JPH08137871A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To locally change the arrangement position of a character by setting modification information for varying character intervals in part of character data arranged in an area and varying the character intervals of the character data with the modification information. CONSTITUTION: A CPU 6 uses a RAM 8 as a work area and controls respective parts of the device according to a control program stored in a ROM 7. Then the modification information for varying the character intervals of the character data arranged in the area is set and when the character data are arranged, it is decided whether or not the modification information is set. To arrange the character data with the set modification information, the CPU 6 varies the character intervals of the character data, arranges the characters in a line, and displays them on a display device 1. Consequently, a document editor can insert a blank character into between characters and adjust the arrangement positions of characters locally by varying the size of the blank character.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus capable of freely changing and displaying characters.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional character arrangement determining method in a document creating apparatus of this type is as follows. That is, first, the character arrangement position at the beginning of the line is determined. Next, the characters are sequentially arranged. At this time, the character arrangement position is determined to be a position obtained by adding the character width of the immediately preceding character to the immediately preceding character arrangement position. Depending on the character font, the character spacing may be added to the font itself.In such a case, the character width of the previous character and the font of the current character are added to the position of the previous character. It is fixed at the position where the set space is added.

Further, depending on the document creating apparatus, there may be one in which a constant character space can be defined between each character. In that case, the character width of the immediately preceding character is also constant at the position of arrangement of the immediately preceding character. It is fixed at the position where the character spacing is added.

Further, in some document creation apparatuses, when there is a squeeze or run-in at the end of a line, the difference between the coordinates after the last character in the line and the coordinates at the end of the line is made uniform between the characters in order to align the end of the line. In some cases, the process is evenly distributed within the rows.

Further, as a document editing device capable of setting the character spacing, document creation having a function of designating a part of a character string in a sentence and narrowing the character interval of the character string The device was present.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional apparatus, the character arrangement position is completely fixed by the automatic adjustment of the document creating apparatus, and therefore the character arrangement position is set at the position intended by the person who entered the text. There was a problem in that even if characters were to be arranged, they could not be arranged as intended by the person who entered the text. In particular, the character arrangement could be freely changed in the direction of narrowing the character spacing, but could not be freely set in the direction of widening the character spacing.

Therefore, as shown in FIGS. 17A and 17B, it is attempted to arrange the characters with a space between the characters only in a part of the area of the document data, or in FIGS. 18A and 18B. ), When trying to write a report that kept the width constant only in the headline of the document, the text editor was doing the following editing work. (1) The space between characters is increased by inserting a blank character between each character (method of changing from (A) to (B) of FIG. 19). (2) If the character spacing is too wide, change the font of the space character inserted between each character and adjust the character spacing by assuming that a small space character is inserted (Fig. 1).
9 (A) to (C)). (3) A tab position is set at a position where a character is desired to be placed, and a tab is inserted between each character to keep the character spacing constant (method from (A) to (D) in FIG. 19). .

However, as shown in FIGS. 19 (A) to 19 (B),
When the character spacing is adjusted by the measures (A) to (C) and (A) to (D), there are the following problems. (A) FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a problem in a case where a blank character is inserted between characters to adjust the character spacing. Since there are limits to the types of fonts that can be used in the document creation device, it is not possible to create an arbitrary width with blank characters, and fine adjustment is not possible. That is, (A) of FIG. 20 shows the case where the size of the blank is a little insufficient, (B) of FIG. 20 shows the character position to be arranged, and (C) of FIG. 20 is too long when it is increased by 1 point. The case is shown. (B) FIG. 21 is also a diagram showing a problem in the case where a blank character is inserted between characters to adjust the character spacing. When the character spacing is wide, a lot of blank characters have to be inserted, which makes editing work troublesome. (C) FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a problem relating to the editing work in the case where a blank character is inserted between characters to adjust the character spacing. When the number of character strings to be edited is increased in the first line of the sentence in FIG. 22A, the blank character used for adjusting the space is inserted at the beginning of the line as shown in FIG. 22B. It looks like it was indented because it has been deleted. In this case, the blank character must be deleted by the editor to adjust the character arrangement position, as shown in FIG. (D) FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a problem relating to the editing work when the character spacing is adjusted by determining the tab position. When the number of character strings to be edited increases in the first line of the sentence of FIG. 23A, as shown in FIG. 23B, move by the number of the increased / decreased characters used for adjusting the space. Otherwise, the character placement position will be wrong.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the above-described conventional technique, and its object is to set the modification information by a simple procedure like modification information for general characters. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus capable of locally changing the layout position of characters by setting the character spacing as information.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the document creating apparatus of the present invention is a modification information setting means for setting modification information for changing a character interval in a part of character data arranged in an area. And a deciding means for deciding whether or not the modification information for changing the character spacing when arranging the character data, and for arranging the character data for which the modification information for changing the character spacing is set. And a character data arranging unit for arranging the character data in a line, and a display unit for displaying the character data arranged by the character data arranging unit. It is what

[0011]

The modification information setting means sets modification information for changing the character interval in a part of the character data arranged in the area, and the modification information for changing the character interval is set when the character data is arranged. Whether or not there is a determination means, the character spacing changing means changes the character spacing in order to arrange the character data for which the modification information for changing the character spacing is set, and the character data arranging means changes the character data. Is arranged in a line, and the display means displays the character data arranged by the character data arrangement means.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creating apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a display device (CRT) for displaying a document being edited, various message menus, and the like. To display.
A video RAM (VRAM) 2 expands and stores image data displayed on the screen of the display device 1. A bit move unit (BMU) 3 controls data transfer between memories or between a memory and each device. A keyboard 4 has various keys for editing a document. Reference numeral 5 denotes a pointing device (PD), which is used for pointing an icon or the like on the screen of the display device 1.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a CPU (central processing unit), which controls each part of the apparatus based on a control program. 7 is R
The OM (read-only memory) stores various programs executed by the CPU 6 (including a program related to document editing and an error processing program, and a program for realizing document processing by the document creation apparatus of the present invention described later). ing. Reference numeral 8 denotes a RAM (readable / writable memory), which is used as a work area and a temporary save area during error processing when the CPU 6 executes the various programs described above. Reference numeral 9 is a hard disk drive (HDD) that drives a hard disk (HD), and 10 is a floppy disk drive (F) that drives a floppy disk (FD).
DD). The hard disk and the floppy disk are used for storing application programs, data, libraries, etc. described later. A network interface (Net-I / F) 11 performs data control and diagnosis on the network in order to transfer data to and from another document processing apparatus via the network. 12 is an I connecting between the above-mentioned units.
/ O (input / output) bus, which is composed of an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus.

The program stored in the ROM 7 may be stored in a storage medium such as a hard disk or a floppy disk directly connected to the apparatus.
The program can be supplied to the system or device via a storage medium such as a hard disk or a floppy disk or a network.

<Character Input / Editing Processing> The character input / editing processing in the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment is similar to the method realized by a conventional word processor or the like, and a conventional typesetting technique such as, for example, It is realized by arranging characters by line feed by line feed or natural line feed.

<Character Change Modification Designation Processing> For the character string displayed on the screen of the display device 1 of FIG. 1, key input from the keyboard 4 of FIG. 1 or the pointing device 5 of FIG. 1 is used. By doing so, the range of the character string to be modified is specified, and the character spacing changing process is executed on the character string. The specific state is shown in FIG. 4A shows the state before the range is designated, FIG. 4B shows the state with the range designated, and FIG. 4C shows the state after the character spacing has been changed (after the character spacing change processing). Shown respectively. The character spacing to be changed is input from the character spacing changing panel shown in FIG. The changed information is embedded in the text data, and
Stored on AM8. The format of the text data at that time will not be discussed here.

<Line Information Required for Character Arrangement> FIG. 2 is a diagram showing information about lines necessary for arranging characters in the document creating apparatus of this embodiment. 2a in FIG. 2 is a line status flag (line_) indicating various information set in the line.
flag). The characters placed in the line are 2 in FIG.
From the line start coordinate (kumisitan) shown by b to the line end coordinate (kumisyuuta) shown by 2c in FIG.
It will be placed before n). The number of characters in a line (word_count) indicated by 2c in FIG. 2 is an area for storing the number of characters arranged in a line. 2 of FIG.
The number of characters in the line indicated by d (word_count) is
This area stores the number of characters placed in a line.
Length of the character string indicated by 2e in FIG. 2 (length)
Is a work area for storing the sum of the lengths of the arranged character strings in the process of arranging characters in a line. 2f in FIG.
The baseline of the row indicated by is an area indicating the basic coordinates of the entire row to be arranged.

<Information of Characters Required for Character Arrangement> FIG.
It is a figure which shows the information regarding the character required in order to arrange | position a character in the document creation apparatus of a present Example. Each character holds the following information.

The character size (work) shown by 3a in FIG.
d_size) stores the size of each character data.
The character gap (gap) indicated by 3b in FIG. 3 stores the distance between the character being arranged and the character immediately before it when the character is arranged in the line. The character code (c
ode) is the code of the character to be placed. 3d in FIG.
The character offset (offset) indicated by represents the position in the text data of the character being placed. FIG.
Character position indicated by 3e (position)
Indicates the arrangement and display position of characters in a line. The character status flag (word_fla) indicated by 3f in FIG.
g) shows the state of the decoration information set for each character.

<In-line typesetting process> An outline of the in-line typesetting process will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the control procedure of in-line typesetting processing.

First, in step S601, row initialization processing is performed. Here, "baseline" is set. The specific state is shown in FIG.

Next, in step S602, in-line character arrangement processing is performed to determine the characters that can be arranged in one line. Details of this processing will be described later with reference to FIG. 7.

Next, in step S603, line end prohibition processing is performed. In this process, the process of deleting characters overflowing the line and the prohibition process are performed. In the present invention, this process is not important, so its details will not be discussed here.

Next, in step S604, the characters in the line are equally distributed. Details of this processing will be described later with reference to FIG.

Next, in step S605, the processing for determining the character layout position is performed, and then this processing operation is terminated. Details of this character arrangement position determination processing will be described later with reference to FIG.

The above is the outline of the in-line typesetting process.

Next, the in-line character arrangement processing by the document creating apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

First, in step S701, initialization processing before placing characters on a line is performed. The information to be initialized is the line information shown in FIG. Here, "kumisita
n "and" kumisyutan "are set. Its value depends on the condition of the line to be set, and is not described here. In addition, "word_count" and "le
ngth "is initialized to" 0 ". Further, the first character "offset" is set. These processes are shown in C of FIG.
It is executed by the PU 6, and the result is stored in the RAM 8 of FIG. A concrete state at this time is shown in FIG.

Next, in step S702, an area for storing the character information of the character to be arranged is secured. This area is an area for storing the information shown in FIG.
It is secured on the RAM 8 of FIG.

Next, in step S703, the step S
Character information is set in the area secured in 702.
Details of this processing will be described later with reference to FIG. The set information is secured in the RAM 8 of FIG. FIG. 13 is a diagram specifically showing the state at this time.

Next, in step S704, the length (length) of the character string arranged in the line is set. "Len
"gth" is the length of the character string that was placed before the character was placed, and the size of the currently placed character (wor
This is the length obtained by adding d_size) and the character gap (gap). This processing is executed by the CPU 6 of FIG. 1, and the result is stored in the RAM 8 of FIG. FIG. 13 is a diagram specifically showing the state at this time.

Next, in step S705, the number of characters in the line (w
ord_count) is incremented by "1".

Next, in step S706, it is determined whether or not a character next to the character currently being arranged can be arranged in a line. This determination is based on whether the following formula (1) is satisfied or whether the character code being processed is a line feed code.

Length <kumisyuutan-kumisitan ... (1) This determination is made by using the information on the RAM 8 of FIG.
It is executed by PU6.

If the above expression (1) is not satisfied and the character code being processed is a line feed code, it is considered that the character cannot be arranged in the line, and this processing operation is ended. If the above expression (1) is satisfied and the character code being processed is not a line feed code, it is considered that a character can still be arranged in a line, and the process of step S707 is performed. In step S707, "1" is added to "offset", and then the process returns to step S702. This processing is executed by the CPU 6 of FIG. 1, and the added value is stored in the RAM 8 of FIG.
Saved again.

By the above processing, the character arranged in the line can be determined.

Next, the character information setting process will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the control procedure of the character information setting process.

Steps S801 to S80 of FIG.
The procedure 3 is the same as the procedure used in the character layout process in the conventional document creating apparatus.

First, in step S801, the character "offset" to be processed is set. The value set by this processing is saved again in the RAM 8 of FIG.

Next, in step S802, the character at the position "offset" is acquired from the text data, and the character code (code) is set. The value set by this processing is saved again in the RAM 8 of FIG.

Next, in step S803, based on the "code" set in step S802, the character size (word_si) required to display the character is displayed.
ze) and the distance (gap) from the previous character. This processing is executed by the CPU 6 of FIG. 1, and the set value is saved again in the RAM 8 of FIG.

Next, in step S804, it is determined whether a character spacing change command (modification information for changing the spacing) has been set for the character being processed. Then, if it is determined that the character spacing change command has not been set, this processing operation ends. If it is determined that the character spacing change command is set, it is determined in step S805 whether the character currently being processed is the first character. If it is the first character of the line, it is standard for character arrangement processing that the character spacing is not set. Therefore, if the character currently being processed is the first character, this processing operation ends.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S805 that the character currently being processed is not the leading character, then it is determined in step S806 whether the immediately preceding character is also being changed in character spacing. Then, when it is determined that the immediately preceding character is not undergoing character space change (no character space change setting is made), this processing operation is terminated without doing anything. This is because the setting for changing the character spacing is effective only for the intervals within the character string whose range is specified, and therefore the character spacing is not changed for the first character. Also, in step S805
If it is determined that the immediately preceding character is undergoing a character change, the "gap" is replaced with the character to be changed in step S807, and "gap" is replaced with " After setting "1" to "word_flag", this processing operation is ended.

By the above processing, character information can be set.

Next, the process of evenly allocating characters within a line will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 14 is a diagram specifically showing this processing. 14A shows the state before allocation, and FIG. 14B shows the state after allocation. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the even allocation process of characters within a line.

First, in step S901, the length (distance) of the area where the in-line characters are to be equally allocated.
e) is calculated. This length (distance) is the line head position (kumisitan) and line end position (kumis).
yuutan), the length of the string placed in the line (le
ngth), it is calculated by the following equation (2).

Distance = (kumisyuutan-kumisitan) -length ... (2) Next, in step S902, the number of characters (equality_count) that can be equally distributed in a line is calculated.
Details of this processing will be described later with reference to FIG.

Next, in step S903, it is determined whether or not the equal allocation process is performed, that is, the quality_count.
= 0 is determined. And the quality_c
If out = 0, there is no character to be equally distributed, and this processing operation ends.

Further, the quality_count = 0
If not, the even allocation process is performed. Therefore, in step S904, the length (word_pitch) assigned to the characters that can be evenly assigned is obtained. "Word_p
"itch" is the "distance" obtained by the above equation (2).
Number of characters to evenly allocate "e" (equality_c
It is the value divided by

Next, in step S905, the first character of the line is acquired. In addition, "count
Initialize "t" with "0".

Next, in step S906, it is determined whether or not the space between the characters can be changed. For the character whose character spacing has been changed, "1" is set in "ward_flag" in step S807 of FIG. Here, it is determined whether or not the flag is set. If the word_flag = 1, the character spacing cannot be changed. If the word_flag = 0, the space between characters can be changed.

For characters whose character spacing can be changed, in step S907, "word_pitch" is added to "gap".
After adding, the process of step S908 is performed. Also,
For characters whose character spacing cannot be changed, step S907
Is skipped and the process of step S908 is performed.

In step S908, it is determined whether there is a next character in the line. This determination is whether or not the following expression (3) is established.

Count <ward_count ... (3) When the above expression (3) is not satisfied, it is considered that there is no character in the line, and this processing operation is ended. In addition, (3) above
If the expression is satisfied, the next character is acquired in step S909, "count" is advanced by "1", and then the process returns to step S906.

By the above processing, the characters in the line can be evenly allocated.

Next, the process of acquiring the number of characters that can be equally distributed within a line will be described with reference to FIG. Figure 10
6 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an acquisition process of the number of characters that can be evenly allocated within a line.

First, in step S1001, the work variable count (the number of characters being processed) and the equal used in this process are designated.
alyty_count (number of characters that can be evenly allocated)
Are initialized respectively.

Next, in step S1002, the character information at the beginning of the line is acquired.

