JPH02297128A - Character processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability by means of the typesetting of characters in which flexibility is improved by filling the characters being the object of typesetting based on character filling information corresponding to respective characters and character filling information which is inputted at the time of typesetting. CONSTITUTION:A bit map display 1 forming the typesetting conditions of a document or a display screen at the time of a character filling mode, video RAM 2 developing display data of CRT 1, a keyboard 3 provided with various keys for the generation of the document, for editing, for the writing and reading of the document with respect to a disk 8, a pointing device 4 pointing a point on CRT 1, and CPU 5 are provided. Such a character processor is provided with an input procedure inputting character filling information corresponding to respective characters and a procedure filling the characters being the object of typesetting based on character filling information inputted at the time of typesetting. Thus, typesetting can arbitrarily be set and the flexibility of typesetting can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a character processing device, and for example, to an improvement in a character typesetting function.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in this type of device, characters are output in solid sets regardless of their design.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, since the characters are set solidly, there are problems such as a lack of display effect of the output light and a lack of flexibility in follow-up processing during typesetting processing. There were drawbacks. For example, since the end of a line is arranged in a solid state, there is a disadvantage that there is a high possibility that the last character of a line will be pushed out to the next line.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional examples, and its purpose is to provide a character processing device that improves the flexibility of typesetting by making it possible to arbitrarily set character padding. It is in.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the objectives, a character processing device according to the present invention includes an input means for inputting padding information corresponding to each character; and font filling means for filling characters to be typewritten based on font filling information inputted by the input means at the time of typesetting.

[Operation] According to this configuration, the manual means inputs the font filling information corresponding to each character, and the font filling device fills the characters to be typewritten based on the font filling information inputted by the input means during typesetting. There is.

[Embodiments] Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a character processing device according to this embodiment. In FIG. 1, l indicates a bit map display (hereinafter referred to as rcRTJ) that forms the display screen in the formatting state of the document or in the fill mode, which is a feature of this embodiment, and 2 indicates the display data of the CRTI. A video RAM (hereinafter referred to as rVRAM) to be developed is shown, and 3 is a keyboard provided with various keys for creating and editing documents, as well as writing and reading documents to and from a disk 8, which will be described later. 4 indicates a pointing device that points to a point on the CRTI, and 5 indicates a CP that controls the operation of the entire device according to various programs in ROM 6.
It shows U. Reference numeral 6 indicates a ROM that stores a control program, an error processing program, a program for operating the CPU 1 according to the flowchart of FIG. 9, etc., and 7 indicates a work area for various programs in the ROM and a temporary save area during error processing. RA'M used as
It shows.

Reference numeral 8 indicates a disk of a hard disk drive or floppy disk drive used for data storage that can be freely read and written, 9 indicates a printer that prints and outputs the formatting result of this embodiment, and 10 indicates an address signal inside the device; It shows path lines that transmit data and control signals.

Here, the character filling mode of this embodiment will be explained.

In the following explanation, kana characters will be used in the fill-in mode.

As a premise of the processing, characters that can be filled in characters include characters that can be filled in vertical writing, horizontal writing, or both.

Among these, cursive sound characters are considered to be possible to fill in both vertical and horizontal writing. Also, the character "i" is considered to be able to be filled vertically in vertical writing mode.

There are "tsu", "he", "tech", "two", "ha", "he", and "yu". Also, when writing horizontally, characters that can be filled horizontally are "UJ, r<Jrt,", "rmo", "su", "
"I", "ri", "so", "riJ, rtoJ, rnu", "ノ"
Examples include "mi", "me", and "su". For these characters, the system implicitly pads the characters in several levels: vertically padded to the top and bottom of the character, horizontally padded to the left and right of the character, and if both directions are padded, the top and bottom of the character to the left and right. Each padding value is set, for example, as a percentage of full-width. Users can change these setting values, and also specify additional characters other than the example characters listed above to set the degree of padding in several levels, or exclude some of the example characters listed above from the target of character padding processing. It can be configured to do so.

