JPH0656607B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation device represented by a word processor, and more particularly, to a document creation device that efficiently inputs bullets of sentences.

(Prior Art) Input characters from a character input device such as a keyboard, and
A document creation device that edits and creates a document while displaying an intermediate result on a display device such as the above is currently widely used mainly in a Japanese word processor. The user can create a document using various layouts, decorative characters, etc. according to his or her preference.

Bullets are often used as a method of more clearly describing the content and structure of a document. When making a sentence into bullets, usually, put a letter or symbol that means bullets at the beginning of the item, such as ◎ item 1 ◎ item 2 ◎ item 3 or item 1 item 2 item 3. Further, as the characters to be placed here, symbols such as ∘∘ * and characters / numbers that define the order such as I (a) are usually used, and not arbitrary characters.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) A document creating apparatus that has been conventionally used treats a document as a mere set of characters, and defines the meaning in the document such that the character is the beginning of a bullet. There is no. For example, in the case of Just System Co., Ltd. word processor software "Ichitaro", when ◎ is used as the first character of the bullet, the user uses the cursor key and line feed key from the set of commonly used symbols. You have to enter it by a method such as selecting it, and do not use the information that it is the beginning of the bullet point (Just System Co., Ltd. "Japanese word processor Ichitaro REFERENCE MANU
AL ”). Therefore, in the conventional document creation device, when the user wants to carry out itemization, a desired character is selected from the commonly used character set, not from the candidates of the first character used in the itemization. I had to choose and use it.

In addition, when items are usually itemized, the indent is determined according to the leading symbol, such as ◎ Large item ◆ Medium item ・ Small item ・ Small item ◆ Medium item ・ Small item ・ Small item. However, in the conventional system, it is necessary for the user himself to determine the indent position and the leading character to be used by moving the cursor.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to improve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a document creation apparatus provided with a user-friendly itemized input system, and more specifically, a head to be set from indent information. It is to provide a document creation device having a function of estimating and outputting characters.

(Means for Solving the Problem) According to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus for creating a sentence by editing while input characters and the like are displayed, characters constituting the sentence and an editing command are input. An input means, a display means for displaying the document being edited, a bullet designation means for instructing the start of bullets, a head character table for storing a head symbol indicating the head of the bullet, and a previously selected character table. A selected character buffer that stores information about the code and character position of the leading character, a position designating unit that designates a position where the leading character is to be set, position information designated by the position designating unit, and information of the selected character buffer. Leading character estimating means for estimating a leading character to be set on the basis of information, information in the selected character buffer, a leading symbol in the leading character table, and the leading character It is possible to obtain a document creation device characterized by having an instruction candidate creation means for creating a first character candidate based on the estimation result of the character estimation means and displaying it on the display means.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1
Is a control unit that controls the entire control, 2 is an input unit for inputting characters composing a document and editing commands, and 3 is a unit for storing a document formed by the input characters. A document buffer, 4 is a display unit for displaying a document being edited, 5 is a head character table containing candidates for head characters of bullets, and 6 is a position of the head character to be input. A position designating means for designating, 7 is a bullet designating means for designating the start of itemization, and 8 is a means for selecting a desired one from the first character candidates in the first character table 5. First character selection means 9 is a selected character buffer for accommodating information on the code and character position of the previously selected first character, and 10 is the contents of the selected character buffer 9 and the first character table 5. Is a presentation candidate creating means for creating and presenting the first character candidate, and 11 estimates the first character to be set based on the position information designated by the position designating means 6 and the information of the selected character buffer 9. It is a leading character estimating means. Further, FIG. 2 is an example of a flow chart for explaining a series of operations for performing itemized input using the embodiment of FIG. 3 (a) to 3 (e) are conceptual diagrams showing screen display examples of the display unit 4 when inputting itemized documents using the embodiment of FIG. The present embodiment will be described below by taking the work of inputting a bulleted document as an example.

FIG. 3A shows a state where the user is actually inputting items. In the figure, □ indicates the current cursor position. As shown in the figure, the user has just input the large item “1”, the medium item “”, the same level “”, and then the small item “*”. . An example of the leading character table 5 is shown in FIG. The first character table 5 stores candidates for the first character. In the following description, among the first characters, simple character symbols such as ○ ● ◎ are referred to as simple symbols, and (i) a. A character symbol indicating a serial number, such as "," is called a serial number character. FIG. 5 shows an example of the contents of the selected character buffer 9 at the time of FIG. 3 (a). The selected character buffer 9 stores information on the type and position of the first character used so far. For example, in FIG. 5, only one serial number character “I” is still used and is displayed in the first column.

The serial number character "" is used up to "" and is displayed in the third column.

The simple character "*" is displayed in the fifth column.

Is shown.

When the user instructs the bullet point designation means 7 to start the bullet after moving the cursor by the position designation means 6, the control unit 1 receives the instruction from the bullet point designation means 7, and the position designation means 6 The leading character estimating means 11 is activated together with the information obtained from The leading character estimating means 11 is
The position information obtained by the position designating means 6 is compared with the information in the selected character buffer 9 to estimate the leading character which is a priority presentation candidate, and the estimated character is sent to the presentation candidate creating means 10. Presentation candidate creation means
Reference numeral 10 is information on a bulleted character in the leading character table 5, information in the selected character buffer 9, and leading character estimating means.
Based on the first character first candidate obtained in 11, a bulleted character candidate is generated and displayed on the display unit 4. The presentation candidate creating means 10 regards the first presentation candidate as a first candidate when the top character estimating means 11 can extract the first presentation candidate, and includes the top character stored in the top table 5 in addition to the first presentation candidate to the user. Present candidates. Further, when presenting, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6, the following processing is performed for each leading character to be presented.

