JPH07141340A - Document output method and document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the output similar to the handwriting output and to acquire a more natural output result even in the output in a style written by a hair pencil. CONSTITUTION:A pattern evolving/holding part 6 converts the document information to be transmitted into a corresponding character pattern of a prescribed size designated previously for each character and then evolves the pattern to a prescribed position. In this case, the HIRAGANA (cursive form of Japanese syllabary) characters to be evolved in a pattern are reduced by about 70% and the evolving positions of subsequent character patterns are put close to each other based on the result of reduction, and this processing result is transmitted through a printer 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document output method and a document processing apparatus, and more particularly to a document output method and a document processing apparatus that can output Japanese text in an easy-to-read manner.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various word processors and personal computers having a document processing function are on the market. In these conventional devices, when outputting document information, a character pattern corresponding to a character code input in advance is held, and all the held patterns are displayed and output in a uniform size according to a designated character size. It was

For example, there are some that change the expansion position of the character pattern, but when a certain character size is specified, the size of the character pattern is uniquely determined. If the character size is not changed, the character pattern is not changed. Were the same size.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, especially when outputting a Japanese sentence, the shape and balance of characters have a great influence on the overall appearance, and the conventional output that was output in the same size The impression of humanity was inevitable in the documents. This was particularly noticeable in the output with a writing brush.

[0005]

The present invention has been made for the purpose of solving the above-mentioned problems, and has the following structure as one means for solving the above-mentioned problems. That is, a device for converting document information in which characters of different character types are mixed into a corresponding character pattern and outputting the converted character information, and a character type discriminating means for discriminating the character type of each character of the document information to be output, and document information to be output. Is converted into a corresponding character pattern of a predetermined size specified in advance for each character and expanded to a predetermined position, and if necessary, the size of the generated character pattern in the pattern expansion unit is set to the character type. The pattern is reduced by a predetermined ratio according to the discriminating character type of the discriminating means to form a pattern, and the pattern expansion changing means for controlling the expansion position of the following character pattern according to the reduction result, and the pattern expanding means expanded the pattern according to the control of the pattern expansion changing means. Output means for outputting the pattern information.

[0006] For example, the output means is for visually displaying a character pattern, and further, an area designating means for designating a character output area and document information to be output within the area designated by the area designating means are selected. Output document selecting means, and display size specifying means for specifying the number of lines and the number of display digits per line when the document information selected by the output document selecting means is developed into the area specified by the area specifying means. The pattern expansion changing means controls at least the pattern expanding means to place the document information selected by the output document selecting means in the area specified by the area specifying means according to the specification by the display size specifying means. Determine the size of the standard output character pattern when expanding the pattern, expand the pattern of characters of all character types with the determined size, and output from the output means. The normal output mode to be applied and the size of the standard output character pattern are determined in the same manner as in the normal output mode, and when the character type discriminating means recognizes that the output character type is hiragana, the standard output character pattern It is possible to selectively execute a display change mode in which the pattern is expanded by a predetermined ratio from the size and expanded by the pattern expanding means, and in the case of another character type, the pattern is expanded by the pattern expanding means in the size of the standard output character pattern. .

Alternatively, area specifying means for specifying a character output area, output document selecting means for selecting document information to be output in the area specified by the area specifying means, and document information selected by the output document selecting means Display size designating means for designating the number of lines and the number of display digits per line when the pattern is developed in the designated area, and the size of the standard output character pattern when the pattern is developed according to the designation by the display size designating means. Of the standard output character pattern is determined in the same manner as in the normal output mode, and the normal output mode in which all characters are pattern-developed in the determined size and visually displayed, and the size of the standard output character pattern is determined, and the output document is output. When the part of speech of the document information selected by the selecting means is analyzed, the independent word and the adjunct word in the sentence are discriminated and the adjunct word and the predetermined predetermined part of speech in the independent word are recognized. Characters of the recognized part-of-speech are reduced by a predetermined ratio to form a pattern, the expansion position of the succeeding character pattern is controlled according to the reduction result, and in the case of other parts-of-speech, the pattern is expanded with the size of the standard output character pattern and displayed visually. A pattern expanding means capable of selectively executing the display change mode is provided.