Next, in step S1003, it is determined whether the character currently being processed is a character that can be equally distributed. This determination is based on whether or not the character currently being processed is the character at the beginning of a line and whether or not the “word_flag” of the character information is “1”. Characters at the beginning of a line are not considered as characters that can be evenly allocated because normal character spacing is not set. In addition, "1" is set in "word_flag" for the character for which the inter-character space change is designated. It is considered that this character cannot be evenly distributed.

If the characters can be evenly allocated, in step S1004, "equity_count" is incremented by "1", and then the process of step S1005 is performed.
If the characters cannot be evenly allocated, step S1004 is skipped and the process of step S1005 is performed.

In step S1005, it is determined whether or not there are still characters in the line, that is, count <word_count.
It is determined whether or not t. And count <word_
When the count is not satisfied, it is considered that all the characters in the line have been determined, and this processing operation is ended. Also, if there are still characters in the line, count <wo
Since rd_count is established, at that time, in step S1006, the next character is acquired, "count" is advanced by "1", and then the process returns to step S1003.

By the above processing, the number of characters that can be evenly distributed within a line can be acquired.

Next, the character arrangement position determination process within a line will be described with reference to FIG.

The character arrangement position is determined to be a position obtained by adding the character width of the immediately preceding character to the immediately preceding character arrangement position (depending on the font, the character itself may have a space between the characters). However, in such a case, the character position of the immediately preceding character is added to the character position of the immediately preceding character and the character gap set in the font of the current character is added to determine the position). FIG. 15 is a diagram specifically showing this processing.

The characters are displayed based on the layout position obtained here. “Work” is used as a work variable indicating the display position of the character.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing the control procedure of the character arrangement position determination processing within a line.

First, in step S1101, work variables are initialized. The display position of the first character is "kumisi
tan ”, so work = kumisitan. Also, a work variable (count) for counting the number of characters being processed is initialized to "0".

Next, in step S1102, the first character in the line is acquired.

Next, in step S1103, since the display position of the character currently being processed is stored in "work",
This value is set to the "position" of the character information. Also, in order to obtain the next display position, "work"
Is added to "word_size".

Next, in step S1104, it is determined whether or not there is the next character in the line. If there is no next character, this processing operation ends. If there is a next character, the character information of the next character is acquired in step S1105.

Next, in step S1106, "gap" is added to "work" to obtain the display position of the character acquired in step S1105, and "count" is added.
After advancing "t" by "1", the process returns to step S1103.

With the above processing, the display position of the character can be determined.

By performing the various processes described above,
The process of changing the character spacing is completed, and the character arrangement in which the character spacing intended by the person who entered the text is set can be performed.

(Second Embodiment) In the first embodiment, the character spacing of the characters for which the character spacing is set to be changed by the equal spacing processing at the end of the line is fixed, and the equal spacing processing of the remaining characters is performed. . In this case, the line ends may not be aligned when a character spacing change is set for characters exceeding one line. When it is desired to display the line ends at the same position, the setting as in the first embodiment rather impairs the beauty of the sentence.

In view of this, in the second embodiment, when it is desired to display the line endings in alignment by replacing the case where the line endings are prioritized and the case where the set character spacing is prioritized with the line status flag, the text is beautiful. It is designed so as not to damage the.

The second embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.
This will be described using 6.

<Character Input / Editing Process> Since the character input / editing process in this embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, its explanation is omitted.

<Character Change Modification Designation Processing> Since the character change modification designation processing in this embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, its explanation is omitted.

<Line Information Necessary for Character Arrangement> Regarding the line information necessary for character arrangement in this embodiment, the point different from the first embodiment is that various lines set in the line 2a in FIG. 2 are set. A line status flag (line_flag) indicating information. In the present embodiment, when line_flag = 1, the line end justification is given priority, and line_flag
When = 0, the character spacing set by the character spacing is prioritized. The other line information is the same as that in the first embodiment, so its explanation is omitted.

<Information of Characters Required for Character Arrangement> Since information of characters necessary for character arrangement in this embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, its explanation is omitted.

<In-line Character Arrangement Processing> The outline of the in-line typesetting processing, the in-line character arrangement processing, and the character information setting processing in this embodiment are the outline of the in-line typesetting processing in the first embodiment (FIG. 6), the in-line character arrangement processing. Since it is the same as the process (FIG. 7) and the character information setting process (FIG. 8), the description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the even allocation process within one line in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 16.

