JPH0682379B2 - Document creation / editing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document creation / editing apparatus, and more particularly to a document creation / editing apparatus that creates an object sentence corresponding to an input original sentence.

2. Description of the Related Art Examples of such a document creating / editing apparatus include an automatic translation apparatus and a document creating apparatus. In particular, in pre-editing (post-editing) and post-editing (post-editing) of those devices, it is required to be able to simply grasp whether or not a proper object sentence has been created.

For that purpose, it is desirable that the target sentence is output in the same manner as the original sentence, that is, it is displayed on a CRT display device or printed out by a printing device. Taking the translation device as an example, for example, a figure in the original document,
When a table, column, or other frame or line is included, the part of the translated document that corresponds to the frame or line will be blank, or if the output is made with the frame or line omitted, the contents of the translated document May interfere with the quick grasp of. Therefore, it is desirable that the translated document be output in a format corresponding to the original document.

In addition, the operator is required to clearly understand the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence when processing the sentence. Therefore, it is desirable that the original sentence and the translated sentence have a clear correspondence relationship and that the translated sentence is displayed in the same order as the sentence order in the original document. For this purpose, translation devices that simultaneously display the original sentence and the translated sentence on one screen of the display device include, for example, ALTAS-I and II by Fujitsu Limited, and a computer translation system by Bravis Ltd.

Aim The present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art and provides a document creation / editing apparatus in which a target document in a format corresponding to an original document is output and the correspondence with the original document can be grasped by a simple operation. The purpose is to

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has an input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame, a conversion means for generating an object sentence corresponding to an original sentence included in a frame, and an original document Storage means for accumulating data and data of the target document, display means for visually displaying the original document and the target document on a display screen, and control means responsive to the input means for controlling the conversion means, storage means and display means And the display screen includes first and second display areas, and when the original document data is input, the control unit stores the original document data in the storage unit and sends the original text from the storage unit to the conversion unit in frame units. , The conversion means creates an objective sentence and stores it in the storage means according to the frame, and the original sentence is associated with the first display area and the objective sentence is associated with the second display area according to the frame. It is obtained by said document creation and editing device for displaying by the display means Te. Hereinafter, a specific description will be given based on an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment in which the document creating / editing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation apparatus. This embodiment is an automatic Japanese-English translation device that translates a Japanese sentence input as an original sentence into a target sentence, which is an English sentence in this example. This is basically a translation unit 10 that executes the translation function, an editor 12 that edits a document, an image scanner 14 and a keyboard 16 as an input device of the system, an input control unit 18 that controls the input device, and image information. The processing system includes a display device 20 that visually displays, a display control unit 22 that is a control device thereof, a document file storage unit 24, and a translated text temporary storage unit 26.

The scanner 14 is a scanning device that is controllably connected by the input control unit 18 and optically reads image information recorded on a document 28 and inputs image data to the present system. This image data is input to the system in the form of data representing pixel dots.

The keyboard 16 is also an input device which is controllably connected by the input control unit 18 and has character keys 52 such as kana, alphanumeric characters and symbols and a control key, as shown in FIG. This accepts a character string in the form of a character code by operating the character key 52 and a control command in the form of a control code by operating the control key.

The character key 52 includes a space bar 52a. The control keys include normal function keys 54 such as shift key, page move key 56, sentence selection cursor key 58, character selection cursor key.
60 and a translation execution key 62 are included.

The page move key 56 is a control key that gives an instruction to scroll the page of the document displayed on the display screen 50 of the display device 20. The sentence selection cursor key 58 moves two cursors, a cursor for designating the original sentence in the original document displayed on the display screen 50 and a cursor for designating the target sentence in the target document displayed on the display screen 50. This is a cursor control key for moving the cursors while keeping them one by one on the original sentence and the target sentence corresponding to each other. The character selection cursor key 60 is a control key that moves a cursor that indicates a position for inputting and operating a character, such as insertion or overstriking. The translation execution key 62 is a control key for instructing execution of translation of the original text to be translated.

This keyboard 16 is different from that of a general document editing apparatus in that it has a translation execution key 62 and a character selection cursor key 58. In this embodiment, the mouse 64 is connected to the keyboard 16 in order to create the graph data by a simple operation.

In this embodiment, other input devices such as the communication line 30, the floppy disk device 32, and the magnetic tape device can also be connected to the input control unit 18.

The input control unit 18 is a control device that is connected to the editor 12, identifies and organizes input data received by these input devices, and sends the input data to the editor 12.

The display device 20 is connected to the display control unit 22 and has a display screen 50 (FIG. 2) for visually displaying image information including characters and figures, and a display device such as a CRT is advantageously used. The display control unit 22 is a control device that controls the display device 20, receives texts, images, graphs, and the like from the editor 12 and displays them on the screen 50. As a result, in this embodiment, a bitmap display is possible. The text is code data composed of character codes, the image is data indicating pixel dots, and the graph is
For example, it is image data created by the graph creating function of the editor 12.

In addition to the display device 20 and the display control device 22, a printing device for printing out a target document and its control device are provided as an editor 12.
May be configured to be connectable to. The target document may be output to a file storage device such as a floppy disk or a magnetic tape or a communication line.

The editor 12 is a document editing device that responds to an operator's instruction command input from the keyboard 16. This creates the document file 34 and the input control 18
Data such as texts, images, and graphs transferred from is stored in the document file storage unit 24, the contents are updated, and the target sentence text stored in the translated sentence temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the frame content record of the document file 34. Accommodates 40.

The translation unit 10 is a functional unit that forms the center of the present device, and is connected to the editor 12 and has a translation function of converting the original text received from the editor 12 into the target text and returning the text to the editor 12. This embodiment has a Japanese-English translation function for converting the original Japanese into the target English.

Document file storage 24 stores a document file 34, which contains document chapters,
It includes a page information table 36, a frame profile table 38, and a frame content record 40.

Here, referring to the structure of the document data, one document, that is, a document includes one or more chapters or chapters, each chapter includes one or more pages, and each page includes one or more frames. What is a "frame"?
One unit of processing in the apparatus includes any one of a character (character), an image, a graph, or a combination thereof. Therefore, one page itself constitutes one frame. Further, part or all of the frame may be included in another frame.

There are seven types of frames, types 1 to 7, depending on either a character, an image, or a graph, or a combination of two or three of them. Type 1 is a frame of character (C) only, type 2
Is a frame containing only image (I), type 3 is a frame containing only graph (G), type 4 is a frame containing C and I, type 5 is a frame containing I and G, type 6 is a frame containing C and G, Type 7 is a frame containing C, I, and G.

An example of the original document is shown in FIG. 3, frame 0 is type 1 and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.
Frame 1 is type 2 and an example of the frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. This is image data, and pixel dots are shown in a hexadecimal array. Further, frame 2 is type 7, and an example of the frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.

The document chapter page information table 36 stores document information such as the total number of chapters of a document, the number of pages for each chapter, and the number of frames for each page. An example is shown in FIG. Document chapters
The page information table 36 shows the document descriptor 120,
It includes a chapter list 122 and a page list 124.

The document descriptor 120 includes document information such as the number of chapters, the total number of pages, and the number of frames, and a pointer of a chapter list, and the chapter list 122 is designated by this pointer.

The chapter list 122 is prepared for each chapter, and information about all chapters of the document and the page list 12
Contains 4 pointers. The page list 124 is designated by this pointer.

Information on all pages of each chapter and the pointer of the frame profile table 38 are also recorded in the page list 124.

The frame profile table 38 shows the frame position (coordinates), size, type, frame number (N
It contains frame information such as o.). An example is shown in FIG. Frame profile table 38, page list 124
The frame information and contents can be accessed using the frame number (ID) as a key, which is indicated by the pointer.

In the frame profile table 38, "parent-child attributes"
"0" indicates that the frame has no child frame, and "1" indicates that there is a child frame. Also,
The “type” indicates the type of the frame described above. The "position / size" indicates the starting point and the ending point of the frame in millimeters. “Framework line attribute” indicates the attribute of a workline forming a frame, 1 is a standard solid line, 2 is a thick solid line, 3 is a very thick solid line, 4 is a thin solid line, and 5 is a standard broken line.

