JPH05101068A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a document processing device capable of changing the character size when replacing a document. [Structure] A document storage means for storing the contents of a document, a search word setting means for setting a search word for searching a document stored in the document storage means, and a search for this search word for a document. A search means to perform, a character size designating means for designating the changed character size for the word searched by the search means, and a character size changing for changing the word searched by the search means to the character size specified by the character size designating means. And a document processing device.
Then, let us specify the character size when replacing the search term,
When the search is done, we will change the font size for that word.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention searches for a specific character or a character string in a created document, such as a Japanese word processor or a workstation or a computer having a Japanese processing function, The present invention relates to a document processing device having a function of replacing the retrieved word / phrase with another word / phrase.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Document processing devices such as word processors, workstations, computers, etc. have become widespread, and there are many opportunities to create sentences and figures using them. Since such a document created by these document processing devices is digitized, it is possible to easily search for a specific phrase, display the corresponding phrase on a display such as a CRT, or the corresponding phrase. Can be replaced with other words. For example, you can search for the word "language" in a document that has already been created or in the process of creating it, and display these words in order from the beginning or end of the document, or change the word "language" to "language".
Can be converted collectively or selectively.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional document processing apparatus, it is possible to search for a predetermined word / phrase in the created text and replace the searched word / phrase with another word / phrase. At this time, although various conditions for the search can be set, the word to be replaced is the same as the character size of the replacement word input at the time of replacement. For this reason, for example, in a document processing apparatus of the "WYSIWYG View" format which displays a document on the image memory in the same image as printing,
I couldn't change the font size while looking at the screen.

Of course, even the conventional device can change the character size at the time of printing. However, in such a character size change, printing will be performed without confirmation on the display screen, so if the changed character size is too different, the layout of the document may be disturbed or the balance between characters may be lost. It brought about such a result. In addition, with the method of formatting at the time of printing, it is possible to change the character size of the entire document, but it is not possible to make detailed size specifications such as changing the character size for particular words to emphasize them. It was

Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of changing the character size when replacing a document.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of changing the character size of words and phrases in a specified range when displaying a document on a bitmap display. ..

A third object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of changing the character size without knowing the specific value of the character size before the change.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a document storage means for storing the contents of a document, and a search word for setting a search word for searching the document stored in the document storage means are set. The setting means, the searching means for searching the document for this search word, the character size specifying means for specifying the changed character size for the word searched by the searching means, and the word searched by the searching means for this character The document processing apparatus is provided with character size changing means for changing the character size designated by the size designating means.

That is, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the character size at the time of replacement of a search word is designated, and when the search is performed, the character size is changed for that word, thereby achieving the first object. To achieve.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the document storage means for storing the contents of the document, the search word / phrase setting means for setting the search word / phrase for searching the document stored in the document storage means, and the document On the other hand, search means for searching the search word and phrase, and character size specifying means for specifying the changed character size for the word searched by this search means,
A character size changing means for changing the word / phrase searched by the searching means to the character size designated by the character size designating means, and a bitmap for displaying the content of the document before and after the modification in the same image as it is printed. A display is provided in the document processing device.

That is, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the character size at the time of replacing the search term is designated, and when the search is performed, the character size is changed for the word, while the text before and after the replacement is displayed on the bitmap display. Is displayed to achieve the second object described above.

According to the present invention, in the invention according to claim 1 or 2, if the character size is designated by the information showing the difference between the character size before and after the change of the search term. For example, it is possible to make a relative designation such that the character size is increased by 2 points or decreased by 1 point, and the third object described above can be achieved.

[0013]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 2 shows the external appearance of the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. This document processing device includes a keyboard 11 and a mouse 12 as input devices.
And a bitmap display 13 as an output device
And a main body device 14 for performing various controls. The keyboard 11, mouse 12, and bitmap display 13 are arranged on the work desk 15. This document processing device is connected to a device such as a printer or various servers shared with other document processing devices via a cable for a local area network (LAN) not shown. Of course, it is also possible to connect a dedicated printer and print out necessary information without going through such a local area network.

Documents to be searched and the like can be displayed on the bitmap display 13 in a multi-window format, and various kinds of processing can be executed while the position is determined using a cursor such as the graphic cursor 16. The mouse 12 is a pointing device. Device body 1
As described below, circuit components such as a CPU (central processing unit) and a large-capacity external recording device are housed in the unit 4.

FIG. 1 shows the main part of the circuit configuration of this document processing apparatus. CPU of this document processing device
The (central processing unit) 21 is connected to the next circuit device via a bus 22 and is adapted to perform various controls such as creation of sentences and figures, retrieval and replacement of character strings in the document being created. ing.

