JPH0373906B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a word processor that allows printing in a plurality of formats on one sheet of paper.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] Word processors are used for the purpose of creating documents, but the direction in which the characters of a sentence are arranged on a single sheet of paper is fixed as shown in Figure 1A. string 2 within 1
It was limited to either horizontal writing, in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the horizontal direction, or vertical writing, in which the character strings 2 are arranged in the vertical direction, as shown in FIG.

However, document formats are becoming increasingly diverse.
Word processors have also been desired to have the ability to create pages in various formats as shown in FIG. In other words, in Fig. 2, A divides the page 1 into left and right parts by dividing line 3, and places horizontally written character strings 2 on each side.
It is an array of . In addition, in B, the paper surface 1 is divided into upper and lower sections by dividing lines 3, and each of the upper and lower sections is in a horizontal writing format as shown in FIG. 2A. In addition, in both figures C and D, the drawing or photo 4 is placed on the paper and the character string 2 is placed in the margin, and in C, the character string 2 is arranged in horizontal writing below the drawing or photo 4. 2, the right side of the drawing or photo 4 is divided into two vertically by dividing line 3, and the character string 2 is arranged vertically in the upper and lower sections. It is an array of .

Documents in this format cannot be created all at once using conventional word processors.

[Object of the invention] The present invention was made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and
The purpose of this is to divide the paper into multiple sections, set information about formatting such as the direction of writing and font spacing within each section, and then print text in any format to any section. An object of the present invention is to provide a word processor capable of printing columns.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the word processor of the present invention has an input section, an output section, a storage section, and a control section, wherein the storage section constitutes one page of a document. It has a section information storage section that stores information regarding a plurality of sections, and a text storage section that stores sentences corresponding to the section information storage section, and the control section (a) selects sections based on instructions from an input section. Set up the information storage section, visually display that section in the output section, and (b) When a character is input by specifying an arbitrary section from the input section, it will be displayed as a text corresponding to that section. It is characterized by having a function of visually outputting input characters to the output unit according to the contents of the section information storage section stored in the storage section and corresponding to the text storage section for each section.

[Embodiment of the Invention] The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the word processor of the present invention.

This word processor has an input section 10 and a control section 2.
0, a display section 30, a printout section 40, and a storage section 50 constitute its main part. Here, the input section 10 consists of a keyboard such as a kana type, the display section 30 consists of a display device such as a cathode ray tube display, and the print output section 40 consists of a printing device such as a dot printer. Also, the storage section 5
0 represents a plurality of partition information storage units 5.1, . . . , 5.0.
n and the same number of text storage units 6.1, . . . , 6. It consists of n.

The partition information storage unit 5.1 has a storage area divided into five parts, including a partition reference position 5.1.1, an intra-section grouping direction 5.1.2, an intra-section character padding 5.1.3, and an intra-section line spacing. 5.1.4, number of rows in a partition 5.1.5, and other partition information storage units 5.2,
..., 5. n is similarly configured.

On the other hand, the text storage section 6.1 for each section has data 6.1.1 for each input character and its position coordinates 6.1.2 as a set, and a set for the number of characters that can be accommodated in that section. The text storage section 6.2 of each section is configured to accommodate data of
...,6. n is similarly configured.

The control unit 20 includes the input unit 10, the display unit 30,
It has a function of exchanging commands and data between the print output section 40 and the storage section 50.

That is, the control unit 20 stores the partition information storage units 5.1, . . . based on the partition information input from the input unit 10.
..., 5. n is set, and the document data is stored in the text storage section 6.1, . . . , 6. Write to n, display section 3
0 and has a function of outputting the document data in the text storage section for each section to the print output section 40 according to the section information in the section information storage section.

The word processor of the present invention having the above configuration is operated, for example, as follows.

(1) When the operator inputs a section definition command from the input section 10, the control section 20 sets a section information storage section (for example, 5.1), and stores section standards in this section information storage section 5.1. In addition to writing the position 5.1.1, direction of grouping within the section 5.1.2, character filling within the section 5.1.3, line spacing within the section 5.1.4, and number of lines within the section 5.1.5, Information regarding the division is displayed on the display unit 30. For the next partition definition command, the control section 20 allocates the partition information storage section 5.2 and performs similar processing.

