JPH0773169A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] A document editing device that performs edit processing using a virtual document file that does not include actual document data, and that can reduce turn-around time during editing operations and improve editing efficiency. An object is to provide an editing device. [Structure] Display permission / prohibition data setting means for setting display permission / prohibition data for determining permission / prohibition of display on a CRT for each hierarchical layer of virtual document files, and the display permission / prohibition data setting means. The interactive edit processing means is provided with a virtual document file display control means for controlling the display of the virtual document file on the display device based on the display permission / prohibition data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus incorporated in a word processor, a desktop publishing (DTP) system or the like and used for producing a book such as a manual in a fixed format.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When dealing with a large amount of actual document data such as a book or a manual, a large amount of working memory (internal memory) is required, which is uneconomical. A document editing apparatus using a virtual document file has been proposed in order to avoid the disadvantage that the reading time of the actual document data from the storage means becomes long and the turnaround time becomes long (Patent application No. 4). -268328
issue). That is, a virtual document file is created that is made up of hierarchical data that divides a set of documents of arbitrary size into a hierarchical system, and intermediate real document file names that are hierarchically edited and arranged based on the hierarchical data. Based on the interactive edit processing means and the virtual document file edited by the interactive edit processing means, the intermediate real document file corresponding to the intermediate real document file name is read from the external storage means, and the virtual document is read. The document editing apparatus comprises a concatenation editing processing unit that concatenates the intermediate real document files and generates a final real document file in the order in which the files are edited and arranged.

When a virtual document file is edited and created by the above-described interactive editing processing means, the virtual document file being edited is displayed on the display device, and the editing operator views the display contents and operates the input device. Although the intermediate real document file name is edited and input by operation, the display processing means in the conventional interactive edit processing means is configured to process all virtual document file data as display target data on the display device. Was.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional technique in which the editing operator interactively edits, it is necessary to display the edit target portion of the virtual document file data on the display device. For this reason, the display processing is performed. The means reads out the virtual document file stored in the external memory, expands the virtual document file in the internal memory of the document editing device, and outputs the data to the display device. However, as the size of the virtual document file increases, the scrolling time and the redisplay time after the partial editing process during editing become longer, and as with the document processing device that handles the actual document data during the editing operation, the editing efficiency decreases. There was a drawback to do. This drawback is that the virtual document file becomes huge in capacity and it is not possible to store all the data in the internal memory, such as when data swap processing with external memory is required,
This is conspicuous when performing multi-window processing in which multiple screen data is displayed in multiple on one screen. For example, even if the editing process is extremely simple, such as moving pages or deleting pages, if the size of the virtual document file increases,
It takes a long time to perform the scrolling process for displaying the corresponding page, the rebuilding process of the virtual document file in the internal memory after the page moving and deleting operations, and the scrolling process for displaying the corresponding page after the rebuilding process. It costs. Also, the editor wants to edit only any level, but all are displayed. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and to provide a document editing apparatus capable of shortening the turnaround time at the time of editing operation and improving the editing efficiency.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, the document editing apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in that the interactive editing processing unit allows the display of the virtual document file to be displayed on the display device in hierarchical units. Display permission / prohibition data setting means for setting display permission / prohibition data to be determined, and a virtual document file display for controlling display of the virtual document file on the display device based on the display permission / prohibition data set by the display permission / prohibition data setting means. A control means is provided.

[0006]

The virtual document file display control means permits the display based on the display permission / prohibition data set by the display permission / prohibition data setting means from the virtual document file data read from the external memory and expanded in the internal memory. Only the data of each layer will be displayed on the display device. For example, the display permission / prohibition data is "chapter", "
The virtual document file display control means determines the virtual document file display control means as long as it is data that allows display up to the hierarchy of "section" for layered data that divides a set of documents of arbitrary scale such as "section" and "term". The data from the file to the "section" level is edited and arranged in the internal memory as display data, and the data is displayed.

