JPH02294868A - Character input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enhance the efficiency of an input work of character data by storing both two characters converted to a half size in an inhibited rule area of the line end immediately before in a character data storage part by an gapanese hyphenation processing means. CONSTITUTION:When two line head gapanese hyphenation characters are inputted continuously to the head of a line, its two characters are converted to half size characters by a half size converting means 6, and its two characters converted to a half size are stored in an gapanese hyphenation area of the line and immediately before in a character data storage part 3 by an gapanese hyphenation processing means 8. Also, when two ore more line head gapanese hyphenation characters are inputted continuously to the head of the line, whether a marking type such as punctuation marks of a full size and parentheses, etc., exists in the line immediately before or not is decided by a marking type deciding means 7. Subsequently, the decided marking type is converted to a half size by the half size converting means 6 by the number of line head gapanese hyphenation characters inputted exceeding two characters, and a character-string in its line is justified to the line head side an a space is generated in the line end by a line end space generating means 8. In such a way, the efficiency of an input work of character data is enhanced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a device for inputting character data such as letters and numbers including punctuation marks and brackets for use in word processors, desktop publishing, personal computers, and the like.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, when creating a sentence, punctuation marks such as ``,'', and ``, and closing brackets such as ``'''', ゛')'''', etc. are not written at the beginning of a line.

Therefore, character input devices such as those mentioned above have conventionally specified punctuation marks and closing brackets that cannot be used at the beginning of a line as "characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line," and when these characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line are input by the operator at the beginning of a line. Inhibition processing was performed in which the data was automatically stored in an inhibition area provided at the end of the immediately preceding line.

An example of a character that cannot start a line is shown below.

<List of characters that cannot start at the beginning of a line> [Problems to be solved by the invention] However, in such conventional character input devices, when two or more characters that cannot start at the beginning of a line are input consecutively, the first character The above-mentioned prohibition processing is performed, but there is a problem in that the remaining characters after the second character are input as they are at the beginning of the line.

Therefore, the operator has to be careful not to input two or more characters consecutively at the beginning of a line, resulting in poor character input efficiency.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is possible to perform the above-mentioned prohibition processing even if a line-inhibited character is continuously input at the beginning of a line when inputting character data using a character input device. The purpose is to improve the efficiency of character data input work.

[Means to resolve issues]

In order to achieve the above object, when a character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line, such as a punctuation mark or a closing bracket, is input at the beginning of a line, the present invention moves the character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line to a prohibited area at the end of the previous line. In a character input device that has a prohibition processing means for storing characters in a line, when two characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line are input consecutively, a half-width conversion means is provided to convert both of the two characters into half-width characters. converted into 2
Both characters are stored in the prohibition area at the end of the immediately preceding line in the character data storage section by the prohibition processing means.

Furthermore, when more than two non-startable characters are input consecutively at the beginning of a line into the above character input device, whether or not there is a punctuation mark such as a full-width punctuation mark or a punctuation mark such as a katsuko in the immediately preceding line. a punctuation judgment means for determining the punctuation, and a half-width conversion means converting the punctuation judged thereby into half-width by the number of characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line exceeding two characters, and moving the character string in the line to the beginning of the line. A line-end space creation means is provided to create a space at the end of a line, and the half-width conversion means converts all consecutively input prohibited characters to half-width characters, and the prohibition processing means converts all of the consecutively input prohibited characters into half-width characters, and the prohibited characters are converted to half-width characters immediately before the characters in the character data storage unit by the prohibited character processing means. We also provide a system in which the data is stored in a space created at the end of a line or in a prohibited area.

[For production]

The character input device according to the present invention converts the two characters into half-width characters by the half-width conversion means when two consecutive characters that cannot start a line are inputted at the beginning of a line, and processes the two characters converted to half-width characters as prohibited characters. The data is stored in the prohibited area at the end of the immediately preceding line in the character data storage section.

Furthermore, if more than two consecutive characters that cannot start a line are entered at the beginning of a line, the punctuation determination means determines whether or not there is a punctuation mark such as a full-width punctuation mark or a katsuko in the immediately preceding line. Then, the punctuation determined by this is converted to half-width by the number of characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line exceeding two characters by the half-width conversion means, and the character string in the line is moved to the beginning of the line by the line-end space creation means. Create a space at the end of the line.

Then, all of the consecutively input prohibited characters at the beginning of a line are converted into half-width characters by the half-width conversion means, and stored in the space and prohibited area created at the end of the immediately preceding line in the character data storage section by the prohibited character processing means.

〔Example〕

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

Note that punctuation refers to punctuation marks, punctuation marks, etc. An example is shown below.

Figure 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a character input device that is an embodiment of the present invention.

This character input device includes a keyboard 1, an input processing section 2, and a CRT 9. The input processing section 2 has the functions of a character data storage section 3, a format storage section 4, a character prohibition at the beginning of a line determination section 5, a half-width conversion section 6, a punctuation determination section 7, and a prohibition processing section 8.

The keyboard 1 includes a plurality of character keys including punctuation marks, closed brackets, and other non-startable characters, numeric keys, and various function keys related to writing and editing sentences, and controls the input of character data, function instructions, and the like.

The input processing unit 2 is constituted by a microcomputer, and stores character data input using the keyboard 1 in the character data storage unit 3 and displays it on the CRT 9, and also displays the character data inputted at the beginning of a line when a character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line is input. In addition to the normal processing for one character, the Kinsaku processing according to the present invention is used, that is, when two characters that are prohibited at the beginning of a line are input consecutively, both characters are converted to half-width characters and the characters at the end of the previous line are converted to half-width characters. Performs processing to store in area.

In addition, if 3 or more characters of line @ Kinsoku characters are input consecutively at the beginning of the line, the punctuation mark existing in the immediately previous line stored in the character data storage unit O is converted to half-width and the character string is is moved to the beginning of the line to create a space at the end of the line, and all non-startable characters input in that space and the prohibited area are converted to half-width characters and stored.

The character data storage section 3 stores the character data inputted through the keyboard 1 by dividing it line by line via the prohibition processing section 8, and also sends display data to the CRT 9.

The format storage unit 4 stores the preset number of characters for dividing character data stored in the character data storage unit 3 into one line, and when inputting character data, the number of characters is stored in the format storage unit 4.
Read out. Note that this number of character data in one line also includes one full-width character that can be stored in the prohibited area.

The line-inhibited character determining unit 5 determines whether character data input through the keyboard 1 is a line-inhibited character.

The half-width converter 8 is a half-width converter that converts nine consecutive non-startable characters input at the beginning of a line and the necessary number of punctuation characters determined by the punctuation determining unit 7 to half-width characters.

The punctuation determining unit 7 determines that when three or more characters that are prohibited at the beginning of a line are input consecutively from the beginning of a line, the character string of the immediately preceding line stored in the character data storage unit 3 is sent to the prohibition processing unit 8 by one character. This is a punctuation determination means that determines whether the character data is a punctuation mark such as a full-width punctuation mark or a katsuko when the character data is read out one by one.

The prohibition processing unit 8 processes the character data inputted by the keyboard 1 and sends the inputted character data to the character data storage unit 3 by starting a line with the number of characters that can be stored in one line stored in the format storage unit 4, and sequentially sends the input character data to the character data storage unit 3. A process of determining whether or not the input character data is a non-starting character, a process of causing the non-starting character determining unit 5 to determine whether the input character data is a non-starting character, and a process of determining whether the input character data is a non-starting character. If it is a character, it is processed as it is, if there are two or more characters, it is converted to half-width by the half-width conversion unit 6, and then stored again in the prohibited area at the end of the immediately previous line stored in the character data storage unit 3. Let's do it.

However, if three or more characters that cannot start at the beginning of a line are input consecutively, only the number of characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line out of the punctuation characters determined by the punctuation determination unit 7 and exceeds two characters will be converted into half-width characters. The character string in the immediately preceding line is converted to half-width by unit 6, and a space is created at the end of the line by moving the character string to the beginning of the line.

That is, this prohibition processing unit 8 corresponds to line end space creation means and prohibition processing means.

The CRT 9 is a display device that receives data sent from the character data storage section 3. The character data inputted by the display data is displayed on the display screen.

Next, the prohibition processing by the input processing section 2 of FIG. 1 will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the operator inputs a key using the keyboard 1, if it is a function instruction, the process moves to that function, but if it is character data, it is determined whether or not it was input at the beginning of the line. Yes
If so, then it is determined whether the character is a character that cannot start at the beginning of a line.

As a result of these determinations, character data other than characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line and characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line are stored as they are in the character data storage section 3.

However, if it is determined that the character data is a non-startable character input at the beginning of a line, the non-startable character is stored in the non-startable area of the immediately previous line stored in the character data storage unit 3. If not, stores the newly input non-starting character at the beginning of the line.

If one character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line has already been stored in the prohibited area, this character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line is converted to half-width by the half-width conversion unit 6, a half-width space is created in the prohibited area, and the character is stored in the character data storage unit 3 again. do.

Then, the half-width character newly inputted at the beginning of the line is converted to half-width by the half-width converter 6 and stored in the half-width space.

Furthermore, if two characters that are prohibited at the beginning of a line are stored in the prohibited area, the character data is read out one character at a time from the character string in the immediately previous line stored in the character data storage unit 3, and the characters outside the prohibited area are deleted. It is determined whether it is a punctuation mark or not, and if it is a punctuation mark, it is converted to half-width by the half-width converter 6 and stored again.

By doing so, the character string in the previous line is padded by a half-width space to the beginning of the line, leaving a half-width space in the prohibited area,
The half-width converting section 6 converts a new character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line into a half-width character and stores it in that space.

If there is no punctuation in the character data in the immediately preceding line, and if a character that cannot start at the beginning of a line in the prohibited area is read, the character that cannot start at the beginning of a line that is input at the beginning of the line is stored as is at the beginning of the line.

In this way, when characters that cannot start a line are input consecutively, the characters up to the second character are converted to half-width characters and stored in the prohibited area at the end of the previous line, and from the third character onwards, only the number of characters are input. Convert the punctuation mark existing in the previous line to half-width and fill it with characters,
Store it in the empty space.

Next, the display when inputting character data in the character input device shown in FIG. 1 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 3 to 7.

Figure 6 shows the display screen 10 of the CRT9 of this character input device.
FIG.

On this display screen 10, one line of character data is displayed as an example of character data input using the keyboard 1, and the scale at the bottom of the screen is such that one square corresponds to one full-width character, and the dashed line at the end of the line The part indicated by a is a prohibited area.

Here, if the operator enters "" at the beginning of the next line, the fourth
As shown in the figure, it is displayed within the prohibited area indicated by the broken line a.

Then, when ``'''' is inputted continuously, ``'' in the forbidden area is converted to half-width, and Ll and D, which are converted to half-width, are displayed behind it, as shown in FIG.

Next, when the operator inputs ``゛・'', the punctuation mark ``,'' displayed as the third character is converted to half-width and falls within the prohibited area, as shown by the dashed line b in Figure 6. The character string including the characters is padded to the beginning of the line by half-width characters, and as shown in Figure 7, a half-width space is created after the prohibited area LLJJI, so it is converted to half-width characters. is displayed.

Note that in the above embodiment, when three or more non-startable characters are input consecutively at the beginning of a line, the punctuation mark to be converted to half-width is selected from the beginning of the immediately preceding line.
It is also possible to preferentially convert to half-width characters starting from those with consecutive punctuation marks and spaces between characters, such as the 8th character "." on the first line in the figure.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the character input device according to the present invention has the following effects:
Even if characters that are prohibited at the beginning of a line are input consecutively at the beginning of a line during character input, they are automatically input at the end of the immediately preceding line and in the prohibited area, so the efficiency of character data input work can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a character input device showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of prohibition processing by the input processing unit 2 of the character input device shown in FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 to 7 is the character input device CRT shown in Figure 1.
9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of input character data displayed on the display screen 10 of No. 9. FIG. 1...Keyboard 2...Input processing section 3
...Character data storage section 4...Format storage section 5.
・・Non-first character determination section 6 ・Half-width conversion section 7 ・・
・Yakumono judgment section 8... Kinsoku processing section 9...
CRT 1 0...Display screen Figure 1--J Figure 3 Figure 6 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. When a character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line, such as a punctuation mark or a closing bracket, is input, the character that cannot be started at the beginning of a line is moved to a prohibited area at the end of the previous line and stored in a character data storage unit. In a character input device having a means for inputting characters, when two consecutive characters that cannot be started at the beginning of a line are input, a half-width conversion means is provided to convert both of the two characters into half-width characters, and the two characters converted to half-width characters are converted to half-width characters. A character input device characterized in that the prohibition processing means stores the input data in a prohibition area at the end of the immediately preceding line in the character data storage section. 2. In the character input device according to claim 1, when more than two characters that cannot start a line are consecutively input at the beginning of a line, is there a punctuation mark such as a full-width punctuation mark or a katsuko in the immediately preceding line? a punctuation determining means for determining whether or not the punctuation is determined by the means; and a line end space creation means for moving the character string inside toward the beginning of the line to create a space at the end of the line, and converting all of the consecutively input characters that cannot be started at the beginning of the line into half-width characters by the half-width conversion means. . A character input device, wherein the character input device stores data in a space and a prohibited area created at the end of the immediately preceding line in the character data storage unit by the prohibited character processing means.