In FIG. 9, the difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is only two points, step S902 and step S906.

In this embodiment, the number of characters that can be evenly allocated is acquired in step S902.

The process of acquiring the number of characters that can be evenly distributed within one line in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 16 is a flow chart showing the control procedure of the process for obtaining the number of characters that can be evenly allocated in the document creating apparatus of this embodiment.

First, in step S1601, the work variable count (the number of characters being processed) and the equal used in this process are designated.
alyty_count (number of characters that can be evenly allocated)
Are initialized respectively.

Next, in step S1602, the character information at the beginning of the line is acquired.

Next, in step S1603, it is determined whether the character currently being processed is the first character on the line. If it is not the character at the beginning of the line, the process proceeds to step S1604, and if it is the character at the beginning of the line, the process proceeds to step S1607.

In step S1604, line_fl
It is determined whether or not ag = 1. And line_
If flag = 0, the process proceeds to step S1605, and if line_flag = 1, the process proceeds to step S1606 in order to make even the character whose inter-character space change is affected by the even line-end arrangement.

In step S1605, word_fl
It is determined whether or not ag = 1. "Word_fla
"g" is "1" only for characters that have been set to change the character spacing
Is set. The case of making this determination is a feature of this embodiment.

In step S1606, the number of characters (equality_count) that can be evenly allocated is "1".
After increasing and setting the bit of 2 to "word_flag", the process proceeds to step S1607.

In step S1607, it is determined whether or not there are still characters in the line, that is, count <word_count.
It is determined whether or not t. count <word_count
If t is not satisfied, it is considered that all the characters in the line have been determined, and this processing operation is ended. If there are still characters in the line, count <word_count
Since t is satisfied, at that time, the next character information is acquired in step S1608, and then the process returns to step S1603.

By the above processing, the number of characters that can be evenly distributed within a line can be acquired.

Returning to the explanation of FIG.

In step S906, it is determined whether or not the character currently being processed is a character that can be equally distributed. This determination is matched with the processing in step S1606 in FIG.
In other words, it is determined whether the "word_flag &2" bit is set. And, "word_flag
& 2 ”= 2, the process moves to step S907 in FIG. 9 to set the character spacing for even allocation. Also,
If "word_flag &2" = 0, the process proceeds to step S908 in FIG.

By the above processing, the character arrangement can be adjusted so that the line endings are aligned while changing the character spacing.

[0098]

As described above in detail, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the document editor can insert a blank character between characters and change the size of the blank character.
In addition, when the character arrangement is destroyed by editing the surrounding text, you can freely adjust the character arrangement position locally without the effort of adjusting the area again. Thus, it is possible to arrange the characters as intended by the document editor.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document creation device according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing line information necessary for character arrangement in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing character information necessary for character arrangement in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an input processing state of a character spacing changing command in the document creating apparatus of FIG. 1;

5 is a diagram showing a character space input panel in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

6 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of in-line typesetting processing in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of in-line character arrangement processing in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a character information setting process in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

9 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an in-line equal allocation process in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

10 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an acquisition process of the number of characters that can be evenly allocated in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

11 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of character arrangement position determination processing within a line in the document creation apparatus of FIG.

12 is a diagram concretely showing an initialization state of line information in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

13 is a diagram specifically showing the arrangement of characters and the character information in the document creating apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram specifically showing the uniform line arrangement processing in the document creating apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 15 is a diagram specifically showing a character layout position determination process in the document creation apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an acquisition process of the number of characters that can be evenly allocated in the document creating apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for explaining a problem of a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creating apparatus.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a problem of a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for explaining a problem of a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating a problem of a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

FIG. 23 is a diagram for explaining a problem of a character spacing setting process performed by a conventional document creation device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Display Device (Display Means) 6 CPU (Decorative Information Setting Means, Judging Means, Character Interval Changing Means, Character Data Arranging Means)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A decoration information setting unit for setting decoration information for changing a character interval in a part of character data arranged in an area, and a modification information for changing the character interval when the character data is arranged. Determining means for determining whether or not the character spacing is changed, character spacing changing means for changing the character spacing for arranging character data for which modification information for changing the character spacing is set, and the character data in a line. A document creating apparatus comprising: character data arranging means for arranging; and displaying means for displaying character data arranged by the character data arranging means.