Fujitsu Ltd.-22= Flowchart of Implementation Ida J (Part 5) Figure 9. The dog pillar is moving, and the hole is 4t.
L position) Go to Fig. 10 - Insertion position arrow display #- state, Fig. 11 Fig. 12 arrow in stationary state, Fig. 13 7'> 9. Scale operation/adjustment The 14th position of the 14th
figure

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim] In a system having a processing device with a display, a memory (10
) The page data representing each page of multi-page document information stored in page units is displayed on the display (
2), displaying page data to be moved specified by the user in a format different from page data other than the page data (16); on the display (2) screen, between two consecutive page data display areas among the multiple page data, before the first page data display area, or before the last page data display area. (17), moves the page data to be moved that has been displayed (16) to the insertion position that has been displayed (17) (18), and changes the document information in the memory (10) (19). A document editing method characterized by: