JPS61281286A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to an information processing device such as a document creation and editing device.

! Generally, information processing devices such as word processors have a line display function that displays lines such as horizontal lines and vertical lines so that tables and the like can be created in documents.

However, in such a conventional information processing device, there is a problem in that horizontal lines, especially horizontal lines, can only be drawn at fixed intervals.

-1-This invention has been made in view of the above points, and aims to be able to support various document specifications.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention enables the interval between the lines to be set in accordance with the font size.

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing an example of a document/image editing processing device as an information processing device embodying the present invention.

This information processing device uses character information as an input device.

It includes a keyboard 1 for inputting various information such as control information, a mouse 2 as a pointing device, and an image scanner 3 for reading original images and the like.

It also includes a CRT display 4 that displays various information as an output device, and a laser printer 5 that prints out various information.

Furthermore, the main body 6 is provided with a floppy disk device (FDD) and a hard disk device (HDD) as storage devices.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the control section of this information processing device.

This control unit 10 includes a floppy disk device (FDD) 7 that stores document information, etc., and a hard disk device (H) that stores various control programs, fonts of various sizes, etc.
It is built into the main body 6 together with DD) 9.

The microprocessor (CPU) of this control unit 10
) 11 is composed of, for example, a 16-bit microprocessor, and controls the entire processing device.

The main memory 12 consists of a system area (resident area) that stores resident programs such as an operating system loaded from the hard disk device 8 at startup, a non-resident area that stores non-resident programs, a data area, and a RAM that constitutes a working area. .

The control unit 10 also has a keyboard interface (-I/F) I/F for inputting information from the keyboard 1.
s, a mouse interface 16 that detects the movement direction, movement amount, and movement speed based on the X pulse and Y pulse from the mouse 2 as a pointing device, and a scanner for inputting read data from the image scanner 3. An interface 17 is provided.

Furthermore, this control unit 10 has a CRT interface 1 which controls the CRT display 4, a printer interface 20 which controls the printer 5, a floppy disk controller (FDC) 21 which controls the FDD 7, and an H
The hard disk controller (HDC) that controls the DD9
)22.

Furthermore, the control unit 10 includes a communication control unit (CCU) 23 that controls transmission and reception of information with other communication terminal devices.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of one day of the CRT interface.

This CRT interface (CRT controller) 19
controls the CRT display 4 using a bit map display method.

The main control 31 controls the entire day of this CRT interface.

The bit map memory 32 is connected to CPU 1 (second
(see figure), and data to be displayed on the CRT display 4 is written by the CPU 1.

The display control 33 stores vectors (circles, ellipses, etc.) and text (characters) in the bit map memory 32.
Outputs the command that causes

The memory control 34 controls the bit map memory 32.
This is an interface for passing the display data written to the video generator 36 to the video generator 36.

Cursor control! IS is CRT display 4
Generates and outputs cursor data (bit map) to be displayed on the screen.

Video generator 36 includes bit map memory 32
The display data sent from the cursor controller 35 and the cursor data sent from the cursor control 35 are combined and output to the CRT display 4.

Next, the operation of this embodiment configured as described above will be explained with reference to FIG. 4 and subsequent figures.

First, since this information processing apparatus is equipped with a plurality of fonts, the font and its size to be used when starting document creation are set. This font setting process will be explained with reference to FIG.

In this font setting process, the font size input by key operations on the keyboard 1 (for example, input by font name) is firstly input, and then the line spacing of that font size, which is also manually input by keys, is input.

The font size and line spacing are temporarily stored in a predetermined area of the main memory 12.

Then, when all the font sizes and line spacings have been specified, each specified font size and line spacing stored and held in the main memory 12 is stored and held in the main memory 12.

It is transferred to the hard disk device 8 and stored at a predetermined address on the hard disk as a font table as shown in FIG. 5, for example.

Next, the line display process for displaying the line will be explained with reference to FIG. 6.

When a horizontal line (horizontal line) is designated by a horizontal line key among the horizontal line keys on the keyboard 1, execution of this horizontal line process is started.

Then, the horizontal line display position (starting point X coordinate, ending point X coordinate, starting point Y coordinate) input by key operations on the keyboard 1 is read.

Thereafter, the font size and number of characters input by key operations on the keyboard 1 are read, a font table stored in the hard disk is searched, and the line spacing corresponding to the input font size is read out.

Then, the CRTI/F 19 is instructed to display a specified number of horizontal lines according to the searched line spacing, and the specified number of horizontal lines are displayed on the display 4 at intervals according to the font size.

After that, the input starting point X coordinate and ending point X is.

Data such as starting point Y coordinate, font size, and number of lines.

The data is transferred to the hard disk device 8 and stored at a predetermined address on the hard disk as a line table as shown in FIG. 7, for example.

Next, a redisplay process for redisplaying a horizontal line in an already created document will be described with reference to FIG. 8 (display of the document is not shown).

First, a designation of a display page inputted by key operations on the keyboard 1 is taken in, and the data of the designated page is read from the floppy disk device 7 onto the main memory 12.

Then, the line spacing and starting point X coordinate corresponding to the font size are determined by accessing the line table stored in the hard disk drive 8 corresponding to that page.

Read out each key line data of the end point X coordinate and the starting point Y coordinate, two numbers.

Thereafter, the font table stored in the hard disk drive 8 is accessed according to the font size of the read line data, and the corresponding line spacing data is retrieved and read out.

Then, a horizontal line is displayed based on the starting point X coordinate, ending point X coordinate, starting point Y coordinate, 9 numbers, and the line spacing.

In this way, in this information processing apparatus, the interval between horizontal lines can be set according to the font size, so the horizontal lines can be displayed at different intervals, and it is possible to correspond to various document specifications.

Note that when printing out a document including such horizontal line data, by transferring one document as bit data to a printer and printing it, it is possible to print out a document similar to the display output.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the interval between the horizontal lines in the gray line is set according to the font size, but the interval between the vertical lines (vertical lines) is also set according to the font size. You can also.

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to correspond to various document specifications.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing an example of an information processing device embodying the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control section thereof; FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a CRT interface thereof; 5 and 5 are a flowchart showing an example of a font setting process executed by the control unit and an explanatory diagram showing an example of a font table, and FIGS. 6 and 7 are a flowchart showing an example of a line display process. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the process of re-displaying the lines. 1...Keyboard 2...Mouse 3...Image scanner 4...CRT display 5...
Printer 6...Main unit 7...Floppy disk device 8...Hard disk device 10...Control unit 4th
Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 8

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus capable of displaying visible lines, characterized in that an information processing apparatus is provided with a visible line setting means for setting an interval between the visible lines in accordance with a font size.