JPS60171562A - Document production and editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To produce a sentence which is approximate to the handwritten one and easy to read while looking at a display device, by providing a discriminating means to a document production/editing device and changing the space between characters by the sorting combinations between characters fed in the preceding time and those fed this time. CONSTITUTION:When the input character data is fed to a discriminating means A, it is discriminated whether the character space of a print-out sentence is changed to a space other than that set previously. In this case, the sorting combinations of the character data fed in the preceding time and that fed this time are discriminated every character. A display control means B displays the information to a display device C that the character space is changed from the set one in response to the discriminating result of the means A. In this case, the discrimination is carried out in the same way as the means A at the side of an output device like a printer, etc. Otherwise the character space is set by receiving the information from the output device side. Therefore an easy-to-read sentence approximate to writing with a space between words can be printed out at the side of a printer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document creation/editing device having a Japanese document creation/editing function.

In general, when a Japanese document created by a document creation/editing device such as a word processor, computer system, etc. that has a Japanese document creation/editing function is printed out using an output device such as a printer, the characters of the printed document but,
Regardless of the type of characters, they are arranged in an orderly manner at a preset constant character interval.

However, for readers, it is easier to read printed documents if they are handwritten, with spaces between words, and if the letters are arranged in an orderly manner at regular intervals, it is easier to read. hard.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the output device side controls the i-character interval and outputs the result of printing the created document in order to make it closer to the handwritten text.

However, in this case, there is a disadvantage that it is impossible to judge what kind of output document will be obtained when creating a document.

This invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and it is an object of the present invention to enable a document creation/editing device to create sentences close to handwriting while looking at a display device.

Horizontal 1 戊 and examples Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be explained based on one embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In this document creation/editing device, when an input character take is input to the discriminating means A, the discriminating means A determines the character spacing of characters in the printed output document by using characters other than the predetermined character spacing (set character spacing). Determine whether to change the character spacing.

The determination as to whether or not to change the character spacing is made based on, for example, a combination of the previously input character take and the current character data classification according to a predetermined character classification.

For example, it is possible to determine whether each character belongs to the same classification.

In other words, for example, if characters are classified into three character types: kanji, kana, and symbols, the relationship of previous input character data → current input character te, - evening is kanji → kanji, kana → kana,
It is determined whether they belong to the same classification, such as symbol → symbol, or to different classifications, such as kanji → kana or symbol, kana → kanji or symbol, symbol → kanji or kana.

Further, in a document processing device having a kana-kanji conversion function and equipped with a word dictionary, it is also possible to determine whether or not a word has been read from the word dictionary.

The determining means A then transfers the result of determining whether or not the character spacing needs to be changed, obtained as described above, to the display controlling means B.

When the character spacing is changed from the set character spacing according to the determination result of the determining means A, the display control means B causes the display device C to display a change to that effect.

In this case, the output device such as a printer performs the same determination as the determination means A of this document creation/editing device, or receives information from this document creation/editing device, and determines, for example, consecutive characters. If the classifications are the same, set the character spacing that does not change the preset constant character spacing (set character spacing), and if the classifications are different, set the character spacing that is wider or narrower than the set character spacing. or when a word is read from the word dictionary, the character spacing for each word is set to be wider than the set character spacing.

Therefore, on the printer device side, for example, the space between kanji and hiragana is printed wider than the space between kanji and kanji, or between hiragana and hiragana, in order to print out an easy-to-read written text that is similar to Japanese writing. .

At this time, on the document creation/editing device side, a message indicating that the character spacing will be changed is displayed on the display device 1 in accordance with the part where the character spacing of the created document to be printed out is to be changed.

In this way, this document creation/editing device determines whether or not to change the character spacing of the output document and displays the determination result, so that it is possible to read sentences that are close to handwriting by looking at the Nice Play device. It can be created while

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example of a document processing device embodying the present invention.

This document processing device is a document creation and editing device (word processor) 1 that implements this invention for creating and editing Japanese documents, etc.
and print the document created with this document creation/editing device 1 (
The printer device 2 is composed of a laser printer (printer output).

The document creation/editing device 1 includes a keyboard 6 for inputting information such as letters, numbers, symbols, etc. necessary for creating a Japanese document, and a display device 4 for displaying documents, etc. created by key operations on the keyboard B. It consists of two floppy disk devices 5 for storing document information, etc., and a main body 6 containing a control section that controls the entire device.

