JPH05282297A - Document creation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently execute the preparing work of a document by setting the frame of the document in conformity with format such as the layout of columns, the amount of the overrunning of a character, and the amount of the overrunning of a line, etc. CONSTITUTION:It is assumed, for instance, that four columns of width W and height H are arranged at intervals D on the paper sheet of A-4 size, and the position of each column (coordinates of left upper point of column) is (DX1,DY1),(DX1,DY2),(DX1, DY3), (DX1,DY4), and the size of the character is CS, the amount of the overrunning of the character is CY, and the amount of the overrunning of the line is CX, and the style of writing is vertical writing. Besides, the origin of a coordinate system in the document is the left upper point of the document, and a horizontal direction is an X-direction, and a vertical direction is a Y-direction. Then the frame in the document is set in conformity with format information such as the layout of the column, the amount of the overrunning of the character Cy, and the amount of the overrunning of the line CX, etc. Thus, the column is displayed in an area in-conformity- with the format of the layout and a sentence to be set in the document, and at the time of setting the frame in the document, the position of the frame is corrected automatically so as to lie along the column.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document producing apparatus such as a desktop publishing system capable of producing manuscripts such as newspapers and magazines by providing a plurality of columns within a page.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a document creating apparatus such as a desktop publishing system capable of easily creating documents having various layouts has been widely used.

Conventionally, the layout of newspapers, magazines, etc. is determined based on a column set in a predetermined number of pages, as shown in FIG. In a conventional document creation device, a frame of arbitrary size can be set at an arbitrary position in a document, but in the case of newspapers, magazines, etc., as shown in FIG.
A manuscript is created by setting a plurality of frames according to the headline and the text and inputting a sentence in each frame. In FIG. 16, a frame 111, a frame 114, and a frame 117 are heading frames, and are frames 112, 113, and 116, a frame 115, and a frame 1, respectively.
Reference numeral 18 is a frame for the text corresponding to each of the above-mentioned headings.
When setting a frame in a page, each frame must be set along the columns and lines of the text (text) in the page.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional document creating apparatus, when setting each frame, the operator himself considers the column setting of the original document and the amount of line feed in the text. It was necessary to calculate the position and size of the.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a document creating apparatus which facilitates setting of columns and frames along lines of a text, and can easily create originals such as newspapers and magazines. The purpose is to

[0006]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention stores a document in a document storage means for storing a document, a display means for displaying the document stored in the document storage means, and a document storage means. A column setting means for setting a column in the document, a column information regarding the column set by the column setting means, and a format information storage means for storing format information such as a character feed amount and a line feed amount. , And means for setting a frame in the document stored in the document storage means according to the format information stored in the format information storage means.

[0007]

According to the present invention, by the above means, the frame in the document is set in accordance with the column information in the document and the format information such as the character feed amount / line feed amount.

[0008]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document preparation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) for controlling the apparatus and processing data, and 2 is an apparatus. A read-only memory (hereinafter referred to as ROM) that stores programs for controlling, 3 is a random access memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) that stores data that is being processed, 4 is a document related to a document that is being created or edited A document memory for storing data, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a mouse, 7 is an image memory, 8 is a display device (hereinafter referred to as CRT), and 9 is a printer.

In the document memory 4, a character data storage unit 4-1 for storing character data (character code string) in the document,
A format data storage unit 4-2 for storing the format data of the document,
It has a frame data storage unit 4-3 which stores the frame data regarding the frames set in the document. As shown in FIG. 9, the character data is composed of a code string of characters forming a sentence for each frame set in the document. As shown in FIG. 10, the format data includes paper size, column information (number of columns in a page, height of each column, width of each column, length between columns, special position), character size, character feed. It is data consisting of the amount, line feed amount, and set direction (vertical writing or horizontal writing). The frame data is data including a start position / end position of each frame set in the page as shown in FIG. 11 and a storage address (pointer) of the character data in the frame in the document data storage unit 4-1. ..

The CPU 1 creates image data of a document in the image memory 7 according to the data in the document memory 4, and the image data in the image memory 7 is displayed on the CRT 8 (or output to the printer 9).

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 11, four columns of a column width W and a column height H are provided on an A4 size sheet with an interval D, and the position of each column (the coordinates of the upper left point of the column set). ) Is (DX1,
DY1), (DX1, DY2), (DX1, DY3),
(DX1, DY4). Also, the character size is C
S, the character feed amount is CY, the line feed amount is CX, and the direction is vertical writing. The origin of the coordinate system in the document is the upper left of the document, the horizontal direction is the X direction, and the vertical direction is the Y direction.

The operation of the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

First, in step 1, the CPU 1 uses the CRT 8 based on the stage information in the format data storage section 4-1.
Display columns (4 columns in this case) in the document displayed above. After the column is displayed, in step 2, if the keyboard 5 or mouse 6 is instructed to display the column, the process proceeds to step 3, and if it is designated not to perform the process, the process proceeds to step 27. And transition. The column here is a rectangle displayed for each character output position.

First, the case of displaying columns will be described. In step 3, a plurality of vertical ruled lines are drawn in the first row displayed on the CRT 8 at intervals CX according to the line feed amount in the format data. After the vertical ruled line, in step 4, a horizontal ruled line is drawn at an interval CY. Drawing of vertical ruled lines and horizontal ruled lines in a row is performed for all the rows by repeating the processing of steps 3 to 5. FIG. 13 is an enlarged view of a part of a document when vertical and horizontal ruled lines are displayed. In this way, a rectangle is displayed at each position where a character is output in each row. Rectangle (column)
As shown in FIG. 14, it is also conceivable that the display of is displayed with a ruled line based on the character size in addition to the character feed amount and line feed amount.