Further, the frame content record 40 includes a cursor ownership flag, a flag, a start point, a pitch, a character code,
Contains data about the contents of the frame, such as font information. The source and object sentences are also stored in this. An example is shown in FIG. This illustrates frame 0 shown in FIG. 3, which is a type 1 frame.

As shown in FIG. 13, the starting point coordinates of a sentence in one frame are the starting point 10 of the character font 102a at the beginning of the sentence.
Described in millimeters by the ordinate and abscissa relative to the starting point 100 of that frame of 6. The pitch 104 between the character fonts 102 is also described in millimeters.
The number of dots may be defined instead of the unit of millimeter. In this embodiment, the dot density is 12 dots per mm. The maximum starting point and pitch is "FE". The hexadecimal code "FFFF" indicates the end of the character.

The translated sentence temporary storage unit 26 is a storage device that temporarily stores the target sentence text sequentially transferred from the translation unit 10 under the control of the editor 12. Its contents will eventually be transferred to the document file store and the frame content record 40
Accumulated in.

The operator operates the keyboard 16 to input the original document according to the operation flow shown in FIG. First, the original document is defined by inputting data defining the original document, such as giving the name of the original document (200). Then define chapters, pages, and frames according to the above promise (202,204,20
6) Enter the original text. In this way, frames, pages, and chapters are sequentially input to complete one original document. Following this, the editor 12 will display the document file for that document.
34 is created and registered in the storage unit 24. The input original text is temporarily stored in the frame content record 40. Further, as will be described in detail later, it is displayed on the display screen 50 in response to an instruction from the keyboard 16.

An example of the original document thus input is shown in FIG.
As can be seen, in this original document 140, one page constitutes frame 0, which contains original sentences 1-9. The frame 0 further includes an image frame 1, a graph / image frame 2, and a character frame 3 composed of original sentences a to c. Note that in this embodiment, these frame numbers indicate the priority of each other as well as the identification of the frames.

When the translation execution key 62 is operated, the editor responds to this.
12 executes translation processing according to the operation flow shown in FIG. Translation processing is done in frame units according to the priority order,
The character strings contained in it are sequentially processed (234,23
6). The frame pointer 231 (Fig. 10) points to a frame to be translated (230, 232, 242, 244).

First, the editor 12 extracts the character portion from the original document of the frame content record 40 and transfers the character portion in text units together with the frame number to the translation unit 10 (23
8,240). The translation unit 10 sequentially translates the text sent from the editor 12 and sends it back to the editor 12 as a target sentence. This object sentence is stored in the translation temporary storage unit by the editor 12.
Accumulated at 26. Thus, in this embodiment, only the text of the original document is sent to the translation unit 10 and converted into the target document.

The target document in the translated text temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the document file 34 by the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIG. In this flow, a target document, that is, a translated document is defined (260), and then the document chapter page information table 36 and the frame profile table 38 of the original document file are copied (262).

Therefore, the frame content record 40 in the original document file is copied while replacing the original sentence in the frame content record 40 with the translated sentence (264). Details of this processing are shown in FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 8A and 8B, the frame number pointer 231 is first set to "0" (265), and the frame type data is taken out from the frame profile table 38 designated by the pointer 231 (266). The types are 1, 4, 6
If it is 7 (267), the record pointer is set to the first record, that is, "0" in the work area secured in the memory of the editor for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document (268), and step 269 is executed. Move to. In step 269, the flag field of the frame content record 40 in the work area is set to "0" (Fig. 12), the starting point information of the translated sentence is calculated and set from the starting point information of the original sentence, and the first character code of the translated sentence is set. Set the font type in the character code field.

Next, the record pointer of the work area for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document is incremented (270),
If the character code of the translated text is not the end code (271), the flag field of the frame content record 40 in the work area is set to "1", the next character of the translated text is put in the character code field, and the pitch and font type are set. Set (272).

If the character code of the translated text is the end code and there is a translated text in that frame (275), the frame content record 4 of the original document
The next "0" is searched for in the flag column of 0 (276), and the process returns to step 269. If there is no translation in that frame, that frame is the end, so set the flag to 1 and the start point column.
Hexadecimal "FFFF" is set, the contents of the work area are written in the document file of the target document (277), and the next frame is searched (273).

If the frame type is not 1, 4, 6 or 7 in step 267, the frame content record of the frame pointed to by the frame number pointer is copied into the document file of the target document (278) and the next frame is searched. To (273).