The keyboard B includes a graphic character key 3A for inputting various characters and symbols, a check mot key 3B for controlling the setting of character spacing between consecutive characters (check mot J), and a check mort key 3B for instructing alignment at the end of sentences. Sentence end correction key 6c and print key 3 for instructing output to print 1
D, and various function keys 3E such as cursor keys for instructing movement of the cursor on the screen 2 of the display device 4.

First, the document creation/editing device 1 in this document processing device will be explained.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the control section of this document creation/editing device 1. As shown in FIG.

This control unit is a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10° ROM
11. A microcomputer control section (hereinafter referred to as "editing processing section") which also serves as a discrimination means and a display control means consisting of a RAM 12, etc.; r<AM 13 constituting a second line buffer etc., an interface (1/F) 14 for the keyboard 6, a character generator (ROM) 15 for generating a character pattern for the display device 4, and It is comprised of a page memory 16 for storing the 1-pattern data of display characters, an interface 17 for the floppy disk device 5, an interface 18 for the printer device 2, and the like.

Next, the operation of this document creation/editing device 1 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

First, a check mode setting process for setting a check mode for determining whether or not to change the character spacing, which is executed by the editing processing section, will be described with reference to FIG.

The editing processing section first determines whether or not the check mote key 3B of the keyboard 6 has been pressed, and when the check mote key 3B is pressed, a plurality of selections can be made according to the classification of consecutive characters stored in the ROM 11 in advance. A character spacing selection menu for selecting a character spacing N (1-Nn) is displayed on the Nice Play device @4.

In this character spacing selection menu, for example, when selectable character spacings are associated with numeric keys, the numbers and character spacings are displayed in correspondence, and the numeric keys are used as the character spacing selection keys.

Then, the character interval Nn (n=o-n) corresponding to the selection data inputted by operating the character interval selection key of the keyboard B, for example, the numeric keys, is read from the ROM 1l,
It is stored at a predetermined address in the RAM 12 (hereinafter referred to as selected character interval counter J), and a check mode flag CHF indicating that check mode has been selected is set to "1".

At this time, the selected character spacing from the character spacing selection menu displayed on the Nice Play device 4 is displayed in reverse video to notify the operator.

Further, this check mode setting process may be performed at the start of document creation, and the character spacing may not be changed while the same document is being created (or, the character spacing may be specified at any time during document creation.

Next, the character spacing control process executed by the editing processing section 1 to perform display control to change the character spacing in accordance with the character spacing control of the printer device 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

It is assumed that the -collection processing section converts input character data into kana-kanji by manual key processing and kana-kanji conversion processing (not shown).

Further, in this document creation/editing device, characters are classified in advance into special characters, including kanji, hiragana, hiragana, kanji, alphanumeric characters, and other symbols.

Therefore, the editing processing section first sets the check mode flag CHF set in the check mode setting process described above to CH
It is checked whether F=1 or not to determine whether it is check mode.

In the check mode, the current character data input (after kana-kanji conversion) is compared with the previous character data to determine whether consecutive characters belong to the same classification.

In other words, the previous character data and the current character data are [
It is determined whether there is a relationship of "Kanji → Kanji", "Hiragana → flat name", [Katakana → Katakana name], "alphanumeric character → alphanumeric character", or "special character → special character".

Then, when consecutive characters do not belong to the same category, that is, when they belong to different categories, a pixel counter that manages the number of dots in the line buffer is used.

The number N of dots at the selected character interval stored in the selected character interval counter is added.

After this process is completed, and when the discrimination result is the same classification and when the check mode is not set, the character generator 15 converts the current character data into dot pattern data and stores it in the page memory 16.

At this time, when consecutive characters do not belong to the same classification, in order to display a reverse diagonal line [\] indicating that the character spacing will be changed between them, this reverse diagonal dot is placed before the dot pattern data of the current character. Store pattern data.

After that, the pixel counter is incremented by the number of dots in one character's dot butter (including the set character spacing), and it is determined whether the count value of the pixel counter has reached the maximum count value (MAX), and it becomes MAX. The above process is repeated until the maximum number is reached, and the operator is notified of this with a chime and the number of line tods and instructs the operator to start a new line.

In this way, during check mode, the characters input manually are displayed on the display device 4, and the part where the character spacing is set to the selected character spacing, that is, the part where the character spacing is changed from the set character spacing, is displayed. Indicates a reverse diagonal line “
\” is displayed.

Next, the sixth section regarding the sentence end alignment processing executed by the editing processing section.
This will be explained with reference to the figures.

