JPS59231687A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print a composite character including KANA (Japanese syllabary) at the side of ideographs by printing and superposing the two individual characters of corresponding digits of adjacent lines by a function which makes a line feed at a line interval smaller than the height of a print character. CONSTITUTION:A print area is divided into four, and a right character 33 having a small-sized KANA character at the right lower part and a left character 32 having a small-sized KANA character at the left upper part are set up. When phonetic transcriptions are added in KANA, proper left characters in KANA are placed on a line 32 right above a line 31 of KANJI (Chinese character) and the right characters are placed on a line 33 thereupon. Then, the line 33 is printed firstly and a line feed is made at a line interval a half as large as the character height by the line feeding function to superpose and print the 2nd line 32 and KANA characters on the lines 32 and 33 are obtained on the same line. Further, a line feed is made at a line interval a half as large as the character height to print KANJI on the 3rd line 31, thus giving the KANJI phonetic transcriptions in KANA at the side. Thus, a relatively small number of kinds of character patterns are only prepared to print a document containing the composite characters including phonetic transcriptions in KANA through a normal document processor.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (a) Technical field of the invention The present invention relates to improvements in document processing devices.

(Background of BL technology A document processing device is generally a device that creates a document by inputting from a keyboard, and displays it on a CRT display, etc. while making corrections, changes, additions, etc. to the document. Documents are usually stored in a flow disk device or the like, and the stored documents can be output to a printing device to obtain a so-called hard copy document.

In recent years, document processing devices have made it possible to create sentences containing Japanese kanji and kana, and they have become widely used. A type printing system is often used.This type of printing system requires a so-called character pattern that indicates the arrangement of dots representing characters.

The character pattern is stored in the control unit of the document processing device or the storage unit of the printing device, read out during printing, and used to control the printing device to determine the shape of the printed character.

(C) Prior Art and Problems In documents containing kanji, furigana are often used to indicate the reading of the kanji. In particular, some documents stipulate the use of furigana in documents submitted to government offices, etc.

In furigana, two or more kana characters often correspond to one kanji character, so the type of character pattern for furigana that should be placed in one character position is a combination of two or more kana characters. Therefore, the total number of types becomes enormous, and if such character patterns are to be superimposed, a large amount of storage space will be required.

Therefore, in such cases, a method is adopted in which one type of character pattern is provided for each kana character used for furigana, and the printing is performed under different control from that for ordinary characters.
For this purpose, special functions are required in the printing device and control unit.
The furigana function is a function that can only be used in relatively expensive document processing devices.

(d) Purpose of the Invention An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device that can print furigana and other composite characters economically without requiring any special functions.

(e1 Structure of the Invention In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a function to break lines at a line spacing smaller than the height of printed characters, considering that document processing devices generally have a function to control the printing line spacing of printing devices. In a document processing device having a printing device, a compound character is formed by printing two individual characters in corresponding columns of adjacent lines overlappingly using the line feed function.

In one embodiment, in a character set of individual characters constituting a compound character, the overlapping portion of each corresponding digit in an adjacent line is divided into two left and right in the line direction, and printed only on the left or right side. Contain individual characters.

Furthermore, in the embodiment A, the character set is divided into two sets, and characters belonging to one of the sets and having the same character type but differing only in the position of the printed part within one character belong to the other set.

(f) Embodiment of the invention FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of a document processing device, where l is a processing device, 2 is a keyboard, 3 is a storage device such as a floppy disk, 4 is a display device such as a CRT display, and 5 is a It is a printing device.

The keyboard 5 includes character keys and various control keys for inputting plain, katakana, alphanumeric characters, symbols, and the like. The control keys include keys for specifying kana-kanji conversion.

The processing device 1 has a memory that stores programs and data, and a processor that executes the programs on the memory as its main components, and controls the entire document processing device.

The storage device 3 stores programs, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, created documents and their control information, and the like. The storage device 3 also stores character patterns for the display device 4 and the printing device 5. This character pattern must include all characters used in the document.

Information input from the keyboard 2 is temporarily stored in the memory of the processing device 1, processed, and displayed on the display device 4.

The data is also output to the storage device 3, and a document is sequentially constructed in the storage device 3.

The documents in the storage device 3 are composed of character strings constituting each document and necessary control information, and each character of the character string is represented by a code assigned to each character. In order to display characters on the display device 4, the processing device 1 reads a character pattern from the storage device 3 according to the character code of the character to be displayed, and outputs it to the display device 4.

When printing a document in the storage device 3 is specified from the keyboard 2, the processing device 1 reads the specified document from the storage device 3 and displays its character code as in the case of the display device 4 described above. It is converted into a character pattern and transferred to the printing device W5. Further, the processing bag Wl sends "line feed" control information and, if necessary, "return" control information to the printing device 5 every time one line of characters of the document is transferred.

When the printing device 5 receives the character pattern of one character from the processing device 1, it controls the printing dot position of the print head according to the pattern, prints one character, and then moves the print head to the next printing position on the same line. Proceed. By specifying "line break",
The printing device 5 sends out printing paper by a predetermined length. "Return" causes the printing device 5 to return the print head to the leftmost position.

Since the above is an example of the general operation of a known document processing device, no further detailed explanation is necessary.

It is desirable that the line spacing of a document can be selected appropriately depending on the nature of the document. Furthermore, even within the same page of a document, different line spacing is required for text and figures and tables. Therefore, in general, in document processing devices, the designation of "line feed" includes the designation of line spacing, and printing devices can perform line feeds with a length that is an integral multiple of the unit spacing, for example, about two cranes. The height of normal printed characters is about 4 m, so when printing ordinary text, it is necessary to print at least about 4 m.
Requires fin row spacing. For example, if you print with a line break length of about 2 fl, the space between adjacent lines will be about 1/2 of the character height.
This will result in overlapping printing, and such printing should normally be avoided.

However, if such overlapping printing is actively utilized, a compound character can be formed by two printings in the same column position on adjacent lines. In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, an overlapped printing partial area 12 between a printing area 10 for one character indicated by a broken line 10 and a printing area 11 at a corresponding column position in an adjacent line.
．． 13 is equally divided into left and right parts as shown by 12 and 13, and a character pattern to be printed only in each partial area is provided, the characters to be printed in the left part 12 and the right part 1
By placing the characters to be printed in 3 in the corresponding column positions on adjacent lines, it is possible to arbitrarily obtain a combination of both universities.

Next, a case in which this can be used as furigana will be explained in detail. FIG. 3 shows an example of the printed figure ``a'' used for furigana written in katakana.

The broken lines 21 and 22 each indicate a normal printing area for one character, and the lower right part 2 which divides these areas into four.
3 or place a small kana character 25 or 26 in the upper left portion 24. In the following, the format shown in example 21 will be referred to as a right character, and the format 22 will be referred to as a left character. As shown in FIG. 3, it is desirable to prepare both right-hand and left-hand character patterns for each character (A in the example of FIG. 3) in the character set to be used.

Figure 4 is a diagram to explain the character arrangement for printing the furigana using the right and left characters, taking as an example the case where the furigana ``Kaisha'' is attached to the kanji ``company''. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the character arrangement when printed. In the figures, all broken lines are for indicating character positions and are not lines that are actually displayed or printed.

FIG. 4 shows, for example, a character arrangement of a part of a document displayed on the display device 4 during document creation, and the document is stored in the storage bag W3 in a form corresponding to this. When outputting this document to the printing device 5, by specifying a line feed length that is approximately 1/2 of the character height, a character arrangement as shown in FIG. 5 can be printed on the printing surface.

In FIG. 4, 31 indicates a line in which a sentence containing kanji, kana, etc. is written using a normal document writing method, 32 is a line immediately above line 31, and 33 is a line immediately above line 32. As shown in the figure,
When adding furigana, line 32 directly above line 31 of the kanji
Place an appropriate left-hand character in kana, and then place a right-hand character in line 33 above it.By arranging it in this way, if you print overlapped lines 32 and 33, lines 32 and 33 will appear on the printing surface. The kana characters will be lined up in a line. Note that the line feed of 1/2 the character height and the normal line feed (that is, the line feed of 1 to 2 times the character height) can be specified for each printing line.

If we consider the types of character patterns needed for this ~, if we simply create patterns of two character combinations using approximately 50 types of kana characters, we would need approximately 2,500 types of patterns, but according to this method. Approximately 100 types of character patterns may be provided.

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the document processing device is capable of printing furigana and other complex characters without using special functions or storing a large number of types of character patterns. can be configured.

In the above description, a character pattern is used in which characters are printed in the lower right and upper left parts of the single character printing area, but this can also be realized by a pattern in which characters are printed in the upper right and lower left parts. Father: The above explanation is based on the case where the printed overlap between adjacent lines is approximately 1/2 of the character height, but the overlap is 1/2 of the character height.
It goes without saying that the present invention can be similarly applied to cases where the number is more than two or less than two.

(g) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, it is possible to print documents containing furigana and other complex characters by only providing a relatively small number of types of character patterns and without the need for a large amount of storage space or special control functions. This has the effect of realizing a document processing device at a low cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a professional diagram showing an example of the configuration of a document processing device, Figure 2 is a diagram explaining overlapping printing between lines, Figure 3 is an illustration of character shapes for furigana, and Figure 4 is character arrangement for furigana. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the printing surface. In the figure, l is a processing device, 2 is a keyboard, 3 is a storage device, 4 is a display device, 5 is a printing device, 10.11.21
．． 22 is a printing area of one character each, 31.32.33
are each a line of a part of the document.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] (11) In a document processing device having a printing device having a function to break lines at line intervals smaller than the height of printed characters, two individual characters in each corresponding column of adjacent lines are A document processing device configured to form a compound character by repeatedly printing the compound character.(2) The character cent of each individual character forming the compound character includes:
The document according to claim 1, characterized in that the overlapping portion of each corresponding digit of adjacent lines is divided into two left and right in the line direction, and includes individual characters printed only on the left or right portion. Processing equipment. (3) A patent claim characterized in that the character set is divided into two sets, and characters belonging to one set belong to the other set, and the characters are of the same character type but differ only in the position of the printed part within one character. The document processing device according to item 2 of the scope.