JPH02148253A - Documentation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily prepare a document in a preliminarily prescribed style by referring to a table, where Japanese writing styles of type and European writing styles of type correspond to each other in accordance with a composition rule, to determine the other style of type at the time of designating one style of type. CONSTITUTION:European writing styles of type which are most suitable for Japanese writing styles of type in accordance with the composition rule are defined in a font correspondence list table 18, and a type style control part 13 gets an European writing style of type corresponding to the current Japanese writing style of type (discriminated by a flag set to a font list table 16 for Japanese writing) from this table 18 and determines it as the style of type for inputted European writing characters. When an European writing style of type is first designated, the font correspondence list table 18 is referred to determine the other style of type. Consequently, preliminarily styles are easily obtained when a document including Japanese and European writing characters together is prepared.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a document creation device for both Japanese and English, and particularly to a document creation device suitable for specifying a font.

(Prior Art) With the development of word processors, it has become possible to create beautiful documents in a short time. Furthermore, with regard to fonts, until now it was only possible to select one type of font due to the limitations of available memory, but recently, with the development of large-capacity memory, a variety of fonts such as Mincho, Gothic, etc. It has become possible to use the font of F+J arbitrarily depending on the situation.

On the other hand, regarding languages, until now there were separate devices for word processors for Japanese and English, but recently it has become possible to handle both Japanese and English with one device. It's here.

By the way, there are various Japanese fonts that can be used as Japanese characters, such as Mincho font and Gothic font. Similarly, there are also Roman fonts that can be used as Roman characters including English characters.
For example, there are various types such as centimeter, news, etc. and,
When creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters in various fonts, for example, use the European font Centiur for the Japanese Mincho font. A method is generally adopted in which the fonts for both Japanese characters and Latin characters are determined according to typesetting rules that indicate the optimal combination of fonts and Roman fonts.

However, conventionally, when using the typesetting rules as described above, the user had to individually specify the fonts for both Japanese characters and European characters according to the typesetting rules. In this case, since the formatting rules are complex, they cannot be specified easily and there is a problem in that it places a burden on the user.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) As mentioned above, when creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese characters and Latin characters, there is unique know-how based on typesetting rules regarding typefaces. , it was necessary to individually specify the font for both Japanese characters and Roman characters, which had the disadvantage of placing a burden on the user.

The present invention has been made in view of the points mentioned in -1-. When creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese characters and Latin characters, the present invention does not require the fonts of both Japanese characters and Latin characters to be specified individually. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can easily create a document in a predefined font.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In other words, the document creation device according to the present invention is a document creation device that can use a mixture of Japanese characters and European characters. According to the rules for typefaces, prepare a table that associates various Japanese fonts that can be used as Japanese characters written in - with various European fonts that can be used as European characters listed above. When one of the European fonts is designated, the other font is determined by referring to the table.

(Operation) According to the above configuration, when one of the Japanese font and the European font is specified, the table is referenced and the other font is determined.

Therefore, when creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters, it is possible to easily create a document in a predefined font without having to specify the fonts for both Japanese and European characters individually as in the past. can be created.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration thereof.

In FIG. 1, numeral 11 is a keyboard for inputting characters and fonts. Reference numeral 12 denotes a control section, which controls the entire apparatus. This control section 12 has a font control section 13 and a display control section 19.

The font control unit 13 includes a Japanese character table 14, a Roman character table 15, a Japanese font list table 1B,
It has a Latin font list table 17 and a font correspondence list table 18, and controls the typefaces of Japanese characters and Latin characters under the control of the control unit 12. In addition,
These tables 14-18 will be explained later with reference to FIGS. 2-6.

The display control unit 19 controls the display device N under the control of the control unit 12.
20 controls are performed. This display device 2o displays characters.

2 to 6 are diagrams showing the contents of tables 14 to 18 held by the font control section 13, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 2, the Japanese character table 14 defines characters used as Japanese characters, such as "A, I, U...", for example. As shown in FIG. 3, the Roman character table 15 defines characters used as Roman characters, such as "AlB, C...".

As shown in FIG. 4, the Japanese font list table 16 defines Japanese fonts that can be used as Japanese characters, such as "thin Mincho font, medium Mincho font, etc.".

As shown in FIG.
It defines a Roman font that can be used as Roman characters such as "Bold...". In addition, above is my own table 1B
, 17, flags are set corresponding to each typeface.

