JPH06162004A - Document preparing method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] An object of the present invention is to provide a document creating method capable of creating a document having a different format for each section by setting a plurality of sections on the paper. [Structure] The storage unit 50 stores partition information storage units 5.1 to 5. n and a plurality of sentence storage units 6.1 capable of storing the sentence information of each section over a plurality of pages
6. with n. The control unit 20 sets the contents of the partition information storage unit according to a command from the input unit 10, and displays a plurality of partitions on the display unit 30 based on the contents. When an arbitrary section is designated by the input unit 10 and the text information is input over a plurality of pages, the text information is divided into pages and stored in the text storage section corresponding to the designated section. The text information of each page stored in the text storage unit is printed by the print output unit 4 according to the information about the corresponding section stored in the section information storage unit.
It is output by 0.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation method using a word processor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A word processor is used for the purpose of creating a document, but the arrangement direction of the characters of a sentence on one page is within the page 1 as shown in FIG. It is limited to the horizontal composition in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the horizontal direction or the vertical composition in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the vertical direction as shown in FIG.

However, the formats of documents are extremely diversified, and the word processor is required to have a function of creating a paper surface in various formats as shown in FIG. That is, in FIG. 2, (a) shows that the paper surface 1 is divided into left and right by the dividing line 3, and the horizontal character strings 2 are arranged on the left and right respectively. In addition, (B) is a format in which the sheet 1 is divided into upper and lower parts by the dividing line 3 and the upper and lower sections are in horizontal writing mode as shown in (A). Also, (c) and (d) in the same figure.
In each case, the drawing or photograph 4 is placed on the paper surface and the character string 2 is placed in the margin. (C) is the horizontal arrangement of the character string 2 below the drawing or photograph 4 Is a vertical arrangement of the character strings 2, (d) the right side of the drawing or photograph 4 is divided into upper and lower parts by division lines 3, and the upper and lower parts are arranged in the vertical composition format. It was done.

Documents of this type could not be created all at once using conventional word processors.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to set a plurality of sections arbitrarily so that a document having a different format for each section is divided into a plurality of pages. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for creating a document that can be created over a period of time.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a document creating method of the present invention has an input section, an output section, and a storage section, and the storage section stores information on a plurality of sections. And a text storage section capable of storing text information for a plurality of pages separately for each section.
In the processor, a step of inputting a command for setting information regarding the section from the input unit, a step of storing information regarding a plurality of sections in the section information storage unit based on the input instruction, the section A step of visually displaying the plurality of sections on the output section based on the information on the plurality of sections stored in the information storage section; and a section of the text information by designating an arbitrary section from the input section. A step of inputting, and a step of storing the input plural pages of text information in the text storage section for each page so as to correspond to the designated section, and for each page stored in the text storage section. And visually outputting the text information of each section to the output unit according to the information about the corresponding section stored in the section information storage unit.

[0007]

That is, in the document creating method of the present invention, when a command for setting information regarding a section is input from the input section, information regarding a plurality of sections is stored in the section information storage section. After that, the plurality of partitions are visually displayed on the output unit based on the information about the plurality of partitions stored in the partition information storage unit. Next, when the text information is input over a plurality of pages by designating an arbitrary section from the input section, the input text information of each page is divided into pages in the text storage section corresponding to the specified section. Remembered. After that, the text information of each section for each page stored in the text storage section is visibly output to the output section according to the information about the corresponding section stored in the section information storage section.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily set a plurality of sections and create a document having a different format for each section over a plurality of pages.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

This word processor comprises an input section 10, a control section 20, a display section 30, a print output section 40, and a storage section 50 as its main part. Here, the input unit 10
For example, it is composed of a keyboard such as a kana type and has a display unit 30.
Is a display device such as a cathode ray tube display, and the print output unit 40 is a printing device such as a dot printer. The storage unit 50 also includes a plurality of partition information storage units 5.1,
...... 5. n and n (corresponding to the same number of sections) document storage section 6.1 ,. made up of n and

The partition information storage section 5.1 is divided into five storage areas, each of which is a partition reference position 5.1.1, a partition set direction 5.1.2, a partition padding 5.1.3, and It is composed of the inter-compartment line spacing 5.1.4 and the number of in-compartment lines 5.1.5, and other partition information storage units 5.2 ,. n is similarly configured.

On the other hand, in the sentence storage section 6.1 for each section, the data 6.1.1 and the position coordinates 6.1.2 for one character respectively input are paired and stored in the section. It is configured to store the data of as many characters as possible,
6. Text storage units 6.2, ..., 6 for other sections. n is similarly configured.

The control unit 20 includes the input unit 10 and the display unit 3.
0, the print output unit 40 and the storage unit 50 have a function of performing processing of command and data delivery.

That is, the control unit 20 uses the partition information input from the input unit 10 to store the partition information storage units 5.1 ,.
5. 5. Set n and store the document data in the sentence storage section for each section 6.
1, ..., 6. It has a function of writing to n, displaying on the display unit 30, and causing the print output unit 40 to output the document data of the text storage unit for each section according to the section information of the section information storage unit.

The word processor of the present invention having the above configuration is operated, for example, as follows.

