JPH0827792B2 - Document editing method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a method for editing a document on a display screen.

[Background of the Invention]

In the conventional document editing method, there is only one screen or window corresponding to the paper surface, and in the editing work, the document constituent elements such as texts, character strings, figures, images and tables must be actually written and displayed on the paper surface. Nara Katsuta. Therefore, changing the arrangement of the document constituent elements is troublesome and requires a large amount of rewriting. As an improvement method, the Star of Zerox, Inc. of the United States
As described above, a special frame for operating only text or only graphics is provided to improve the efficiency of layout editing. However, there is a strong restriction on the arrangement of the frames, and it is not possible to stack them freely, or for complicated documents such as figures being placed on top of text or text placed inside text, There has been a problem that it becomes difficult to perform efficient editing operations on the display screen.

[Object of the Invention]

An object of the present invention is to efficiently edit a document including a text, a character string, a figure, an image, a table, etc. on a display screen in a multi-window display device by arranging or stacking a plurality of windows. It is to provide a document editing method that can be carried out.

[Outline of Invention]

The present invention relates to a document editing method using a multi-window display device in which a plurality of windows are set in a display space, individual display contents are set in each of the plurality of windows, and the contents are displayed on the screen. Stores a first attribute value indicating that the window is a mount window corresponding to the identifier of one window, and a second attribute indicating that the window is a dependent window corresponding to the identifiers of a plurality of other windows. Storing values, adjusting the respective positions of the mount window and the plurality of subordinate windows in response to operation input, and thus arranging the plurality of subordinate windows on the mount window while allowing mutual overlapping. The upper and lower overlapping positions of the above plurality of subordinate windows and the upper subordinate window correspond to the input specifying each. The presence or absence of the framing effect on the subordinate windows of the position, and storing the interaction information between windows that respectively specify the logical operation of the dot unit of the overlapping portion, and the display contents set in each of the plurality of subordinate windows, A step of synthesizing in accordance with the stored interaction information between windows and storing the display contents of the plurality of dependent windows after the synthesis as constituent elements of the edited synthesized document.

Example of Invention

 Hereinafter, examples of the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 shows an overview of a display device according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the display device comprises a keyboard 1, a CRT display unit 2 and a CRT screen position specifying device 3, and on the keyboard 1 there is a key group 4 for command input and character string input for operating instructions. .

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an apparatus for realizing the document editing system according to the present invention. For this window, a storage device 11 that stores an identifier, a mount window attribute indicating that it is a mount on which a document is created, and a subordinate window attribute that indicates a window that belongs to the mount window and forms a document A storage device 12 for storing information on the interaction between windows and operation information such as a logical sum, a logical product, an exclusive logical sum for each dot of display contents, and a memory for storing information indicating the layout of each window. It has a measure 13, a storage device 14 for storing the presence / absence of the frame of each window and shape information, and a storage device 15 for storing the data of the contents expressed in each window. Create, display, delete, and specify windows on the CRT display screen
The position information of the cursor on the CRT display unit 2 for changing, moving, and changing the overlapping order is stored in the register 8 by the CRT driver 5.

The CPU 10 uses the data in the storage device 15 to create the display contents of the screen on the screen buffer 9, and the CRT driver 5 displays it on the screen of the CRT display unit 2.

The details of the processing flow will be described with reference to FIGS. The command input from the keyboard 1 is (300),
The keyboard driver 6 converts the corresponding code (301) and stores it in the register 7. The CPU 10 calls the program corresponding to the code in the register 7 from the storage device 16 in which the program is stored and executes it.
When you enter the command to specify the window (302),
Make sure that register 17 and register 18 are not used (310,312) and store the identifier of the window pointed to in the unused register (311,313).
When a window is designated and a command for using the window as a mount is input (303), it is confirmed that the mount window does not exist yet (315), and the identifier of the window and the attribute indicating the mount are set in the storage device 11 It is stored in (316). When a command is specified by designating a window and making the window a dependent window of the existing mount window (304), the identifier of the window and the attribute indicating that the window is a dependent window of the existing mount window are
It is stored in the storage device 11 (316). If you specify two windows and enter a command to instruct the interaction of the windows such as the presence or absence of text boxing effect that the upper window has on the lower window and the logical operation in dot units between them. (305), register 17 and register 1
Confirm that the content of 8 is the identifier of the window to be edited (322), and enter the interaction instruction in the storage device 12
(323). When a command instructing to store information on the upper and lower overlapping positions of the windows and the existing position on the CRT display screen is input (306), the information is stored in the storage device 13
Stored in (325). When a window is designated and a command for designating the presence / absence and shape of a frame as a part of the document is input (307), it is confirmed that the window is a window to be edited (327), and the information is stored in the storage device. 14
(328). When a command for storing the display content data of each window is input (308), the identifier of each window and the display content data are stored in the storage device 15 (330). At the end of the processing other than the window designation, a value indicating that it is not in use is stored in the register 17 and the register 18 (331) to be preprocessing for the next window designation.

