JPH07325810A - Device and method for processing character - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To closely write the character spaces of a specified character string by providing a character space amount setting means, an output position lead-out means and a control means. CONSTITUTION:A character space setting processing is selected by using a mouse 15 or a keyboard 14 and a character space setting window is displayed. Then, when a desired character space amount is inputted by a point unit by the keyboard 14 and selected by using the mouse 15 or the keyboard 14, the character space amount is inputted to a device main body and stored in a prescribed position. For the character space amount, an MPU 16 calculates the arrangement of characters. Whether or not the character of the selected character string is a first character is discriminated first and when the character to be outputted is the first character, the output position on a VRAM 12 of the character is defined as the output position on the VRAM 12 at present. For second and succeeding characters, a value for which the specified character space amount is subtracted from the value for which the character width of the character immediately before is added to the output position on the VRAM 12 of the character immediately before is defined as the output position of the VRAM 12 of the character. Thus, the character string of a layout which did not exist before is easily prepared.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character processing apparatus and method for carrying out character filling processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a character processing device such as a word processor, it is possible to freely set a character layout by freely setting the size of characters or lines. The balance of the entire document is determined by specifying information such as the format that manages the entire document, or the balance between the preceding and following characters is set for each character to partially change the balance.

[0003]

However, in view of the character widths managed by the system such as Western characters and hiragana,
For characters with a small actual data width, it seems more beautiful to stack characters on top of each other rather than widening the character spacing.In a sentence that contains many such characters, the spacing may be narrowed by that part, It would be convenient if the settings could be set uniformly for the whole. However, until now, although operations such as filling characters by character can be performed, there is a problem that the specified character strings cannot be packed together in a batch.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a character processing device and method capable of easily reducing the space between specified character strings.

[0005]

In order to achieve such an object, a character processing device according to the present invention comprises a display means for displaying an input character string and a desired character among the displayed character strings. An output position of the designated character string is derived based on a specifying means for specifying a column, a character closing amount setting means for setting a character closing amount, and a character closing amount set by the character closing amount setting means. It is characterized by comprising output position deriving means and control means for controlling the display means to display a character at the output position derived by the output position deriving means.

Further, the character processing method according to the present invention is a character processing method utilizing a display means for displaying an input character string, wherein a desired character string is designated from among the displayed character strings. , Setting the amount of padding, deriving an output position of the designated character string based on the set amount of padding, and controlling the display unit to display a character at the derived output position. It is characterized by

[0007]

In the present invention, the character spacing of the designated character string can be easily reduced with a simple command.

[0008]

1 is a block diagram of the entire character processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 11 is a display device for displaying characters, figures, etc., 12 is a VRAM for storing the display contents of the display device 11, 13 is a high resolution printer such as a laser beam printer, an ink jet printer, etc.
Reference numeral 4 is a keyboard for inputting characters such as characters and numbers, 15 is a mouse as a pointing device, 16 is an MPU for controlling the entire character processing device, 17
Stores the program according to the flowchart of FIG. 3 described later, and the characters, numbers input from the keyboard 14,
Main memory used for storing commands and used as a work area, 18 is a hard disk device, 19 is a system bus including an address bus, a control bus, and a data bus, 20 is a floppy disk drive (FD drive), and 21 is a floppy disk (FD). ).

FIG. 2 is an external view of a character processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. 22 is the system bus 19 and MPU
16 is the main body of the document processing system including the main memory 16 and the main memory 17. Reference numeral 11 is a CRT, 14 is a keyboard, 15 is a PD, 20 is an FD drive, and FD21 is set to write image data, graphic data, character data, and numerical data into FD21, and graphic data recorded in FD21. Or read character data and numerical data. The present invention is, of course, realized in the document processing system. In addition, the FD 21 in which a program that can implement the present invention is recorded is used as an F of another text processing device.
It is set in the D drive 20, the program is loaded into the hard disk 18, and the loaded program is executed. By doing so, the present invention can be implemented in other character processing devices.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

From the document which is input and displayed in advance as shown in FIG. 5, the character string "It is
very fine today. Is selected as a character string for closing the space between characters using the mouse 15 or the keyboard 14 (S31). Reference numeral 51 in FIG. 5 is an example in which the designated character string is highlighted. Next, when the character-filling setting process is selected using the mouse 15 or the keyboard 14, the character-filling setting window 52 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed (S3).
2). Next, the desired amount of characters is input by the keyboard 14 in units of points, and when the execution 53 is selected using the mouse 15 or the keyboard 14, the amount of characters is input to the apparatus main body and stored at position 41 in FIG. To be done. (S33). Displaying this window makes it easier to set the amount of padding. Next, the character data that is internally managed as the amount of padding is input is the character string "It is v
ery fine today. , And a command is generated. FIG. 5 shows a part of the main memory 17, and is an example in which a command is stored by sandwiching a character string.

