JP2003091522A - Text data output method, text data output device, computer program and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a text data output method, a text data output device, a recoding medium and a computer program, capable of outputting text data imparting friendly impression. SOLUTION: When this text data output device receives an instruction to downsize a hiragana character (S101), the output device changes the size of the hiragana character according to a downsizing ratio set by a user or a downsizing ratio shown by previously stored downsizing ratio data (S106), and outputs the text data including the hiragana character whose size is changed (S107). Desirably, the downsizing ratio is a value such that a width of the hiragana character is 60-80% to a width of a prescribed Chinese character and that a height of the hiragana character is 70-90% to a height of the Chinese character.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text data output method for outputting text data containing hiragana characters, and more particularly to a text data output method for outputting text data after reducing hiragana characters to a predetermined size, and a method thereof. The present invention relates to a text data output device for implementation, a computer program for causing a computer to function as the device, and a recording medium recording the computer program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the rapid spread of information processing devices represented by word processors or personal computers, there are increasing opportunities to create sentences using these information processing devices. Since the text created in this way is electronic data, it has the advantage that it can be easily processed and copied. Therefore, it is being used in a wider range as compared with so-called handwritten sentences.

By the way, when a sentence created by the information processing apparatus as described above is displayed on a display or printed on a paper medium, it is common to make the sizes of a plurality of characters included in the sentence uniform. Is. As a result, since each character can be balanced, a human-readable sentence can be obtained.

[0004]

However, there is a problem that a sentence created and output using an information processing device often gives an impression that it is not familiar to humans as compared with a handwritten sentence.

The present inventors have noted that in handwritten sentences, hiragana characters tend to be smaller in size than other characters such as kanji. The fact that humans find it difficult to familiarize themselves with sentences created and output using an information processing device is that characters such as Chinese characters and Hiragana characters are output in the same size. I found out.

The present invention has been made on the basis of such findings, and an object thereof is to obtain an output result that is familiar to humans by making the size of hiragana characters smaller than the size of other characters such as kanji. A text data output method capable of performing the method, a text data output device for performing the method, a computer program for causing a computer to function as the device, and a recording medium recording the computer program.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a method of outputting text data according to the present invention is a method of extracting the hiragana characters from text data containing hiragana characters, and a size of the extracted hiragana characters. Is changed according to a predetermined reduction ratio, and a step of outputting text data including the size-changed hiragana characters is characterized.

Further, the sentence data output apparatus according to the present invention comprises an extracting means for extracting the hiragana character from the sentence data containing the hiragana character, and a size of the hiragana character extracted by the extracting means according to a predetermined reduction ratio. It is characterized by comprising a size changing means for changing and a means for outputting text data containing hiragana characters whose size has been changed by the size changing means.

Further, the computer program according to the present invention causes the computer to extract the hiragana characters from the sentence data containing the hiragana characters, and to change the size of the extracted hiragana characters according to a predetermined reduction ratio. And a procedure for outputting text data including hiragana characters whose size has been changed.

Further, the recording medium according to the present invention includes a procedure of causing a computer to extract the hiragana characters from sentence data including hiragana characters, and a procedure of changing the size of the extracted hiragana characters according to a predetermined reduction ratio. And a computer program for executing a procedure for outputting text data including hiragana characters whose size has been changed.

According to the present invention, in the outputted sentence data, the size of hiragana characters is smaller than the size of other characters such as kanji, as in handwritten sentences. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an output result that is more familiar to humans than in the conventional case.

Further, such a change in the character size can be carried out by using an existing outline font, and it is not necessary to develop a new font.
Therefore, the present invention can be implemented easily and inexpensively.

By the way, even if the size of a hiragana character is made smaller than the size of another character to be output, it is difficult to judge how small the size should be. Therefore, the present inventors conducted the following experiment in order to evaluate the favorableness of the size of hiragana characters. In this experiment,
A questionnaire was conducted using the paired comparison method, which is one of the psychological measurement methods, in order to obtain the favorable / favorable scale value. FIG. 4 shows the beginning part of “Jigoku Hen” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which is an example of a sentence used for the questionnaire.

