JPS61229151A - System for processing character or the like - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the working efficiency of character processing, by automatically registering or erasing a pattern in or from a mass storage medium in accordance with conditions where the medium storing character pattern information is loaded onto a readout section or the information is removed from the readout section. CONSTITUTION:Patterns of characters of 800X800 dots stored in recording media 4, such as magnetic tapes 41 and 42, floppy disks 43 and 44, etc., are loaded onto respective drivers 51-54 of a readout section 5 as occasion demands and stored in a mass storage medium 9 through a registration controlling section 7 as calligraphic style-classified basic character patterns, but loading and removal of the storage medium 9 is detected by means of a detecting section 6 and, in accordance with the detection, the registration controlling section 7 is controlled and registration and erasion of patterns on and from the mass storage medium 9 are performed. The patterns are converted into those of dot sizes required by each input and output apparatus 1, 2, and 3 through converting sections 10, 11, and 12 and registered on their character generators 13, 14, and 15.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field of invention] The present invention is directed to the processing of desired characters inputted from an input device.

Processing of characters, etc. in which punctuation marks, external characters, 9 figures, etc. (hereinafter referred to as characters, etc.) are supplied to an editing device, edited into a desired layout, and the edited results are further supplied to an output device to obtain a desired output. It is related to the method.

[Background Art of the Invention] In fields such as newspaper typesetting and general printing, a typesetting processing system as shown in FIG. 2 is used to perform text input, proofreading, and various editing processes at high speed.

In FIG. 2, 20 is an input device such as a keyboard type or tablet type, 21 is an editing device, 22 is an output device, 2
3 is a character generator (hereinafter referred to as CG) that stores patterns such as characters.

The character codes of characters input from the keyboard or tablet of the input device 20 are sequentially stored in the work area of the internal storage device, and the patterns of the corresponding characters are stored in the internal C.
The characters are read out from G and displayed on a display unit such as a CRT, and the operator inputs the characters while checking the input characters on the display unit. After the input work is completed, the document data in the work area of the input device 20 is transferred to the editing device 21.

In such a typesetting processing system, an input device N20
In order to perform one task quickly and efficiently, it is common to use multiple input devices as shown in the figure.

Editing equipment? 121 stores the document data from these plurality of input devices 20 in the work area of the editing device 21, reads out patterns such as characters corresponding to the character codes from the internal CG, and displays them on a display means such as a CRT. Correction on display means.

Proofreading 1 Specify or change the formatting format to achieve the desired layout. Then, after editing is complete, edit @f
The editing results in the work area of f121 are output to the output device 22.
Transfer to.

The output device 22 stores the input sentence B data in the work area of the output device 22, reads patterns such as characters corresponding to the character code from the CG 23 based on the formatting format, and prints or displays the data. Examples of output devices include display devices, laser beam printers,
Laser phototypesetting machines and CRT phototypesetting machines are common.

In the figure, the CG 23 is connected to the outside of the output device 22, but the same applies even if it is built into the output device 22.

In such conventional examples, each CG is
For example, in the input device 20, the quality of characters displayed on the display section of the input device is determined by a 24×24 dot matrix, and in the editing device @21, the quality is edited.

For the purpose of proofreading, a 100x100 dot matrix,
In the output device 22, the quality is equivalent to that of general printing.
Usually, the character structure matrix is violet, such as a 00X800 dot matrix. Furthermore, data storage methods often differ depending on these matrix configurations.

In the conventional system shown in Fig. 2, for example, 800x
Pattern information such as characters in an 800 dot matrix is read out by a reading unit 24, and fonts, external characters, etc. required by the operator are read out from a recording medium 25 such as a magnetic tape or a diskette which has been stored in advance, and registered in the CG 23. On the other hand, in order to display the registered characters etc. on the input device @ 201 and the editing device @ 21, the dot matrices of the characters etc. are converted into corresponding dot matrices by the converting units 26 and 27. It can also be registered in each of the 21 CGs. As a result, registered characters, etc. can be displayed and confirmed on each device, and input and collection operations can be performed smoothly.

Furthermore, regarding the transfer of document data between various devices,
) Off-line methods such as Otsubi disk and 1M Ki-Dave, and online methods such as communication lines and optical fibers are adopted.

[Problems with the Background Art] However, in the conventional system, the storage capacity of the CG23 is limited to a full limit, especially for Japanese and Chinese rhymes.

When using a language such as Korean in which the number of character types ranges from several thousand to 10,000 per font, it is economically undesirable to register pattern information such as characters of various fonts used by an operator at once. Therefore, pattern information such as characters of a font that is no longer used is deleted from the CG 23, and pattern information such as characters of a font that is to be used is registered. Therefore, the operator must always remember the font name currently registered in the CG23, and if the operator misidentifies the registered font name or erases pattern information such as the characters of the font used, the Even if characters, etc. of the font are specified in the device 22 by a formatting command, a mistake may occur in which nothing is output from the output device 22. Therefore, the operator has to re-register the pattern information of the typeface to be used and perform the output again, which causes a problem of significantly reducing work efficiency.This is because there are multiple input devices 20. This becomes a serious problem when the printer is installed and operated by multiple people, or when multiple output devices such as display devices, printers, and phototypesetting machines are connected.

[Object of the Invention] An object of the present invention is to provide a method for processing characters, etc., which allows easy confirmation of characters, etc. of typefaces registered in CG, and prevents mistakes during output.

[Summary of the invention] The present invention is directed to the processing of desired characters inputted from an input device.

A character processing method that supplies punctuation marks, nine external characters, etc. (hereinafter referred to as characters, etc.) to an editing device, edits them into a desired layout, and supplies the edited results to an output device to obtain a desired output. A storage medium storing pattern information such as characters; a reading section into which the storage medium is loaded and reading out pattern information such as characters stored in the storage medium; whether the storage medium is loaded into the reading section; , a detecting section for detecting whether it has been removed; a loading signal from the detecting section registers pattern information such as characters read out from the reading section in a large capacity storage medium, and also stores the registered address in the memory; a registration control unit that controls to erase pattern information such as characters of the registered address from the mass storage medium in response to a removal signal from the detection unit; an editing device for editing into a desired layout according to pattern information; and an output device for outputting the results edited by the editing device according to pattern information such as characters registered in a large-capacity storage medium; The present invention provides a character processing method that outputs desired characters based on a medium presence/absence detection signal.

[Embodiment of the Invention] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an input device, 2 is an editing device, 3 is an output device, 4 is a storage medium such as a magnetic tape or floppy disk that stores pattern information such as characters in an 800x800 dot matrix structure, and 5 is a loaded recorder 1. A reading unit reads pattern information such as characters from the medium; 6 is a detection unit that detects whether the storage medium 3 is inserted into or removed from the reading unit 5; 7 is a pattern of characters read out by the reading unit 5; a registration control unit that controls registration and deletion of information in the mass storage medium 9; 9 is a mass storage medium such as a hard disk; 10;
．． Reference numerals 11 and 12 denote input conversion units that convert dot matrices of pattern information such as characters stored in the large-capacity storage medium 9 according to the purpose of use.

FA collection conversion i, output ITl conversion 1.13.14.15
These are CG for human-powered dressing, CG for editing, and CG for output. Note that although the reading unit 5 is configured with drivers 51 to 54 that individually read pattern information such as 41 to 440 characters from each storage medium, the number of connected devices is not limited to this. In addition, CG 13 for input device, CG 14 for editing. CG1 for output
5 is input device i! 1゜Editing device 2. They may be connected to the outside of the output device 3, or may be built into the output device 3.

Next, the operation will be specifically explained. In the explanation, ``typeface pattern information'' refers to, for example, JIs No. 1. It refers to pattern information such as second-level characters, punctuation marks, symbols, etc.
“Gaiji pattern information” refers to characters and punctuation marks that are not included in the font pattern information.

Tell which pattern information to the symbol.

For example, the storage medium 41.42°43.44 stores pattern information of Mincho font (1), Gothic font ■, external character (1), and external character ■ in each of the drivers 51 to 54 of the reading unit 5, respectively.
Suppose you have loaded the . Each of the drivers 51 to 54 sends a loading signal indicating that a storage medium has been loaded to the detection unit. The detection unit 6 identifies the driver loaded with the storage medium based on the input detection signal, and provides the registration control unit 7 with the identification command and pattern information read command. Based on the command from the detection section 6, the registration control section 7 drives a predetermined driver to read pattern information.

