JPS61286886A - Document generator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field of invention] The present invention relates to a document creation device having a line modification function.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems 1 Conventionally, document creation devices such as Japanese word processors use a CRT display as a document display mechanism and an external storage such as a floppy disk device as a document file mechanism. The structure was large and expensive. However, in recent years, various innovations and improvements have been made, such as using an LCD (liquid crystal display) for the display mechanism and a CMT (cassette type magnetic tape device) for the document file mechanism, and small, lightweight, and low-cost devices have been realized. It has come to pass.

In such low-cost and compact document creation devices, for example, there are major constraints on the display screen size of the LCD that serves as the input mechanism, and it is necessary to use a small screen size of 1 to 2 lines and 10 characters. things are used.

In a low-cost and compact document creation device that is limited by its input and output mechanisms, it is important to make effective use of its input and output mechanisms to create highly functional, multifunctional, and easy-to-use devices. The big question is whether to realize the device.

For example, in conventional low-cost and compact document creation devices of this type with a small number of display character digits, it is possible to perform rotation, italicization, whiteout, font size, line break pitch, character amount, etc. in units of arbitrary lines. It does not have the ability to set various character modifications such as spacing.

For this reason, in the past, it was necessary to change the document format by rotating/italicizing, whitening, character spacing, etc. for each line, or to create a mixed text format by combining various characters including whiteout characters. In some cases, this could not be easily achieved with a simple operation.

[Purpose of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and is a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of displayed character digits. To be able to easily set various character decorations and to easily recognize the position of the line decoration, thereby making it easy to set and change various line decorations, print formats, etc. at any line position. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can easily create various documents with a wide variety of lines in units of inputted documents.

C Key Points of the Invention The present invention provides a line modification specifying means for specifying character decoration on a line-by-line basis of an input document in a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of displayed character digits; Means for selectively displaying a plurality of predetermined selection screens in a certain order in accordance with a predetermined screen switching operation when specifying a row modification by the means, and selecting a desired modification function from the displayed selection screen. an input means for inputting selection information, a line modification information storage means for storing each of the input selection information in association with a line of the document, and a row modification information storage means for storing the row modification information corresponding to the character string displayed on the display screen from the storage means. means for reading, and means for determining whether line decoration has been set for the display character string based on the read line decoration information;
The device has a means for displaying this determination result in a specific display format on the display screen, and is configured to display the presence or absence of line modification for each line of the input document. Various character decorations can be easily set on a line-by-line basis, and the set line position can be clearly displayed to the operator. This makes it easy to set and change character decorations on any line, and it is possible to easily create a variety of documents with a wide variety of lines in the input document.

[Embodiments of the invention] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In Fig. 1, 10 is a keyboard (K8>), a data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device for external storage, and a liquid crystal display (LCD).
The control target is the input/output control circuit unit that controls the input/output of each mechanical unit such as a serial printer (PRT), and the processing unit (CPLI) that controls the entire device, as well as the dictionary area and character font. It is a large-scale integrated circuit device that is integrated into a single chip together with an internal storage section consisting of ROM and RAM that has a storage area, a program area, etc., and the actual device has a terminal structure of 100 bins.
This is realized based on the semiconductor integrated circuit technology disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 204455, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-204456, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-204462, etc.

Hereinafter, this large-scale integrated circuit device will be referred to as superintegration or S■.

11 to 19 are internal components of the 5rio, respectively. Of these, 11 is the CPU that controls the entire device, and in addition to processing such as manual key recognition, kana-kanji conversion, document editing and proofreading, it also performs line-by-line character decoration according to line attribute information and print stop control. Executes line-qualification processing that includes.

In the actual machine, this CPU 11 has a logical structure equivalent to 280.

Further, in the figure, external buses connected to the system bus inside the 5110, connection terminals, and logic such as counters/timers provided inside the 8110 are omitted.

12 to 18 are internal components of 8110, which are connected to the internal system bus of c p'u 1i, respectively.

Of these, 12 are peripheral control circuits (bidirectional interface circuits), one of the three ports is used to output keyboard scan data (4 bits) and cassette write data (1 bit), and the other One port is used for inputting the keyboard return signal (8 bits). This peripheral control circuit is hereinafter referred to as PPI. In the actual machine, this PP112 has a logical structure equivalent to 8255.

13 is a decoder (DC
E).

14 is a RAM, in which a document buffer area, line modification information area, external character pattern area, provisional dictionary area, etc. are secured, and a line image buffer (D-8U F
) 140 areas will be secured, details of which are provided in Part 2.
This will be described later with reference to the memory map shown in the figure.

15 is a ROM, in which system programs,
Dictionaries, character fonts including English fonts, conversion tables, messages on multiple screens, etc. are stored.

16 is a cassette interface circuit (CMT-INTF) which performs read/write control of a data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device serving as an external storage under the control of the CPU 11; Before starting writing, the reader section outputs all "1" data for about 10 seconds, and then outputs bit serial cassette write data (line modification area data/document area data/
(external character pattern area data/phrase registration area data/W standard dictionary area data, etc.), and then outputs all "0" data for about 2 seconds as a trailer section.

17 is an LCD control circuit (LCDC), and RAM 14
It accesses the row image buffer 140 provided therein and outputs LCD display data.

18 is a printer controller (PRTC), and CP
Print image data is outputted via the RAM 14 under the control of the U 11.

A clock generator (CG) 19 receives a basic clock output from an external oscillator (O20) 20 and outputs a predetermined frequency-divided clock, timing signal, etc.

20 is an oscillator (O20) that generates a basic clock and supplies it to the clock generator 19 inside the 8110, 30 is a keyboard (KB) connected to the PP112 and decoder 13 inside the same 8110, and 40 is capable of recording write data. A D/A converter that converts into an analog signal and A that converts the reproduced analog signal into a digital signal.
8 via a CMT adapter 41 having a /D converter.
110 is a data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device connected to the cassette interface circuit 16 inside; 50 is an LCD driver (L
A liquid crystal display (hereinafter referred to as LCD) is connected to an LCD control circuit 17 inside the S10 via a CD-DRV (CD-DRV) 51, and a serial printer 60 is connected to the same printer controller 18.

Here, the display size of the LCD 50 is configured as shown in Fig. 5, with 1 line x 10 digits (1 digit; 24 x 24 dots), of which 9 digits excluding the rightmost digit are used as actual character display digits. The first digit on the right is used to display the shift mode. Further, at the bottom of each digit, there is provided a guide display section consisting of a small number of dots (8 x 24 dots) including a line modification indicator for displaying the presence or absence of line modification. Further, the serial printer 60 enables forward/reverse paper feeding control,
Paper is fed in the reverse direction when printing a line in which a reverse line feed (line feed B/line feed O (enlarged characters only)) is set in the line modification setting described later.

FIG. 2 is a memory map of the RAM 14 shown in FIG.
, a sentence buffer 14 that stores document information (character code string)
1. Line attributes that store various line modification information such as whiteout, rotation/italics, character size, line pitch, character spacing, and whether or not printing is stopped for each line of the document stored in the document buffer 141. A buffer 142, a custom character pattern buffer 143 for storing registered custom character patterns, a temporary dictionary area, a control information area, a phrase registration area, etc. are provided.

Here, 3888 bytes (54 x 72 bytes) are allocated to the line image buffer 140, and the document buffer 141
Allocate 3200z<ite (1600 characters x 2 bytes) to the line attribute buffer 142, allocate 198 bytes (99 lines x 2 bytes) to the external character pattern buffer 143,
Bytes (3 characters x 72 bytes) are allocated.

FIG. 3 shows the structure and contents of the row modification information stored in the row attribute buffer 142 shown in FIG. 2 above.
Here, the character spacing is 2 pits (0
(O dot) to “11”; character spacing 3 (12 dots)) is assigned, and the line pitch is 4 bits (“1111”: line break B (
Line feed amount - 18 inches/120), "0000"; Line feed 0
(line feed amount 20 inches/120), “0001”; line feed H
(Line feed!=+8 inches/120), “0010”; Line feed K (Line feed amount; +16 inches/120>, “0011”;
Line feed E (line feed amount; +20 inches/120), “010
0”; line feed 1 (line feed amount: +30 inches/120) ~”0
111”; line feed 4 (line feed amount; +60 inches/120))
Assign 4 bits to the font size (“0001°゛: size 1 (24 x 24 dots) to “1001”; size 9
(576 x 576 dots)), rotate and italicize 3
Bit (“ooo”: No rotation/italicization specified, “001”
: Rotation 1 (90°), “010”; Rotation 2 (180
°), “011”: Rotation 3 (270°), “100”
: Italicized) is assigned, and 1 bit (“1
": Yes/"0": No)" is assigned, and 1 bit ("1": Stopped/"0": Not stopped) is assigned to indicate whether printing is to be stopped.

Figures 4 (a) to (1) show each selection screen (line modification setting menu screen) when setting the above line decoration and the order of screen switching operations. Switch the screen using the cursor keys, and move horizontally (left/
The configuration is such that items can be selected (designation of selected items using the cursor) by operating the cursor keys (right).

On the actual machine, switching the display to this line modification screen is done by [
The command for the line modification display mode is entered by pressing the [A/-7-/〃] key while pressing the [Function] key.To simplify the explanation, here, we will use the above-mentioned line modification. The combination key operation for instructing the display mode is simply referred to as [Exercise 1] key operation. Also, when setting the above line modification, by updating the selection screen using the up/down cursor keys, the item selection on the selection screen before the update is completed (the item at the cursor position is selected). The line decoration information is written to the line attribute buffer 142, assuming that the line decoration setting is completed by pressing the [Select/Execute] key. In addition, in the above line modification display mode, if it is not selected, it is in the selected state set by formatting or the state set by full text deletion (for example, the cursor (diagonal line) position state shown in the figure). Each setting value at this time is referred to as a row modification standard value.

FIG. 5 shows the display screen structure of the above LCD5G,
Here, the display size is 1 line x 10 digits (1 digit; 24 x 24
Nine digits excluding the rightmost digit are used as actual character display digits, and one rightmost digit is used to display the shift mode. Furthermore, a small number of dots (8
A guide display section with a configuration of 24 dots (
When the line is modified, [---] lights up),
Displays lines, columns, number of characters per line, etc.

The display mechanism for displaying the presence or absence of line modification described above is referred to herein as a line modification indicator.

Furthermore, in the above-mentioned guide display section, a battery consumption indicator (in this case, a line modification indicator) that displays the consumption state of the battery that is the power source for operation of the device is displayed in a specific digit position (first digit in the figure) different from the above-mentioned row modification indicator. (the same display pattern) is provided.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the display control flow of the above-described line modification indicator.

The "row modification standard value" shown here is as described above, and its explanation will be omitted here.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the print processing flow when "print stop" is set in the line modification settings. still,
On the actual machine, document printing instructions are entered by pressing the [-/\/≧/...] key while holding down the [Function] key. Here, to simplify the explanation, the above-described combination key operation for instructing document printing will be simply referred to as a [document print] key operation.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of the print menu shown in FIG. 7, and a similar menu is displayed even when printing is stopped at the line position of "Printing Stopped". here,
Using the same cursor key operations as when setting line decorations above, select "Vertical/Horizontal", "Left margin 1 blank", "Japanese font (
24 x 24 dots) / English font (18 horizontal x 24 vertical)
It is possible to configure settings such as ``dot''.

FIGS. 9(a) to 9(e) are diagrams showing various character forms set by the line decoration setting means, respectively. In the figure, U
indicates the character spacing, and ■ indicates the line pitch.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the recording format of the data recorder 40 using the audio cassette magnetic tape device, and under the control of the cassette interface circuit 16 in the cassette 511G, at the time of data writing, prior to the start of writing, All "1" data is written for about 10 seconds as the leader section, and then the pit serial cassette write data (line modification information/
(document information/external character patterns/registered words/phrases/IT dictionary, etc.) are written, and then all "" is written for about 2 seconds as a trailer section.
o'' data is written.

Here, the operation of one embodiment will be explained with reference to the above figures.

When inputting a sentence containing kanji, the key input signal from the keyboard 30 is sent to the CPU 11 in the 8110.
The data is converted into kana-kanji under the control of , and stored in the document buffer 141 in the RAM 14. At this time, CP Ll 11
outputs a scan signal to the keyboard 30 via the PP 112 and the decoder 13, and inputs the return signal to the PP 112 to perform key discrimination and generate a key code. Furthermore, the dictionary in ROM 15, and further R
After indexing the provisional dictionary in the AM 14 and performing kana-kanji conversion processing, the input character code string including the converted kanji code is stored in the document buffer 141.

During the above-described document input, the input characters stored in the document buffer 141 are sequentially developed into patterns on the line image buffer 140 under the control of the CPU 11, and
Display control of D control circuit 17 and further LCD driver 51
A maximum of 9 digits are displayed on the LCD 50 using the display drive.

The previously inputted document thus input can be arbitrarily displayed as a character string of up to nine characters on the LCD 50 by operating the cursor keys, and can be used for proofreading, correction, etc. of the document.

For the above input document, rotate, italicize, line by line,
If you want to make various character decorations such as whiteout, character size, line feed pitch, character spacing, or specify printing stop, use the cursor keys to select and display the character string at the line position you want to modify, and then click [Function]. Line decoration is specified by combining the [Line decoration display mode] key with another specific key.

When the CPU 11 determines that the [line modification] key has been operated, the CPU 11 switches the display mode of the LCD 50 from the document display mode to the line modification display mode. The situation is shown in Figure 4. Figure 4 (a) shows the display state when in the document display mode, and Figure 4 (b) shows the initial display state after switching to the line modification display mode by operating the [line modification] key. Here, a selection screen for selecting the character amount interval is first displayed.

In this line modification display mode, the selection screen is switched by operating the cursor keys in the up and down directions, and items are selected by specifying the cursor by operating the cursor keys in the left and right directions.

For example, when the selection screen for selecting the presence or absence of white outline is displayed, if you do not select an item by operating the left/right cursor keys and switch the selection screen by operating the up/down cursor keys, the above selection screen Assuming that the content of the selected item position displayed with the cursor above is selected,
Next, the items on the newly displayed selection screen become the selection targets.

Display the selection screen for "Without white outline" by switching the selection screen above, change the setting with white outline by moving the cursor using the cursor keys, and then switch the selection screen, or press the [Select/Execute] button. By operating , line modification information having selection information of the presence/absence of white outline whose settings have been changed is stored in the line attribute storage area corresponding to the selected line position in the line attribute buffer 142 . Also, by switching the above selection screen to display the "Print Stop" selection screen, move the cursor using the cursor keys to select "Print Stop", and then press the [Select/Execute] key. , line modification information having control information of "printing stopped" is stored in the corresponding line attribute storage area in the same way as described above. FIG. 3 shows the correspondence between the line attribute buffer 142 and the document buffer 141 and the setting contents of the line modification information at this time.

In the above line decoration setting means, the document buffer 141
After new line modification settings have been made for any line position of the document stored in the document, the already input document in the same document buffer '7141 can be displayed on the LCD 50 by operating the cursor keys. In the upper guide display section, the line, digit, and number of characters per line of the displayed character string are displayed, and a line modification indicator and further a battery consumption indicator are selectively displayed. The guide display form at this time is shown in FIG. 5, and the lighting control processing procedure for the row modification indicator is shown in the sixth factor.

That is, in the lighting control process of the line modification indicator shown in FIG. 6, when a display character string is selected by cursor operation,
The line position and column position of the display string specified by the cursor,
and the number of characters per line are displayed, and the line modification information of the corresponding line position stored in the line attribute buffer 142 is referenced, and the same information is compared with the standard value of line modification, and the information selected by the cursor is It is determined whether line decoration is set for the displayed line (steps A11 to A in FIG. 6).
15).