In this way, all the sections necessary for page layout are set and their contents are displayed on the display section 30. The entire page is displayed in display section 3 for information regarding the plot.
If it is displayed as 0, it is displayed as an image that directly displays the area occupied by that section. In the case of partial display of the page, characters and symbols to that effect are also displayed on the display section 30.

Hereinafter, in this embodiment, the entire page is the display section 30.
An example of the case where this is displayed will be explained below.

(2) When a character is input by specifying an arbitrary section from the input section 10, the control section 20 performs the following operation.

(B) First, the character position coordinates 6.1.2 corresponding to this section, calculated from the section information storage section 5.1, are added to the input character 6.1.1, and Write to text storage section 6.1.

(b) Display the input character 6.1.1 on the screen of the display unit 30 corresponding to the character position coordinates obtained in (a).

This operation is repeated until character input within the specified section is completed.

(3) When the operation shown in (2) is repeated for all sections assigned to the page of the document to be created, the document corresponding to the page is displayed on the screen of the display unit 30.

(4) As a result of the operator checking the screen of the display unit 30,
If it is necessary to correct characters, the input section specifies a section and issues a correction command. The control unit 20 changes the contents of the text storage unit for each corresponding section according to the instruction of the correction command, and also changes the content of the text storage unit of the corresponding section.
Change the display of the corresponding part on the screen.

(5) After the operator confirms the content of the document on the screen of the display unit 30, when the operator instructs the print output command from the input unit, the control unit 20 causes the print output unit 40 to print out all the documents allocated to the paper. Text storage section for each section of sections 6.1, . . . , 6. The contents of n are stored in the partition information storage unit 5.1, . . . , 5. After performing necessary editing according to the content written in n, output is performed. In this way, the text is printed out on paper in a predetermined format.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the word processor of the present invention. In FIG. 4, parts common to those in FIG. 3 are given the same reference numerals.

The word processor of this embodiment has partition information storage units 5.1, . . . in the embodiment shown in FIG.
..., 5. n and text storage unit for each section 5.1,...
...6. Partition information storage unit 7.1.n with the same contents as 7.1.n.
1,...7.1. n and the same number of text storage units 8.1.1, . . . , 8.1. There are a plurality of sets of ``n'' from the first page to the mth page.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to easily allocate the paper space of a document that spans multiple pages.Additionally, if items such as character size, font, character spacing, number of columns, and column spacing are added as items in the section information storage unit, even more diverse layouts can be performed. You can set sections and create a variety of sentences. Further, by adding link information (tribute number, section number, etc.) to the section information storage section, the degree of freedom in document creation can be further increased. In addition, if the entire page cannot be displayed on one screen of the display unit 30, there is a function to add an appropriate screen feed or add an image input device to allocate image data to a specified section. It is also possible to add .

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the word processor of the present invention divides a page into a plurality of sections, and has a plurality of section information storage sections in which arbitrary arrangement information can be set for each section, and the same number of text memories corresponding thereto. Since it has a
In addition to paper formats as shown in Figure 1, document formats that cannot be created using conventional word processors,
For example, a document in the format shown in FIG. 2 can be easily created.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a page layout diagram of a document created using a conventional word processor, and FIG. , FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the word processor of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure is a block diagram showing another embodiment. 10...Input section, 20...Control section, 30...Display section, 40...Print output section, 5.1...5. n,
7.1.1…7.1. n, 7. m.1…7. mn…
...Partition information storage unit, 5.1.1...5. n.1...Division reference position, 5.1.2...5. n.2... Intra-section assembly direction, 5.1.3...5. n.3……Character inside the section,
5.1.4…5. n.4...Intraline spacing, 5.1.
5…5. n.5...Number of lines in section, 6.1...6. n,
8.1.1...8.1. n, 8. m.1…8. mn…
...Text storage section for each section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a word processor having an input section, an output section, a storage section, and a control section, the storage section corresponds to a section information storage section that stores information regarding a plurality of sections constituting one page of a document, and the section information storage section. and a text storage section for storing sentences to be read, and the control section (a) sets the section information storage section based on the command from the input section and visually displays the section on the output section; (b) When a character is input by specifying an arbitrary section from the input section, this is stored in the text storage section so as to correspond to that section, and the section information storage section corresponds to the text storage section for each section. 1. A word processor having a function of causing an output unit to visually output input characters according to the content of the word processor.