(I) Communication board 23: This is a board used when this document processing apparatus communicates with another apparatus for printing data or the like.

(Ii) Memory management unit (MM
U) 24: Control is performed to read data from the main memory 25, which is a random access memory, and transfer the data to the bus 22, or conversely, store the data in the main memory 25.

(Iii) DMA (Direct Memory Access) 2
6: Peripheral device and main memory 25 without going through CPU 21
Control for direct transfer of data between the two.

(Iv) Baud rate generator / interval timer 27: Generates a reference clock and generates a signal for use in communication and timing operation.

(V) Communication board 2 for input
8: Composed of an interface circuit and connected to the keyboard 11 for data input. A mouse 12 as a pointing device is connected to the keyboard 11.

(Vi) Two-port RAM 32: equipped with a buffer memory, and 5 via the hard disk controller 33
It is connected to the inch hard disk 34. A control program for this data processing device is stored in the 5-inch hard disk 53, which is stored in the main memory 25 to control each part of the device. The 5-inch hard disk 34 also stores necessary data.

(Vii) CRT controller 35: A controller for controlling the display of the bit map display (CRT) 13.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a screen display of the document processing apparatus having the above configuration. The bitmap display 13 has various icons (pictograms) 41.
At the same time, two windows 42 and 43 are displayed. Initially, these icons 41 are only displayed as a list on the bitmap display 13. The operator can open a desired number of windows by selecting a desired one of these icons 41.

In one window 43 shown in FIG. 3,
It is assumed that the document already created or the document being created is displayed. It is assumed that the document in this window 43 is searched and the searched word is replaced with a desired word. In this case, the operator displays the menu window 46 on the screen by, for example, designating a predetermined mark provided in the upper area 45 of the window 43 with the mouse 12. Various work items are displayed in the menu window 46. The operator can set the document processing apparatus to the search mode by designating the item "search" from the work items with the graphic cursor 16.

FIG. 4 shows the contents of the window developed on the bitmap display in the search mode. Upper area 5 of this search window 51
In 2, a title of "multiple search options" and commands of "close", "start", "change" and "reset" are displayed.

When closing the search window 51, the operator designates a "close" command with the mouse 12. When starting the search, the "start" command is specified. Once the "Start" command is pressed to initiate the search, this command changes to a "Continue" command. The "continue" command is for continuing the search for the next word without replacing the target word when the word is searched. The “change” command gives an instruction to replace the searched word / phrase with the corresponding replacement word / phrase. The “reset” command is for resetting various conditions set in the window 51.

By the way, in the area below the upper area 52 in the search window 51, the items designating the search mode are arranged in the upper half portion thereof. Here, in the item of "function selection", it is possible to select whether to perform only the search or to replace the searched word / phrase with a desired word / phrase. In this example, the replacement is done.

In the item "confirmation", it is possible to specify whether or not confirmation is required for each replacement of the retrieved word / phrase. Since confirmation is required in this example, if the operator presses "change", the replacement is performed, and if "continue" is pressed, the next word is searched.

In the item of "search condition", it is possible to specify the relevant part of the part "including the deleted part" and the part "ignoring the case". When the part "including the deleted part" is specified, the part deleted in the sentence is also searched. In the document processing apparatus of this embodiment, the deleted text portion is left as data, so that the deleted portion can be searched. When the "ignore case" is specified, the search is performed by ignoring the difference between uppercase and lowercase letters such as English. In this embodiment, none of the two conditions described above is selected as the search condition.

In the item "search range", four range designations can be selected. Of these, "entire document"
Means that the entire document is the search range. “Remaining document” means to search from the portion designated by the cursor. "Selecting" means indicating both the start position and the end position of the search and performing the search within that range.
The "search also in the frame" refers to a case where a frame is set for a figure or a document, and the search is performed inside the frame. In the present embodiment, the entire document is targeted for search, but the words within the frame are not searched.

In the area below these in the search window 51, the character string to be searched and the character string to be replaced and the size change amount for changing the character size at the time of replacement are input. FIG. 4 shows a state in which these inputs have not been performed yet.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the contents of the window in a state in which a character string or the like to be searched is input. "* (Asterisk)" is entered in the "search character string" and "replacement character string" fields. In this device, the asterisk means the entire document. That is, in this example, the entire document is the replacement target. Of course, the operator can specify one or several characters of the search term to perform these replacements.

A size change column is provided to the right of the "replacement character string" column. In this example, numerical data "+4" is input to the size change field from the keyboard 11 (FIG. 1). Since this document processing apparatus is designed to display the character size in points, this means that the character size is expanded by 4 points.