[0013] The MPU with respect to the input character filling amount
Calculates the layout of the characters.

First, it is judged whether or not the character of the selected character string is the first character (S34), and if the character to be output is the first character, the output position of that character on the VRAM 12 is the current V.
The output position on the RAM 12 is set (S35). For the second and subsequent characters, a value obtained by subtracting the character width of the immediately preceding character from the output position of the immediately preceding character on the VRAM 12 and subtracting the filling amount specified in S33 is the output position of the character on the VRAM 12. (S36). At that time, if the value of the specified filling amount is larger than the character width of the immediately preceding character (S3
7), the character is positioned before the character immediately before, and at that time, the VR of that character is set with the same value as the output position immediately before.
The output position on the AM 12 is set (S38). This is performed for all the selected characters (S39).

In the case of a natural line feed in the middle of the line or forcible line feed by a line feed command, the character at the beginning of the line may be treated in the same manner as the first character of the character string to be selected, and the processing from S34 may be performed. .

The steps S31 and S32 can be interchanged.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, characters having a relatively small character surface are laid out neatly when the spaces between the characters are narrowed. In addition to FIG. 6, FIG. 7 shows “It will
every day fine tomorrow to
o. It is the figure which set the character string of "." By displaying the mark 61 at the beginning of the character string for which the character packing is set, it is possible to know that the character packing is set.

By the processing of S37, for example, by designating three characters as shown in FIG. 8 and setting the character packing amount as 25.5 points, three characters are superimposed and output as shown in FIG. You can also

As described above, software for loading a character string having a layout that has never existed is easily installed by using a padding command that can set the value between characters to a negative value. A character processing device can be provided.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a character processing device and method that can easily reduce the space between specified character strings.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an entire character processing device that represents an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a character processing device that represents an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a character closing process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a structure of character data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example in which a character string to be set for padding is selected.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example after the setting of the character closing is performed.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example after setting the character closing setting.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example in which a character string to be set for closing characters is selected.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example after the setting of character closing is performed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 CRT 12 VRAM 13 Printer 14 Keyboard 15 Pointing Device 16 MPU 17 Main Memory 18 Hard Disk Device 19 System Bus 20 Floppy Disk Drive 21 Floppy Disk (FD) 22 Character Processing Device 54 Mouse Cursor 61 Keyboard Cursor

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. Display means for displaying an input character string, designating means for designating a desired character string among the displayed character strings, and padding amount setting means for setting a padding amount. Output position deriving means for deriving an output position of the designated character string based on the character filling amount set by the character filling amount setting means, and displaying a character at the output position derived by the output position deriving means. In order to do so, a control means for controlling the display means is provided. 2. The character processing device according to claim 1, wherein a mark indicating that the specified character string has been subjected to a character closing process is displayed. 3. The character processing device according to claim 1, wherein a character padding amount setting window is displayed when the character padding amount is set. 4. When deriving the output position of the designated character string, when it is determined that the output is performed before the position of the previous character, the output position of the previous character is set as the output position of the character. The character processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character processing apparatus is a character processing apparatus. 5. A character processing method using a display means for displaying an input character string, wherein a desired character string is designated from among the displayed character strings, and a filling amount is set. A character processing method comprising: deriving an output position of the designated character string based on the set amount of padding and controlling the display unit to display a character at the derived output position. 6. The character processing method according to claim 5, further comprising displaying a mark indicating that the designated character string has been subjected to a character closing process. 7. The character processing method according to claim 5, wherein a character padding amount setting window is displayed when the character padding amount is set. 8. When deriving the output position of the designated character string, when it is determined that the output is performed before the position of the previous character, the output position of the previous character is set as the output position of the character. The character processing method according to claim 5, wherein: