JPS6020233A - Western/japanese mixed sentence processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow processing each line of sentences by comparing block information before and after of the processed line, and judging whether the first block letters are Japanese or Western language based on the results. CONSTITUTION:The control means 6 retrieves the block position of the line to be processed next from the text means 1, and stores the position as block information in the first information means 2. The comparison means 4 compares the block information of the immediately preceding line to be processed previously stored in the second information means 3 with the block information stored in the first information means 2. As a result, the processor decides whether the first letters of each block in the processed line are the Western or the Japanese language for the coincident block on the basis of the position information of the Western/Japanese sentence which is previously stored in the second information means 3, then storing the decided result in the decisive information means 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a mixed European/Japanese text processing device capable of processing texts in which both European and Japanese texts are mixed in block units.

(B) Prior art At present, word processors that can only process Japanese text and word processors that can only process European text are becoming widespread, but devices that can process texts that contain a mixture of European and Japanese texts have yet to be put into practical use. It's not working.

The reason for this is that the processing formats for European and Japanese texts are completely different. That is, while Japanese text processing requires a kana-kanji conversion function and a character-by-character deletion/insertion function, European language processing requires an auto-carrier return function and a word-based deletion/insertion function.

Currently, methods that have been proposed for processing mixed European and European sentences include:

(i) A method of specifying the processing of European sentences in block units (ii) A method of specifying the processing of European sentences in line units (ii)
There are three methods: i) A method of freely specifying the processing of European and Japanese sentences from any position in the text.

In the methods (i) and (ii) above, it is not possible to provide mixed European and Japanese sentences within the same block or line, resulting in extremely poor operability when creating documents.

FIG. 1 shows an example of specifying the processing of European and Japanese text using the method (iii) above. In the figure, "■" and "■" are left and right margins defining one line of text, respectively, and "◇" is an indent mark for dividing one line into blocks. Further, "■" and "■" in the figure designate that the sentence after the mark is a European language or a Japanese language.

In currently widely used word processors (for example, SWP-3000 manufactured by Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.), when blocks in adjacent lines match, they are processed as the same block. In other words, the text shown in Figure 1 is as shown by the dotted line in the figure.
It is divided into four block areas (1) to (4).

Therefore, in the third and fourth block areas (3) and (4), the "■" mark and "■" mark specified at the beginning of each block are
” mark specifies that the text in that block is Japanese or European. Also, in the first block area (1), there is a “■” mark at the beginning of the first line, and a “■” mark in the middle of the second line.
” mark, the text from the first line to the middle of the second line is defined as European, and the text from the middle of the second line to the third line is defined as Japanese. In area (2), there is a "■" mark at the beginning of the first line and the middle of the third line, and a "■" mark at the beginning of the second line, so from the middle of the first line and the third line The text from the fourth line is defined as European, and the text from the beginning of the second line to the middle of the third line is defined as Japanese.

By adopting the method (iii) above, it is possible to provide mixed European and Japanese sentences even in the same block or line.

However, problems arise when such texts are processed administratively, such as in printing processes. In other words, when printing the first line and then trying to process the second line, there is no European standard mark at the beginning of the first block area (1) in the second line, so it is not possible to print in either mode. The problem arises that it is not clear whether or not to proceed with the process.

(c) Purpose of the Invention This invention has been made in view of the above points, and is a mixed European and Japanese text processing that is optimal for processing a sentence in which both European and Japanese texts are mixed and is composed of a plurality of blocks line by line. The aim is to provide the equipment.

(d) Structure of the Invention FIG. 2 shows a schematic structure of the apparatus of the present invention, in which (1) is a text means in which a ready-made European mixed sentence is stored, and (2) is a block of lines to be processed next. (3) is a first information means in which information is stored; (3) is a second information means in which block information of the line immediately before the processing line and position information of the European text are stored;
4) is a comparison means for comparing the block information of the first and second information means (2) and (3), (5) is a final information means in which the position information of the European text of the processing line is stored, and (6) ) is a control means for controlling each of the above-mentioned means.