FIG. 6 shows a flow of work for replacing a search term when the above-mentioned instructions regarding the search are given. The CPU 21 shown in FIG. 1 points to the beginning of the range to be searched when the search and replacement work is started (step S101 in FIG. 6). In the case of this example, since the entire document is the search target, the beginning of the document is designated. In this state, when the character string indicated by the pointer is viewed in order from the beginning, it is determined whether or not this corresponds to the search character string (step S102). If not, the pointer is advanced (step S103), and unless the advanced position has reached the end position of the search range (step S104), the process returns to step S102 to search for the search character string. When the pointer reaches the lower limit of the search range in step S104, the search has been completed, and the control for the search and replacement is completed (return).

If the search character string is found in step S102 (Y), it is determined whether or not to replace it with the replacement character string (step S105). If there is no need to replace, that is, if the "continue" command is specified (N), the process returns to step S103, the pointer is advanced to the next search position, and the search operation is started.

On the other hand, if replacement of the retrieved character string is instructed (step S105; Y), then
It is determined whether or not an instruction to change the character size has been given (step S106). When the change of the character size is not instructed (N), the searched character string in the document is replaced with the replacement character string (step S10).
7). In the case of the present embodiment, both of them represent the entire document, and as a result, the same result as if they were not replaced can be obtained.

On the other hand, when the change of the character size is instructed in step S106 (Y), the attribute of the character string in the document is extracted (step S108). This attribute also contains the font size of the document currently being processed.

The CPU 21 (FIG. 1) adds the numerical value entered in the "size change" column to this character size. Then, the applicable range is changed to the character size of the value obtained as a result (step S109). And step S1
Proceeding to 07, the character string in the document is replaced.

FIG. 7 shows the state of the window displaying the contents of the document before the character size is changed. In the window 43, 6-point, 8-point and 10-point characters are mixed. If the operator feels that the character size is generally small after creating such a document, the designation as shown in FIG. 5 is made.

FIG. 8 shows the display state of the window after the character size is changed in step S106 of FIG. The size of each character in the document is increased by 4 points to be 10, 12, and 14 points, respectively. If the operator looks at this screen display and decides to increase the point size by another point, he / she inputs the numerical data “+1” in the size change field of FIG. 5 and performs the same operation as above. You can do it. The character size can be reduced by the same operation, or the character size can be restored to the original character size by inputting numerical data "-4".

Further, when the operator thinks that only the character "Reflection in '89" should be made larger, the operator inputs this word in the search character string and the replacement character string in FIG. Then, the amount of size to be increased may be input in points in the size change field.

The change of the character size as described above in the document processing apparatus is realized by actually changing the size of the character written in the bit map memory arranged in the CRT controller 35 (FIG. 1). Become.

According to the present invention, if the character size is designated by the amount of change in size, even a person who is not familiar with the character size can set the proper size while checking the display. There is an advantage that you can.

[0045]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the invention, the work of searching and replacing characters and the work of changing character size can be performed in parallel.
For example, it is possible to edit a document while simultaneously solving problems related to the character size and the number of characters, such as the limitation of the number of characters when replacing with a large character, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of document editing.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to display the situation such as the change of the character size on the bitmap display in the same image as that for printing and to confirm it. Therefore, it is possible to avoid the situation of reprinting. You can
Not only can business efficiency be improved, but it can also be used for resource conservation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main part of a circuit configuration of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the document processing apparatus according to this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an example of a screen display of the document processing apparatus of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of a window developed on a bitmap display in a search mode in this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing the contents of the window in a state where a character string or the like to be searched is input in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of a search word replacement operation in the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a window showing an example of a sentence before a character size is changed in the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of this window after the character size is changed in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Keyboard, 12 ... Mouse, 13 ... Bitmap display, 21 ... CPU, 34 ... 5-inch hard disk, 42, 43 ... Window, 51 ...
… Search window

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document storage means for storing the contents of a document, a search word setting means for setting a search word for searching a document stored in the document storage means, and the search word for the document. And a character size designating means for designating the changed character size for the phrase searched by this searching means, and a word size searched for by the searching means to a character size designated by this character size designating means. A document processing apparatus comprising: a character size changing unit for changing the character size. 2. A document storage unit for storing contents of a document, a search phrase setting unit for setting a search phrase for searching a document stored in the document storage unit, and the search phrase for the document. And a character size designating means for designating the changed character size for the phrase searched by this searching means, and a word size searched for by the searching means to a character size designated by this character size designating means. A document processing apparatus, comprising: a character size changing unit for changing; and a bit map display for displaying the contents of the document before and after the change with the same image as printed.