Here, if the line decoration is not set, that is, if the content of the above line decoration information matches the above line decoration standard value, the line decoration indicator will not be lit, and if the line decoration is set, i.e. If the content of the line modification information does not match the line modification standard value, the line modification indicator is turned on (steps A16 and A17 in FIG. 6).

Such display control of line modification indicators is performed for all lines of the displayed document selected by the cursor keys (steps A18 to A24 in FIG. 6. A12 to
A11).

In this manner, the line position where the line modification has been performed can be easily confirmed from the lit state of the row modification indicator.

Next, the printing processing operation of the above-mentioned document will be explained.

At the time of document printing, document printing is specified by operating the [document print] key in combination with the [function] key and another specific key.

When the CPU 11 determines that the [document print] key has been operated, the CPU 11 switches the display mode of the LCD 50 from the document display mode to the print menu display mode. The situation is shown in Part 7.
and FIG.

When the CPU 11 determines that the [Document Print] key is operated, the CPU 11 initializes the count value of the line counter indicating the print line position, controls the LCD control circuit 11, and prints the eighth
Press the cursor key to display the print menu as shown in the figure.
The information is sequentially and selectively displayed on the CD 50 (step 811.B12 in FIG. 7). The screen switching and item selection at this time are performed by cursor key operation in the same way as the screen switching and item selection during the line modification setting described above. , “
Screens such as "left margin" and "Japanese font (24x24 dots)/English font (horizontal 18 x vertical 24 dots)" are switched, and the document format on each screen is selected by operating the left and right cursor keys. Regarding the "left margin" setting, each time the right cursor key is operated, the digit value is incremented (+1), and each time the left cursor key is operated, the digit value is decremented (-1). be done.

After the document format selection operation according to the above display contents, the [Select/Execute] key is operated, so that this document format setting information is written to the print information holding section provided in the control information area in the RAM 14.

Next, the CPU 11 sequentially reads the line modification information in the line attribute buffer 142 starting with the line modification information of the first line, searches for the line position where "print stop" is set, and determines the number of lines to be printed. After obtaining the information, based on the print information in the print information holding section,
Print processing is executed up to that line position (Step 8 in Figure 7).
13-B21).

When printing stops at the line position where "Print Stop" is set, the above print menu will be displayed again, and after the above stop line, "Vertical/Horizontal", "Left Margin", □ "Japanese/English", etc. The printing format can be changed.

Furthermore, by operating the [Select/Execute] key again after setting the print format, printing according to the newly set document format is started from the line position next to the above-mentioned stop line.

Also, if it is detected that the document to be printed has ended (there is no document on line L+1) before the above-mentioned "stop printing" setting line is searched, the number of lines to be printed up to that line position is calculated,
Execute the printing process up to the accompanying position (Step B in Figure 7)
13-315. B22-B24).