The editing processing unit first determines whether the first line buffer I is full or not, and if the first line buffer I is not full, it executes the character spacing control process described above, and this process ends. After that, the character data is stored in the first line buffer I, and the process returns to the process of determining whether the first line buffer I is full.

On the other hand, when the first line buffer (2) becomes full, it is checked whether the end of one sentence correction key 3B has been pressed to determine whether or not the end of the sentence has been aligned.

If it is aligned at the end of the sentence, the selected character spacing stored in the selected character spacing counter is incremented (+1).

At this time, the previous value of the selected character spacing counter is R.
It is stored and held at a predetermined address of AM12.

Then, it is determined whether the second line buffer 11, which stores the same character data as the first line buffer 1, is full.

As a result of this determination, if the second line buffer ■ is not full, the character spacing control process described above is performed until the second line buffer II is full, and the character spacing of the selected character spacing N is corrected. The character spacing is set to (N+1), and the process of storing the character data of that line in the second line buffer 1N is repeatedly executed.

In other words, the analogy is from the last character of the sentence to the left hunt margin (
If the number of dots up to the L l-I M ) position is not enough for one character, the part of the character interval that was set to 1 selected character interval N is set to the corrected character interval (N + 1), and the missing dots 1 to 1 are By filling in the characters, the ends of the sentences are aligned.

In this case, the selected character spacing is incremented once (→-1
) If the endings of the sentences are still not aligned, the selected character spacing may be incremented (+l) again.

Also, if some of the characters on the line exceed the left hunt margin position due to changing the selected character spacing N, the overlapping characters will be moved to the next line and the end of the sentence will be aligned again. You may also do so.

Furthermore, instead of increasing the selected character spacing, or in addition to increasing the selected character spacing, the ends of sentences can be aligned by decreasing (decrementing) the selected character spacing.

In this document creation/editing device 1, when the print key 3C of the keyboard B is pressed, the character data, carriage return (CR') data, and line foot (LF) data stored in the buffer are transferred to the printer. Transferred to 2.

At this time, data on the selected character interval is transferred to the printer device 2 prior to these data.

Furthermore, when the selected character spacing is changed due to end-of-sentence alignment, data on the changed selected character spacing is transferred to the printer prior to transferring the character data of the line.

Next, the printer device 2 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 7 to 10.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the internal mechanism of the lawn printer device 2. As shown in FIG.

To briefly explain the operation of this printer, first, a belt photoreceptor 21 made of an inorganic or organic photoconductor formed on a base film is stretched between a driving roller 22 and a driven roller 23. By being driven by the main motor 24, it rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow.

The belt photoreceptor 21 is then charged by the charger 25.
The surface of is uniformly charged to a predetermined polarity.

On the other hand, the laser beam from the laser optical system 26, which is a laser beam exposure device, is modulated into an on/off signal by recording information, which is input binary information, and then shaped into a laser beam by a lens optical system. Rusk scanning is performed on the belt photoreceptor 21 using a mirror.

As a result, an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the recorded image is formed on the belt photoreceptor 21.

The electrostatic latent image on the belt photoreceptor 21 is formed using a non-magnetic material having a plurality of magnets installed inside the developing device 28 of the developing device unit 27, which is attached so as to be pulled out and pushed in the direction of the arrow. Developing sleeve consisting of 2 days,
1st. Second stirring member 30. A 1-ner 33 is supplied which is agitated by l11 and conveyed with its height regulated by a doctor blade 32, and it adheres only to the portion irradiated with the laser beam and is visualized.

The toner image on the belt photoreceptor 21 is urged upward in the figure by a compression coil spring 37 interposed between the bottom plate 36 and the paper feed tray 35 equipped with a lid 34 that can be opened and closed in the direction of the arrow. The image is stored on a movable bottom puncher 38, and is transferred onto a recording paper 41 that is fed at a predetermined timing via a paper feed roller 39 and a registration roller 40.

At this time, a high voltage is applied to the transfer charger 42 at a precise timing to attract the toner image on the belt photoreceptor 21 toward the recording paper 41 .

Then, the recording paper 41 on which the toner image has been transferred is separated from the belt photoreceptor 21 by corner separation.

The belt photoreceptor 21 after one transfer separation has been completed in this way.
After the residual charge is erased by the static eliminating charger 44 and the static eliminating lamp 45, the magnetic brush cleaning device 4
The remaining toner is removed by Step 6 in preparation for the next recording process.

The magnetic brush cleaning device 46 uses a magnetic brush on a sleeve 48 made of a non-magnetic material in which a magnet 47 and the like are arranged to slide on the belt photoreceptor 21 to separate the toner. Collect the toner on the top and remove the toner discharge screw 50.
The toner is discharged into a toner receiver (not shown) or the like.

On the other hand, the recording paper separated from the belt photoreceptor 21 is conveyed into the fixing device 52 and the toner image is thermally fixed by the upper heater roller 5!1 and the lower heater roller 54, and then the paper is discharged via the paper discharge roller 55. It is discharged onto the tray 57.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the control section of this printer device 2. As shown in FIG.

The main controller 60 is a circuit that controls the entire printer, and includes a CPU (central processing unit) 61, RO
It is composed of MG2, RAM6B, l10 (input/output device), etc., and controls each part based on the block diagram stored in ROMG2 to perform the above-mentioned sequence control, etc.

This main controller 60 performs the same character classification and discrimination processing as the one-document creation device 1 on the character code data transferred from the one-document creation and editing device 1 side via the interface 64, and outputs documents according to the results of this determination. While controlling the character spacing of the characters, the character code data is converted into character dot pattern data by a character generator (CG) 65 consisting of a ROM that stores the character dot pattern texture and character spacing pattern data. hand,
One line of output character dot pattern data is stored in a storable line buffer 66.

When the storage of one line of print (output) data in the line buffer 66 is completed, the main controller 60 controls the optical modulator of the laser optical system 26 according to the dot pattern data of the line buffer 66 via T7067. 69, the laser light from the laser light source 68 is modulated according to the dot pattern data of the output character, and is transmitted to the belt photoreceptor 21 via a scanning optical system 70 such as a one-rotation polygon mirror.
Let's do a rusk scan on the top.

The main controller 60 also transmits the operation results of various keys of the operation pipe/luer 2 via an I10 group 71 and various sensors 73 such as a residual toner sensor, a paper end sensor, a fixing heater temperature sensor, a home position sensor, etc.
The detection signal is also input.

Based on these various input signals and input data from the host system side, the main motor 24 shown in FIG. Paper feed roller 39. Registration roller 40. Motors, rollers, clutches such as upper and lower heater rollers 53 and 54 7
4, the charging charger 25, the transfer charger 42. It controls high voltage application to chargers 75 such as the static elimination charger 44, and controls lighting or display of a display (not shown), a display such as the static elimination lamp 45, and lamps 76, etc.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of main parts showing details of the parts related to classification discrimination and character spacing control in this control section.

The character code register 81 stores character code data of the data input from the document creation device 1 side under the control of the CPU 61, and the character size register 82 stores the same <C
It is controlled by the PU 61 and stores character size data.

The character code data stored in the character code register 81 is read out under the control of the CPU 61 and transferred to the temporary input 83 and comparator 84, and the character size data stored in the character size register 82 is is read out under the control of the CPU 61 and sent to the comparator 84.
will be forwarded to.

The previous character code data is stored in the temporary register 86, and when the current character code is transferred, the previous character code data is transferred to the comparator 84.

This comparator 84 compares the current character-to-1 hetator transferred from the character-to-1 register 81 with the temporary register 83.
Compare with the previous character code data transferred from
Determine whether or not it belongs to a predetermined classification.
When they belong to the same category, the flag register 85 is set.

Note that the classification of the characters is determined by the document creation device 1 side 1 described above.
Similarly, for example, kanji, hiragana 7 serigana.

There are five types of alphanumeric characters and special characters.

Further, this comparator 84 outputs the character-to-character data from the one-character code register 81 and the character size data from the character size register 82 to the character generator 65 as address data.

This character generator 65 generates dot pattern data of a character coat according to the size of one character, and outputs it to a line buffer 66.

On the other hand, the pixel pointer register 86
This is a register that manages the pixel pointer address of 6.
Each time dot pattern data is stored in the line buffer 6, etc., it is incremented (+1) in dot units, and when the flag register 85 is set, it is incremented by the number N of dots at the selected character interval.

Next, the classification discrimination nine character spacing setting control process applied to the printer device 2 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 10 as well.

First, the cpuGl of the main controller l-roller 60 is.

It is determined whether character code data has been input from the document creation/editing device 1 side, and if the character data is input manually, the flag F set when storing the first data in the line buffer 66 is determined to be F=1. Determine whether or not.

Note that this flag F determination process is to prevent the selected character interval from occurring before the first character of the line, so for example, the contents of the temporary register 83 in FIG. 9 are checked, If the content is rQj, it may be determined that it is the first character, and the classification determination process may be skipped and the process may proceed to the process of generating a character dot pattern.