This sentence was created by using the word processor software of the information processing apparatus, and is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the size of the hiragana characters is changed from 14pt. (Points) to 6pt. By 2pt. In this experiment, the size of kanji was set to 14pt. As the typefaces of the characters that compose these sentences, three types, MS Mincho and MS Gothic, developed by Microsoft Corporation of the United States, and Shosho are used.

In order to carry out the questionnaire by the paired comparison method described above, a sentence pair was created using the sentence example shown in FIG. Specifically, there are 5 sizes of hiragana characters (6p
t., 8pt., 10pt., 12pt., 14pt.), 10 types of combination pairs, 3 types of typefaces (MS Mincho, MS Gothic, regular writing) Created. Then, these sentence pairs were printed on a predetermined sheet to prepare a questionnaire sheet. In addition, at the beginning of the questionnaire form, the instruction to the subject was as follows: "Next, two sentences with different hiragana sizes are written in pairs. Compare the two sentences and you will feel the Please select the sentence that you feel. "

A questionnaire survey was conducted on 151 test subjects using the questionnaire form thus prepared. Then, based on the obtained questionnaire results, the preference scale value for each size of hiragana characters for each text content and typeface was determined as follows.

First, from the questionnaire results obtained for each sentence pair, the sentences of conditions Si and Sj are compared, and the number of people who answered that they prefer sentences of condition Si to sentences of condition Sj are totaled. Then, as shown in FIG. 5A, the ratio of the number of the subjects to the total number of 151 subjects, that is, the selection probability is obtained. Note that FIG. 5A shows the selection probability when the typeface is MS Mincho.

Next, Thurstone's comparison judgment, which assumes that the absolute value distributions of the favorable values for the sentence of condition Si and the sentence of condition Sj are independent of each other and has the same variance, is applied, and a normal conversion table is obtained from the above-mentioned selection probabilities. Converted to a standard score using
Get the favorable relative distance. Further, the relative distances of these positivities are summed up for each sentence, divided by the number of sentences 5, and the average of the positivity scale values of the sentences of each condition is obtained. FIG. 5 (b) shows the relative distances thus obtained, their sum and average. In addition, in FIG. 5B, the typeface is MS as in the case of FIG.
The result at the time of tomorrow morning is shown.

According to the procedure described above, the results of the questionnaire were analyzed for other sentences and typefaces, and the favorable rating value of each sentence printed by changing the size of hiragana characters was obtained. FIG. 6 is a graph summarizing the favorable rating scale values obtained in this way for each typeface. (A), (b),
(C) shows the favorable scale values for MS Mincho, MS Gothic, and regular writing, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 6, in all the typefaces, the sentence in which the hiragana characters are printed at 12 pt. Has the highest favorable rating value. From this, it is considered that the test subject relatively prefers a sentence in which Hiragana characters are printed in 12pt.

Next, the relationship between the character size and the favorable rating scale value of each sentence will be described. Here, the size of the actually printed character is represented using the width and height of the character as shown in FIG. However, the width and height of the characters in each sentence are different. Therefore, the ratio of the average width of hiragana characters to the average width of kanji included in each sentence (hereinafter referred to as the character width ratio), or the ratio of the average height of hiragana characters to the average height of kanji characters (hereinafter referred to as character width) Consider the relationship between the height ratio) and the likability scale value in each sentence.

FIG. 8 summarizes the character width ratio and the character height ratio for each typeface in the sentence with the highest likability, that is, the sentence in which the Chinese character is 14 pt. And the hiragana character is 12 pt. It is a figure.

As shown in FIG. 8, the character width ratio in the most favorable sentence is in the range of 0.61 to 0.77, and the character height ratio is in the range of 0.71 to 0.83. From this, the character width ratio is 0.6 to 0.8.
It is considered that when the character height ratio is about 0.7 to 0.9, the favorable sensitivity becomes high.

Therefore, in the above invention, the width of the hiragana character is 60% to 80% with respect to the width of the predetermined kanji, and the height of the hiragana character is 70% with respect to the height of the kanji.
It is preferable to change the size of the hiragana character so that it becomes 90% to 90%. As a result, it is possible to obtain an output result in which the size of the hiragana character is reduced by an appropriate ratio.

In the above invention, the setting of the reduction ratio of the size of the hiragana character may be accepted, and the size of the hiragana character may be changed according to the reduction ratio according to the accepted setting. As a result, it becomes possible to reduce the hiragana characters at a ratio according to the user's preference.

By the way, there is a case where the ratio of the width and height of the hiragana characters is remarkably different between the sentence created and output by the information processing device and the handwritten sentence. For example,
The hiragana character "shi" has a value obtained by dividing the width of the character by the height in MS Mincho etc. at about 0.9, but in the case of handwritten text, the value often becomes about 0.5. That is, a handwritten sentence often has a more elongated shape and represents a "shi".

Therefore, in the above invention, it is preferable to change the size according to the ratio of the width and the height of the character determined for each character of the hiragana character. As a result, it is possible to obtain an output result that is more similar to the case of handwriting. Therefore, a more familiar impression can be given.

[0028]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a text data output device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the text data output device 1 such as a personal computer includes a CPU 10, and the CPU 10 is connected to each hardware described later via a bus. Then, the CPU 10 controls the operation of those hardware, and the RAM 1
1 to execute the computer program loaded.
Thereby, the text data output device 1 can execute the process described later.

The RAM 11 is, for example, SRAM or DRA.
It is composed of M and the like, and stores temporary data and the like generated when the computer program is executed. The external storage device 12 is composed of, for example, a CD-ROM drive or a flexible disk drive, and stores the computer program from a portable recording medium M such as a CD-ROM or a flexible disk in which the computer program of the present invention is recorded. read.

The computer program of the present invention can also be obtained by a method other than the method in which the external storage device 12 reads from the portable recording medium M as described above. For example, if the computer program is stored in the database 2 connected to the Internet NTW, this database 2
The computer program can be obtained by downloading from the.

The hard disk 13 is composed of a readable / writable magnetic disk or the like, and stores a computer program necessary for the operation of the text data output device 1 and reduction ratio data 13a described later.

The input unit 14 is composed of a keyboard, a mouse and the like, and is used by the user to input an instruction or the like to the text data output device 1. Further, the display unit 15 is
It is composed of a CRT, a liquid crystal display, or the like, and displays text data and the like generated as described later.

The communication I / F 16 is the Internet NTW.
Interface for connecting to a modem or D
It is composed of SU (Digital Service Unit) and the like.

The reduction rate data stored in the above-mentioned hard disk 13 is data showing the reduction rate when the size of the hiragana characters included in the text data is changed. In the present embodiment, the reduction ratio data is set so that the width of the hiragana character is 70% with respect to the width of the predetermined kanji, and the height of the hiragana character is 80% with respect to the height of the kanji. There is.

Here, the width (height) of the above-mentioned predetermined Chinese character
May be, for example, the width (height) of any one Chinese character, or may be the average value of the widths (heights) of a plurality of Chinese characters.

The reduction rate data is not limited to the above-mentioned ratio, and may be a ratio desired by the user, for example. However, as can be seen from the above experiment, the width of hiragana characters is 60% to 80% with respect to the width of a given kanji, and the height of hiragana characters is 70% to 90% with respect to the height of kanji. It is desirable to set the reduction rate data so that

Next, the operation of the text data output device 1 according to this embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation flow of the text data output device 1 according to this embodiment.

First, the user creates text data using the input unit 14 or inputs text data created using another information processing device into the text data output device 1 and then converts the text data into the text data. The text data output device 1 is instructed to reduce the contained hiragana characters.

When the text data output device 1 receives the above-described reduction processing instruction (S101), it displays a reduction ratio setting screen for setting the reduction ratio of the size of hiragana characters on the display unit 15 (S102). ).

When there is a desired reduction ratio, the user inputs the reduction ratio according to the reduction ratio setting screen displayed on the display unit 15. Here, as the reduction ratio to be input, for example, as described above, it may indicate what percentage of the width (height) of the hiragana character is set to the width (height) of the predetermined kanji. Number of Hiragana character points (eg 1
0 pt., Etc.).