At this time, when printing is executed, the message [-Printing-] is displayed in the character display column of the LCD 50. or,
When printing is executed, character decoration is optionally performed on a line-by-line basis according to the contents of the line decoration information in the line attribute buffer 142 corresponding to the print line. The contents of each character modification at this time are shown in FIG. 3, and examples of each character font are shown in FIGS. 9(a) to (e). For example, when the white outline designation bit of the line modification information of the print line is 41011, the character form is without white outline, and when it is "1", the character form is with white outline. Also, the rotation/italic setting value of the line modification information of the print line is “00”.
0" means no rotation/oblique, "OO1" means 1 rotation (half-hour hand direction 90°), and "010" means 2 rotations.
(180°), “011” indicates rotation 3 (half-hour hand direction 270°), and “100” indicates italic cloth (that is, italic designation). Also, if the line feed pitch of the line modification information of the print line is line feed B - reverse line feed (1111"'), -8/12
0 inch (reverse paper feed), line feed H - half line feed (“000
1”), 8/120 inch, one ruled line break (
“0010”) is 16/120 inches, line break E=
English line break (“OO11” ”) Teareba 20/120
inch, 30/12 for line break 1 (“oloo”)
0 inch, line break 2 (“'0101”) is 40/
120 inches, 45 for 3 line breaks (“'0110”)
/ 120 inches, 6 if line break 4 ("0111")
Paper feed control is executed with a line feed amount of 0/120 inches. Also, the character spacing of the line modification information of the print line is O
(“'00”), the printing character pitch is 0 dots, if the character spacing is 1 (““01”), the printing character pitch is 3 dots, and the character spacing is 2.
(“”10”) means 6 dots, the letter I!!3(”1
1”), the space between characters is 12 dots. Also, the font size is: height x width - 24 x 24 dots for size 1 (“0001”), and 24 dots for size 2 (“ooio”). Length x width - 32 x 32 dots, size 3 ("'00
11"), the height x width = 40 x 40 dots; for size 4 ("0100"), the height x width -24 x 48 dots (double width); for size 5 ("0101"), the height x J - 48X 48 dots, size 6 ("011
0"), length x width - 96 x 96 dots, size 7
(0111”) is length x width – 192 x 192 dots, and size 8 (“1000”) is length x width – 288
If it is x 288 dots and size 9 (1001'), it will be length x width -576 x 576 dots.

In FIG. 9, U indicates character spacing, and ■ indicates line feed/pitch. In addition, (a) in the same figure is a full-width (size 1) character string without character modification, (b) is a character string with enlargement specified (size 3), and (C) is a character string with rotation specified (rotation 2). −
180°) full-width character string, (d) in the same figure is italicized (
(e) shows a full-width character string with outline (with italics) and a character string with outline and enlargement designation (with outline, size 5), respectively.

In this manner, various row modification processes are performed on a row-by-row basis according to the row modification information stored in the row attribute buffer 142.

Further, when saving the above-mentioned document information on a cassette tape, document storage is specified by operating the [save] key in combination with the [auxiliary] key and the specific key. CPU1
1 displays the message ``Document save'' on the character display digit of the LCD 50 when the operation input of the ``Save 1'' key is determined, and starts the save process when the input of the ``Select/Execute'' key is determined. That is, CP LJ 11 has the above [selection/
When the input of the [Execute] key is determined, Nil is generated to indicate that the recording preparation of the data recorder 40 is completed. And first, R
When writing data stored in AM14, data from the reader section is output. That is, here, all "1" data is output for one second. Thereafter, the data stored in RAM H is read out, converted into bit-serial cassette write data, and output. This write data order is
Line modification information stored in the line attribute buffer 142, document information stored in the document buffer 141, custom character patterns stored in the custom character pattern buffer 143, registered words and phrases stored in the word/phrase registration area, and text information stored in the temporary dictionary area. This is the order of the provisional dictionary. Furthermore, after outputting this cassette write data, all "O" data is output as a trailer section for 2 seconds. These data are sequentially inputted to the CMT adapter 41 via the PP 112 and further via the cassette interface circuit 16, converted into analog audio signals, and then supplied to the data recorder 40 to record the cassette set in the recorder. Recorded (recorded) on tape.

The recording format on the cassette tape at this time is 10th.
Shown in the figure.

In this way, line modification information, external character patterns, etc. are stored in the external data recorder 40 while being separated from the original character information.

By having a line modification function including the line modification indicator as described above, it is possible to easily add various line modification information to any line position in a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of display characters. In addition to being able to
Easily determine the line position where the line modification was made! This makes it possible to easily set and change any document format, including white characters, in units of any line, and to easily perform mixed printing using various combinations of characters.

