JPH03182371A - Character processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display and output a character in the longhand font connected by an image line with characters preceding and succeeding the character by determining the font of the character from the relation with the preceding and succeeding characters in a section selected from the whole of a string of characters. CONSTITUTION:A table 6a of a handwriting character code controlling table 6 corresponds to a handwriting character font and a character code related to an English small letter 'a'. Similar tables, that is, 52 tables 6b-6z in addition to the table 6a are prepared for the whole number of English small and capital letters. A first row in the table 6a indicates a code of a next character at the left side of the letter 'a', and a first column indicates a code of a next character at the right side of the letter 'a'. A character code 12 corresponds to a handwriting font of 'a' which is described when the letters 'b', 'a' and 'c' are connected sequentially by image lines. Accordingly, it becomes possible to display a row of handwriting characters having succeeding and preceding characters connected with one another.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a character processing device for inputting, editing, and outputting characters;
In particular, it relates to a character processing method that determines the font of a character in relation to the characters before and after the character.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, character processing devices that have multiple character fonts for a certain character have not only used cursive character fonts in addition to cursive character fonts, as described in the product manual "Hitachi Japanese Word Processor Wor" published by Hitachi, Ltd. was prepared, making it possible to create handwritten documents.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, when displaying, for example, English words in cursive, the above-mentioned conventional technology does not take into account characters that smoothly connect the ending point of one character's spelling to the starting point of the next character's spelling. It is desirable to bring out the following.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a character processing method capable of displaying and outputting a cursive character font in which a certain character is connected to the characters located before and after it by strokes.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, in the character processing method according to the present invention, a character code management table corresponding to a cursive character font is provided, and characters located before and after a certain character are used as keys to select an appropriate cursive character. By making it possible to search for a code, a certain character can be displayed in cursive with continuous strokes from the previous and next characters.

Furthermore, in order to display any character string in cursive out of the entire input character string, it is possible to specify an area to be converted into cursive.

[Effect]

According to the above-mentioned character code selection means, the character code of the font that smoothly connects the end point of a stroke when spelling a certain character and the start point of a stroke when spelling the next character consecutively is selected for cursive characters. Since it is selected from the code management table,
It is possible to display a cursive character string in which the preceding and succeeding characters are connected.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration diagram of the present invention.

In the drawing, 1 is an input means for inputting characters from an input device such as a keyboard. 2 is a display means,
Display characters on an output device such as a display. Reference numeral 3 denotes input/output control means, which controls the input means 1 and the display means 2. Reference numeral 4 denotes a cursive conversion area specifying means, in which the operator specifies an area to be converted into cursive from among the input character strings.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a cursive writing conversion means, which converts character strings in the area specified by the cursive writing conversion area specifying means 4 into cursive character codes. 6 is a cursive character code management table, which is referred to when the cursive converting means 5 performs cursive conversion. 7 is a character code control means, which refers to a character code table 8 and a character font table 9;
Get the character font corresponding to the character code.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the cursive character code management table 6 in this embodiment.

In FIG. 2, table 6a includes lowercase alphabetic letters 1a1
Tables similar to 3 showing the correspondence between cursive character fonts and character codes are for the total number of lowercase and uppercase letters, that is, in addition to Table 6a, 6b to 6Z
There are 52 tables available. The first row of table 6a shows the code of the character to the left of the alphabetic character a', and the first column shows the code of the character to the right of the alphabetic character 'a'.

In Table 6a, 10 refers to the character code of the alphabetic character 1bl, and 11 refers to the character code and control code other than alphabetic characters. 12 is the character code of 'a' when the character on the left is lbl and the character on the right is 'CI'. This character code 12 corresponds to the cursive font 'a' in which the three characters 'b', laI, and rC+ are successively connected by strokes.

FIG. 3(A) is a display example before conversion to cursive characters in this embodiment, and FIG. 3(B) is a display example after conversion.

In the third [m (A), 21 is a conversion area in which conversion of the entire character string to cursive is specified.

The alphabetic characters within the conversion area 21 are displayed in cursive in FIG. 3(B), and are continuous with the left and right alphabetical characters with smooth stroke lines.

Next, the processing procedure in this embodiment is shown in the flowcharts of FIGS. 4 and 5.

FIG. 4 shows the entire processing procedure.

In FIG. 4, in step 31 a character string is input and the input character string is displayed on the display.

In step 32, if the input character string is to be converted into cursive, the process proceeds to step 33; if not, the process shown in FIG. 4 is ended. In step 33, a conversion range for converting the input character string into cursive is specified. Step 34
Now, convert the character code of the character string in the conversion area to the character code of the corresponding cursive font. In step 35, the cursive characters corresponding to the character codes converted in step 34 are displayed in the conversion area. After this, the process shown in FIG. 4 ends.

FIG. 5 shows the character code conversion procedure shown in FIG.

In step 341, the character code of the character string within the conversion area to be converted into cursive is obtained. In step 342, based on the character code obtained in step 36, it is determined whether the character is an alphabetic character. If the character is an alphabetic character, the process advances to step 343; if the character is not an alphabetic character, the process of FIG. 5 is ended.

In step 343, the cursive character code management table 6 shown in FIG. 2 is searched using the character codes of the characters located before and after the character obtained in step 341 as keys. As a result, a cursive code in which the character is continuous with the preceding and following characters is obtained, and this code replaces the character code in the conversion area. After this, the process shown in FIG. 5 ends.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The present invention relates to a character processing device in which a plurality of character fonts are prepared for one character.

The font for a certain character can be determined based on the relationship between that character and the characters before and after it.1 For example, when displaying English letters in cursive, choose a font that connects the spelling with the adjacent characters on the left and right. This makes it possible to display handwritten text, which has the effect of improving the document image.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of a table for character code management in the embodiment, and Fig. 3 shows each side of the display screen of the embodiment. 4 is a flowchart showing the overall procedure of the same embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the procedure of character code conversion. l... Input means (keyboard, etc.), 2... Display means (display, printer, etc.), 3... Input/output control means, 4... Cursive conversion area designation means, 5... Cursive Conversion means, 6... Cursive character code management table, 7
...Character code control means, 8.Character code table, 9.Character font table (normal font and cursive font).

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a character processing device that has means for inputting and outputting characters, multiple fonts for one character, and means for controlling the correspondence between character fonts and character codes, when displaying and outputting a character string, the entire character string is A character processing method that determines the font of each character in a specified area based on the relationship with the characters located before and after that character.