JPS6175468A - Place name dictionary generating method in japanese word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input names of places efficiency and display a desired place on a display screen instantaneously and easily by inputting data from a zip code to an urban or prefecture name and a city, or village name as one registered word by using the town or village name as a key word. CONSTITUTION:A zip code, urban or prefecture name, and city, town, or village name are registered in a dictionary as one word. Phrases except the town or village name are common to respective towns are villages and it is improper to use them as a key word, so a method of inputting and converting individual town or village names as key words is employed. Therefore, a registered place name is displayed on the display screen instantaneously. For example, when a key word 'kasumigaseki' is inputted and converted, 'zip code 100, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ward, Tokyo' is displayed immediately on the display screen, so there is no trouble for retrieval, selection, movement, erasure, etc., on the screen. Therefore, the generation of a list of names and addresses is performed easily and economically.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a floppy disk place name dictionary for the purpose of streamlining the input of place names in a Japanese word processor and displaying desired place names instantly and easily on a display screen when using a place name dictionary. This paper relates to input conversion methods.

The following method is currently used to input place names in Japanese word processors.

In other words, you can either enter the postal code, prefecture name, city/ward name, and town/village name for each word in order on a dictionary floppy disk, or you can use the digits of the postal code as keywords to register words from the postal code to the city/ward name. It depends on how you type it.

Therefore, in order to display the desired place name on the display screen, the user must sequentially press keys for the postal code, prefecture name, city/ward name, and town/village name. In the latter case, when a keyword is entered by typing, a large number of town names with different postal codes are displayed, and time is wasted in selecting the desired place name.

In the present invention, postal codes, prefectures, and city/ward/town/village names are registered in a dictionary as one registered word. Since words other than town and village names are common to each town and village and are inappropriate to use as keywords, a method is used in which individual town and village names are input and converted as keywords. Therefore, with one input conversion operation,
This is a place name dictionary input conversion method that allows registered place names to be displayed instantly on a display screen. Keywords represent town and village names in kana or English letters.

For example, if you input and convert the keyword ``Kasumigaseki,'' ``Kasumigaseki J, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100'' will be displayed immediately on the display screen, so you will not have to perform editing operations such as searching, selecting, moving, and deleting on the screen. do not.

Therefore, creating lists and addresses can be done easily and economically.

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Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A dictionary floppy disk for a Japanese word processor system is provided with town and village names in kana and English characters as keywords, and everything from postal codes to prefecture names and city, ward, town and village names is input as one registered word. How to create a place name dictionary