Then, if this determination result is not F=1, that is, if it is the first data, then after setting F=1, proceed to the process of generating character dora 1-pattern data, which will be described later, and if F=1, In other words, if the data is from the second character onwards, the comparator 84 compares it with the current character code data transferred from the character code register 81.

- Compare with the previous character code data transferred from the counter register 83 to determine whether two consecutive output characters have the same classification.

As a result of this determination, if the consecutive output characters belong to different classifications, the comparator 84 sets the flag register 85 (to u'') and sets the pixel pointer register (pixel counter) 86 to the driver 1 of the selected character interval. ~Add the number N.

Then, after this process is completed, or if the discrimination result is the same classification, the comparator 84 directly outputs the current character coat data and character size stator to the character generator 65.

Thereby, the character generator 65 generates dot pattern data of the character indicated by the character code data of the designated character size.

After the pixel pointer register 86 is incremented by the number of dots in the 1-dot pattern of one character (including the set character interval), the dot pattern data of the character is stored in the line buffer 66.

In reality, the character generator 65 is accessed column by column, the pixel pointer register (pixel counter) 86 is incremented (+1) and stored in the line buffer 66, and this is sequentially repeated up to the last column to generate one character. The dot pattern data corresponding to the number of dots is stored in the line buffer 66.

Thereafter, it is determined whether the count value of the 1-pixel pointer register (pixel counter) 86 has reached the maximum count value (MAX), and the process described in 2 is repeatedly executed until it reaches MAX.

As a result, the line buffer 66 stores the dot pattern data of the printed characters for line 1, and once the data for one line is stored, the printing process (laser light modulation control) starts as described above. , the contents of the temporary register 86 and the pixel pointer register 86 are zero-cleared.

In this way, when consecutive output characters belong to different categories, they are printed with a wider character interval by N dots than when they belong to the same category.

An example of the display result of the display device 4 and the print result of the printer device 2 in such a document processing device is shown in the 11th example.
It is shown in the figure. .

In this example, (a) is handwritten: ki, (b) is the display result of the display device 4 of the document creation and editing device 1 when the character spacing is set in normal mode, and (huff is the check mode). The display result of the display device 4 at the time, (
d) is the print output result of printer device 2 in normal mode,
(E) shows the print output result of the printer device 2 in the check mode.

In the text shown in FIG. 7(e), that is, the created text printed out in the check mode.

It is wider than the distance between kanji and hiragana, or between kanji and kanji, or between hiragana and hiragana, and the printed document is almost as close to wakachi calligraphy as it is when it is handwritten. The text is easy to read.

Then, on the document creation/editing device 1 side, in response to such an output sentence, the display device 4 displays the printed kanji and hiragana whose character spacing has been changed from the set character spacing, as shown in FIG. “\” is displayed in the corresponding part between.

In this way, in this document processing device, a message to that effect is displayed on the display device of the document creation/editing device in correspondence with the part where the character spacing of the document created by the printing device is changed and output. You can create easy-to-read sentences similar to handwriting while looking at the device.

Next, a document creation/editing device that determines whether or not to change the character spacing of one document based on reading words from a word dictionary will be described.

First, the kana-kanji conversion unit in this document creation/editing device will be explained with reference to FIG. 12.

In this kana-kanji conversion part, Masu, Onyomi division part 91
is human-powered by Geehault's Ghee operation (columns are compared and judged sequentially according to predetermined rules, and each element of the on-yomi is divided into 5 sections, for example, a diagonal line [
/J is added by (q and output.

In other words, the elements of on-reading are a = 2, i, tsu, ki, ri, chi, tsu, n, tsu b = ya, yu,
Yo = ki, ki, shi, shi, chi, two, he, mi, sf = tsu, ri,
If we define a set consisting of all kana characters, the on-yomi is X...a,
I, Tsu, Work, O,...Xa...Aku, In, Run,
... eb ... Gaya, Kiya, Sho, ... ebf ... Show, Chou, Kyo, ... Represented.

It is determined that it is X, and from the on-yomi division section S1,
Code data such as [let's try/hau/sho/su] is output.

Then, the code string including the delimiter mark "/" output from the reading delimiter 91 is output to the temporary storage part 92 and temporarily stored therein.

If the kana code string stored in the temporary storage section 92 has a large amount of reading information, for example, if the kana code string is "Yo-hoji yori," then the control section 93 selects a kana court string that is "Syo-ho-yori." The verification information is generated from the verification information generating section S4 and transferred to the verification section 95.

