JPH079571B2 - Character processing method and device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character processing device for displaying and printing input character information, and more particularly to a character processing device capable of printing character information with a character pattern obtained by vertically and horizontally converting a normal character pattern. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In some conventional character processing devices, by specifying the print format of a document composed of a plurality of input characters as vertical writing, vertical printing can be performed in addition to standard horizontal writing. It was

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional character processing apparatus, for example, a specific part such as a Roman character part or a mathematical numeral part in a document whose print format is specified to be vertically written is printed horizontally. It was not possible to create and print a document in which both vertical writing and horizontal writing were performed.

Further, in the case of creating a document in which vertical writing and horizontal writing are mixed as described above, it is desirable that necessary creation / editing operations be simple.

[0005]

The character processing method of the present invention comprises:
In order to solve the above problems, an input step of inputting a plurality of character information, a storage step of storing a plurality of character information input by the input step, and a display of a plurality of character information stored by the storage step Among the plurality of character information displayed by the first display step, the format setting step of setting either vertical writing or horizontal writing as the print format of the plurality of character information as a whole. A head position specifying step for specifying a head position of character information to be printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step, and a plurality of character information displayed in the first display step. A tail position designating step for designating a tail position of character information to be printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step; A determining step of determining character information in a range designated by the head position designating step and the end position designating step as format change character information to be printed in a format different from the format set in the formatting step; A second display step of displaying the format-changed character information in a form distinguishable from other character information among the plurality of character information displayed in one display step; and printing out the plurality of character information. In response to an instruction in the print instructing step and in the plurality of character information, the format change character information is printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step, A printing step of printing out character information other than the format-changed character information in the format set in the format setting step.

According to another aspect of the present invention, input means for inputting character information, storage means for storing a plurality of character information input by the input means, and a plurality of storage means stored in the storage means. Of a plurality of character information displayed on the display means, and a display means for displaying the character information of the plurality of character information, a format setting means for setting any one of vertical writing and horizontal writing as a print format of the plurality of character information as a whole. A head position specifying means for specifying a head position of the character information to be printed in a format different from the format set by the format setting means,
A plurality of character information displayed on the display means, a tail position designating means for designating a tail position of character information to be printed in a format different from the format set by the format setting means; Character information within the range specified by the start position specifying means and the end position specifying means is determined as the format change character information to be printed in a format different from the format set by the format setting means. Determination means, display control means for displaying the format change character information in a form distinguishable from other character information among the plurality of character information displayed on the display means, and stored in the storage means. The print instruction means for instructing to print out the character information, and the format change in the plurality of character information stored in the storage means in response to the instruction of the print instruction means. The character information is printed in a different format and the format set by the format setting means, the character information other than the format change text information comprising a printing means for printing out in the format set by the format setting means.

[0007]

With this configuration, the present invention sets either vertical writing or horizontal writing as the print format for the entire character information, and sets it for the entire character information among the plurality of displayed character information. Specifying the start position and the end position of the character information to be printed in a format different from the one that is to be printed, and setting the character information in the range specified by the start position and the end position in the plurality of character information. Format change character information to be printed in a format different from the format to be printed, and the determined format change character information is displayed in a form distinguishable from other character information. In addition, in response to the print instruction, in the plurality of character information, the determined format change character information is printed in a format different from the format set for the entire character information, and other character information is set. Print out in format.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

First, a first example of a display mode when a text processed by the device of the present invention is output to a display device will be described.
Shown in Figures and FIG. In the display mode shown in the figure, 1 is a cursor mark, and the cursor mark is moved to the position 2 shown in the figure, and the reverse direction instruction key for instructing the reverse of vertical writing / horizontal writing is depressed, and then the cursor mark is moved to the position 3 shown in the figure.
And press the reverse rotation cancel key. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the character string "Kukeko" in the range designated by the cursor positions 2 and 3 is displayed in black and white,
Displays that vertical writing / horizontal writing has been reversed for this character string.

When the text created as described above is output to the printing apparatus by pressing the print instruction key, only the character strings in the above range are written vertically while the other character strings are horizontally written. In addition, while the character strings in other portions are written vertically, they are printed horizontally.

Next, an example of the construction of the character processing apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. In the configuration shown in the figure, the sentence information created by the key operation on the keyboard 4 is coded by the encoder 5 and supplied to the code discrimination unit 6. In the code discriminating unit 6, when the input code is other than the vertical / horizontal writing reverse rotation instruction code, the vertical / horizontal writing reverse rotation canceling code, and the print instruction code, that is, when it is a character code or other control code, the code is sent to the controller 7. Supply a signal. The control unit 7 supplies character codes to various control sentence buffers 8 and also performs various editing processes. Then, a part of the sentence information in the sentence buffer 8 is converted into a display code suitable for displaying on the display unit 10 and transferred to the refresh memory 9. Then, the display control unit 11 causes the character pattern corresponding to the character code in the refresh memory 9 to be written in the horizontal character generator.
It is taken out from the sheet 12, supplied to the display unit 10, and the sentence is displayed as shown in FIG.

The cursor 1 is displayed on the display unit 10 via the display control unit 11 in accordance with the cursor position information written in by the control unit 7 in the cursor register 14 as shown in FIG. . The movement of the cursor 1 is controlled by the control unit 7 so as to step up each time a character code is input, and also moves up and down and left and right in accordance with a cursor movement instruction code input by the keyboard 4. Is controlled by the control unit 9.

