JPH0683876A - Device for editing electronic book recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a device for rapidly editing the contents to be recorded in a recording medium for electronic books. A manuscript preparing means prepares a manuscript with a control code in which a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the manuscript is attached in addition to the original manuscript. Here, the predetermined term is a difficult term in the text that needs to be explained.
The control code detecting means detects the control code in the created document with the control code. The reading means reads, from the dictionary, the explanatory text of the predetermined term to which the control code is added, based on the detection of the control code. The final manuscript creating means creates the manuscript with the control code created by the manuscript creating means and the description read by the reading means as a final manuscript to be recorded on the electronic book recording medium.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an editing apparatus for rapidly creating contents to be recorded on a so-called recording medium for electronic books such as a CD-ROM, a floppy disk and an IC card.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to save space and save paper resources, the contents of dictionaries, encyclopedias, novels, newspapers, etc. are recorded on an electronic book recording medium such as a CD-ROM, and the recording medium is recorded. It is known that the contents can be reproduced by a dedicated reproducing device and the contents can be read on a display screen.

[0003] Usually, in a printed book, many technical terms, unfamiliar words, or words whose meanings are desired to be confirmed in a dictionary are used. Furthermore, in novels and the like, it is convenient if there is an explanation of the characters.

In the reproducing apparatus for the recording medium for electronic books, window display is used to explain these terms. Then, in order to display the explanations corresponding to these terms quickly and easily, in addition to the originals, the originals including the explanations must be recorded in advance in the electronic book recording medium.

[0005]

However, since the editing work of the manuscript including the above description is performed by the same method as the editing work of the conventional paper book, it is a very troublesome work. That quick work was desired.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for quickly editing the contents to be recorded on an electronic book recording medium.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following constitution. That is, according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a manuscript creating means for creating a manuscript with a control code in which a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the manuscript is added to an original manuscript, and an explanation of the term. , A control code detecting means for detecting a control code in a manuscript with a control code created by the manuscript creating means, and an explanatory text of a predetermined term with a control code based on the detection of the control code. A final manuscript creating unit for creating a final manuscript to be recorded on the electronic book recording medium, including a reading unit for reading the document from the dictionary, a manuscript with a control code created by the manuscript creating unit, and a description read by the reading unit. And are equipped with.

[0008]

In the present invention, the manuscript preparing means prepares a manuscript with a control code in which a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the manuscript is added in addition to the original manuscript. Here, the predetermined term is a difficult term in the text that needs to be explained, or a character or the like in a novel that needs explanation.

The control code detecting means detects the control code in the created document with the control code. The reading means reads, from the dictionary, the explanatory text of the predetermined term to which the control code is added, based on the detection of the control code. The final manuscript creating means creates the manuscript with the control code created by the manuscript creating means and the description read by the reading means as a final manuscript to be recorded on the electronic book recording medium.

As described above, according to the present invention, at the stage of preparing a document, a control code-provided document having a control code for identifying a predetermined term requiring an explanation in the document is prepared in addition to the original document. Since the control document is used to automatically create the final manuscript to which the explanatory text of the predetermined term is added, the editing operation of the manuscript including the explanatory text of the predetermined term can be speeded up.

[0011]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the embodiment of the present invention.
The microcomputer 1 is composed of a CPU and the like, and performs data processing and control of each unit, which will be described later, in a predetermined procedure.

An input device 2 such as a keyboard or a scanner, a display device 3 such as a CRT, and a storage device 4 for editing an original such as a hard disk or a floppy disk are connected to the microcomputer 1. Further, the microcomputer 1 is connected to a dictionary 7 for use in editing a manuscript, such as Japanese or English, or each specialized field, as described later.

Further, the microcomputer 1 is connected with an external recording device 6 for writing data on an external recording medium 5 to be used in an electronic book. As the external recording medium 5, a CD-ROM, a floppy disk, an IC
There are cards, etc.

Next, an example of the operation of the embodiment having such a configuration will be described in detail below.

First, the input device 2 is used to input characters, diagrams, etc. to be used as an original for an electronic book. At that time,
In addition to the original manuscript, a manuscript with a control code as shown below is created in which a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the manuscript is added. Here, the predetermined term is a difficult term in the text that needs to be explained, or a character or the like in a novel that needs explanation.

(Original manuscript with control code
The problem pointed out by UN Secretary-General U Thant --- arms race, environmental degradation, <explanation> explosion of population </ explanation>, and economic stagnation-is often a central long-term problem for modern people. Spoken to. Many believe that the future course of human society, and perhaps even the survival of human society, depends on the speed and effectiveness of the world's response to these problems. Nonetheless, our world <explanation> model </ explanation> is one of the five major trends of global concern --- accelerated industrialization, rapid population growth, To analyze widespread malnutrition, depletion of natural resources, and deterioration of the environment, ---
It is especially made.・ ・ ・ Problem and model Everyone is approaching a problem located anywhere in the time = space graph with the help of a model. A model is nothing more than an ordered collection of assumptions about complex systems.・ ・ ・ ・ Chapter 1 Properties of geometric series growth Five elements that form the basis of the research reported here −
--Population, food production, industrialization, pollution, and consumption of non-renewable natural resources --- are all increasing. Their annual increase follows a pattern that mathematicians call <explanation> exponential growth </ explanation>. ...
.. ”As described above, the manuscript with the control code is, in addition to the original manuscript, a predetermined term that needs to be explained in the manuscript.
Explanation> and </ description>. Note that the control code portion is such that the content is not displayed when the content of the electronic book recording medium is played back by the playback device and read on the display screen.