In such an apparatus, the control means (6) retrieves the block position of the next line to be processed from the text means (1), stores it in the first information means (2) as block information, and also stores it in the first information means (2) as block information. Comparing the block information of the line immediately before the processing line stored in the information means (3) with the block information stored in the first information means (2) in the comparison means (4); For matched blocks, it is determined whether the first character of each block in the processing line is a European or Japanese text based on the position information of the European text stored in advance in the second information means (3). The determination result is then stored in the final information means (5).

(e) Embodiment FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which (11) is a control section composed of, for example, a microcomputer, and the restriction section controls each section described below using control signals C1 to C6. govern

Reference numeral (12) is a text memory made of, for example, RAM (random access memory), in which a European-Japanese mixed sentence that has already been created is stored.

(13) is a line reading section, and the line reading section is a control section (11).
) based on the control signal C1 from the text memory (1
2) Read one line of data from inside line buffer (14)
Store in. Specifically, the signal C1 includes a read instruction signal from the text memory (13) and a line designation signal that designates the line to be read. In addition, such a row designation signal is sent to the control unit (1
1) is determined by the value of the row counter provided within.

(15) is a block search section, which searches one row of data stored in the row buffer (14) based on the control signal C2, so that each block in the row is Information about the number of characters from the beginning to the number of characters is written in the first information section.

Specifically, suppose that one line of data as shown in FIG. The information written in the first information section (16) is as shown in FIG. 4B. (17) is the second information section, and this information section stores information on each block of the line immediately before the currently processed line and information on whether the final character of each block has been processed in Latin or Japanese. has been done. Specifically, if the immediately preceding line is as shown in FIG. 4C, the information as shown in FIG. 4D is stored in the second information section. That is,
The last character of the first block area in the immediately preceding line is a Roman character, and the last character of the second block area is a Japanese character, so the final character information section of the second information section contains information such as "European" and "Japanese", respectively. is stored.

(18) is a comparison section which reads and compares the block information in the first and second information sections (16) and (17) based on the control signal C3. If a matching block is found as a result, the block information is sent to the European determining section (19).

Based on the control signal C4, the European determining section (19) determines whether to perform European processing or Japanese processing on each character in the line to be processed currently, based on the contents of the row buffer (14) and The decision is made based on the information sent from the comparing section (18) and the information is written into the final information section (20).

Specifically, it is assumed that the line to be processed now is the line shown in FIG. 4A, and the line immediately preceding this line is the line shown in FIG. 4C. At this time, as is clear from FIGS. 4B and 4D, the first blocks of the processed line and the previous line match. Therefore,
The contents of the final character information at the first block position in the second information section (17), that is, "Europe" in this case, are stored in the part corresponding to the first character position in the confirmed information section (FIG. 4E). Next, the line buffer (14) is searched, and the margin, indent, and European text information in the buffer are read out and written into the corresponding definite information section (20) (FIG. 4F).

(21) is a print control section, and this control section receives a control signal C5.
Accordingly, one row of data stored in the row buffer (14) is output based on the information stored in the final information section (20). Specifically, since "Europe" is stored in the first and ninth character positions and "Japanese" is stored in the third and sixth character positions of the confirmed information section (20), the row buffer (1
4) The characters in the second, tenth, and eleventh character positions are printed as Roman characters, and the characters in the fourth, seventh, and eleventh character positions are printed as Japanese characters.

(22) is a block data creation section, which searches the confirmed information section (20) based on the control signal C6,
Each block information in the information section and the final character information of each block are read out and stored in the second information section (17).

Next, the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be explained using the flowchart of FIG. 5 and the schematic diagram of FIG. 6. 'Now, as shown in Figure 6A, the text consisting of three lines is a text memo! Ri (12)
, and the first line has already been processed and the second line is to be processed next. At this time, the second information section (17) stores information as shown in FIG. 6B. The operation in such a state will be explained below based on the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S1, the second line is read from the text memory (12) to the line buffer (14) based on the control signal C1. Then, in step S2, the row buffer (
14) The block information in one line of data is searched.

Specifically, the block search unit (1
5) searches the row buffer (14), and the search results are stored in the first information section (16). 1st Information Department (16
) is as shown in FIG. 6C.