Therefore, the actual operation method of the character filling mode and the typesetting situation corresponding to the operation will be explained.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in the font filling mode of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a user font filling information table. In FIG. 2, numeral 30 indicates a character display column for displaying characters to be filled in approximately at the center of the display screen of the CRTI, and numeral 31 indicates a character code column for inputting character codes located at the top of the display screen. Reference numeral 32 indicates a character filling amount input field, and this character filling amount manual column 32 shows the amount of character filling (3 levels of loose character filling, intermediate character filling, and tight character filling) depending on the degree of character filling for vertical writing and horizontal writing. Set as a percentage. In addition, in this character display column 30, the two innermost broken lines 33 indicate the setting width for character filling, which indicates the amount of tight character filling in horizontal writing.
The dashed line 34 in the book indicates a character setting width that indicates an intermediate amount of embedding in horizontal writing, and the next two outermost broken lines 35 indicate the character setting width that indicates a loose amount of embedding in horizontal writing. . In addition, the above 3
The two broken lines each indicate the character setting width for horizontal writing, but when the character setting width for vertical writing is set, a broken line corresponding to the degree of filling of each character in vertical writing is displayed. In this case, the broken lines will be displayed vertically in the character display field 30. The amount of padding divided into the three stages described above is used during typesetting adjustment, which will be described later.

For example, as shown in FIG.
10% from the left and 10% from the right
, 15% of the middle text from the left.

If 15% from the right direction, tight font spacing is 20% from the left direction, and 20% from the right direction, in this embodiment, the user font spacing information table 2 is stored in RAM 7 as shown in FIG.
0 is set. In this user font-filling information table 20, setting values corresponding to the character code ゛264A'' of the character "su" and the degree of font-filling for vertical writing and horizontal writing are set. The initial value is set from ROM6 when the system starts up, but the third
As shown in the figure, if the user specifies the font spacing, it can be changed at any time. All the characters that can be padded are initialized when the system is started up, but by providing a non-volatile memory to store the user padding table 20, changed padding information can be saved. It's okay.

Here, an example of characters to be filled in will be explained using FIGS. 4(a), (b), and (c).

Figure 4 (a) shows an example of characters that correspond to horizontal writing, Figure 4 (b) shows an example of characters that correspond to vertical writing, and Figure 4 (C) shows an example of characters that correspond to horizontal writing. Examples of characters that can be filled in both vertical and vertical writing are shown. In FIG. 4(a), broken lines 33 to 35 are displayed, which correspond to the loose character spacing, intermediate character spacing, and tight character spacing, respectively, in horizontal writing of the character "su" described above. Figure 4 (b) shows the loose character filling of the character "i" when written vertically.

Broken line 3 corresponding to medium font spacing and tight font spacing, respectively.
3 to 35 are displayed. Further, in FIG. 4(c), broken lines 33 to 35 corresponding to the character spacing of the character "tsu" in both horizontal and vertical writing are displayed.

Here, the direction indicated by arrow P is tight font spacing in vertical writing ~
It shows a change in character setting width corresponding to loose character filling, and the direction indicated by arrow Q shows a change in character setting width corresponding to tight character filling to loose character filling in horizontal writing. In this way, when performing character filling for both horizontal writing and vertical writing, it is sufficient to set the character filling amount in the setting items for vertical writing and horizontal writing in the character filling amount manual column 32.

Next, the formatting process of this embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the setting operation of user font filling information by the CPU 5, and FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating the typesetting operation of the CPU 5.

Figure 5, Figure 6 (a), (b), Figure 7, Figure 8 (a)
, (b) are process diagrams illustrating the flow of typesetting processing. In addition, in the following explanation, the system startup has already been completed,
The user padding table 2o has been initialized by reading the padding information from the ROM 6. In addition, in Fig. 5, Fig. 6 (a), (b), Fig. 7, Fig. 8 (a), (b), 1
00 is the beginning of the line, 101 is the end of the line, 200 and 201 are areas for formatting characters for which padding information is set in a user-specified padding mode, and 202 is a region for formatting the last character of the line.

Here, a method of setting user font filling information will be explained. First, when the user receives an instruction to set font information from the keyboard 3, the font setting screen explained in Figure 2 appears on the CRT.
It is displayed on the display screen of I (step 5100), and the process waits for character code input (step 5lot).
. If another process is instructed from the keyboard 3 while waiting for input in step 5lot, the process exits from the user font information setting process and other processes are started (step 5102).
). Further, when a character code is input, a character pattern corresponding to the input character code is displayed in the character display field 30 (step 5103). At this time, the initial value of the amount of padding for the character C corresponding to the input character code (hereinafter referred to as "target character") is set in the padding amount 32 with reference to the user padding table 20. At the same time, the character display field 30 displays dashed lines 33 to 33 with the character setting width corresponding to the initial value.
35 are displayed sandwiching the target character. If the user wants to change (set) the degree of character filling of this target character, each value in the character filling amount column 32 is changed using the keyboard 3 and pointing device 4, and at the same time, the dashed lines 33 to 35 indicating the character setting width are changed. The position of is changed (set).

In this way, change (setting) the font information of the target character
When the process is completed, the contents of the user font filling information table 20 are changed (set) based on the changed (set) font filling information (step 5104). Here, "change" means that an initial value (a number other than "0") has already been set in the user font information table 20, and all initial values of "O" are set in the user font information table 20. If it is set, it is expressed as "setting".

After step 5104 described above, if there is a request to set or change the padding amount for other characters, step 5IO
The process proceeds to step I, and the processes from step 5lot to step 5104 described above are repeated (step 5105).

When the setting of the font filling information requested by the user is completed as described above, the user font filling information setting process ends.

Next, the typesetting processing method will be explained.

First, during typesetting, it is determined whether a user-specified font filling mode is set (step 510).
). If the mode is normal, temporary formatting (solid formatting) of the document is performed based on the amount of padding set for each character in advance (step 511).

The explanation after the temporary formatting in step S2 will be described later.

In addition, in the case of the user-specified character filling mode, temporary typesetting is performed based on the character filling amount (loose character filling) set in the user character filling information table 20 (step 51
2).

First, the character filling adjustment process for temporary typesetting in the normal mode will be explained. Therefore, it is assumed that the temporary formatting in the normal mode set in the above-mentioned step Sll is performed first, for example, the horizontal temporary formatting as shown in FIG. 5. In this case, since the area 202 of the last character of the line protrudes from the end of the line 101, the character that can be filled with the fill-in process (one of the fill correction processes) based on the fill amount stored in the user fill information table 2o Area of 200.201
(Step 513). In addition, the area width for one character in solid type is β. Then, the normal mode finishing process starts from loose font filling based on the font filling information in the user font filling information table 20.

For example, if a blank space is created between the area 202 and the end of the line 101 due to unnecessary font filling as a result of the above-mentioned font filling,
The width of this overfilled blank space is evenly allocated to all character areas (step 514). The result of this font correction is displayed on the display screen of the CRTI as the final formatting (step 515). Further, when the region 202 exactly matches the end of the line 101 due to the finishing process (step 51
4) The result of this finishing process is C as the final typesetting.
It is displayed on the display screen on the RTI (step 515).

Or, even if the finishing process is performed, area 2 from the end of the line 101
If 02 is protruding, the degree of tightening should be increased to intermediate or tighter spacing. Even if you do this, if the area 202 protrudes from the end of the line 101, the area 202 of the last character in the line will be pushed out to the beginning of the next line, and the blank space created by this removal will remain in the area of the characters in the line. Allocated equally to all (
Step 514). By adjusting the format in this way, the final format is displayed on the display screen on the CRTI (step 515).

Next, the formatting adjustment process according to the result of the temporary formatting in step S12 will be explained using FIGS. 6(a), (b), FIG. 7, and FIG. 8(a), (b).

For example, as shown in Fig. 6(a), the area 2゛00.201 of the same character that can be filled in characters is the amount β38 degrees Celsius of characters filled in from the left and right.
, and if a blank space occurs between the end of line 101 and the area 202 of the last character of the line in this temporary formatting, the width A2 of areas 200 and 201 (I2z = j
2o 2f2+ ) is too crowded.

Therefore, it is determined that typesetting adjustment is necessary (step 51).
3) Allocate blank spaces evenly to the areas of all characters in the same line, and match the end of the line 101 with the area 202 of the last character in the line as shown in FIG. 6(b) (step 514).
If this equal allocation amount is 4, then the width of the character area without padding is β. +03, and the width of the character areas 200 and 201 that can be filled is β20β3.

