Text processing method and apparatus

摘要

Method of preparing plural documents based on one text, with partial alterations from one document to another, comprising: storing into a first memory plural sets of phrase data which represent different phrases to be inserted into the respective documents and which are designated by respective phrase-indicating codes; storing into a second memory at least one set of work data comprising selected ones of the phrase-indicating codes and designated by a working-group code; storing into a third memory at least one set of text data representing a text of document and including the working-group code at a position corresponding to a part of the text which is altered; and reading out the text data from the third memory plural times corresponding to the number of the documents to be prepared, while upon reading of the working-group data, reading out from the first memory the sets of phrase data as the same are sequentially designated by the phrase-indicating codes of the work data designated by the working-group code, thereby inserting the different phrases into the respective documents. An apparatus to practice the method is also disclosed.