JPH0222696A - Character processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display KANJI (Chinese character) and FURIGANA (reading of KANJI written with Japanese syllabary at the side of KANJI) with positional well-balanced correspondence by providing a moving means which receives the indication from an input means and moves dots of a FURIGANA pattern corresponding to a designated FURIGANA character to the other half-em area in a FIRIGANA pattern output means. CONSTITUTION:When one of FURIGANA characters displayed on a display means is designated and a first indication is performed by an input means 1, a first moving means 7 moves dots of the FURIGANA pattern corresponding to the designated FURIGANA character to an about center of the em character width is a FURIGANA pattern output means 4. When a second indication is performed from the input means 1, a second moving means 8 moves dots of the FURIGANA pattern corresponding to the designated FURIGANA character to the other half-em area in said means 4. Thus, the FURIGANA character is controlled to a position corresponding to KANJI by the first indication and/or the second indication.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Field of Industrial Application This invention relates to a character processing device that can display ruby attached to kanji characters in a well-balanced manner at positions corresponding to the kanji characters.

(b) Prior Art Conventionally, in this type of character processing device, kanji characters are usually displayed in a full-width character width, and ruby characters are displayed in a half-width character width above the kanji characters.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the above character processing device, as shown in Figure 7, only two ruby characters can be attached to the upper row of one kanji. There is not a well-balanced one-to-one correspondence with ruby, which is the pronunciation of characters, and therefore, when ruby is added consecutively, it becomes difficult to read and also looks bad.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and therefore provides a character processing device in which kanji and ruby characters are displayed in a one-to-one correspondence with well-balanced position.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the present invention, where l corresponds to an input means for inputting ruby conversion data and various instructions, and 2 corresponds to the ruby conversion data. A ruby dictionary means 2 stores a large number of ruby characters; 3 is a ruby reading means for reading ruby corresponding to the ruby conversion data from the ruby dictionary means 2 when a ruby display instruction is received; 4 is an area composed of full-width character widths; In each area, the area is divided into two by half-width character width, and in the area, a ruby pattern formed by a dot matrix is stored, and when the ruby is output from the ruby reading means 3, A ruby pattern output means reads out a ruby pattern corresponding to ruby and outputs it as a half-width ruby character; 5 is a display means for displaying the ruby character output from the ruby pattern output means 4 in the upper row of the full-width character; 6 is a displayed ruby specification means for specifying one of the ruby characters that are present, 7
receives the first instruction from the input means 1, and moves the ruby pattern corresponding to the designated ruby character to approximately the center of the full-width character width in the ruby pattern output means 4.
A moving means 8 is a second moving means that receives a second instruction from the input means 1 and moves a ruby pattern corresponding to a designated ruby character to the other half-width area in the ruby pattern output means 4 by dots.

(E) Effect According to this invention, when one of the ruby characters displayed on the display means is specified and the first instruction is given from the input means, the first moving means generates a ruby pattern corresponding to the specified ruby character. is moved to approximately the center of the full-width character width on the ruby pattern output means 4. When the second instruction is given from the input means, the second
The moving means moves the ruby pattern corresponding to the designated ruby character to the other half-width area in the ruby pattern outputting means 4. Thereby, by performing the first instruction and/or the second instruction, the position of the displayed ruby character can be adjusted to the position corresponding to the kanji character.

(F) EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below based on examples shown in the figures. Note that this invention is not limited by this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a Japanese word processor which is an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, IO is a keyboard serving as an input means having a character entry key-1, a conversion key for converting input ruby data into ruby data, and various instruction keys. 11 is a ruby data buffer as a ruby data storage means for temporarily storing ruby data input from the keyboard IO;
Consists of OM. ! Reference numeral 2 denotes a ruby conversion table as a ruby dictionary means which stores a large number of ruby codes corresponding to ruby data, and is usually constructed from a ROM.

As shown in FIG. 3, reference numeral 13 is a ruby character generator (hereinafter referred to as ruby CG) of 3 bytes x 24 bytes, which is composed of a ROM, and a ruby conversion table 12.
Generates ruby characters that correspond to the ruby code output from . This ruby CG+3 needs to have an area in which at least full-width characters can be formed in the vertical and horizontal directions, that is, an area of 24 dots x 24 dots. Usually, a ruby character pattern created by forming a character code using a dot matrix is stored in the left half-width area of this ruby ccta. Therefore, the right half-width area is a movement area for moving a ruby pattern, which will be described later, in dots.

14 is an LCD as a display means, and a keyboard IO
Displays the ruby conversion data input from and the ruby read out. The display means is not limited to an LCD, but may be a CRT or a similar type of display device.

15 carries out each process of the device setting means, the first moving means, and the second moving means, which are composed of, for example, a 16-bit microprocessor.
The program is executed according to the program written in the program memory 16 consisting of ROM.

Note that l7 is an IF character conversion dictionary used when converting input kana characters into kanji characters, and is usually constructed from a ROM. 18 is a text memory that stores created texts, converted ruby characters, etc., and is composed of an external storage device such as a RAM or a floppy disk. Reference numeral 19 denotes a printer for printing created sentences, etc., and can be configured from a thermal transfer printer, a dot impact printer, or the like.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

It is assumed that a sentence is displayed on the screen of the LCD l4, and ruby characters are displayed for the kanji characters in the sentence by conventional ruby conversion.

Based on the above premise, specify one ruby in the text by moving the cursor (step 30), and press the ruby shift key (step 31). It is determined whether there is one (step 32), and if YES, the transfer source address and transfer destination address of the ruby character to be moved are specified, and initial values are set (step 33).

If NO in step 32, shift by 6 dots, that is, for 1 kanji! It is determined whether the instruction is to add ruby (step 34), and the same process as step 33 is performed (step 35). Furthermore, if NO in step 34, 1 more
It is determined whether the instruction is a two-dot shift, that is, in this case, a movement from the right half-width to the left half-width (step 36), the same process as step 33 is performed (step 37), and the flag is set to "bi" (step 38). The initial value settings for step 33, step 35, and step 37 are different.

The relationship between the 6-dot shift and the 12-dot shift is shown in FIG. In actual operation, each dot shift process is configured in a loop, so if you perform a 12-dot shift and then another 12-dot shift, Ruby A3 will be shifted 12 dots to the left (left half-angle movement) and return to the position of A1. Become.

Next, when one of the dot shifts is selected, the number of bytes to be transferred is first set in the selected dot shift (step 39), and one byte of data is transferred (step 40). When one byte is transferred, the number of bytes set in the transfer byte counter is decremented. Next is the transfer pie. It is determined whether the transfer counter is zero (step 42), and if No, that is, if the transfer is still in progress, it is determined whether the flag is zero (step 43), and if YES, the transfer source address and the transfer The first value is incremented (step 44), and the process returns to step 40.

If NO in step 43, that is, if a dot shift from the right half-width to the left half-width is instructed, the transfer source address and the transfer destination address are decremented (step 45). Note that when the transfer byte number counter becomes zero in step 42, it is assumed that the transfer is completed, and if ruby is specified (step 46), the process returns to step 30 and waits for the next ruby movement instruction.

FIGS. 6(a), (b), and (c) are diagrams showing the deafness of half-width rubies A1 to A attached to one full-width kanji B divided into several ruby characters. In this embodiment, as described above, it is assumed that the ruby CG+3 has a 24x24 dot configuration.

Figure 6 (a) shows the process when adding one half-width ruby to one full-width kanji B, in which the ruby AI is shifted 6 dots to the right (moved to the center) and becomes A. .

FIG. 6(b) shows the process for adding two half-width rubies to one full-width kanji B, and the first ruby A1! Shift two dots to the right (half-width shift to the right) to make A (however, the character spacing for ruby characters is zero). The second ruby is not moved.

Figure 6 (c) shows 3 half-width ruby characters for 81 full-width kanji characters.
This shows the process when adding one, and the first ruby A is 1
Shift 2 dots to the right and select the second ruby A from the beginning.
, is shifted to the right by 6 dots, and the third ruby character, A, is not moved (however, the spacing between ruby characters is zero). In other words, (C) in FIG. 6 is a 6-dot shift (center movement process) in FIG. 6(a) and a 12-dot shift in FIG. 6(b).
This process is a combination of dot shift (right half-angle movement process).

In this way, when ruby characters are set to O dots between characters, it is possible to achieve a balance between ruby characters and kanji characters by setting and combining the two types of processing described above.

(G) Effects of the invention According to this invention, kanji and ruby, which is the reading of the kanji, are displayed in a well-balanced positional correspondence, making it easier to understand the reading of kanji, and also making it easier to understand the reading of kanji and ruby. Improved positional balance.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a ruby character generator according to the same embodiment. , FIG. 4 is a flow chart explaining the operation of the same embodiment, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between dot shift processing in the embodiment, and (2L), (b) and (
c) is an explanatory diagram showing the dot shift processing of the embodiment, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing ruby display in the conventional example. ]...Input means, 2...Ruby dictionary means, 3...Ruhi blaming means,
4...Ruby pattern output means, 5...Display means, 6...Ruby designation means,
7...First transportation means, 8...Second transportation means. Figure CG Technic M4 family diagram

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. input means for inputting ruby conversion data and various instructions; ruby dictionary means storing a large number of rubies corresponding to the ruby conversion data; It has a ruby reading means that reads out the ruby corresponding to the conversion data from the ruby dictionary means, and a plurality of areas consisting of full-width character width, and each area has a dot matrix that divides the area into two by the half-width character width. ruby pattern output means for storing each ruby pattern to be code-formed, and reading out the ruby pattern corresponding to the ruby when ruby is output from the ruby reading means and outputting it as a half-width ruby character; and from the ruby pattern output means. a display means for displaying an output ruby character in the upper row of full-width characters; a ruby specifying means for specifying one of the displayed ruby characters; and a ruby specifying means for specifying one of the displayed ruby characters; a first moving means for moving a ruby pattern corresponding to a designated ruby character to approximately the center of a full-width character width in a ruby pattern output means; , and second moving means for moving dots to the other half-width area in the ruby pattern output means.