JPS61275889A - Document layout display method - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed description of the invention] “Industrial Application Fields” The present invention edits a document input from an input means.

The present invention relates to a document creation machine for printing and an electronic device having the function.

[Summary of the Disclosure] This specification and the drawings describe an electronic device having a document editing function that stores layout display patterns corresponding to characters, blank spaces, and enlarged character designation codes used for composing a document, and stores an input document. This invention discloses a technique that allows specified enlarged characters in a document to be easily confirmed on the layout by displaying the enlarged characters in the layout in a layout display pattern.

Note that this summary is provided solely for the purpose of quickly accessing the technical content of the present invention, and does not have any influence on the technical scope of the present invention or the interpretation of rights.

[Prior Art] One of the document creation functions of an electronic device having a document creation function is a function of specifying enlarged characters. This is a function that instructs the user to enlarge the characters in a document both vertically and horizontally and print them, and is used for places such as document titles that need to be emphasized and printed in large characters. Generally speaking, the method for specifying enlarged characters is to store an enlarged character specification code in the document by pressing the enlarged character key on a human-powered device, and then enlarge the characters in the document based on the enlarged character specification code when printing. Print as text.

On the other hand, document creation machines generally have a layout display function. This is used when the entire document cannot be displayed due to the limited number of characters that can be displayed at one time on the display. It shows the overall arrangement of characters and is known to improve the efficiency of document creation. To display enlarged characters on a layout, you can display the enlarged character specification code that conventionally specifies enlarged characters in the same layout pattern as other control codes such as line feed codes, or
Expanded character specification codes were displayed in the same layout pattern as normal characters.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] For this reason, in the conventional method, it is not possible to distinguish the input enlarged characters in layout 1-, so there is no correspondence between the layout display and the document actually printed. The effect of layout display could not be fully utilized.

Means for Solving Problem E] The present invention has been made based on the above points, and for the enlarged character designation code input by the operator, a corresponding layerer pattern is provided, and the layout-1- It is to be displayed.

[Operation] As a result, the operator can easily know the enlarged character position in the document, and the layout display and the printed document can be matched, so that the efficiency of document creation can be improved.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Here, an example of a double-width character, which is twice the height and width of a full-width character, will be explained as an enlarged character.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied. Here, reference numeral 1 is a control unit, which includes a RAM that forms registers such as an address register AR that indicates the address of a storage unit, and an ALU that performs logical judgments and calculations.
control the entire device. Reference numeral 2 indicates a key manual device, through which an operator inputs documents, commands, etc. Reference numeral 3 is an enlarged character key, and the operator uses this key to instruct that characters in the document be enlarged. Reference numeral 4 indicates a display device, which displays the created document, a response to the operator, the layout of the created document, and the like. Reference numeral 5 indicates a printing device, and the preparation 1. Print the document. Reference numeral 6 indicates a character pattern storage section, which stores character patterns to be displayed on the display device. code 7
indicates a layout pattern storage section, which stores layout patterns for each character type to be displayed in layout on the display device. Reference numeral 8 indicates a document storage section, which stores a document being created.

Devices indicated by reference numerals 2 to 7 are connected to and controlled by the control section 1.

Next, Fig. 2 shows a flowchart of the operation process for displaying a document layout using the device configured as described above, and examples of layout display patterns corresponding to characters, spaces, and each enlarged character specification code used in document composition are shown in Fig. 2. The third
As shown in the figure. It is assumed that the correspondence table shown in FIG. 3 is realized on the layout pattern storage section shown by 7 in FIG. 1.

In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the address register AR is set to the first address of the document storage section 7 in step S-1. In step S-2, the character code is extracted from the address of the document storage section pointed to by the address register AR, and
Is the layout pattern corresponding to the character code retrieved in step S-3 stored in the layout pattern storage? Take it out. In step S-4, the extracted layout pattern is displayed at character position 1H on the layout display corresponding to the character position in the document. It is determined whether all the documents created in step S-5 have been displayed in the layout display -1-, and if all have been displayed, the process ends; if not all have been displayed, the process returns to step S-2 and continues execution.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a layout display of a document created by the process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2 using the display pattern of FIG. 3. FIG. 4(a) shows another created document, and FIG. 4(b) shows an example of the layout display of the document in FIG. 4(a). Here, specify the enlarged character by entering the position before the character you want to enlarge, the position before the next line, and the line position next to that character.

This is done by inputting three enlarged character command codes "/"' and "°↑", and each layout display pattern shows an example of a 3×3 dot configuration.

As shown in FIG. 4, the specified enlarged characters in the document can be easily confirmed in the layout display.

Although double-width characters have been described above, other magnifications and characters with different vertical and horizontal magnifications can be processed in the same way.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained in 1 below, according to the present invention, it is possible to check specified enlarged characters in a document on the layout display, and the document on the layout display and the actual printed text can be checked. Correspondence with the document can be taken, and thereby the efficiency of document creation can be realized.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a document layout display process. FIG. 3 shows an example of a document layout display pattern, and FIG. 4 shows an example of a created document and its layout display. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Control part, 2...Key manual device, 3...Enlarged character key, 4...Display device, 5...Character pattern storage part, 7...Layout pattern storage part, 8. ...Document storage section. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic device having a document editing function, a layout display pattern corresponding to each of characters, blank spaces, and enlarged character designation codes used for configuring a document is stored, and an input document is displayed on a layout using the layout display pattern. A document layout display method featuring: