JPH06162017A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability by simplifying the converting operation of a special character having a sequence property included in a prepared document. CONSTITUTION:When the conversion of a special character in a cursor position is instructed from one of two kinds of conversion instructing keys of the special character provided on a keyboard 1, a variable type corresponding to the key is set to a conversion type buffer 2, and the character code of a change object read out to a one-character buffer 7 from a text buffer 4 is discriminated by a character code deciding device 8. In such a state, in the case of converting the special character having a sequence property, a character code converter 9 converts its character code to the character code of the special character of the next sequence and writes this character in the one-character buffer 7, and character data in the one-character buffer 7 are written in the text buffer 4, and also, displayed on a display screen through a display part 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

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

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional document creating apparatus, for example,
Numbers with dots “1., 2.,…”, numbers with brackets “(1), (2)
,… ”, Roman numerals“ I, II, III,… ”“ i, ii, i
If you enter a character that is not assigned to an input key on the keyboard (hereinafter referred to as a special character), such as ii,… ”, parenthesized English characters“ (a), (b),… ”, Greek character, etc., the operator The special character call data that is set uniquely to the device to collectively call the character groups belonging to each group is input, and the required special character is once selected from the character groups displayed on the screen. Also, when changing the special characters included in the created document, the required special characters are changed through the same procedure as the initial input operation.

When a document includes a large number of special characters, the operator individually adds special characters with high frequency of appearance and registers them in a personal dictionary in order to simplify complicated input operations. You can also

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional document creating apparatus, the operation of changing the special characters included in the created document is as complicated as the initial input operation. Also,
Even if you take a means to register in a personal dictionary to avoid this,
Since it is a personal dictionary read by each operator individually, it is not versatile, and it is difficult for other operators to call it. Moreover, the memory capacity is limited, and the number of words that can be registered in the personal dictionary is limited. .

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and changes a special character included in a character group having an order relation with each other by changing only the character to the next order. By doing so, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device which has a simple operation of changing special characters and has good operability.

[0006]

A document creating apparatus according to the present invention temporarily displays a character group in response to a data input for collectively calling the character group, and inputs a character selected from the character group. In a document creating apparatus that determines a character, a unit for designating a character to be changed in a created document, a unit for instructing to change the character designated by the unit, and a character designated as a target to be modified are in sequence with respect to each other. Means for determining whether or not the character is included in a related character group, and means for changing the character to be changed to a character in the next order of the character when the character to be changed is included in the character group. It is characterized by having.

[0007]

In the document creating apparatus according to the present invention, when a character in a created document is designated and a change is instructed, it is determined whether the character is included in a character group having an order relation with each other. If it is included, the character to be changed is changed to the character in the next order of this character.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings showing its embodiments. FIG. 1 shows a document creation device according to the present invention (hereinafter,
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the device of the present invention). In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a keyboard for inputting various instructions and data, and in regard to conversion of special characters, two types of conversion are instructed: conversion of special character groups which are in an order relation with each other and conversion of other special character groups. It has two types of conversion instruction keys.
The conversion type buffer 2 is a buffer for setting a variable type according to the conversion instruction key pressed on the keyboard 1, and the text buffer 4 is a buffer for storing created document data.

The cursor position character data read unit 5 converts the character data at the cursor position on the prepared document displayed on the display screen (not shown) from the text buffer 4 to the one character buffer 7 based on the coordinate data at the cursor position.
The cursor position character data writing unit 6 writes the character data in the one character buffer 7 into the text buffer 4 and outputs the character data to the display unit 10 via the control unit 3.

The character code judging device 8 judges the character code of the character in the one character buffer 7, and when the variable type set in the conversion type buffer 2 indicates the conversion of a special character group having an order relation, The character code is output to the character code converter 9. The character code converter 9 converts the character code given from the one character buffer 7 into the next character code by utilizing the fact that consecutive character codes are attached to the special character groups having an order relation with each other. Write to buffer 7. The display unit 10 displays the contents of the text buffer 4 or the one-character buffer 7 on the display screen, and the control unit 3 controls data exchange between the units.

Next, the procedure for converting special characters by the device of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. It is determined whether the conversion instruction key of the keyboard 1 is pressed (S1),
When the conversion instruction key is pressed, the type of the conversion instruction key is set in the conversion type buffer (S2). Subsequently, the character at the cursor position is read into the one-character buffer 7 (S3), and the character code determiner 8 determines the character code in the one-character buffer 7 (S4).

Based on the variable type set in the conversion type buffer 2, the control unit 3 judges whether the character to be changed is a special conversion type character having an order relation with each other (S5), and the special character In the case of conversion type characters, the character code is sent to the character code converter 9 (S6). Character code converter 9
Converts the character code (S7), and the converted character code is written in the single character buffer 7 (S8). The cursor one-character data writing unit 6 writes the character data in the one-character buffer 7 into the text buffer 4 (S9), and also displays the character at the cursor position in the text buffer 4 on the display screen (S10).

A specific procedure for converting special characters by the device of the present invention will be described with reference to a screen display example shown in FIG. Figure 3
As in (a), move the cursor to the position of "(1)" in the document in which "(1) Convert characters." and press the conversion instruction key for special conversion. , As shown in Fig. 3 (b), "(1)" is changed to "(2)" without calling the special character group and confirming the selection as in the input, and the cursor is left as it is and the conversion instruction key When is pressed, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), "(2)" is changed to "(3)" without calling the special character group and confirming the selection.

[0014]

As described above, the device of the present invention simplifies the operation of changing the special characters having the order among the special characters included in the created document, so that the operability is improved. Play.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of special character conversion of the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific screen display example of special character conversion of the device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 keyboard 2 conversion type buffer 3 control unit 4 text buffer 5 cursor position character data read unit 6 cursor position character data write unit 7 single character buffer 8 character code determiner 9 character code converter 10 display unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus for temporarily displaying a character group in response to data input for collectively calling a character group, and determining a character selected from the character group as an input character,
A means to specify the character to be changed in the created document,
A means for instructing a change of the character designated by the means, a means for determining whether or not the character designated as the change target is a character included in a character group having an order relation to each other, and a character for the change target being the character When included in the group, the document creating apparatus further comprises means for changing a character to be changed to a character in the next order of the character.