◎ If the character is a simple symbol, output itself.

If it is a serial number symbol and is present in the selected character buffer 9, the inside of the first character table 5 is checked and the symbol corresponding to the number next to the serial number is output.

◎ If it exists in the first character table 5 but does not exist in the selected character buffer 8 (not yet selected), it is output as it is.

These characters obtained by the presentation candidate creation means 10 are sent to the display unit 4 and displayed as selection candidates for the user.
Then, when the user specifies a desired start character by the start character selection means 8, the control unit 1 updates the contents of the display unit 4 and the document buffer 3 and also selects the selected character buffer 9.
Update the contents of.

Hereinafter, the user actually specifies the position of the first character by the position designating means 6
The following is an example of double-sided display of the display unit 4 at the time when the bullet point designation means 7 gives the bullet point instruction. FIGS. 3B to 3E show that the first character candidate presented to the user changes depending on the position designated by the position designating means 6.

FIG. 3 (b) shows a case where the indent position of a bullet item one level lower than the previously used sub-item "*" is specified. In this case, since the selected character buffer 9 does not have the leading character information regarding this indent position, the leading character estimating means 11 does not extract the priority presentation candidate. For this reason, the leading character candidates shown in FIG. 4 are subjected to the conversion processing shown in FIG. 6 by the presentation candidate creating means 10 and then in the order stored in the leading table 5, for example, as shown in FIG. It is displayed on the bottom line of the screen as shown in (b).

FIG. 3 (c) is an example in which the itemized designation is performed by the itemized designation unit 7 after the position of the previously used small item "*" (the fifth column) is designated by the user. . In this case, since it is described in the selected character buffer 9 that the leading character relating to this level is "*", the leading character estimating means 11 estimates "*" as a priority presentation candidate. The presentation candidate creating means 10 sets “*” as the first candidate, and converts the first character candidate in the first table 5 shown in FIG. 6 as in the case of FIG. 3B. Perform processing. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), "*" is displayed with priority.

FIG. 3 (d) shows the position of the middle item "" (third item).
In this example, the item (column) is specified by the user and then the item is specified by the item specifying means 7. In this case, since it is described in the selected character buffer 9 that the leading character related to this level is "", the leading character estimating means 11 estimates "" as the priority presentation candidate. The presentation candidate creating means 10 sets “” as the first candidate and performs the exchange process shown in FIG. 6 on the first character candidate in the first table 5 as in the case of FIG. 3B. To do. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), the next sequential number of "", "", is preferentially displayed. FIG. 3E is an example in which the position (first column) of the major item “I” is designated by the user. In this case, the same process as that shown in FIG. 3D gives priority to "II", which is the next serial number of "I".

Note that, in FIG. 1, the control unit 1, the input unit 2, the document buffer 3, and the display unit 4 can be realized by an editing program, a keyboard, a memory, and a display in a word processor which is generally used at present. Further, the position designating means 6 corresponds to a cursor key on the keyboard, and the itemized designating means 7 and the leading character selecting means 8 can be easily realized by a function key, a cursor key and a line feed key on the keyboard. Further, the selected character buffer 9 only needs to be able to store the combination of the code of the selected first character and the column position for indentation, and can be easily realized. Further, as a method of displaying the first character candidate, in the present embodiment, the first character candidate is always displayed in the order of the first character table 5, but the selected one is preferentially displayed,
On the other hand, it is sufficiently possible to exclude the first character corresponding to another indent position from the presentation candidates.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, when a sentence is input in a bulleted list, the leading character can be prioritized only by designating the character position to be set. It is possible to facilitate the document creation work of the person.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the overall operation of the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 (a) to 3 (e) are the embodiment of FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram showing the progress of a series of operations in FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific example of the head character table 5, FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific example of the selected character buffer 9, and FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing an example of the operation of the presentation candidate creation means 10. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Control part, 2 ... Input part, 3 ... Document buffer, 4 ... Display part, 5 ... Leading character table, 6 ... Position designation means, 7 ... Bulleting designation means, 8 ... Leading character selecting means, 9 ... Selected characters Buffer, 10 ... Presentation candidate creating means, 11 ... Leading character estimating means.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus for creating a sentence by editing while displaying inputted characters and the like, and an input means for inputting characters constituting the sentence, an editing command and the like,
A display means for displaying the document being edited, a bullet designation means for instructing the start of bullets, a head character table for storing a head symbol indicating the head of the bullet, and the head character previously selected Based on the selected character buffer that stores the information about the code and the character position, the position specifying unit that specifies the position where the first character should be set, the position information specified by the position specifying unit, and the information of the selected character buffer. A leading character estimating means for estimating a leading character to be set, a leading character candidate based on information in the selected character buffer, a leading symbol in the leading character table, and an estimation result of the leading character estimating means, and A document creation device, comprising: presentation candidate creation means for displaying on a display means. 2. The document creation according to claim 1, wherein the first character table contains at least one of a symbol simply indicating the start of an item and a symbol defining a serial number of the item. apparatus. 3. The presentation candidate creating means, when the content of the selected character buffer is a symbol that simply means the start of an item, the symbol itself, and when it is a symbol that defines a serial number of the item. 3. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays a symbol representing a serial number corresponding to the symbol itself.