Next, an example of the operation and display of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. The goal is to create the document 600 shown in FIG. A black mountain 602 and a white road 603 surrounded by a frame 601 above.
A picture consisting of and a string 604 is shown, with text 605 below.
Exists in the lower right part of the text 605, another text 607 surrounded by a frame 606 is present, and a character string 609 is provided in a frame 608 as shown in FIG. FIG. 7 shows an example of the middle of the editing work by this document editing method. 700 ~ 706
Are windows displayed on the screen of the CRT display unit 2. The window 700 displays the mount of the document 600, the window 701 shows the text 605, the window 702 shows the frame 601 and the picture 602, the window 703 shows the picture 603, and the window 703.
704 is a character string 604, window 705 is a frame 606 and text 60
7, window 706 is displayed to create frame 608 and character string 609. FIG. 8 shows a state in which the respective display contents are created in the windows 702 to 706. FIG. 9 shows the position specifying device 3 on the CRT screen,
The positions of window 702 to window 706 are set to window 700
It has been moved to the top. However, for example, the window 700 is replaced by the window 702 depending on the order of window creation.
If it is placed on top of, it is necessary to change the stacking order. In FIG. 9, window 700 exists at the bottom, and window 701 and window 702 are window 70.
0 above, window 703 and window 704 above window 702, window 701 and window 70
5 and window 706 are stacked in this order,
706 overlaps both window 701 and window 705. FIG. 10 shows that the window 705 and the window 706 store a predetermined text 605 in the window 701 after storing the information in the storage device 12 by a command instructing the window 701 to have a text frame opening action. It is in a state of being poured. The text 605 is generated by the frame opening action of the window 705 and the window 706 on the window 701.
Does not flow into the parts below windows 705 and 706. When the entire layout is completed using the position designation device 3, by inputting the layout information storage command,
The information is stored in the storage device 13. Finally, in order to form the document shown in FIG. 6, a command is input to each window to specify the interaction with other windows, the shape of the frame, and the presence / absence of the frame. The frame of FIG. 6 is designated for the windows 702 and 705, and the frame of FIG. 6 is designated for the window 706, and the windows 701, 703, and 70 are designated.
With respect to 4, the absence of a frame is designated, and the information and the storage device 14 are stored. The windows 703 and 704 specify, for each dot, that they should be superposed by exclusive OR, and store the information in the storage device 12.

By the above operation, the document shown in FIG. 6 was constructed and stored as a set of windows having attributes. A desired document can be displayed or printed by synthesizing the display contents of the windows in accordance with the stored information. Further, the display contents can be changed, the layout can be changed, and the stacking can be changed by actually performing the change on the CRT display screen and then storing the information in each storage device.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, document editing on a display screen can be performed by displaying appropriate constituent elements of a document and arranging windows having attributes showing mutual relationships. Changes can be facilitated, operational flexibility can be increased, and efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a display device according to the present invention, and FIG.
Block diagrams showing an embodiment of an apparatus for realizing the processing according to the present invention, FIGS. 3 to 5 are flow charts for explaining the processing flow according to the present invention, and FIGS. 6 to 10 are the present invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of operation and the display at the time of implementing. 1 ... Keyboard, 2 ... CRT display unit, 3 ... CRT screen position specifying device, 4 ... Command and character string input key group.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document editing method using a multi-window display device in which a plurality of windows are set in a display space, individual display contents are set in each of the plurality of windows, and the contents are displayed on the screen. Then, when there is an input designating a mount window which becomes the mount of the composite document, the first attribute value indicating the mount window corresponding to the identifier of the selected window is stored, and then a plurality of attribute values are stored. If another window is sequentially selected and there is an input designating that the window is a subordinate window of the mount window, a second attribute value indicating that the window is a subordinate window corresponding to the identifiers of the plurality of other windows is set. Storing, in response to an input that manipulates the position of each of the mount window and the plurality of dependent windows. Adjusting the positions of these windows in the display space, and arranging the plurality of subordinate windows on the mount window so that they are allowed to overlap with each other. Corresponding to the input to specify, the upper subordinate window to specify the presence or absence of the framing effect on the lower subordinate window, and the input to specify the dot unit logical operation of the overlapping part, The overlapping order of the upper and lower dependent windows, the presence or absence of the framing effect on the lower dependent window, and the inter-window interaction information for specifying the logical operation in dot units of the overlapping portion, and storing the plurality of dependent windows. The display contents set for each are displayed according to the stored interaction information between windows. Synthesized Te, storing the display contents of the plurality of subordinate windows after synthesis as a component of synthetic document that has been edited, respectively, and the procedure document editing method comprising the.