When the formatting adjustment process is completed in this way, it is displayed on the CRTI display screen as a re-composed format (step 515).
.

Further, if the temporary composition board in step S12 described above does not require adjustment as shown in FIG. 7 (step 513), this temporary composition board is used as the final composition, and the document specified by the user is
The information is displayed on the RTI display screen (step 516). Here, the amount of indentation from the left and right sides of the areas 200 and 201 is indicated by , respectively, and the width is indicated by I24.

Furthermore, as a result of the temporary composition board in step S12, the region 202 of the last character in the line protrudes from the end of the line 101, so the temporary composition board requires adjustment (step 513), and the user can adjust the character size according to the user font information table 20 until it is tight. It will be done.

Even if this is done, if the area 202 protrudes from the end of the line 101 as shown in FIG. 8(a), as shown in FIG. 8(b).
The area 202 is removed from the line and set at the beginning 100 of the next line (step 514). here,
The tightest amount of font filling is 7 on both the left and right sides, and the widths of the areas 200 and 201 at this time are respectively β. The blank space left when area 202 is removed is equally allocated to all character areas on the same line. This assigned amount indicates ℃8. The result of this recomposition is displayed on the display screen of the CRTl (step 51).
5). In the above processing, in particular, the output light of the typesetting is used as the display screen, but since it is a well-known technique to use the output light as the printer 9, the explanation will be omitted.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, characters can be flexibly typewritten by avoiding simply expelling the last character of a line in the middle of formatting to the next line.

Now, in the above-described embodiment, if there is a user-specified font-filling mode designation, a temporary set is created in which font-filling is forcibly performed based on the user-specified font-filling information table 20, but the present invention is not limited to this. Rather than specifying a character on display, use the pointing voice vise 4 to specify the displayed character from the CRTI display screen, and by this specification, while referring to the font information in the user font information table 20, select the area of the specified character. It is also possible to forcibly fill in the spaces between adjacent characters. For example, if a blank space is created due to character filling, the width of this blank space may be equally allocated between all characters in the same line, as in the above-described embodiment.

Further, the user character filling information may be read from the disk 8 instead of being stored in the ROM 6.

Now, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the broken lines 33 to 35 representing the character setting width are displayed in correspondence with the value set in the character filling amount manual field 32, but the present invention is not limited to this. By specifying the character setting width in the character display field with a pointing device such as a mouse, a broken line is displayed, the amount of character padding is calculated from the position of the specified dashed line, and a value is set in the character padding amount input field. Also good.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, an easy-to-use character processing device is provided through flexible character typesetting.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the character processing device of this embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the display screen in the font filling mode of this embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram explaining the user font filling information table. , Figure 4 (a) is a diagram showing an example of characters that correspond to the character spacing in horizontal writing, Figure 4 (b) is a diagram showing an example of characters that correspond to the character filling in vertical writing, and Figure 4 (c) is a diagram showing an example of characters that correspond to the character filling in vertical writing. Figures 5, 6 (a) and (b) showing examples of characters that can be filled in for both horizontal and vertical writing.
, FIG. 7, FIG. 8 (a), and (b) are process diagrams explaining the flow of the typesetting process, FIG. 9 is a flowchart explaining the setting operation of the user font information of the CPU 5, and FIG. 10 is the typesetting process of the CPU 5. It is a flowchart explaining the operation. In the figure, 1...CRT, 2...VRAM, 3...Keyboard, 4...Pointing device, 5...
CPU. 6...ROM, 7...RAM, 8...disk,
9...Printer, 10...Pass line, 20...
User padding information table, 30...Character display field, 3
1...Character code field, 32...Character padding amount input field, 3
3-35...broken line, 100...beginning of line, 101 ・
. . . line end, 200, 201, 202 . . . area.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) The character processing device is provided with input means for inputting padding information corresponding to each character, and padding means for padding the characters to be typewritten based on the padding information inputted by the input means during typesetting. Characteristic character processing device. (2) In the character processing device, a storage means for storing the degree of character filling in multiple stages for each character, and an adjustment for adjusting typesetting based on the degree of character filling in the plurality of stages stored in the storage means during typesetting. A character processing device comprising: means. (3) The character processing device according to claim 2, wherein the storage means has a table that stores the degree of character filling in multiple stages for each character.