SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PREPARING DOCUMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically generate a manual formed into a database, by inputting only information of a portion desired to change a description in a specification. SOLUTION: This document preparation support system is provided with an input interface part 110 for inputting the information (parameter information) of the portion desired by a designer to change the description in response to the specification, a variable conversion part 120 for preparing a variable based on the input information in the input interface part 110, a substance reference part 130 for defining the variable prepared by the variable conversion part 120, a database part 150, a composition part 140 for referring to a character sequence of a template database part 151 based on the definition in the substance reference part 130, and for conducting composition referring to a variable content database component 153 in the database part, and a function for outputting the manual 160 by the composition part 140. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO