JPH07114559A - Document preparation device and modification character moving method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily set the centering, right justification, etc., of design characters and to easily move them even when a format is too large to grasp positions. CONSTITUTION:Once a mode of character design is specified, a character modification part 2 reads sample data on character design out of a ROM 4 and displays the data at a display part 12. Then the character modification part 2 generates the character design according to user's specifications, and stores it in a RAM 5 and also displays it in a specific area on the screen. Then when the user specifies a movement destination for the character design by a position specifying means for centering, right justification, etc., a position control part 3 calculates the position of the specified movement destination from the length of the character design and the length of the document format stored in the RAM 5, moves the design character on a VRAM 11 to the position found by the calculation, and displays the moved design character at the display part 12.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus having a character design function for transforming an input character and a transformed character moving method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some document creation apparatuses have a character design function of transforming an input character. This character design function is a function that, when a desired sample is selected from a plurality of character designs, the input character can be transformed like the sample design. The deformed character created by using the function of the character design, that is, the design character is created by the graphic character, and the functions such as right justification, centering and left justification cannot be specified. Therefore, when setting the position of the design character, the target position is specified by point specification using an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse.

[0003]

As described above, in the document creating apparatus having the conventional character design function, it is not possible to specify the function relating to the position of the design character, such as right-alignment, centering and left-alignment. Since the positions are sequentially moved by specifying the points, it takes time to set the positions and the positions may deviate from the expected positions.
Also, if the size of the format is larger than the size of the screen, moving the position by specifying points may make it impossible to understand the relative positional relationship of the target position in the edited document.
There is a problem that it takes a lot of time to arrange the design character at a target position.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and it is possible to easily set right-alignment, centering, and left-alignment of design characters, and to easily move a document even if the format is large and it is difficult to grasp the position. An object is to provide a producing device.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus having a function of creating modified characters, format data storage means for storing format data of a document and data for modified characters displayed on a screen are stored. Modified character data storage means, position specification means for selecting a modified character displayed on the screen and designating a position to move, and deformation stored in the modified character data storage means based on the position specification by this means. Means for obtaining the position of the destination from the length of the character area and the length of the format stored in the format data storage means, and moving the selected deformed character to the location of the destination obtained by this means. And a means for moving.

[0006]

When the modified character is created, the character data is stored in the modified character data storage means. In addition, the length of the modified character area is stored in this storage means. Then, when a deformed character displayed on the screen is selected and a position to be moved such as centering or right justification is designated, the length of the deformed character area stored in the deformed character data storage means and the format data described above. The position data of the destination is obtained from the length of the format stored in the storage means. The selected deformed character is moved to the position indicating the destination thus obtained and displayed on the screen.

Therefore, centering the deformed character,
It is possible to directly specify the destination such as right justification, and even if the size of the format is larger than the size of the screen, the deformed character can be easily and surely moved to the specified position.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a CPU that controls the overall control. The CPU 1 includes a character transformation unit (character design creation control unit) 2 that creates design characters via a bus line BUS, and position control that controls the position of design characters. Part 3, ROM 4, RAM 5, keyboard interface (KB-IF) 6, display controller 7, floppy disk drive interface (F
DD-IF 8 Printer interface (PRT-
IF) 9 and the like are connected.

The ROM 4 stores a program for controlling the CPU 1, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, sample data of various character designs as shown in FIG. 3, and control for performing a character design similar to this sample. Data etc. are stored. The RAM 5 is a CPU
Reference numeral 1 denotes a readable / writable memory used for temporarily storing various data, and a document format data storage area 5a,
A document data storage area 5b consisting of a document text data area and an image data area of design characters and graphics is provided with a graphic character data area 5c, a coordinate data area 5d, and a modified data area 5e for character design.

The KB-IF6 has a keyboard (K
B) 10, and further a mouse (not shown) or the like is connected.
The keyboard 10 is provided with "character" keys, "numerical value" keys, etc., as well as "select / execute" keys, "character design" mode designation keys, and various function keys such as centering, right justification, left justification, etc. . This keyboard 1
Various input data from 0 is sent to CP via KB-IF6.
Input to U1.

The display controller 7 displays the contents of the VRAM 11 under the control of the CPU 1, for example, an LCD panel or a CRT.
Etc. are displayed on the display unit 12. The VRAM 11 is a readable / writable memory that stores the content displayed on the display unit 12, and is controlled by the CPU 1.

The FDD-IF 8 writes / reads data to / from the floppy disk device (FDD) 13 under the control of the CPU 1. PRT-IF9 is a CPU
Under the control of 1, the print data is output to the printer (PRT) 14.

Next, the control operation of the character design in the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. When creating a character design, specify "character design mode" on the document creation screen (step A).
1). When this "character design mode" is specified, C
The character transformation unit 2 operates under the control of the PU 1 to display a screen of sample data for creating the character design shown in FIG. That is, the character transformation unit 2 reads out various sample data of the character design from the ROM 4 and displays the sample of the character design together with the selection number on the display unit 12 as shown in FIG.
To display. The user moves the cursor to the selection number for the desired character design and operates the "select / execute" key. When this "select / execute" key is operated,
The character transforming unit 2 reads out the data relating to the format setting for creating the character design from the ROM 4, opens a window on the type selection screen as shown in FIG. 4, and displays the format setting screen.

On the format setting screen, format setting items such as "pattern arrangement (horizontal writing, vertical writing)", "font type", "color designation", "character designating character string", etc. Is displayed. The user selects and specifies the contents of each format setting item with the cursor (step A2),
For the “character string”, for example, a character string such as “ABC” or “Aiu” which is desired to be transformed, that is, which is desired to be designed is input from the keyboard 10. This character string can be input, for example, up to 20 characters. Also, for this string,
It is also possible to copy from the document using the copy key. Then, after performing the above-mentioned character design format setting, the "select / execute" key is operated.

When the "select / execute" key is operated,
The character transforming unit 2 stores the character string (graphic character data) input on the screen of the above format setting in the graphic character data area 5c of the RAM 5 and the modifier data of the character design in the modifier data area 5e. At the same time, the character transforming unit 2 clears the above-mentioned type selection and format setting screen, and moves the cursor to the start point and selects /
Please press the Enter key "is displayed. According to this guide, the user moves the cursor to the starting point of the area for creating design characters, for example, the point A shown in FIG. 5, and operates the select / execute key. After that, the user moves the cursor to the end point of the character design creation area 21, for example, the point B shown in FIG. 5, and operates the “select / execute” key. As a result, the character transforming unit 2 displays the designated character design creation area 21 with a broken line, and stores the coordinate data for this creation area 21 in the coordinate data area 5d of the RAM 5.

Then, the character transformation unit 2 designs a character based on the data stored in the respective areas 5c to 5e of the RAM 5 and sets the size thereof, and stores it in the image data area of the document storage area 5b. At the same time, the design character is written into the VRAM 11 via the display controller 7 under the control of the CPU 1 and displayed in the creation area 21 as shown in FIG. Further, the character transformation unit 2 obtains the length (width) of the character design, that is, the length of the character design creation area 21 from the coordinate data stored in the coordinate data area 5d of the RAM 5, and also creates the creation area 21.
The position data of the right end and the left end of is obtained and stored in the RAM 5 (step A3). It should be noted that FIG. 5 shows an example of the character design when the character design of “01” in FIG. 3 is selected and the character of “Ai” is input.

After performing the character design as described above,
When it is desired to move this design character, for example, centering, right justification, or left justification, it is directly designated by the function key of the keyboard 10 (step A4).
The designation of the destination from this keyboard 10 is performed by the CPU
1 to the position control unit 3. This position control unit 3
When a position movement designation input is sent from the CPU 1, the form length (number of digits) is obtained from the document form data stored separately in the document form data storage area 5a of the RAM 5 when the document is created. (Step A5). Next, the position control unit 3 calculates the position of the destination according to the type of movement specified in step A4 from the length of the character design obtained in step A3 and the length of the document format obtained in step A5. . For example, if centering is specified in step A4, the positions where the lengths from the right and left ends of the design character previously obtained to the right and left ends of the form are the same, that is, the design character position is the center of the form. To calculate the position. And VRAM
The position of the design character on 11 is moved to the center position of the format calculated by the above calculation, and the contents of the image data area of the character data storage area 5b are rewritten (step A
7) Then, the moved design letters are displayed on the screen (step A8). Also, in the case of right alignment and left alignment, the design character can be moved in the same manner as in the case of centering.

In the above embodiment, the case where the design character is moved in the digit direction has been shown. However, in the other cases, the case where the design character is moved in the vertical direction, the upper end, the middle position and the lower end position is also changed. RAM5 as in the case of
The designated position can be calculated and moved from the coordinate data stored in the coordinate data area 5d and the document format data stored in the document format data storage area 5a.

[0019]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily set right-alignment, centering, and left-alignment of design characters, and even if the size of the format is larger than the size of the screen and it is difficult to grasp the position. It is possible to move easily and accurately by designating.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of character design creation and movement control in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a type selection screen at the time of creating a character design in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a format setting screen when creating a character design in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a character design creating operation in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a movement operation of a design character in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... CPU, 2 ... Character transformation unit (character design creation control unit), 3 ... Position control unit, 4 ... ROM, 5 ... RAM, 5a
... document format data storage area, 5b ... document data storage area, 6 ... keyboard interface (KB-IF),
7 ... Display controller, 8 ... Floppy disk drive interface (FDD-IF), 9 ... Printer
Interface (PRT-IF), 10 ... Keyboard (KB), 11 ... VRAM, 12 ... Display unit, 13 ... Floppy disk device (FDD), 14 ... Printer (PR)
T).

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus having a function of creating modified characters, format data storage means for storing format data of a document, modified character data storage means for storing data of modified characters displayed on a screen, Position designating means for selecting a modified character displayed on the screen and designating a position to be moved, the length of the modified character area stored in the modified character data storage means based on the position designation by this means, and the above And a means for determining the position of the destination from the length of the format stored in the format data storage means, and a means for moving the selected deformed character to the position of the destination determined by this means. Characterized document creation device. 2. A method for moving a modified character in a document creating apparatus, comprising storing format data of a document, storing modified character data displayed on a screen, and selecting the modified character displayed on the screen. When the position to move is specified, the position data of the destination is obtained from the length of the previously stored region of modified characters and the length of the format, and the selected modified character is moved to this position. Characterized transformation method for moving characters.