When the CPU 1 detects that the mouse button of the mouse 6 is pressed in step 6, the position of the pressed document in the document is acquired in step 7, and if it is in any stage ( (Calculation is performed according to the position / height / width of the step in the step information), and the process proceeds to step 9. If it is outside the step, the process returns to step 6 again.

In step 9, the CPU 1 uses the mouse 6
The column where the button is pressed is checked in which column, and the position of that column (the coordinates of the four vertices of the rectangle) is calculated.

In the calculation of the column position, first, the column information is used to determine in which column the coordinates are located. Next, determine which line in the row using the line feed amount.
Find the number of characters in a line by using the character feed amount. It is easy to calculate the position of the column when the character and the character of the line and the row of the column are obtained, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

Subsequently, when the movement of the cursor by the mouse 9 is detected in step 10, the CPU 1 determines in step 11 whether the movement direction is the + X direction or-
Check if it is the X direction, and if it is the + X direction, step 12
In, the frame data is set in the frame data storage area, the coordinate of the upper left vertex of the column in the coordinates calculated in step 9 is set as the frame start position, and the process proceeds to step 14. If it is in the -X direction, in step 13, the coordinates of the upper right vertex of the column are set as the start position of the frame, and the process proceeds to step 20.

If the movement of the mouse cursor is + X and it is detected in step 14 that the mouse button has been released, the CPU 1 acquires the position coordinate of the mouse cursor at that time in step 15, In 16, it is checked whether the coordinate is in any stage, and if it is within the stage, the process proceeds to step 17,
If it is outside the step, the process returns to step 6.

In step 17, the CPU 1 checks which column contains the coordinates acquired in step 15 and calculates the position of that column (the coordinates of the four vertices of the rectangle). Then, in step 18, the coordinates of the lower right vertex of the column are set as the frame end position in the frame data set in step 12, and then the process proceeds to step 24.

When the movement of the mouse cursor is -X, when it is detected in step 19 that the mouse button has been released, the CPU 1 obtains the position coordinate of the mouse cursor at that time in step 20, In step 21, it is checked whether the coordinate is in any stage, and if it is in the stage, the process proceeds to step 22,
If it is outside the step, the process returns to step 6.

In step 22, the CPU 1 checks which column contains the coordinates acquired in step 20 and calculates the position of that column (the coordinates of the four vertices of the rectangle). Then, in step 23, the coordinates of the lower left vertex of the column are set as the frame end position in the frame data set in step 13, and then the process proceeds to step 24.

When the start position and end position of the frame are set,
In step 24, the frame is displayed on the CRT 8 based on the set frame data.

After the above processing is repeated until all desired frames are set (step 25), the columns displayed on the CRT 8 (that is, the columns and the vertical / horizontal ruled lines within the columns) are erased in step 26, The process ends.

Next, the case where it is instructed in step 2 not to display the column will be described.

In step 27, when the mouse 6 detects the depression of the mouse button, the CPU 1 acquires the coordinate value of the position indicated by the mouse cursor at that time. When the movement of the mouse 6 is detected in step 29, frame data is set in the frame data storage unit 4-3, and step 28
The coordinate value acquired in step 3 is set as the start position of the frame of the frame data. Further, when it is detected in step 31 that the mouse button has been released, in step 32, the coordinate value of the position pointed to by the mouse cursor when the mouse button is released is acquired, and in step 33, the coordinate value is used as frame data. Set to. When the setting of the frame data is completed, the frame is displayed on the CRT 8 in step 34, and if no other frame is set, the process proceeds to step 27.

By using the processes of steps 27 to 34, it is possible to create a free document layout which is originally required by a document creating device such as a desktop publishing system.

As described above, in the present embodiment, columns are displayed in columns according to the columns and sentence formats set in the document, and when frames are set in the document, the columns are automatically set along the columns. In order to automatically correct the frame position, when creating a manuscript according to a predetermined column such as a newspaper or magazine, the operator looks at the displayed column and drags the frame-set region with the mouse, A frame is set along the columns in and, which facilitates the work of setting the layout of the document.

When it is not necessary to display columns, a frame of arbitrary size can be set at an arbitrary position in the document, so that the degree of freedom in document creation work is not impaired. ..

In this embodiment, if the position designated by the mouse is outside the column, the process needs to be redone, but the position of the closest column is set as the start or end position of the frame. It is also possible to set.

[0032]

According to the present invention, a document storage unit for storing a document, a display unit for displaying the document stored in the document storage unit, and a column setting for setting a column in the document stored in the document storage unit. Means, column information about the column set by the column setting means, and format information storage means for storing format information such as a character feed amount and line feed amount, and format information stored in the format information storage means. And a means for setting a frame in the document stored in the document storage means, according to the format of a column and a character feed amount, line feed amount, etc.
Since the setting can be made, the work can be efficiently performed when the layout of the manuscript is created according to the columns such as newspapers and magazines.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of character data in the same embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of format data in the same embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram of frame data in the same example.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a document according to the same embodiment.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of a column display in the example.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of a column display in the example.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a document in a conventional document creating device.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of a document in the document creating apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 ROM 3 RAM 4 Document Memory 5 Keyboard 6 Mouse 7 Image Memory 8 CRT 9 Printer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document storage unit for storing a document, a display unit for displaying the document stored in the document storage unit, and a column setting unit for setting a column in the document stored in the document storage unit. A format information storage unit for storing column information about the column set by the column setting unit and format information such as a character feed amount and a line feed amount; and format information stored in the format information storage unit. And a means for setting a frame on the document stored in the document storage means according to the above.