The process then proceeds to step S3.

In step S3, the first and second information sections (16) and (17) are searched to see if a matching block exists.

Specifically, the comparison section (18) reads out and compares the information stored in the first and second information sections (16) and (17) based on the control signal C3.

If a matching block exists in such a comparison, the process proceeds to step S7 via steps S4, S5, and S6, and if no matching block exists, the process proceeds to step S.
4. Proceed to step S7 via step S6.

The processing of steps S4, S5, and S6 is performed in the European decision section (19) based on the control signal C4. Specifically, in step S4, the comparison results sent from the comparing section (18) are judged, and if a matching block exists as a result, the process proceeds to step S5, and if not, the process proceeds to step S6.

In step S5, based on the result sent from the comparison section (18), the above matching stored in the second information section (17) is placed in the area in the confirmed information section (20) corresponding to the starting position of the matching block. The last character information of the block is stored.

In this embodiment, since the first block of the processed line and the first block of the previous line match, the first character position of the confirmed information area (20) is replaced with the first character position of the second information area (17) in step S5. The final character information of one block column is written as shown in FIG. 6D.

In step S6, the margin, indent, and European information are read from one line of information in the one-line buffer (14), and such information is written into the corresponding area in the definite information section (20) (Fig. 6E). .

In step S7, the print control unit (
21) prints out the information in the row buffer (14).

Specifically, the type of each character in the line buffer (14) is determined based on the data in the confirmation information section (20), and the type is output accordingly.

In this embodiment, the European language information "Europe" is stored in the first character position in the confirmed information section (20), and the Japanese language information "Koku" is stored in the fourth and tenth positions. The characters in the 1st to 3rd and 14th to 17th character positions in the second line are output as Roman characters, and the characters in the 5th to 8th and 1st
Each character in the 1st to 12th character positions is output as a Japanese sentence.

Upon completion of step S7, the process advances to step S8.

In step S8, the block data creation section (22) searches the confirmed information section (20) based on the control signal C6, and searches the start and end characters of each block among the information stored in the information section (20). The position information and the final character information of each block are written into the second information section (17).

In this embodiment, as is clear from FIG. 6E, the first to eighth
It consists of a first block whose character position is one block area and a second block whose tenth to seventeenth character positions are one block area, and the final characters of each block are Japanese and European, respectively. The contents of the second information section (17) are as shown in FIG. 6F.

When step S8 is completed, the process returns to step S1, and the third line in FIG. 6A is processed.

Note that although the present embodiment has been described using print processing as the line-by-line processing, the present application is not limited to this.

Furthermore, the gist of the present application is not limited to the examples,
It goes without saying that various changes are possible.

(f) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, it is possible to process a sentence containing a mixture of European and Japanese texts and consisting of a plurality of blocks on a line-by-line basis, so it can be said to have great practical effects.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining the prior art, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 4 is a block diagram of the present embodiment. A schematic diagram for explaining the functions of each part, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are a flowchart and a schematic diagram for explaining the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment. (1)...text means, (2)...first information means, (3)...second information means, (4)...comparison means,
(5)... Determined information means, (6)... Control means. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 4 Shike 11 Shiba Σ Kyou (” ' QLLJ LIL

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A device capable of processing texts containing a mixture of European and Japanese texts in block units, including a text means in which ready-made European and Japanese mixed texts are stored, and a text means in which block information for the next line to be processed is stored. 1 information means, a second information means in which the block information of the line immediately before the processing line and the position information of the European text are stored, a comparison means for comparing the block information of the first and second information means, and the above processing. It is provided with a definite information means in which the position information of the European and Japanese text of the line is stored, and a control means for controlling each of the above means, and the control means searches the block position of the next line to be processed from the text means and the above-mentioned Compare the block information of the line immediately before the processing line, which is stored as block information in the first information means and also previously stored in the second information means, with the block information stored in the first information means. For blocks that match, it is determined whether the first character of each block in the processing line is a European language or a Japanese language based on the position information of the European language text stored in advance in the second information means. A mixed European and European sentence processing device, characterized in that it determines whether the sentence is true or not and stores the determination result in the definite information means.