JPH077392B2 - Information processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to various information processing apparatuses such as word processors, office computers, personal computers, data processors, workstations, etc., and particularly to a character processing function thereof.

2. Description of the Related Art In various information processing devices as described above, when inputting characters, a conventional layout such as that shown in FIG.
In order to obtain the output of "President's Doctor of Engineering, Taro Patent", at least 3 steps of ruby conversion or ruby input, half-line feed, and change of line are combined to input the character string of "President of Engineering". I had to do something.

For example, as shown in FIG. 11, the ruby key is pressed to set the ruby mode, and after inputting “daihyo toshiri mariyaku”, the conversion key is pressed to convert to “representative director”. Then half-break the line and type "Kogakuhakushi", then press the conversion key to convert to "Doctor of engineering". Then, after canceling the ruby mode, enter "Tokiyotarou" and press the conversion key to make "Patent Taro".

If this is printed as it is, as shown in FIG. 12 (A),
The space between the nine characters of "President's Doctor of Engineering" becomes too unnatural.

Therefore, if you change the line spacing to a small value (for example, "0") and print, the line spacing will be clogged as shown in FIG. By printing with a small setting change, a desired output as shown in FIG.

As described above, in the conventional information processing apparatus, extremely complicated key operation is required to obtain an output of a special character array in which a plurality of lines of character strings exist in one line. It would be difficult to realize without an operator who did this.

Aim This invention has been made in view of the above points, so that in order to obtain the output of the above-mentioned special character array, any complicated key operation is not required and anyone can realize it with a simple operation. The purpose is to do.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises an input device, a display device, and a printing device, the characters input from the input device are visually displayed on the display device, and the display contents are displayed by the printing device. In an information processing apparatus capable of printing, a range designating means for designating a range of a character string to be reduced from a character string input by an input device, and a range designated by the range designating means. A reduction / combination means for reducing the character string of No. 1 and displaying it as an ordinary character string for two lines is provided.

Hereinafter, a specific description will be given based on an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an information processing apparatus embodying the present invention, for example, a personal word processor. This personal word processor is an input device 1 using a keyboard.
And a display device 17 using a liquid crystal display device (LCD)
And a printing device 18 using a thermal printer
The system is configured by 19 and a floppy disk device 20 as an external storage device connected to the main body 19.

The input device 1 is equipped with a number of character keys such as kana keys and alphanumeric keys, cursor movement keys, function keys for selecting various functions, etc. Can be entered.

The main body 19 incorporates a circuit such as an input control unit 2 to a display control circuit 16 which will be described later with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram functionally showing the configuration of the control unit of this embodiment. Between the input device 1 and the display device 17 and the printing device 18, the input control unit 2, the character data editing unit 3, Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 4, Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 5, character data storage area 6, format information unit 7, format editing unit 8, font data expansion unit 9, font compression unit 10, character generator 11, font buffer 12, reduction synthesis control A unit 13, a range designation control unit 14, a print control unit 15, and a display control unit 16 are provided.

Next, the function of each of these components will be described.

The input device 1 is a keyboard or the like (including a touch panel or a mouse when using the touch panel, etc.)
Enter characters and key lines.

The input control unit 2 controls conversion of characters and various symbols input from various keys of the input device 1 into respective data, and outputs the data to each subsequent process.

The character data editing unit 3 controls the editing by combining the character data input from the input device 1 via the input control unit 2 with the character data already input.

The kana-kanji conversion control unit 4, when the kanji reading is input,
According to this reading, it is converted into kanji.

The kana-kanji dictionary 5 stores JIS first-level kanji or characters and symbols registered as external characters.

The character data storage area 6 is stored after the input character data is converted into Chinese characters or as it is.

The format information section 7 stores format information (left and right margins, tab set information, etc.) necessary for editing the input character.

The format editing unit 8 edits the input data based on the format information and other information.

The font data decompression unit 9 reads font data from the character generator 11 according to the data edited by the format editing unit 8 and, if necessary, compresses fonts by the font compressing unit 10 to determine fonts and font buffers. Temporarily stored in 12.

The character generator 11 stores pattern data of all characters.

The reduction synthesis control unit 13 controls the reduction synthesis according to the present invention when the reduction synthesis key (1/4 reduction synthesis key in this embodiment) of the input device (keyboard) 1 is pressed.

When the 1/4 reduction composite key is pressed, the range specification control unit 14 reads the character at the cursor position that specifies the range of the character string to be reduced from the character data storage unit, and the start point provided inside Store at address or end point address.

The print control unit 15 and the display control unit 16 are control circuits for controlling the printing device 18 and the display device 17, respectively.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be specifically described with reference to the block diagrams of FIG. 1, the flow charts of FIGS. 3 and 4, and FIGS. 5 to 10.

The character string first input by the input device 1 is converted into each character data by the input control unit 2 and edited together with other character data already input in the character data editing unit 3.

Here, for example, a process for obtaining an output as shown in FIG. 5 will be described. When “daihyo tori mariyaku” (reading kanji) as shown in FIG. 6 (A) is input, a specific instruction ( In accordance with this input data from the Kana-Kanji dictionary 5 stored in the floppy disk or the like in the Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 4 of FIG.
The "kanji" is converted to the "representative director" as shown in FIG. 6 (B). Note that C in the figure indicates a cursor.

After the conversion, these character data are stored in the character data storage area 6 and edited by the format editing section 8 in the same format as the format information section 7.