The text data output device 1 determines whether or not the user has set the reduction ratio (S103).
When it is determined that the setting has been made (S103
If YES, the setting value is acquired (S104). On the other hand, when it is determined that the setting is not performed (S10
(NO in 3), the reduction rate data 13a stored in the hard disk 13 is referred to (S105).

Next, the hiragana characters in the text data are extracted, and the size of the extracted hiragana characters is determined in step S10.
It is changed based on the setting value acquired in step 4 or the reduction rate data referred to in step S105 (S106). Then, the text data including the reduced size hiragana characters is displayed on the display unit 15 or printed using a printer or the like to perform the text data output processing (S10).
7), the process ends.

Of course, the size of the hiragana character may be changed according to the reduction rate data without giving the user the opportunity to set the reduction rate as described above.

By the above processing, the sentence data in which only the size of hiragana characters is reduced according to the reduction ratio set by the user or the reduction ratio indicated in the reduction ratio data is output. The text data output in this way is similar to handwritten text in that the size of hiragana characters is smaller than the size of other characters such as kanji, and it is easy for humans to feel like handwritten text. Become.

(Second Embodiment) In the sentence data output device according to the first embodiment, as described above, all hiragana characters included in the sentence data have the same aspect ratio (ratio of character width to height). ) Was reduced. On the other hand, in the text data output device according to the second embodiment, a different aspect ratio is set for each character of the hiragana character, and the size of the hiragana character is changed according to the aspect ratio.

The overall structure of the text data output device according to the present embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, and therefore its explanation is omitted.

Text data output device 1 according to the present embodiment
Stores in advance in the hard disk 13 aspect ratio data indicating the aspect ratio determined for each hiragana character. This aspect ratio data is created with reference to handwritten text. Specifically, for example, it is created by obtaining the average aspect ratio of hiragana characters shown in a plurality of handwritten sentences for each character.

Next, the operation of the text data output device 1 according to this embodiment will be described.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation flow of the text data output device 1 according to this embodiment.

As in the case of the first embodiment, the user
Reduction of hiragana characters included in the text data after the text data is created using the input unit 14 or the text data created using another information processing device is input to the text data output device 1. The processing is instructed to the text data output device 1.

When the text data output device 1 receives the above-described reduction processing instruction (S201), it searches for hiragana characters from the text data (S202) and determines whether or not the search is successful, that is, in the text data. It is determined whether or not there are hiragana characters (S203). If it is determined that there is a hiragana character here (YES in S203), the hard disk 1
The aspect ratio data stored in No. 3 is referred to, and the aspect ratio of the retrieved hiragana character is specified (S204).

Next, the size of the retrieved hiragana character is changed according to the aspect ratio specified in step S204 (S205). In this size changing process, for example, after changing the point number of the hiragana character before the changing process to a point number obtained by subtracting a predetermined value, the width and height of the hiragana character are changed according to the specified aspect ratio. Done by

After executing the above-described step S205, the process returns to step S202, and thereafter, step S203.
Until it is determined that there is no hiragana character in (NO in S203), steps S202 to S205 are repeatedly executed. When it is determined in step S203 that there is no hiragana character (NO in S203), the sentence data including the size-changed hiragana character is displayed on the display unit 15 or printed using a printer or the like. Output processing of the text data is performed (S20
6), the process ends.

By the above processing, not only is the size of the hiragana character smaller than the size of other characters such as kanji, but the aspect ratio of the hiragana character is changed based on the aspect ratio data. Since the aspect ratio data is created with reference to the handwritten text as described above, the output result is more similar to the handwritten text.
Therefore, it is possible to obtain an output capable of giving a more familiar impression.

[0057]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the size of a hiragana character is made smaller than the size of other characters such as kanji so that the output text data is similar to a handwritten text. Therefore, it is possible to provide an output that is familiar to humans, such as handwritten text.