Next, an example of creating a final document to be recorded on the recording medium 5 of the electronic book based on an example of the document with the control code created in this way will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the term in the portion surrounded by <description> and </ description> is found from the control code original and the term to be explained is determined (S1). Next, the descriptive text of the determined term is searched from the dictionary 7, and a descriptive glossary of the searched descriptive text is created in the last part (at the end) of the manuscript as shown below (S2). Next, the whole sentence is searched to record all the places where the terms appear, so that the explanation at the end of the book can be called (S3). In addition, the term that appears many times in the manuscript is the same as the term that appears in other places in the text, if you enclose only one term at the stage of writing the manuscript with <Explanation> and </ Explanation>. However, by inserting the same control code, the same processing can be mechanically performed as an explanatory word.

(An example of a glossary of explanations) “<Explanation word> Population explosion </ Explanation word> An exponential increase in the population. It is used to indicate the growing population, especially in developing countries. <Explanation word> Model </ Explanation word> A qualitative or quantitative expression of the relationship between variables that interact intricately with each other, and is a model for thinking that is used for analysis and simulation. . A mathematically expressed model is called a mathematical model. <Explanation word> Geometrical growth </ Explanation word> N times more than the previous state. When this is repeated, if N> 1, it rapidly increases, and if N <1, it sharply decreases. The contents of the final manuscript created as described above are stored in the storage device 4
From the external recording device 6 to the external recording device 6 and recorded on the external recording medium 5 as the recording medium for the electronic book by the external recording device 6 to be provided to the reader who uses the electronic book reproducing device.

The reader can read the content of the provided electronic book recording medium by displaying it on the display screen of the existing electronic book reproducing apparatus. At that time, the part of the control code included in the document is not displayed on the display screen.

When the reader encounters a term that is difficult and needs explanation while reading, selecting the term causes
The explanation of the term can be displayed on part or all of the display screen.

Next, the case of editing a sentence in a foreign language using the editing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

In this case, similarly to the above, in addition to the original original, an original with a control code is created with a control code for identifying a word (term) in the original requiring explanation.
The control codes in this case are <description> and </ description> as in the above. In addition, the designation of words necessary for explanation is
It is preferable to rank the words according to the degree of difficulty and to specify them according to the level of the target reader and the type of book.

Subsequently, the final original to be recorded on the recording medium of the electronic book is created from the original with the control code.
In this case, a word in the portion surrounded by <description> and </ description> is found in the manuscript with the control code, and the word to be explained is determined. Next, the descriptive sentence of the decided word is searched from the dictionary 7, and the retrieved descriptive sentence is inserted in parentheses after the decided word in the text.

The final manuscript edited in this way is recorded on the external recording medium 5 as an electronic book recording medium by the external recording device 6 in the same manner as described above, and is provided to the reader who uses the electronic book reproducing device. . When the reader displays the contents of the provided electronic book recording medium on the display screen of the existing electronic book reproducing apparatus, a sentence as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display screen. Therefore, the words that need explanation are explained in Japanese in parentheses immediately after that, so that the reader can read sentences such as English without using a dictionary.

By the way, when the reader selects a difficult word (the portion surrounded by a frame) as in the display example shown in FIG. 5 instead of the display example in FIG. 4, the explanation of the selected word is displayed. Can be displayed at the bottom of the screen. In this case, the manuscript to be recorded on the recording medium of the electronic book can be realized in the same manner as the above-mentioned preparation of the Japanese manuscript, and therefore the description thereof is omitted here.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, at the stage of creating an original, an original with a control code is created in addition to the original original with a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the original requiring explanation. Since the control code is used to automatically create the final manuscript to which the explanatory text of the predetermined term is added, the editing operation of the manuscript including the explanatory text of the predetermined term can be performed quickly.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of an English manuscript edited according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of another English manuscript edited according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Microcomputer 2 Input Device 4 Storage Device 5 External Recording Medium 6 External Recording Device 7 Dictionary

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A manuscript creating means for creating a manuscript with a control code, in addition to the original manuscript, with a control code for identifying a predetermined term in the manuscript, a dictionary storing an explanation of the term, Control code detecting means for detecting a control code in a manuscript with a control code created by the manuscript creating means, and reading means for reading out an explanation sentence of a predetermined term with a control code based on the detection of the control code from the dictionary. An electronic document including a control code original created by the original creating unit, and a final original creating unit that creates an explanatory text read by the reading unit as a final original to be recorded on an electronic book recording medium. Book recording medium editing device.