[0008]

With the above construction, by changing the size of the characters to be output depending on the character type or the part of speech, the output result of the document information in which the characters are well-balanced as a whole can be obtained. For example, the output similar to the handwritten output can be obtained also in the output with a writing brush typeface, and a more natural output result can be obtained.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

[0010]

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a document processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a CP that controls the entire apparatus of this embodiment according to a control procedure stored in the ROM 2 or the RAM 3, for example.
U, which also controls the overall document processing described later. 2 is C
In addition to the control procedure of the PU1, a read only memory (ROM) that stores various parameters and the like, 3 is a random access memory (RAM) that stores various data, and 4 is a document memory that holds document information mainly in the form of character codes. Is. 5
Is an operation unit for inputting document information and issuing various operation instructions to the apparatus of this embodiment.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a pattern expansion / holding unit which expands and holds a character code into a corresponding character pattern when the document information stored in the document memory 4 is output.
The expansion size of various character patterns described later is also controlled.
The pattern development holding unit 6 generates a corresponding character pattern according to the input character code information and character size information and develops and draws it in the image memory 9, and the document information with a fixed output character size. Is composed of a fixed file 6b for holding the document information, an automatic file 6c for storing the document information in the document information stored in the document memory 4 until the output character size selected to be output is fixed, and the like. There is. In addition, in the present embodiment, the pattern expansion unit 6a generates a character pattern using an outline character font. However, this character pattern generation method is not limited, and a method of generating by a character generator and other various character pattern generation methods can be applied.

Reference numeral 7 is a display unit for displaying and outputting the image information stored in a predetermined area of the image memory 9, and is composed of, for example, a CRT display device or a liquid crystal display device.
A printer 8 permanently and permanently displays the image stored in a predetermined area of the image memory 9. An image memory 9 stores image information such as display data on the display unit 7 and display data on the printer 8. In the present embodiment, the image information stored in the specific area of the image memory 9 is displayed on the display unit 7 as it is, and is output to the printer 8 as it is for permanent visible display. In this case, the display resolution of the display unit 7 and the output resolution of the printer 8 do not necessarily match. However, the image memory 9 of this embodiment holds the image information at a resolution that matches the output target.

Reference numeral 10 is an input / output interface that controls the interface with various input / output devices, and 20 is a magnetic disk device. From the magnetic disk device 20, a control program, document information created by another device, etc. can be input. When the document information is input from the magnetic disk device 20, the CPU 1 stores the input document information in the document memory 4
Remember.

The process of printing out the document information of the apparatus of the present embodiment having the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 and 3. Note that the following description will be made by taking as an example the case where the document information is output in a writing style. In order to output the document information, it is necessary to have the document information as the premise, and the document to be output is created in step S1. This document is created by writing the document information input using the full keyboard (not shown) of the operation unit 5 directly in the document memory 4, or by writing it in another word processor or the like and writing the document information on the magnetic disk. May be read by the magnetic disk device 20 of the apparatus of this embodiment and stored in the document memory 4.

When the document information stored in the document memory 4 is printed out, the output area is first designated in step S2. This output area is designated by the display unit 7.
For example, by displaying a frame of the size of the output paper and designating in which area of the output paper the text is to be printed out. Then, the designated area is displayed on the display unit 7 as a frame within the frame of the size of the output paper. C
The PU 1 notifies the pattern development holding unit 6 of this area information. Then, a designated area in the display data storage area for the display unit 7 in the image memory 9 is allocated.

Then, in step S3, which document information of the document information group stored in the document memory 4 is to be displayed in this area is selected. The CPU 1 reads out the selected document information from the document memory 4 and stores it in the automatic file 6c of the pattern development holding unit 6. And step S
In step S2, the output format, that is, the selected document information is output in step 4
Specify the maximum number of digits per line and the number of lines to output in the specified area in. Prior to this designation, for example, the number of characters of the selected document information may be displayed, or the temporarily selected document may be converted into the corresponding character pattern information and output, and the display may be confirmed and then controlled. .

When the output format is specified, the pattern expansion holding unit 6 selects one character to expand the selected document information stored in the automatic file 6c into the specified area according to the output format. If it is a pattern of size, it is calculated and calculated whether it fits in the frame. Then, the document information is sequentially read out, a character pattern corresponding to each character is generated so that the size of one character obtained by the calculation is generated, and the character pattern is sequentially stored and expanded in the area assigned to the image memory 9. As described above, in this embodiment, this pattern generation is performed using the outline font. Therefore, even if the size of the character pattern is freely changed according to the size of the area, a good expansion result can be obtained.

Through the above processing, the operator can confirm what the image will look like when the designated document is output in the output format designated by the operator. The output resolution to the display unit 7 is determined by the display resolution of the display unit and does not necessarily match the output resolution to the printer 8 described later. However, even if the resolutions are different, it is possible to check the entire output result. Therefore, the operator confirms the display on the display unit 7 and determines whether the previously designated output format is acceptable. When it is determined that the change is necessary, the process returns to step S4 and the output format is designated again.

If this designation is sufficient, the process proceeds from step S6 to step S7, and the document information stored in the automatic file 6c is stored in the fixed file 6b together with the determined output format.
Move to. Then, in step S8, this document is processed in step S8.
The normal output mode in which the characters are printed out in the display format of 5 (all characters have a constant size regardless of the character type), or a predetermined character type such as a writing brush, which is an output mode peculiar to the present embodiment, may be used. For typeface output, select whether to execute the display change mode that changes the size of characters that are output only in hiragana. This selection is made, for example, by an instruction from the operation unit 5. In the case of the normal output mode, the process proceeds to step S16.

On the other hand, in the case of the display change mode, the process proceeds from step S8 to step S10 shown in FIG. 3 to read the first character of the selected document. Then, it is checked whether or not the character type of the character read in step S11 is "Hiragana". If it is not "Hiragana", the process proceeds to step S13. on the other hand,
If it is "Hiragana", the process proceeds from step S11 to step S12, and the size of the character pattern assigned in step S5 is reduced to a predetermined ratio, for example, about 70% for a writing brush. The pattern is developed so that it becomes Then, if the character pattern storage position of the image memory 9 has a character pattern of the first digit, the character pattern is re-stored adjacent to the character pattern. Then, the character patterns on the same line after the next digit are moved by the reduced amount so that they are adjacent to each other. At this time, if there is a blank area of one character or more next to the character pattern of the last digit, the character pattern of the first digit of the next line is moved to move one character from the next line. We are trying to move forward one by one. Then, the process proceeds to step S13.

In step S13, it is checked whether or not the above-mentioned character type discrimination is completed up to the end of the document data. If the last character has not been completed, the process proceeds to step S14, the next character of the document information stored in the fixed file 6b is read, and the process returns to step S11. On the other hand, if the processing has been completed for all characters, the process proceeds to step S15.

In step S15, the display result obtained by changing the size of the specific character type in this way is confirmed by looking at the display on the display unit 7. If the display result is not satisfactory, the process proceeds to step S16, the dissatisfied designation is changed, the changed result is displayed in step S17, and step S15 is performed.
Check the display of. On the other hand, if this display result is acceptable, the process proceeds to step S18, and it is checked whether or not the processing for all the output areas of the output sheet has been completed. If there is another area or the like to be output, the process returns to step S2 and the above-described processing is performed on the next area. On the other hand, if the designation for all areas has been completed, the process proceeds to step S19,
The image information expanded in the image memory 9 is transferred to the printer 8
To print out from the printer 8.

An example of the printout in the normal display mode in this embodiment is shown in FIG. 3, and an example of the printout in the display change mode is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, by adopting the document output method of this embodiment, it is possible to obtain a human-like output result that is very close to the actual handwriting of a writing brush. In addition,
In the above processing, an example in which only “Hiragana” is reduced by about 70% has been described, but the present invention is not limited to the above example. For example, “Katakana” and numbers are also compared to Kanji. By reducing the amount by a predetermined amount, the output result can be easily viewed. Furthermore, the reduction ratio is not limited to the above example, and various modifications are possible. Furthermore, by changing the reduction ratio between vertical writing and horizontal writing, the handwriting result can be made even closer and high-quality output can be achieved.

In addition, when the output typeface is not a writing typeface, the type of characters for changing the display size may be different. For example, in the case of a horizontal writing pen-style typeface, the kanji has a size of "10". Then, it is applicable to various cases such as setting the hiragana and alphanumeric characters to "8" and the katakana to "6". Furthermore, there is an optimum character size depending on the flow of the sentence, and if the size is controlled so as to change depending on the beginning of the sentence or the characters before and after the sentence, a higher quality print result can be obtained.

The same applies to the second embodiment described later.

[0026]

Second Embodiment In the above description, an example in which the character size is changed according to the character type has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to the above example, and for example, the size of the character to be output may be controlled to be changeable by the part of speech. A second embodiment according to the present invention in which the part of speech in the output sentence is analyzed and the size of the character to be output is changed according to the analyzed part of speech will be described below.

Also in the second embodiment, the hardware configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment described above, and only the processing in the display change mode is different. Therefore, the following description will explain only the control that is different from the first embodiment described above. In the second embodiment, step S1 shown in FIG. 3 of the first embodiment.
The character type determination process of 1 is different. That is, in the second embodiment, the size of the character to be output is determined by the part-of-speech analysis instead of the character type determination. First, the sentence is analyzed and classified into "independent words" and "adjunct words", and the "adjunct words" are defined as the first group of words. For example, the following words are split as adjuncts.

[0028]

[Table 1]

Next, a predetermined word of the "independent word", for example, a part of speech shown below is defined as a second group of words.

[0030]

[Table 2]

Words other than those in the first group and the second group are separated from the words in the third group. Then, if the first group and the second group are the words to be reduced, and if they are the parts of speech of the first group and the second group, the process proceeds to step S12 of FIG. on the other hand,
If the part of speech is in the third group, the process proceeds to step S13. Also in the second embodiment described above, the first
Similar to the embodiment, an easy-to-see output result similar to a handwritten sentence can be obtained.

In the above description, the reduction rates are the same for the first and second groups of parts of speech, but the present invention is not limited to the above example, and the first and second groups are the same. You may control so that it may output, changing a reduction ratio. For example, the part-of-speech of the first group may be controlled to have the highest reduction ratio and then the part-of-speech of the second group.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, by changing the output size depending on the character type or the part of speech, the balance of the characters as a whole is good.
The output result of the document information is obtained. For example, the output similar to the handwritten output is obtained even in the case of output in writing brush typeface,
A more natural output result can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a document output process of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a document output process of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an output result in a normal output mode of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an output result in a display change mode of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Read Only Memory (ROM) 3 Random Access Memory (RAM) 4 Document Memory 5 Operation Section 6 Pattern Development Holding Section 6a Pattern Development Section 6b Fixed File 6c Automatic File 7 Display Section 8 Printer 9 Image Memory 10 Input / Output Interface 20 Magnetic disk unit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A character processing method in a document processing apparatus for converting document information in which characters of different character types are mixed into a corresponding character pattern and outputting the converted character information, wherein the document information to be output is predetermined for each character. When converting to a corresponding character pattern of size and expanding to a predetermined position, if it is determined that the character to be pattern expanded is of a predetermined character type, the character is reduced by a predetermined percentage and patterned, and the expansion position of the subsequent character pattern. Is controlled in accordance with the reduction result, and the pattern information obtained by expanding the pattern is output. 2. A document output method for converting document information in which characters of different character types are mixed into a corresponding character pattern and outputting the converted character pattern, the method comprising: an area designating step of designating a character output area; An output document selection step of selecting document information to be output in an area, and a line number and a display digit number per line when the document information selected in the output document selection step is pattern-developed in the specified area The display size designating step is performed, and the size of the standard output character pattern when the pattern is developed according to the designation in the display size designating step is determined, and the characters of all the character types are pattern-developed in the determined size and visually displayed. In the normal output mode, the size of the standard output character pattern is determined in the same manner as in the normal output mode, and for each character of the document information selected in the output document selecting step. Determine the character type, if the output character type is Hiragana, reduce the size of the standard output character pattern by a predetermined percentage to develop the pattern at the corresponding position, and in the case of other character types, the size of the standard output character pattern. 2. A document output method, comprising: a pattern expansion step capable of selectively executing a display change mode in which a pattern is expanded and displayed visually. 3. An area specifying step of specifying a character output area, an output document selecting step of selecting document information to be output in the area specified in the area specifying step, and document information selected in the output document selecting step. A display size designating step of designating the number of lines and the number of display digits per line when the pattern is developed in the designated area, and the size of the standard output character pattern when the pattern is developed according to the designation in the display size designating step. Of the standard output character pattern is determined in the same manner as in the normal output mode, and the normal output mode in which all characters are pattern-developed in the determined size and visually displayed, and the size of the standard output character pattern is determined, Performs part-of-speech analysis of the document information selected in the selection process,
When an independent word in a sentence is discriminated from an adjunct word and a predetermined predetermined part-of-speech in the adjunct word and the independent word is recognized, the character of the recognized part-of-speech is reduced by a predetermined ratio to form a pattern, and the subsequent character pattern is expanded. A position change is controlled according to the reduction result, and in the case of another part of speech, a pattern changing step capable of executing a display change mode in which the pattern is expanded at the size of the standard output character pattern and visually displayed is provided. How to output the document. 4. A document processing device for converting document information in which characters of different character types are mixed into a corresponding character pattern and outputting the converted character pattern, wherein the character type determining means determines the character type of each character of the document information to be output, A pattern expanding unit that converts the document information to be output into a corresponding character pattern of a predetermined size specified for each character and expands it at a predetermined position, and, if necessary, a character pattern generated by the pattern expanding unit. A pattern expansion changing unit that reduces the size by a predetermined ratio according to the discriminating character type of the character type discriminating unit to form a pattern, and controls the expansion position of the subsequent character pattern according to the reduction result, and the pattern expanding unit is the pattern expansion changing unit. A document processing apparatus, comprising: an output unit that outputs pattern information in which a pattern is developed according to control. 5. The output means visually displays a character pattern, and further selects an area designating means for designating a character output area and document information to be output within the area designated by the area designating means. Output document selection means, and display size designation means for designating the number of lines and the number of display digits per line when the document information selected by the output document selection means is developed into a pattern within the designated area by the area designation means. The pattern expansion changing means controls at least the pattern expanding means to set the document information selected by the output document selecting means in a specified area by the area specifying means in accordance with the specification by the display size specifying means. The size of the standard output character pattern at the time of expansion is determined, and the characters of all character types are expanded to the determined size and output from the output means. The size of the standard output character pattern is determined in the same manner as in the output mode and the normal output mode, and when the character type discriminating unit recognizes that the output character type is Hiragana, the size is determined from the standard output character pattern size. It is possible to selectively execute a display change mode in which the pattern is expanded by the pattern expanding means by reducing the ratio, and in the case of another character type, the pattern is expanded by the pattern expanding means at the size of the standard output character pattern. The document processing device according to claim 4. 6. An area designating means for designating a character output area, an output document selecting means for selecting document information to be output within the area designated by the area designating means, and document information selected by the output document selecting means. Display size designating means for designating the number of lines and the number of display digits per line when the pattern is developed in the designated area, and the size of the standard output character pattern when the pattern is developed according to the designation by the display size designating means. Of the standard output character pattern is determined in the same manner as in the normal output mode, and the normal output mode in which all characters are pattern-developed in the determined size and visually displayed, and the size of the standard output character pattern is determined, Part-of-speech analysis of the document information selected by the selection means,
When an independent word in a sentence is discriminated from an adjunct word and a predetermined predetermined part-of-speech in the adjunct word and the independent word is recognized, the character of the recognized part-of-speech is reduced by a predetermined ratio to form a pattern, and the subsequent character pattern is expanded. A pattern changing means for controlling the position according to the reduction result, and in the case of other parts of speech, a display changing mode for pattern-developing with the size of the standard output character pattern and visually displaying, and pattern executing means capable of executing the selection. Document processing device.