In addition, the font correspondence list table 18 includes predefined font rules, such as "Narrow Mincho font of Japanese fonts, Century Old font of European fonts..." as shown in FIG. (Typesetting rules), various Japanese fonts defined in the Japanese font list table 16,
It is associated with the European fonts defined in the European font list table.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In order to make it easier to understand, for example,
The following explanation assumes that you are creating a document in which a Western character appears after a Japanese character such as "."

That is, when creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese characters and Latin characters, such as "A", for example, the Japanese character "A" is first manually input using the keyboard 11. In addition,
Both Japanese characters and Roman characters can be input from the keyboard 11. Furthermore, since the kanji characters of Japanese characters are not a problem here, a kanji tablet may be used as the input method, or the keyboard 11 may have a kana-kanji conversion function.

Here, when inputting a Japanese character, a Japanese font for that character, for example, "Hoshi Mincho font" is specified using the keyboard 11. Note that this font designation can be made as many times as desired.

Characters input from the keyboard 11 are sent to the font control section 3 in the control section 12 (step Sl).

The font control unit 13 first refers to the Japanese character table 14 (step S2), and confirms that this input character (here, "a") is a Japanese character (step S3).
), the Japanese font specified for the input character from the Japanese font list table 1G (for example, "Hoshi Mincho font")
is detected, and a flag corresponding to the detected Japanese document font is set (step S4).

Next, the Roman character rAJ is input using the keyboard 11. In this case, there is no need to specify a Roman font for that character. These European characters are also sent to the font control unit 13 in the same way as the Japanese characters. The font control unit 13 refers to the Roman character table 15 (step S5), and when it confirms that this input character (here, "A") is a European character (step S6), it determines the Roman font for this European character. Determine (step S7).

The font correspondence list table 18 is used to determine this European font. That is, the font correspondence list table 18 defines European fonts that are most suitable for Japanese fonts according to the typesetting rules, and the font control unit 13 selects the current Japanese font from among these (this is the Japanese font list). (as determined from the flags set in the table 16), and determines this as the font for the inputted Roman characters. In this case, for example, the Japanese character "a"
If the Japanese font of ``Hoso Mincho'' is specified for ,
For the Roman character rAJ, the Roman font “centiury” is used.
・Old” will be decided.

When the font control unit 13 determines the Roman font, it sets a flag for the corresponding font in the Roman font list table 17 (step≦8). Note that if it is determined in step S6 that the character is not a Roman character, processing for other character types is performed (step S9). This is provided in consideration of the case where characters other than Japanese and European characters are used.In reality, Japanese characters and European characters are generally used, so this process (step S9) is omitted. It's okay.

In this way, when a Japanese text font is specified, a European text font that follows the typesetting rules is determined. The display control unit 19 uses the Japanese font list table 16 and the Roman font list table 17 when displaying characters through the display device 20.
The flags in both tables are referenced, and characters are displayed in the font in which these flags are set.

In this embodiment, the Japanese font is specified first, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, if one of the fonts is specified, for example, the European font is specified first. In this case as well, the other font is determined by referring to the font correspondence list table 18, as in the above embodiment.

Further, in addition to Japanese and European languages, extensions such as displaying numbers in a specified font can be easily performed. moreover,
There are typesetting rules for baselines for Japanese characters and Roman characters, and information regarding such baselines can be easily added.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, by specifying either the Japanese font or the European font, the other font is determined.

Therefore, when creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters, it is possible to easily create a document in a predefined font without specifying the fonts for both Japanese and European characters. This reduces the burden on the user and eliminates the need for knowledge of complex font rules such as typesetting rules.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2 to 6 are diagrams showing the contents of each table held by the font control section of the same embodiment, and FIG. It is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment. 11...Keyboard, 12...Control unit, 13...
Font control unit, 14... Character table for Japanese text, 15...
- Character table for Roman characters, 16... Font list table for Japanese text, 17... Font list table for Roman characters, 18... Font correspondence list table, 19...
Display control unit, 20... display device. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a document creation device that can use a mixture of Japanese characters and European characters, according to predefined font rules, various Japanese fonts that can be used as the Japanese characters and used as the European characters can be used. Equipped with a table that associates various possible European fonts, and when either the Japanese font or the European font is specified, the other font is determined by referring to the table. A document creation device characterized by: