JPH01233485A - External character processing system for information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To maintain compatibility among different kinds of information processors by providing external character areas based upon 1st and 2nd external character processing systems. CONSTITUTION:A floppy disk has an external character area (a) for 24-dot printers, an external area (b) for 48-bit printers, and an area for IDs indicating their attributes. When an external character is registered by a prescribed model equipped with a 48-dot printer, an operator inputs a data with keys of a keyboard 1 and stores them in a VRAM 4 through a display control part to generate the external character over a look at a CRT display 5, thereby storing the external character on the floppy disk 8. In this case, the 48-dot external character area (a) and the 24-dot external character area (b) for compressed data are provided to the floppy disk 8, and the data are stored in both areas (a) and (b). Consequently, even when characters are generated by information processors which differ in the number of dots, the characters can be printed out.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Industrial field of application The present invention relates to a method for processing external characters in information processing devices such as personal computers and word processors. Users are provided with the ability to create their own custom characters.

As an example, the creation of external characters described in "Word Processor 5WP-330 Instruction Manual, P. 279," published by Kanki Sanyo, is because the printer used as the printing device used in the word processor is a 24-dot printer. , 24X2
It is configured to be executed in the 4 do no do format, and the creation of external characters described in pages 414 to 417 of "Personal Word Brosse Fusa Bungo m1ni7H Instruction Manual" published by NEC ■ cannot be done with other models. The created external characters were converted between different models using a process called external character conversion, and external characters created on other models were used.

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention In the conventional information processing apparatus, as mentioned above, in the first example, only a single external character processing method is provided. There is no problem, but if you change to, for example, 48 dots on a later model, it would be better if the successor model could easily use the external characters created on the previous model without any operations, and vice versa. In the second example above, the operation called "Gaiji conversion"
Treatment was required, and general users felt inconvenienced.

Therefore, the present invention proposes a new non-standard character processing method that eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a keyboard having a plurality of keys for inputting information, an information processing unit coupled to the keyboard, a display unit coupled to the information processing unit, and an external storage. In the information processing apparatus, the first external character processing method corresponds to the first printing means that prints on the external storage means with a predetermined number of dots, and the first external character processing method that prints with a number of dots different from the number of dots. A configuration in which respective external character areas are provided based on a second external character processing method corresponding to the second printing means, and external character information by key input from the keyboard is registered in the external character area, thereby making it possible to support both of the above methods. It is.

(f) Function The external character processing method of the present invention is configured such that external character information created in correspondence with printing means with different numbers of dots can be registered in the external storage means, and compatibility is achieved between information processing devices of different models. It has the advantage of being preserved.

(f) Example The present invention will be explained according to the drawings. Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the non-standard character processing method of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the non-standard character registration process of the same method, and Fig. 3
4 and 4 are flowcharts showing read processing for explaining the method.

Next, in the drawings, (1) is a keyboard having a plurality of keys, (2) is an information processing section, (3) is a display control section, and (4) is a keyboard having a plurality of keys.
) video RAM (abbreviated as VRAM), (5) is a CRT display as a display device, (6) is a printer as a printing means, (7) is an internal memory,
For example, (8) is an external character area for a 24-dot printer (
A floppy disk is shown as an external storage means having an external area (b) for a 48-dot printer and an area (ID) representing its attributes.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be explained. First, as an example, when registering a custom character using the first custom character processing method in a predetermined model equipped with a 48-dot printer, the operator controls the display by keying in from the keyboard (1). The data is stored in a VRAM (4) via a CRT display (5), and external characters are created while being displayed on a CRT display (5), and finally the external characters are stored in a floppy disk (8) as an external storage means. In this case, a floppy disk (
8) is provided with an external character area (a) for 48 dots and an external character area (b) corresponding to the compressed 24 dots, which are stored in both areas (a) and (b).

To explain the operation using the flowchart shown in Fig. 2, at Start (S), enter the custom character creation mode key from the keyboard (1), input the predetermined custom character code, and display the initial screen for creating custom characters on the CRT display ( 5) Do above. When you finish creating a custom character and press the end key, the custom character code (A) is stored in the built-in memory (usually RAM) (7), and the data (A) stored in the memory (7) is expanded or reduced. The stored data (B) is stored in the memory (7), and the data (A) or (B) that has been stored in the memory (7) is stored in areas (a) and (a) of the floppy disk (8).
b) and the series of operations ends (step E).

Therefore, the area (a) stores the external character data corresponding to 48 dots, and the area (b) stores the external character data corresponding to 24 dots, indicating that the registration has been completed.

Next, when trying to print on the floppy disk (8) using a 48-dot machine, when the external character code read out as shown in Figure 3 is input, the floppy disk (8)
In other words, the information processing section (2) determines whether the document is a 48-dot model based on the attributes of the document FD (floppy disk), such as the model name of the machine that was entered using the keys. When there is data in area (a) of 48, output that data, and if there is no data, read external character data from area (b) corresponding to 24 dots,
The information processing section (2) converts this into data for 48 dots, outputs it, and starts printing in response to a print request.

If the floppy disk was created with a 24-dot model instead of the 48-dot model mentioned above, the information processing unit reads external character data from the area corresponding to area (b) corresponding to 24-dots and converts this data into 48-dot data. The data is converted and output in step (2), and printing is started in response to a print request in the same manner as described above. In both examples, the CRT display (5) displays information corresponding to the external character data.

Next, depending on the 24-dot model, a floppy disk (8
) only stores the external character data corresponding to 24 dots, and when the external character code is input as shown in Figure 4, the data for the 24 dot area is output.
If there is a printing request, 24-dot characters will be printed in response.

Here, the floppy disk as an external storage means is 4
When inputting various data such as registering external characters on an 8-dot model, an ID (discriminator) is recorded, and as mentioned above, depending on which type the file was created by inputting, the area (a) or It is possible to read the data that has been stored in (b).

(G) Effects of the Invention According to the external character processing method of the information processing apparatus of the present invention, external character data stored as a document file in an external storage device, for example, a floppy disk, can be created by any of a plurality of information processing apparatuses having different numbers of dots. Even in the case where the information processing apparatus is used, printing is possible, and the present invention can be extremely effective for information processing apparatuses such as word processors.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the external character processing method of the information processing apparatus of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are flowcharts for explaining the method. (1)...Keyboard, (2)...Information processing unit,
(5)...CRT display, (6)...
Printer, (8)...floppy disk.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus having a keyboard having a plurality of keys for inputting information, an information processing section coupled to the keyboard, a display means, an external storage means, and a printing means coupled to the information processing section. a first printing means corresponding to a first printing means for printing a predetermined number of dots on an external storage means;
and a second printing means that prints with a number of dots different from the number of dots. A non-standard character processing method for an information processing device, characterized in that the non-standard character processing method is recorded in a non-standard character area and is compatible with both of the above methods.