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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1995
Kazuhiko Nishimura, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A document editing apparatus is provided, which can perform a linking process after checking the entire correspondence between sentences in an existing document which are to be copied and portions in a currently edited document in which the sentences are to be inserted, thereby preventing editing errors and improving the editing efficiency. The apparatus includes a source document segmenting device for segmenting the source document in accordance with its structure, an editing document segmenting device for segmenting the editing document in accordance with its structure, a table display device for displaying a link relation control table indicating the structural correspondence between the two documents by using the start character strings of the segmented portions, a linking designation device for executing designation of linking on the displayed table, a linking designation display device for marking a combination for which linking designation is performed on the table to discriminate the combination, and a document linking processor for performing a linking process for the marked combination to link the designated sentence in the source document with the designated portion in the editing document.