The matching unit 95 reads word information corresponding to the pronunciation of, for example, “Shohoujiyori” from the word dictionary storage unit S6, and stores it in the word information temporary storage unit 97.

At this time, if there is no word corresponding to the pronunciation of "Shouhoshiyori", that fact is transmitted to the control unit 93,
The control unit 93 causes the verification information generation unit S4 to generate reading information “Jiyou Hoshiyo”, which has the next largest amount of reading information in the on-yomi unit, and transfers it to the verification unit S5.

In this way, regarding C2 [Jiyouhoshiyori],
1. Pronunciations are generated sequentially from combinations with the largest amount of information at the on-yomi ψ position from ``Sho Hoshiyori'' to ``Syo'', and each is compared.

In this case, the word dictionary storage section S6 contains 1, for example, ``Shouhou'' as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14.

Assuming that the word information "shiyori" is stored, the collation section 95 stores each word information in the word information temporary storage section 97.

The control unit S3 determines that "Shiyori" remains unconverted for "Jouho" and "Haushiyori" for "Jiyou", and for example, following 1Shoho J, [ The verification information generating section 94 generates the reading ``shiyori''.

At this time, if the word information shown in FIG. 15 is stored in the American-English dictionary storage section 96, "1 Shiyori" becomes a collation section and [
Joho J - A synthesis called "Shiyori" is possible.

So, in this "Johoshiyori", the number of word compositions =
The conditions under which "1" is memorized as "2" and can be synthesized are "
It is assumed that the word "Ushiyori" must be stored in the word dictionary storage section S6.

In other words, the analogy is ``Jiyo (9 tablets of emotion) - ``Hau (law) J
From −rL, the combination of (processing) is not possible because the number of word combinations is 3.

As a result, kana is converted into kanji by composing it with ``Jiyouhau'' - 1 shiyori''.

Therefore, the document creation device side notifies the printer device that a word has been read from the word dictionary, and the printer device fixes or selects the spacing between words when a word is read from the word dictionary storage. Easy-to-read text can be obtained by configuring to print at predetermined character intervals.

Therefore, the document creation/editing device determines whether or not a word has been read from the word dictionary, and indicates that the character spacing will be changed when the word is read from the word dictionary on the display device. , it is possible to create easy-to-read sentences while looking at the display device.

In the above embodiment, the printer device also determines whether or not to change the character spacing, and controls the setting of the character spacing in accordance with this determination, but the present invention is not limited to this.

For example, the character spacing can be selectively set and controlled on the document production device side according to the discrimination result, and that information can be transmitted to the printer side along with the character coat, or instead of being transmitted to the printer device using the character coat, The dot pattern information after the interval has been selectively set and controlled may be transferred to the printer device in bit (dot) positions.

Also, on the printer device side or document creation device side,
In addition to determining whether consecutive characters are classified as the same or not, it is also possible to determine individual combinations and set and control the character spacing according to each combination.

Furthermore, in a document creation/editing device that performs kana-kanji conversion in units of phrases, the character spacing can be changed at the 141st phrase.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to create easy-to-read sentences while looking at a display device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example of a document processing device implementing this invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a flow diagram showing the check mode setting process executed by the control unit in FIG. 6; FIG. 5 is a flow diagram showing the character spacing control process; FIG. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the end-of-sentence alignment process. FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of the printer device shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a control section thereof. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the details of the main parts of the control section, FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the character spacing control process executed by the control section, and FIG. Explanatory diagram 5 showing different examples of text display results and printing results. FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a kana-kanji conversion unit in another embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 13, 14, and 15 are respectively It is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the word dictionary stored in the word dictionary storage section of the kana-kanji conversion section. 1... Document creation device 2... Printer device 3...
Keyboards 1 to 4... Display device 5... Floating device Fig. 1 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 λゞNbekotowara i Fig. 11

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a document creation/editing device having a Japanese document creation/editing function, a determining means for determining whether or not to change the character spacing between consecutive characters of an output document, and a determination result of the determining means. 1. A document creation/editing device comprising: display control means for displaying a change in character spacing of an output document according to the change in character spacing of the output document. 2. The document according to claim 1, wherein the determining means determines whether or not a combination of classifications of consecutive characters belongs to the same predetermined classification, and determines whether or not to change the character spacing. Editing device. 3. The document creation/editing device according to claim 1, wherein the determining means determines whether or not a word has been read from a word dictionary for kana-kanji conversion, and determines whether or not to change the character spacing.