When the vertical / horizontal writing inversion instruction key or the vertical / horizontal writing inversion canceling key on the keyboard 4 is pressed, each code signal is supplied from the code discriminating unit 6 to the inversion control unit 16. In the reverse rotation control unit 16, if the input code is the vertical / horizontal writing reverse rotation instruction key, the cursor register written by the control unit 7
The character code corresponding to the cursor position in 14 is retrieved from the refresh memory 9 and supplied to the reverse display control unit 17.
In the reverse display control unit 17, the character pattern corresponding to the input character code is taken out from the character generator 12 and reversed, that is, the read character pattern is decomposed into pixels, "1" is set to "0", Also,
The pattern is reversed by setting "0" to "1", and the display unit 10
Supply to. Further, the character code in the sentence buffer written in the refresh memory 9 corresponding to the cursor position in the cursor register 14 is made the character code inverted as described above.

The character processing as described above is performed every time the cursor movement instruction key is pressed until a code is input by the vertical / horizontal writing reverse rotation cancel key, and a partial inversion as shown in FIG. 2 is performed. The displayed sentence is displayed. Further, when a code corresponding to the vertical print key or the horizontal print key is input from the keyboard 4, the code discriminating unit 6 writes the input code in the vertical / horizontal print designation register 15 and the print control unit 18 Issue a command. The print control unit 18 controls the vertical writing and the horizontal writing printing by referring to the code in the vertical / horizontal writing print register 15 written by the code determining unit 6. If the code in the vertical / horizontal writing print designation register 15 specifies the horizontal writing, the character codes are sequentially extracted from the first character of the sentence in the sentence buffer 8 and the extracted character code is not the reverse character code. The character pattern is extracted from the horizontal writing character generator 12 or from the vertical writing character generator when the character code is the reverse character code, and is supplied to the output device 19. If the code from the vertical / horizontal writing print designation register 15 specifies vertical writing printing, the character codes are sequentially fetched from the beginning of the sentence in the sentence buffer 8 and the fetched character code is not a reverse character code. The character patterns are extracted from the vertical writing cataractor generator 13 and from the horizontal writing character generator 12 when the character code is the reverse character code, and are supplied to the output device 19. The print control unit 8 outputs a clear code and a line feed code to the output device 19 as necessary, and the output device 19 prints the character pattern from the print control unit 18 and outputs the clear code. To clear the line and change the line with the line feed code.

As described above, the sentence buffer 8
By sequentially performing character processing on the entire character string of the sentence stored in it, it is possible to change between vertical writing and horizontal writing only in a designated area over the entire sentence.

[0016]

According to the present invention, a document in which vertical writing and horizontal writing are mixed can be created and printed.
For example, it is possible to horizontally print the Roman character portion and the arithmetic numeral portion in the document whose print format is designated as vertical writing.

When a document in which vertical writing and horizontal writing are mixed as described above is created, the range of vertical writing and the range of horizontal writing are designated first as either the vertical writing or the horizontal writing as the format of the entire document. Either one can be set, and the range that is different from this overall format can be specified by displaying on the display, so the wider range of the vertical writing range and the horizontal writing range Since the format is used and the narrower range can be specified on the display, operability for specifying the range is good.

Further, since a portion having a format different from the format of the entire document at the time of printing can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from other portions, it can be confirmed before printing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of an aspect of text display by a character processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a sentence display mode by the character processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a character processing device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Cursor mark 2, 3 Cursor position 4 Keyboard 5 Encoder 6 Code discriminating unit 7 Control unit 8 Sentence buffer 9 Refresh memory 10 Display unit 11 Display control unit 12, 13 Character generator 14 Cursor register 15 Vertical / horizontal print designation register 16 Reverse control Part 17 Reverse display control part 18 Printing control part 19 Output device

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An input step of inputting a plurality of character information,
A storage step of storing the plurality of character information input by the input step, a first display step of displaying the plurality of character information stored by the storage step, and a vertical print format as a print format of the plurality of character information. In a format setting step of setting any one of writing and horizontal writing, and among a plurality of character information displayed in the first display step, characters to be printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step A character to be printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step among the plurality of character information displayed in the first position specifying step for specifying the start position of the information and the first display step. An end position specifying step for specifying the end position of the information, and a range specified by the start position specifying step and the end position specifying step in the plurality of character information. A determination step of determining character information as format change character information to be printed in a format different from the format set in the format setting step; and a plurality of character information displayed in the first display step, A second display step of displaying the format change character information in a form distinguishable from other character information, a print instruction step of instructing to print out the plurality of character information, and a response to the instruction in the print instruction step. Then, in the plurality of character information,
A printing step of printing the format change character information in a format different from the format set in the format setting step, and printing out character information other than the format change character information in the format set in the format setting step. A character processing method having. 2. Input means for inputting character information, storage means for storing a plurality of character information input by the input means, and display means for displaying the plurality of character information stored in the storage means. As a print format for the plurality of character information as a whole, a format setting means for setting either vertical writing or horizontal writing, and a plurality of character information displayed on the display means are set by the format setting means. A head position designating means for designating a head position of character information to be printed in a format different from the format, and a format set by the format setting means among a plurality of character information displayed on the display means. Is a tail position designating unit for designating a tail position of character information to be printed in different formats, and a range designated by the head position designating unit and the tail position designating unit in the plurality of character information. Among the plurality of character information displayed on the display means, the determining means for determining the character information of the enclosure as the format change character information to be printed in a format different from the format set by the format setting means, Display control means for displaying the format change character information in a form distinguishable from other character information, print instructing means for instructing to print out the character information stored in the storage means, and the print instructing means In response to the instruction, in the plurality of character information stored in the storage means, the format change character information is printed in a format different from the format set by the format setting means, and characters other than the format change character information are printed. A character processing apparatus comprising: a printing unit that prints out information in a format set by the format setting unit.