In addition, printing can be stopped at any line position in the document to be printed, so for example, if the number of characters that can be displayed at one time is severely restricted, you may want to type out a part of the document to check or refer to. These can be easily realized with simple operations. In addition, if the operator wants to change the print format in the middle of printing, or if the operator wants to change the print format in the middle of printing, by instructing to stop printing in line units and changing the settings of the document format after the stop line, or if the operator wants to change the print format in the middle of printing, When you want to print by changing the ribbon color, or when you want to perform multi-column printing, or when you want to shift the printing position from the line position where it is in the middle of printing, or when you want to print a mixture of vertical and horizontal writing in each line, etc. , various document modifications can be easily realized with simple operations.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, in a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of displayed character digits,
A line decoration specifying means for specifying character decoration on a line-by-line basis of an input document, and when specifying line decoration by this line decoration specifying means, a plurality of predetermined selection screens are sequentially selected in a fixed order according to a predetermined screen switching operation. means for selectively displaying; input means for selecting a desired modification function from the displayed selection screen; and line modification information storage means for storing each of the input selection information in association with a row of the document. , means for reading line modification information corresponding to the character string displayed on the display screen from the storage means, and setting of line modification for the display character string based on the read line modification information. and a means for displaying the determination result in a specific display format on the display screen to display the presence or absence of line modification for each line of the input document. As a result, various character decorations can be easily set for each line, and the set line position can be clearly displayed on the monitor. This makes it easy to set and change character decorations on any line, and it is possible to easily create a variety of documents with a wide variety of lines in the input document.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a device in one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a memory map in the RAM in the above embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a device in the above embodiment. Figures 4(a) to 4(e) showing the structure and contents of modification information.
) is a diagram showing various selection screens and their display order in the above embodiment, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the structure of the display screen in the above embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a line modification indicator in the above embodiment. 7 is a flowchart showing the print processing flow in the above embodiment, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of the print menu and its display flow in the above embodiment, and FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the display control flow in the above embodiment. (a) to (e) are diagrams showing various modified character forms in the above embodiment, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the recording format of the data recorder in the above embodiment. 10...81, 11...CPU, 12...PP1
．． 13...Decoder, 14...RAM, 15...
ROM, 16...cassette interface circuit,
17... LCD control circuit, 18... Printer controller 70-ra, 19... Clock generator, 20...
...Oscillator, 30...Keyboard, 40...Data recorder, 41...CMT adapter, 50...LC
D160...Serial printer, 140...Line image buffer, 141...Document buffer, 142...
・Row attribute buffer? , 143...Gaiji pattern buffer. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue 2nd Weakness 7th Weak Figure 8 Procedure? Hoshosho (method) 1. Indication of the case Japanese Patent Application No. 60-129226 2, Title of invention document preparation device 3, Person making the amendment Relationship to the case Patent applicant (307) Toshiba Corporation 4, Agent 1-26 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo No. 5 No. 17a Building 7,
Contents of the amendment (1) In the 11th line of page 32 of the clear am
I am corrected.

Claims (5)

[Claims] (1) In a document creation device having a display screen configuration in which an input document is displayed in one line or with a predetermined number of digits within one line, a line modification specifying means for specifying character decoration on a line-by-line basis of the document; , means for selectively displaying a plurality of predetermined selection screens in a predetermined order in accordance with a predetermined screen switching operation when specifying a line decoration by the line decoration specification means; an input means for selecting a modification function to be displayed; a line attribute storage means for storing each piece of selection information inputted by the input means in association with a line of the document; a means for reading line modification information corresponding to a character string; a means for determining whether or not a line modification has been set for the display character string based on the read line modification information; and a result of this determination. and means for displaying on the display screen in a specific display format, and displaying whether or not there is line modification on a line-by-line basis of an input document. (2) The document creation device according to claim 1, which has a unique display area for displaying the presence or absence of line modification at a predetermined specific position on the display screen. (3) The document creation device according to claim 1, wherein a unique display area for displaying the presence or absence of the line modification is provided independently from the display area for the character string. (4) The document creation device according to claim 1, wherein switching of the selection screen, selection of a function on the screen, and selection of a character string displayed on the display screen are performed by designating a cursor. (5) By switching the above selection screen to the next selection screen, the function selection on the previous selection screen is finished, and when a specific function key is operated, the function selection information on each selection screen is changed to the above. The document creation device according to claim 1, which stores the information in the line attribute storage means.