JPS61267092A - Document generator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a document creation device having both Japanese document creation and English document creation functions.

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in addition to printing devices, various low-priced word processors that can display a portion of a document being edited using a CRT or liquid crystal display have been commercially available. In such a display device, the number of characters that can be displayed is considerably less than 1,000 characters, and the number of lines in horizontal writing is slightly smaller.

Document display and corresponding printing in a conventional Japanese-English word processor will be described below. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen during editing when creating a Japanese document, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of printing corresponding thereto.

Figure 8 is a diagram showing an example of the display screen when editing an English document,
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of printing corresponding to this. In the conventional example, a document display means is adopted in which the area occupied by one character on the display screen is equally displayed as a full-width character for both Japanese and English texts.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, with such document display means, when English document production is selected in a document production device equipped with a display device having the above-mentioned limitations, the word length used in English text is generally Since the word length is generally longer than the length of a Japanese sentence, only a much smaller number of words can be displayed on the display screen than when creating a Japanese document, making it difficult for the user to understand the sentence on the display screen. had.

In view of the above problems, the present invention increases the maximum number of characters on the display screen when creating an English document in a document creation device that can select either Japanese or English document creation.
This invention provides a document creation device that can improve the processing efficiency of English document creation and editing. In a document creation device in which creation can be selected, there are character input means 1 document editing means 2 document printing means and printing device 1 display device, and if the Japanese function is selected,
Japanese document display means for displaying characters to be printed in full-width characters on the display device as full-width characters; and, when an English function is selected, English document display means for displaying characters to be printed in full-width characters in half-width characters on the display device. The configuration is equipped with the following.

Effects With the above configuration, the present invention doubles the maximum number of characters displayed on the document display screen when creating an English document compared to the conventional example, allowing the user to understand a larger portion of the document. Editing and correcting English documents becomes easier. Moreover, the difference in efficiency compared to when creating a Japanese document is therefore reduced.

Embodiment Below, a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a document creation device according to an embodiment.

Character input means 1 for inputting characters; document editing means 222 for creating and editing a document based on the characters input by the character input means; display device 6 for displaying part of the document; 3. Japanese document display means for displaying a Japanese document on the display device when Japanese document creation is selected; English document means for displaying an English document when English document creation is selected; 4. Document printing means 6 for printing the document obtained by the document editing means
and a printing device 7.

FIG. 2 shows the hardware configuration of the document creation device of the embodiment. Character input means 1 for controlling the keyboard 12 Japanese document display means and English document display means for displaying documents on the display device 11, and document printing means for controlling the printer 14 are stored in a ROM (read only memory) 1o. There is.

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) 8, which is the control center of the document processing device according to the present invention, stores the execution of these means in the RAM (Random Access Memory) 9 as a document,
The CPU 5 updates the display screen of the display device 11 through the Japanese document display means or the English document display means. Also CP
U8 transfers the document data in RAM 9 to external storage 13 when recording or saving a document, and transfers the document data stored in external storage 13 to RAM 9 when it is desired to recall a previously created document. When printing, the contents of the document data in the RAM 5 are transferred to the printer 14. .

Regarding the document creation device configured as above, the following is the third section.
The operation will be explained with reference to FIG. 4, FIG. 6, and FIG. FIG. 3 shows an example of the screen display during editing when Japanese document creation is selected, and FIG. 5 shows a corresponding example of printing.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the screen display during editing when English document creation is selected, and FIG. 6 shows a corresponding example of printing.

When creating a Japanese document, the operation is the same as before, but when English document creation is selected, unlike when 0 is selected for Japanese document creation, characters that should be printed in full-width characters are displayed in half-width characters on the display device. . Comparing Figure 4 and Figure 8, we can see that the degree to which the user understands the document from the display screen is also significantly different.
The processing efficiency of document editing is greatly improved. Normally, all characters used in English documents have half-width character patterns, but in low-priced document creation devices, character display means are simplified to display both English and Japanese characters in the same size. However, because it is a low-priced document creation device, we believe that a display child actor that makes the most of the limited display area is necessary.

Effects of the Invention As described above, the present invention provides a document creation device that can select either Japanese or English document creation, which includes a character input means, two character editing means, a printing device, a document printing means, two display devices, and a Japanese function. a Japanese document display means for displaying characters to be printed in full-width characters on the display device as full-width characters when the English function is selected; By providing an English document display means, it is possible to improve the processing efficiency of a user's document editing when creating an English document.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of displaying a Japanese document when the present invention is implemented, and FIG. The figure shows an example of how an English document is displayed when the present invention is implemented, FIG. 5 shows an example of how a Japanese document is printed in the conventional example and the embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of printing an English document, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of displaying a Japanese document in the conventional example, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of displaying an English document in the conventional example. 1...Character input means, 2...Document editing means, 3...Japanese document display means, 4...
・English document display means, 5...Display device, 6...
... Document printing means, 7... Printing device, 8.
...CPU (Central Processing Unit), 9...R
AM (Random Access Memory), 1o...
・ROM (read only memory), 11...
...Display device, 12...Keyboard, 13...
...External memory, 14...Printer. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person No. 1
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A document creation device capable of selecting document creation of either a Japanese document or an English document, comprising: a character input means for inputting characters; a document editing means for editing the document input by the character input means; A printing device and document printing means for printing a document, a display device for displaying a part of the document being edited, and, when the Japanese function is selected, displaying characters that should be printed in full-width characters as full-width characters. A document creation device comprising: a Japanese document display means for displaying on the device; and an English document display means for displaying characters to be printed in full-width characters as half-width characters on the display device when an English function is selected. .