In this way, the process of creating the target document and storing it in the document file 34 is advanced by stepping the frame number pointer for each frame (273, 274). In this way, the translated sentences are sequentially stored in the frame content record 40 for each frame included in one chapter.

The position coordinates (X, Y) of the start point of such a translated sentence are set as follows in this embodiment. For the abscissa X, the original sentence is set as it is for the first sentence in the frame of the translated sentence. For the second and subsequent minutes, it is set to the value of the abscissa of the last character of the preceding sentence plus the width and pitch of that character. However, if the value obtained by adding the initial width of the sentence to this value exceeds the right edge of the frame, a line feed is performed. The ordinate Y is set to that of the original sentence as it is for the sentence on the first line in the frame of the translated sentence.
In the present embodiment, for the statements in the second and subsequent rows, the difference Y2 between the ordinate Y2 of the statement of the previous row and the ordinate Y2 of the statement of that row in this embodiment.
The ordinate Y2 is set so that -Y1 is 1 / 1.58 times the difference between their corresponding ordinates in the original text.

The character pitch in the translation is set to satisfy the following equation.

(Average value of character width in font type used in translated sentence + pitch of translated sentence) = (average value of character width in font type of original sentence + pitch of original sentence) /1.58 In this embodiment, the value of this conversion coefficient is 1 /1.58 is a value that has been empirically selected so that the translated text can be accommodated in a format that is approximately the same size as the original text, taking into consideration the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese into English. So in this case, the translated frame is about 2.
Holds five times as many characters.

Although this embodiment is a Japanese-English translation device, when performing translation between other languages, in the initial setting of this device, the starting point coordinates and pitch of appropriate values are set according to the rate of change in the number of characters in the conversion. Select and set the conversion coefficient of.

The target document is displayed in the lower half area 50b of the display screen 50 in this embodiment by giving an instruction from the keyboard 16. A part of the original document 140 is displayed in the upper half area 50a. At that time, the target document is displayed with the line spacing of the target sentence being 1 / 1.58 times that of the original document, as described above. An example of this document display is shown in FIG.

As can be seen by comparing FIG. 4 with FIG.
In the upper half area 50a, the upper half of the original document, that is, the upper half of frame 0, all of frame 1, and frame 2
A portion of the text is displayed along with the original text, images and graphs. In the lower half area 50b, the original document 1
Corresponding to the upper half of 40, the upper half of frame 0, frame 1
, And part of frame 2 are displayed with the translation of the source text in substantially the same arrangement. Therefore,
The target document 142 includes translated sentences 1 to 4 corresponding to the original sentences 1 to 4 in this display example. Also, the original frame 2
The character "Sales" corresponding to the character "Sales" in is displayed at the corresponding position.

On the display screen 50, sentence selection cursors are displayed in the upper half area 50a and the lower half area 50b, respectively. When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 is operated, in response to this, the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 move the two sentence selection cursors while maintaining the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence.

The movement of the sentence selection cursor in the original document and the target document displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 9A to 9D.

When you operate the sentence selection cursor key 58 on the keyboard 16, (30
2) If it is the cursor up key (304), in the part displayed on the display screen of the frame in which the sentence where the current sentence selection cursor is placed, the sentence before that sentence is displayed. Check if exists (306, 307). If there is no previous sentence, it is determined whether there is an earlier frame (308), and if the result is affirmative, the cursor that is currently on in the frame content record 40 for the source document and the target document. The owner flag (Fig. 12) is turned off, and the last one displayed on the display screen in the frame content record 40 of the frame immediately before the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the displayed frame group. Turns on the cursor-owned flag for the statement (314). Next, the cursor is displayed at the position indicated by the start point information of the line in which the cursor possession flag of the frame content record 40 is "1" (322).

If it is found in steps 306 and 307 that the previous sentence exists, the frame content records of the original document and the target document
Turn on the cursor-owning flag that is one statement before the statement in which the cursor-owning flag in 40 is currently on, and turn off the cursor-owning flag that was previously on (318), and step 3
Move to 22.