[0007]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the editor can display up to an arbitrary level to be edited, only the level desired to be edited can be noted and edited. Even with a huge volume of virtual document files, you can display and process only the data up to the arbitrary level required for editing, so you can shorten the turnaround time during editing and improve editing efficiency. It is now possible to provide a document editing device capable of performing.

[0008]

EXAMPLES Examples will be described below. As shown in Figure 1,
The document processing system includes document data input devices 1, 2, 3
The document data storage device 4, the document editing device 8, the document output device 7 (laser beam printer), and the like are connected via a network cable (trademark Ethernet of Xerox Co., Ltd.) 5.

The document data input devices 1, 2 and 3 are constructed by connecting an image reader for inputting image data and text data, a keyboard, a floppy disk drive unit, etc. to a personal computer or the like, and images inputted from them. Data and text data are edited into a predetermined format and stored in the document data storage device 4, that is, a large-capacity magneto-optical disk 4b via the file server 4a.
Stored in.

The respective text data and image data input from the input devices 1, 2 and 3 are referred to as real document data, and an intermediate real document file which is a minimum unit to be edited is constituted and each intermediate real document file is formed. File name, control number,
An attribute file including attribute data such as document and image identification data and data capacity is added.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the document processing system generates an intermediate real document file from the document data input from the document data input devices 1, 2, 3 and stores it in the storage device 4, A virtual document file, which will be described later, is generated by the editing device 8, and a final actual document file is generated from the virtual document file.

As shown in FIG. 2, the document editing device 8 is constructed by connecting a computer main body 81 with an input device 82 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 83 such as a CRT, an internal memory 84 and the like. The memory 84 is divided into a system management program area 84a, an application program area 84b for storing an editing program and the like, and a data area 84c for storing document data and the like. The document editing device 8 stores predetermined document data in the data area 84c according to the editing program loaded in the application program area 84b based on the editing operation of the operator, and displays a part of the document data on the CRT.

As an example of a document created by using the document editing device 8 described above, a process of editing a maintenance manual for a vehicle will be described. FIG. 4 shows a part of the virtual document file displayed on the CRT. The virtual document file is also called a structure file, and is composed of “table of contents”, “text”, and “file name”. Created by input. The "Table of Contents" is used to display paragraphs to divide a set of documents of arbitrary size, and open a set number of grids (not shown) from the left edge of the document to the right to divide them hierarchically. And are defined in order as “level 1”, “level 2”, “level 3”, and so on. That is, "table of contents" becomes hierarchical data, "level 1" becomes "chapter", "level 2" becomes "section", and "level 3" becomes "item". "text"
Corresponds to a title (heading) of each layer, for example, a title such as “preparation work for disassembly and maintenance”. In the five hierarchies of level 4 to level 8 in the above-mentioned table of contents, a plurality or a single file name of the attribute file corresponding to the above-mentioned intermediate actual document file is arranged to form a block.

The editing program executed by the document editing device 8 and the hardware for executing the program will be described in terms of functional blocks. As shown in FIG. 5, an intermediate real document file name is edited and arranged to create a virtual document file. The interactive edit processing means 8a and the intermediate real document files are read from the storage means 4 in the order in which they are edited and arranged in the virtual document file created by the interactive edit processing means 8a, and these intermediate real document files are concatenated and finalized. And a concatenation edit processing means 8b for generating an actual document file.

In the case of newly creating a virtual document file, the interactive edit processing means 8a stores the data input by the operator through the input device such as the keyboard and the mouse in the data area 84c and stores it in the CRT. When displaying and re-editing the virtual document file stored in the storage means 4, the data area 8 from the storage means 4 is displayed.
The virtual document file is loaded in 4c and a part of it is displayed on the CRT.

In the interactive editing processing means 8a, display permission / prohibition data setting means 8c for setting display permission / prohibition data for determining permission / prohibition of display of the virtual document file on a CRT which is a display device, and display permission / prohibition data. Virtual document file display control means 8d for controlling display of the virtual document file on the display device based on the display permission / prohibition data set by the setting means 8c is provided. The display permission / prohibition data setting means 8c sets display permission / prohibition data, which is a part of the attribute data unique to the virtual document file being edited, which is set in the data area 84c, based on the operation instruction of the operator. The permission / rejection data displays the entire virtual document file. "
0 ", display only" chapter "which is" level 1 "" 1 ",
"Level 2" to display up to "section""2","Level3" to display up to "item""3","level4"
Display up to "4" such as "4" to indicate up to which level the display is allowed "
The virtual document file display control means 8d converts the virtual document file being edited stored in the data area 84c to the CRT according to the display permission / prohibition data described above. The data area 84c is selected by picking out the portion to be displayed.
The display data is rearranged in the other area and displayed on the CRT.

In this way, the operator edits the virtual document file displayed on the CRT by changing, adding or correcting the intermediate real document file name and the "table of contents". For example, a case where a process of deleting any of the displayed "table of contents", "text", and "file name" is displayed up to a certain level on the CRT will be described. The interactive edit processing means 8a
The virtual document file displayed in the data area 84c is deleted and deleted, and then edited and arranged again to display the virtual document file display control means 8d.
However, from the virtual document file being edited stored in the data area 84c, the portion to be displayed on the CRT is similarly selected and taken out in accordance with the display permission / prohibition data described above, and the display data is displayed in the other area of the data area 84c. It is rearranged and displayed on the CRT.

When the interactive editing operation is completed, the concatenated editing processing means 8b performs auto-numbering processing, which will be described later, on the completed virtual document file, and from the attribute file name described in the block, The intermediate real document file name is recognized, the corresponding real document file is read from the storage means 4, and the final real document file is generated according to the arrangement order of the virtual document files.

The auto-numbering process means "level 1" from "level 1" to "level 3" in the table of contents.
Is a "chapter", "level 2" is "section", "level 3" is "term", and serial numbers are automatically assigned to each level, for example, with Arabic numerals. For example, the first "Level 1" that appears is "1
By processing "Chapter" and "Level 1" that appears next as "Chapter 2", the editing operator using the interactive edit processing means 8a can edit the serial number without being aware of it. is there.

Editing for finishing, such as partial correction after the final actual document file is generated, uses a conventional interactive editing method. Both the finally completed structure file and the final actual document file are stored in the storage means 4.

The hierarchy of the virtual document file is not limited to eight levels and can be set arbitrarily, and the display permission / prohibition data set by the display permission / refusal data setting means can be set accordingly.

It should be noted that reference numerals are added to the claims for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the accompanying drawings by the entry.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a document processing system.

FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram of a document editing device.

FIG. 3 Flow chart

[Fig. 4] Image explanatory diagram of a virtual document file

FIG. 5: Flow chart

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 storage means 8a interactive edit processing means 8b batch edit processing means 8c display permission / prohibition data setting means 8d virtual document file display control means

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Mitsuji Inoue 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Kanagawa Science Park (KSP) B Building 11F1113 Kubota Electronic Technology Center Tokyo Laboratory (72) Invention Person Hiroyuki Higashikubo 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Kanagawa Science Park (KSP) Building B 11F1113 Kubota Electronic Technology Center Tokyo Laboratory (72) Inventor Masahiko Kuroiwa 3 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 2-1-1 Kanagawa Science Park (KSP) B Bldg. 11F1113 Kubota Electronic Technology Center Tokyo Laboratory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A virtual document file composed of hierarchical data that divides a set of documents of arbitrary size into a hierarchical system and intermediate real document file names that are hierarchically edited and arranged based on the hierarchical data. Corresponding to the intermediate real document file name from the external storage means (4) on the basis of an interactive editing processing means (8a) for creating a virtual document file edited by the interactive editing processing means (8a). The intermediate real document file is read out, and the intermediate real document file is concatenated in the order of editing and arrangement in the virtual document file to generate a final real document file. A document editing device, wherein the virtual document file is added to the interactive editing processing means (8a). Based on the display permission / prohibition data set by the display permission / prohibition data setting means (8c) for setting the display permission / prohibition data for determining the permission / prohibition of the display on the display device for each layer. , A document editing device provided with a virtual document file display control means (8d) for controlling display of the virtual document file on the display device.