(1) When the operator inputs a partition definition command from the input unit 10, the control unit 20 sets the partition information storage unit (for example, 5.1), and the partition information storage unit 5.
No. 1 reference position 5.1.1, intra-part set direction 5.1.
2. Intra-compartment line-filling 5.1.3, inter-compartment line spacing 5.1.4, and number of in-compartment lines 5.1.5 are written, and information regarding the partition is displayed on the display unit 30. For the next partition definition command, the control unit 20 allocates the partition information storage unit 5.2 and performs similar processing.

In this way, all the sections necessary for the layout of the paper are set and their contents are displayed on the display unit 30.
The information regarding the section is displayed as an image that directly displays the area occupied by the section when the entire paper surface is displayed on the display unit 30. In the case of the partial display on the paper surface, the display unit 30 also displays characters and symbols indicating that fact.

In the following, in this embodiment, the entire surface of the paper is displayed on the display unit 3.
An example of the case of being displayed at 0 will be described.

(2) When a character is input from the input section 10 by designating an arbitrary section, the control section 20 performs the following operation.
(A) First, the input character 6.1.1 is added with the position coordinates 6.1.2 of the character corresponding to this division, for example, obtained by calculation from the division information storage unit 5.1, and Write in the text storage section 6.1.

(B) The input character 6.1.1 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 30 corresponding to the position coordinates of the character obtained in (a).

This operation is repeated until the character input in the designated section is completed.

(3) When the operations shown in (2) are repeated for all the sections assigned to the paper surface of the document to be created, the document corresponding to the paper surface is displayed on the screen of the display unit 30. To be done.

(4) If the operator confirms on the screen of the display unit 30 that the characters need to be corrected, the operator designates a section from the input unit and gives a correction command. The control unit 20 changes the content of the sentence storage unit for each corresponding section according to the instruction of the correction instruction, and changes the display of the corresponding portion on the screen of the display unit 30.

(5) When the operator confirms the content of the document on the screen of the display unit 30 and then issues a print output command from the input unit, the control unit 20 is assigned to the print output unit 40 on the paper surface. 6. The sentence storage units 6.1, ..., 6. The contents of n are stored in the partition information storage unit 5.1,
...... 5. Make the necessary edits according to the contents written in n, and then output. In this way, the text is printed out on the paper in a predetermined format.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the word processor of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those in FIG. 3 are designated by the same reference numerals.

The word processor of this embodiment has a partition information storage section 5.1, ..., Of the embodiment shown in FIG.
5. n and the text storage section for each section 5.1, ... Partition information storage unit 7.1.1 having the same content as n, ... 7.1. n
And a text storage unit 8.1.
1, ..., 8.1. Each of n and n has a plurality of sets from the first page to the m-th page.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to easily lay out a document over a plurality of pages.

If items such as character size, typeface, character spacing, number of columns, column spacing, etc. are added as items in the segment information storage unit, more various segments can be set and various sentences can be created. Further, by adding connection information (page number, section number, etc.) in the section information storage unit, the degree of freedom in creating a document can be further increased. In addition, the entire page is displayed on the display unit 30.
If the screen cannot be displayed in one screen, add appropriate screen advance, or add a device for image input and add a function to allocate image data to a specified section. Is also possible.

[0030]

As described above, according to the document creating method of the present invention, the paper surface is divided into a plurality of sections, and a document having a different format for each section can be created over a plurality of pages. As a result, the degree of freedom in creating a document can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a paper surface of a document created by a conventional word processor.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a document that can be created by the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Input unit, 20 ... Control unit, 30 ... Display unit, 40 ... Print output unit, 5.1 to 5. n ... Partition information storage section 5.1.
1-5. n. 1 ... Section reference position, 5.1.2 to 5. n.
2 ... Intra-compartment assembly direction, 5.1.3 to 5. n. 3 ... In-compartment filling, 5.1.4-5. n. 4… Distance between lines 5.1.5
~ 5. n. 5 ... Number of lines in section, 6.1 to 6. n… Sentence storage for each section.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An input unit, an output unit, and a storage unit,
Further, in the word processor, the storage section has a section information storage section that stores information about a plurality of sections, and a text storage section that can store a plurality of pages of text information separately for each section. A step of inputting a command for setting from the input unit, based on the input command,
Storing information about a plurality of partitions in the partition information storage unit, and visually displaying the plurality of partitions on the output unit based on information about the plurality of partitions stored in the partition information storage unit, A step of inputting text information over a plurality of pages by designating an arbitrary section from the input section, and inputting the text information of a plurality of pages into a text storage section for each page so as to correspond to the specified section. And storing the text information of each section for each page stored in the text storage section according to the information about the corresponding section stored in the section information storage section, visually in the output section. And a step of outputting the document. 2. The document creation method according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding the section includes information indicating the position and size of the section and information defining vertical writing / horizontal writing of the document in the section. How to create a document. 3. The document creation method according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding the section includes information indicating a position and a size of the section, and information defining a character spacing and a line spacing in a line direction of a document in the section. Document creation method characterized by. 4. The document creating method according to claim 1, wherein the information about the section includes information indicating a position and a size of the section and information defining a size of a character in the section. . 5. The document creating method according to claim 1, wherein the information about the section includes information indicating a position and a size of the section and information defining a typeface of characters in the section. .