Then, the edited character data is converted into font data expansion unit 9
Then, the font data developing unit 9 reads the font data from the character generator 11 based on the character data, and temporarily stores the font data in the font buffer 12. This is transmitted to the display control unit 16, and the display control unit 16 outputs font data to the display device 17 to display one character.

The font data expansion unit 9 repeats this operation for each character, the character data passed from the character data editing unit 3 is sequentially read from the font buffer 12, and the display control unit 16 displays it on the display device 17.

As a result, it is displayed as a character string such as "representative director" in FIG. 6 (B).

Next, by repeating the same procedure as above in the order of “Kogakuhakushi”, “Sp”, “Sp”, and “Totkyotarou”,
As shown in FIG. 6C, the display of "Representative Director Doctor of Engineering □□ Patent Taro" is obtained (□ indicates a space character).

At this time, the character data storage area 6 stores the data of "Representative Director, Doctor of Engineering Sp Sp Patent Taro" as shown in FIG. 7 (A).

Next, as shown in FIG. 6 (D), when the cursor C is aligned with the character of "dai" and the 1/4 reduction combination key is pressed, the input device 1
The instruction data input by the above is transferred to the reduction synthesis control unit 13 via the input control unit 2, the cursor position at this time is transmitted to the range designation control unit 14, and the reduction synthesis designation operation of FIG. 3 is started.

First, the range designation control unit 14 takes in this cursor position, calculates the position address of the character "substitute" in the character data storage area 6, stores this position address in the internal start point address register, and performs display control. The section 16 is driven to reversely display the character "dai" as shown in FIG. 6 (E).

Next, when the cursor C is moved to align with the space character (□) next to the character "shi" and the 1/4 reduction composite key is pressed again, the range designation control unit 14 captures the cursor position. ,
The position address of the space character is stored in the end point address register, and the number of characters of (end point-start point) / 2 is inverted from the end point address and displayed as shown in FIG. 6 (F).

At this time, the leftmost character position of the highlighted character is stored as a turning point, and when the processing execution is input, the reduction / synthesis control unit 13 displays the "★ substitute work ★ table study ★ exposure ★ ★ Character data storage area 6 such as "Sp, Sp Patent Taro"
The character data of is updated. Here, * is a code that means 1/4 reduction composition.

After updating the designated character string in the character data storage area 6 in this way, the operation proceeds to the character display operation of FIG.

Therefore, after calculating the display start position, a re-editing request is made to the character data editing unit 3, and the character data editing unit 3 sequentially extracts the character data from the character data storage area 6.

Then, the font data expansion unit 9 reads the font data at the address corresponding to this character data from the character generator (CG), temporarily stores it in the font buffer 12, and sends it to the display control unit 16 for display on the display device 17. Let

At that time, it is determined whether or not to combine with the character attribute (in this case, “reduction”) of the character data extracted from the character data storage area 6, and for the two characters following the reduced combination code (★), the process shown in FIG. As shown in (1), the 1/4 reduction processing and the movement are performed, and the combined processing is performed to display the upper and lower two lines of characters.

The reduced combined code in this case is, for example, a code in which the bit for specifying the combination and the 1/4 angle is set to "1" among various control codes of 16-bit configuration as shown in FIG.

By performing such processing on the extracted character data, that is, all the character data shown in FIG. 7 (B), a designated display as shown in FIG. 6 (G) is performed.

Next, when the print key is pressed, the font data created by the font data expansion unit 9 is sent to the print control unit 15,
The printing device 18 prints out as shown in FIG.

Next, when the vertical writing is specified, the font data expansion unit 9 rotates the font data read from the character generator 11 by 90 ° to the left according to an instruction from the print control unit 15, and then performs the reduction combining process. Print vertically as shown in Fig. 10.

If the range specification character string is an odd number character as in this example, a space character is added and the number is folded evenly, so that the last character in the lower line is a space.

By implementing the present invention as described above, the reduction / combination process of the character string can be performed by the simple operation and the simple internal process, so that the variety of the document creation is increased and the operability is improved.

As described above, according to the present invention, in an information processing device such as a word processor, a special document including a portion in which a character string for two lines is reduced and arranged in one line is extremely easy to operate. Can be created with, and the operability is significantly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of a word processor embodying the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flow chart of its reduction synthesis designation processing, and FIG. Similarly, a flow chart of the character display processing, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing an example of a specific character string to be created according to this embodiment, and FIGS. 6A to 6G show this embodiment. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a change from the display data when the character string of FIG. 5 is created, and FIGS. 7A and 7B are explanatory diagrams showing a change of the character data stored in the character data. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of the reduction synthesis process, FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of control codes, FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of vertical writing, and FIGS. 11 and 12 are those of FIG. It is explanatory drawing at the time of inputting such a character string. 1 ... Input device, 2 ... Input control unit 3 ... Character data editing unit 4 ... Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 5 ... Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 6 ... Character data storage area 7 ... Format information section 8 ... Format editing Section 9 ...... Font data expansion section 10 ...... Font compression section 11 ...... Character generator 12 ...... Font buffer 13 ...... Reduction composition section, 14 ...... Range specification control section 15 ...... Print control section, 16 ...... Display Control unit 17 …… Display device, 18 …… Printing device 19 …… Main body 20 …… Floppy disk device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input device, a display device, and a printing device are provided,
In an information processing device capable of visually displaying a character input from an input device on a display device and printing the display content by a printing device, from a character string input by the input device Range specifying means for specifying a range of character strings to be reduced, and reduction for displaying the character strings in the range specified by the range specifying means as a normal two-line character string in one line An information processing apparatus comprising a synthesizing means.