| 摘要 |
<p>This invention provides a method and apparatus for generating and processing on a screen a document format including input/output fields for describing a character string or a numeric data string by a method or in a form which enables an operator to easily make correction on a screen or in a manner which makes it easy to input or output the data to and from the input/output field. The generation of a document format on the screen in a manner of easy correction is reading the information describing the format from a recording medium where the format of the document is described, displaying the read data on the screen in the same or similar format described in the recording medium, correcting and updating the format displayed on the screen in response to key operation by the operator, generating an input/output area by recognizing the format, displaying it by superposing it on the format displayed on the screen and correcting and updating the input/output area in response to the key operation by the operator. The generation of a document format in the form which makes the input and output operation easy on the screen is reading the information describing the format from the recording medium in which the format of the document is described, determining a character size per one displayed character from the read data, disposing cells on the basis of the character size thus determined, arranging outside-cell information such as character or numeric data on the basis of the cells thus arranged, compressing the cells and the outside-cell data lest they jut out from the display screen and determining the processing sequence of each item of the format displayed on the display screen.</p> |