Further, by reducing the size of the hiragana character according to the aspect ratio determined for each character of the hiragana character, the present invention has an excellent effect such that it can be made more like a handwritten sentence.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a text data output device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the text data output device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the text data output device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a sentence used in a questionnaire conducted in an experiment for evaluating the preference for the size of hiragana characters.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing selection probabilities obtained in an experiment for evaluating the preference for the size of hiragana characters.

FIG. 6 is a graph showing the relationship between the size of a character and the likeness scale value found in an experiment for evaluating the likeness of the size of a hiragana character.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the width and height of characters.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing character width ratios and character height ratios with high likability.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Text data output device 2 database 10 CPU 11 RAM 12 External storage device 13 hard disk 13a Reduction rate data 14 Input section 15 Display 16 Communication I / F NTW Internet M portable recording medium

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Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A step of extracting the hiragana characters from the text data containing the hiragana characters, a step of changing the size of the extracted hiragana characters according to a predetermined reduction ratio, and a text data containing the size-changed hiragana characters. And a step of outputting the sentence data output method. 2. The width of the extracted Hiragana character is 60% to 8 with respect to the width of a predetermined Chinese character in the changing step.
The size of the extracted hiragana character is changed such that the height of the extracted hiragana character is 0% and the height of the extracted hiragana character is 70% to 90% with respect to the height of the kanji. How to output the written text data. 3. The method further comprises the step of accepting the setting of the reduction ratio of the size of the hiragana character, wherein the changing step changes the size of the extracted hiragana character according to the reduction ratio according to the accepted setting. The sentence data output method according to claim 1, which is characterized in that. 4. The sentence according to claim 1, wherein in the changing step, the size is changed in accordance with a ratio of a width and a height of a character determined for each of the extracted hiragana characters. Data output method. 5. Extracting means for extracting the hiragana characters from sentence data containing hiragana characters, size changing means for changing the size of the hiragana characters extracted by the extracting means according to a predetermined reduction ratio, and the size changing. And a means for outputting text data including hiragana characters whose size has been changed by the means. 6. The size changing means has a width of the extracted hiragana characters of 60% to 80 with respect to a width of a predetermined kanji character.
%, And the size of the extracted hiragana character is changed so that the height of the extracted hiragana character is 70% to 90% with respect to the height of the kanji. Item 5. The text data output device according to item 5. 7. The size of the extracted hiragana character is further provided with an accepting unit for accepting a setting of a reduction ratio of the size of the hiragana character, and the size changing unit according to the reduction ratio according to the setting accepted by the accepting unit. 6. The sentence data output device according to claim 5, wherein: 8. An aspect ratio data storage unit for storing aspect ratio data indicating a ratio of a width and a height of a character determined for each hiragana character, wherein the size changing unit stores the aspect ratio data. 6. The sentence data output device according to claim 5, wherein the size of the extracted hiragana character is changed based on the aspect ratio data stored by the means. 9. A computer, a procedure for extracting the hiragana characters from the text data containing the hiragana characters, a step of changing the size of the extracted hiragana characters according to a predetermined reduction ratio, and a hiragana character of which the size has been changed. A computer program for executing the procedure of outputting the text data including the text. 10. The changing procedure is such that the width of the extracted hiragana character is 60% to 80% of the width of a predetermined kanji character.
13. The size of the extracted hiragana character is changed so that the height of the extracted hiragana character is 70% to 90% with respect to the height of the Chinese character. Computer program. 11. The computer is caused to further execute a procedure for accepting the setting of the reduction ratio of the size of the hiragana character, and the changing step changes the size of the extracted hiragana character according to the reduction ratio according to the accepted setting. Computer program according to claim 10, characterized in that 12. The computer according to claim 12, wherein in the changing procedure, the size is changed according to a ratio of a width and a height of each of the extracted hiragana characters. program. 13. A computer, the procedure of extracting the hiragana characters from the sentence data containing the hiragana characters, the procedure of changing the size of the extracted hiragana characters according to a predetermined reduction ratio, and the hiragana characters of the changed size. A computer-readable recording medium, which stores a computer program for executing a procedure of outputting text data including the data.