The read pattern information is then registered in the mass storage medium 9, and the registered address is stored in the address storage section 8. In this way, each of the storage media 41 to 44 is connected to the driver 51.
~54, the registration control unit 7 loads each storage medium 41~54.
The 44 pattern information is sequentially read out and registered in the mass storage medium 9. Note that each pattern information registered in the large-capacity storage medium 9 is hereinafter referred to as a basic character type pattern.

Next, the registration control unit 7 converts the size of the dot matrix of the basic character type pattern stored in the large-capacity storage medium 9, depending on the purpose of use, and registers it in the CG of each device. For example, as described above, in the CG 13 of the input device 1, the input conversion unit 10 converts the data into a 24×24 dot matrix and registers the data.
The editing conversion unit 11 inputs 100 to the CG 14 of the editing device 2.
The CG15 of the output device 15 is converted into an 800
It is converted into a 0-dot matrix and registered, and each registered address is stored in the address storage section 8. As a result, the basic character type patterns registered in the personality h'i storage medium 9 can be used by the input device 11, the editing device 2, and the output device 3, respectively. Note that if the output device 3 outputs the dot matrix of the basic character type pattern in the same size, the output converter 12 can be omitted. In addition, the basic character type patterns registered in each CG13.14.15 are shown below as input patterns! /Q These are called the east pattern and the output pattern, respectively.

When the registration of the desired typeface and external character pattern information is completed as described above, the operator performs the input, tQ collection, and output operations according to the operating procedure explained in FIG. 2.

Next, deletion of pattern information will be explained.

For example, after the basic character pattern, a custom character that is no longer used (
If the storage medium 43 storing the pattern information in 1) is not removed from the driver 53, the driver 53 sends a removal signal to the detection unit 6. The detection unit 6 identifies the driver that removed the storage medium based on the removal signal, and provides the registration control unit 7 with the identification command and a pattern information deletion command. Based on the command from the detection unit 6, the registration control unit 7 searches the address control unit 8 for the registered address of the large-capacity storage medium 9 in which the corresponding pattern information (pattern information of external character (1)) is registered, and retrieves the registered address from the address control unit 8. The pattern information of the external character (1) is then deleted.

The registration control unit 7 similarly generates an input pattern for the input CG 13 and an editing pattern for the editing CG 140.

The pattern information of each external character (1) of the output pattern of the Derikawa CG 15 is also deleted.

Then, as described above, by loading a storage medium storing pattern information of a desired font or external characters into the driver 53, the pattern information is registered in the mass storage medium 9.

In this way, the detection unit 6 detects loading signals or unloading signals from the drivers 51 to 54, and the registration control unit 7 controls the registration and deletion of pattern information based on the signals. The basic glyph patterns include
Only pattern information that matches the pattern information of the storage medium loaded in the driver constituting the reading section 5 is registered.

[Effects of the Invention 1] As described above, the present invention registers or erases pattern information in a large-capacity storage medium based on the presence/absence detection signal of the storage medium loaded in the driver constituting the reading unit 5, so that the operator can By checking the storage medium loaded in the driver, you can recognize characters in available fonts.
It is possible to prevent errors during output in advance and improve work efficiency.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a conventional example. 1... Input device 2... Editing device 3... Output device 4... Storage medium 5... Reading section 6... Detecting section 7... Registration control section 8... Address storage section 9... Mass storage medium 10... Input converter 11... Edit converter 12... Output converter

Claims (1)

[Claims] Desired characters, punctuation marks, external characters, figures, etc. (hereinafter referred to as characters, etc.) inputted from an input device are supplied to an editing device to be edited into a desired layout, and the editing results are sent to an output device. In a character processing method that obtains a desired output by supplying characters, etc., a storage medium storing pattern information such as characters, the storage medium is loaded, and the pattern information such as characters etc. stored in the storage medium is read. a reading unit that reads out a storage medium; a detection unit that detects whether a storage medium is loaded or removed from the reading unit; and a loading signal from the detection unit that reads pattern information such as characters read out from the reading unit in a large capacity. a registration control unit that registers the registered address in a storage medium and controls the registration address to be stored and erase pattern information such as characters of the registered address from the mass storage medium in response to a removal signal from the detection unit; an editing device that edits into a desired layout according to pattern information such as characters registered in a mass storage medium by a control unit; and an editing device that edits a result edited by the editing device according to pattern information such as characters registered in the mass storage medium. A method for processing characters, etc., comprising: an output device for outputting the output;