Similarly, in step 304, if the operation of the sentence selection cursor key 58 has instructed the descending of the cursor, the portion displayed in the display screen of the frame containing the sentence where the current sentence selection cursor is placed. Check whether there is a sentence after the sentence in (310, 311). If the latter sentence does not exist, it is judged whether there is a later frame (31
2) If the result is affirmative, the currently on cursor-owning flag in the frame content record 40 for the original document and the target document is turned off, and the current sentence selection cursor in the displayed frame group is placed. The cursor ownership flag of the first sentence displayed on the display screen in the content record 40 of the frame next to the existing frame is turned on (316), and the process proceeds to step 322.

If it is found in steps 310 and 311 that the following sentence exists, frame content records of the original document and the target document
Turn on the cursor-owning flag for the statement following the statement in which the cursor-owning flag in 40 is currently on, and turn off the cursor-owning flag that was previously on (320), step 3
Move to 22.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including frames and lines, and both documents are simultaneously displayed on the same display screen. It is easy to associate Graphic information such as diagrams and graphs included in the original document is output to the target document together with the translations of the language related to them. Therefore, the target document corresponding to the original document is obtained. Further, since the translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the translated sentence are always instructed on the display screen, there is no need to perform an operation of searching for the translated sentence on the display screen.

EFFECT According to the present invention, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document with the frame and the line included, and both documents are simultaneously displayed on the same display screen. Easy to attach. The figures and graphs contained in the source document are displayed in the target document along with their associated translations of the source language.
Therefore, the target document corresponding to the original document is obtained. Further, since the translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the translated sentence are always instructed on the display screen, it is not necessary to search for them on the display surface, and the correspondence relationship between the two documents can be easily grasped. .

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1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which the document creating / editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of an original document and a target document displayed on a display device in the same embodiment, FIGS. FIG. 9D is a flow chart showing an example of the operation flow in the same embodiment, and FIGS. 10 to 15 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of the document file in the same embodiment. Description of main part code 10 …… Translation part 12 …… Editor 20 …… Display device 22 …… Display control part 34 …… Document file 50 …… Display screen 56 …… Page move key 58 …… Sentence selection cursor key 60 ...... Character selection cursor key

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting an original sentence, a frame setting unit for setting a frame representing one unit of a processing unit for the original sentence, and a frame set by the frame setting unit. An object sentence creating means for defining a processing range for an input original sentence and performing a predetermined process on the original sentence within the processing range defined by the frame, and an original sentence data and an objective sentence data are accumulated. It has a storage means and a display means for displaying the original sentence and the target sentence in association with each other, wherein the input means can input an original sentence including at least character information, and when the original sentence is input from the input means, The original text is stored in the storage means, and the frame setting means can set at least one frame for the original text, and when setting a plurality of frames, , It is possible to set parent-child attributes so that one frame contains other frames, and when setting multiple frames, it is possible to set a predetermined processing order between each frame. The object sentence creating means is adapted to perform processing for an original sentence within a processing range defined by each frame on a frame-by-frame basis in accordance with a processing order set for each frame. When the object sentence corresponding to the original sentence within the processing range is created by the object sentence creating means, the object sentence is accumulated in the storage means according to the frame, and the original sentence and the object sentence accumulated in the storage means are frame-by-frame units. A document creation / editing apparatus provided to the display means. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the object sentence creating means is included in a frame when performing a predetermined process on an original sentence within a processing range defined by the frame. An object sentence of only a sentence is created by processing only a sentence, and the display means is similar to a line, a frame, etc. included in the original sentence with respect to the object sentence only of the sentence created by the object sentence creating means. A document creation / editing device characterized by displaying lines and frames in the same format. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frame setting means gives priority to each frame as a predetermined processing order for each frame, and the object sentence creating means. Is a document creation / editing apparatus that processes an original sentence in units of frame in accordance with a frame priority order to create a target sentence. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one display screen of the display means is provided with a first display area and a second display area, and the first display area includes the first display area and the second display area. The original sentence is displayed in the second display area so that the object sentence is displayed in correspondence with each frame unit, and the first and second display areas are used to indicate a sentence. When the 1st and 2nd cursors are displayed and one of the 1st and 2nd cursors is operated,
In response to the operation, the first and second cursors move while maintaining the correspondence between the original sentence and the object sentence.