JPH0363771B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document editing device that can easily and quickly edit the structure of a table once created.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Conventionally, there are office computers, word processors, and the like as devices for creating and editing tables in documents. These have the ability to interactively draw ruled lines and create sentences within them. Furthermore, some word processors have a function that automatically expands or contracts subzones divided by ruled lines depending on the length of input character strings.

However, a series of a plurality of areas in the vertical or horizontal direction often represent the same content item. Then insert a series of multiple area units,
When editing such as correction, deletion, movement, copying, etc., it is necessary to redraw the borders for each area of a series of multiple areas and edit the text, which is very time consuming and requires accurate editing processing. It was difficult.

[Purpose of the invention]

The object of the present invention is to provide a text editing device that eliminates such inconveniences.

[Summary of the invention]

A table generally lists items of the same level in the vertical or horizontal direction, and a series of a plurality of areas in the vertical or horizontal direction may be related in content.

Therefore, when adding, deleting, or changing the position of a new item in a table, by specifying the area at the beginning of the item, you can handle the series of vertical or horizontal items to which the item belongs as a whole. It is characterized by being made possible.

This makes it easy to edit item by item according to the contents written in the table, to easily and quickly edit the table, and to improve the efficiency of text creation.

[Embodiments of the invention]

The details of the present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, a display device 6 consisting of, for example, a CRT display for displaying textual information (including tables), an input device 1 consisting of a tablet input device, etc. for inputting textual information, and input from the input device 1 are shown. An input control unit 2 that converts input codes into document information, an editing processing unit 3 for creating the input document information as a document, a document storage unit 7 for storing the results, and a document storage unit 7 for storing the created document information. Display control unit 5 for displaying on display 6
It consists of

In FIG. 2, a "table" made up of ruled lines 7 is displayed as document information indicating the document information displayed on the display device 6. As shown in FIG. Further, areas divided by vertical and horizontal ruled lines are called subzones, and are divided into, for example, a ₁ to a ₄ .

The editing unit of a series of subzones, which is a feature of the present invention, is that subzones a ₁ to a ₄ can be collectively treated as an editing unit 8 .

FIG. 3 conceptually shows a state in which a "table" 7 is stored in the document storage device 4. As shown in FIG. That is, subzone b ₁ in Figure 2 is defined by the relative position t ₁ from the paper, the width t _{2 of that subzone, and the character string t 3 input} in that subzone, as shown in t ₁ to t ₃ in Figure 3. remembers information.

For example, when attempting to delete the entire series of subzone units 8 for "table" 7, the input device 1 indicates the position of 9 in "table" 7 displayed on the display device 6. The code is input to the input control section 2 and converted into an address on the display device and the storage device 4 where the information in the "table" 7 is stored. Further, a function key indicating that a series of subzone units will be handled is inputted from the input device 1 and passed through the input control section 2 to the editing processing section 3. Furthermore, a "delete" function key is input from the input device 1 and is passed to the editing processing section 3 via the input control section 2. The editing processing section 3 searches the storage device 4 for the subzone position _t1 by checking the address. Assuming that the position specified by position 9 is in the vertical direction as a series of subzones, all subzones whose _t1 information has a single value in the X direction are detected, and the subzones are deleted. The display editing section 5 outputs the result to the display 6. FIG. 4 shows this state.

FIG. 6 shows details of the editing circuit that executes the above processing.

The position data input to the editing processing section 3 is input to the editing circuit as In ₁ and enters the input instruction data buffer 11. In ₁ is, for example, (150, 0) at position 9 in FIG. Next, the editing processing section 3
When a function key is input to process a series of subzones, it is input as In ₂ to the editing circuit. Then In ₂ is sequential readout circuit 1
2 is activated, and the subzone positions of the table data in the storage device 4 are sequentially read out. Then, the read subzone position is sent to the subzone position comparison circuit 13 and compared with the value of _In1 . Since In ₁ is (150, 0), since the Y position is "0", it is recognized as a series of subzones in the vertical direction, and a series of subzone positions are stored only for the same subzone as the X position "150". The data are sequentially stored in the buffer 14. That is, the subzone position "(150,0)",
"(150, 50)", "(150, 100)", "(150, 150)"
' No. 4
The subzones are stored in a series of subzone location storage buffers 14.

Next, when the "delete" function key is input to the editing processing section 3, a deletion code is input as In ₃ to the editing circuit. When In ₃ is input, the editing processing execution circuit 15 sequentially reads out subzone positions from a series of subzone position storage buffers 14.
The subzone data corresponding to the subzone position on the storage device 4 is sequentially deleted.

Similarly, when the "Move" function key is input, the series of subzones 8 are moved all at once by specifying the destination position.
It will be displayed as shown in Figure 5.

In a similar manner, editing processes such as "insertion", "correction", "copy", etc. can be performed on a series of subzones all at once.

Also, position specification 9 was entered to define a series of subzones in the vertical direction as shown in 8, but if you want to define a series of subzones in the horizontal direction, for example, specify position 10 to define a series of subzones horizontally. It can be defined in the direction.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a user can edit a table more easily, speedily, and accurately, and processing efficiency can be greatly improved compared to the conventional method.

In addition to the embodiments described above, the input device may be an input device consisting of a kana keyboard and function keys instead of a tablet device, as long as it can instruct handling of a series of subzones. In addition, the structure of the table stored in the storage device is made up of the subzone position, width, and subzone data. Any method may be used as long as the subzones and which subzones are a series of subzones can be recognized.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention,
Figure 2 shows the "table" displayed on the display screen, Figure 3 shows an example of the contents transferred to the storage device, and Figure 4 shows the result of deleting a series of subzones of the "table" in Figure 2. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the result of moving a series of subzones of the "table" in FIG. 2, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an editing circuit. 1... Input device, 2... Input control section, 3... Editing processing section, 4... Storage device, 5... Display editing section,
6...Output device, 7...Table, 8...Series of subzones, 9...Position for indicating a series of subzones (vertical direction), 10...Position for indicating a series of subzones (horizontal direction).

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input section equipped with character keys for inputting sentences and character strings, control keys for editing created character strings, and ruled line creation keys for tabulating, and for analyzing information input from the input section. An input key analysis section, an editing section that creates and edits sentences and tables according to the input information analyzed by the input key analysis section, a storage section that stores the created sentences and tables, and a storage section that stores the created sentences and tables. In a text/table creation/editing device consisting of a display section that displays a table, it is possible to treat continuous vertically or horizontally continuous areas as one group among multiple areas divided by ruled lines in the created table. A command key is provided, and by inputting the said key and the control key for table editing such as "move", "correction", "delete", etc., the table data stored in the storage unit can be changed in the vertical or horizontal direction of the table. A document editing device equipped with an editing circuit for collectively editing continuous areas.