JPS62244656A - Document drawing-up apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To draw up a beautiful document easy to view when a document mingling the Japanese language with foreign languages is drawn up, by setting one character interval consisting of a Japanese character and the space between characters to integer times one character interval consisting of a foreign character and the space between characters. CONSTITUTION:A main control apparatus 2 judges whether the character data taken out from a sentence memory 3 consists of foreign characters and, in the case of the foreign characters, controls a printer 5 according to the character dot information of a type face, for example, a Pica character and character-to-character dot information designated by a number-of-character dot table 6 to allow a printing head to move only over a character-to- character dot (c) to successively continue printing. When a Japanese character is taken out from the sentence memory 3, the transverse number-of-dot data (b) and character-to-character number-of-dot data (c) of the foreign character and the transverse number-of-dot (d) of the Japanese character are taken out from the number-of-character dot table 6 to operate the number of dots between Japanese characters. By this method, one character interval consisting of the Japanese character and the space between characters is set so as to become integer times one character interval consisting of the foreign character and the space between characters. Therefore, character positions where upper and lower lines of a continuous printing line are printed are complete even if foreign languages and the Japanese language are mixed and a document easy to view is obtained.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a document creation device such as a word processor, and more particularly to a document creation device that creates a document by editing a text containing a mixture of Japanese and European texts.

<Prior art> Conventionally, document creation devices called Japanese word processors are capable of inputting characters in Japanese and European languages, but when editing a text containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters, editing control is usually performed in the Japanese document format. Therefore, editing processing unique to European languages could not be applied to the European language lines. The same applies when creating a document using a printing device.

In other words, when recording on a printing device, European characters and Japanese characters generally have different dot matrix structures (
(Excluding symbols, Japanese characters have a thicker dot structure), and even if Japanese characters were mixed in the printed line of a European text, they were uniformly recorded. As a result, the positions of the characters at the top and bottom of successive printed lines are uneven, resulting in a document that is difficult to read.

<Purpose> The present invention is an improvement that enables easy-to-read and beautiful document creation when creating a document containing a mixture of Japanese and European texts.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes means for determining whether characters to be recorded are Japanese character data or European character data when creating a document using a printing device, and character spacing for Japanese characters based on the determination result of the means. The method includes means for supplying either data or intercharacter space data for European characters to the printing device, and one character interval consisting of the Japanese character and this intercharacter space is set to one character consisting of the European character and this intercharacter space. This is set to an integer multiple of the spacing, so that the positions of the printed characters on the top and bottom lines of consecutive printed lines containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters are aligned with each other, resulting in neat and beautiful documents. 0 <Embodiment> FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device of the present invention.

Reference numeral 1 denotes an input device comprising a keyboard having character keys for Japanese and European languages, language mode indicating means for indicating whether the input language is Japanese or European, and various editing keys.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a main control unit (CPU) which controls the entire apparatus and executes editing processing according to Japanese or European languages, into which various input information from the input device 1 is introduced.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a text memory for storing input Japanese or European texts and format information, and 4 indicates a pattern in which text data to be displayed from among the text data stored in the text memory 3 is patterned by a display character generator (not shown). A display device such as a CRT for displaying data, and 5 a printing device that converts text data transferred from the text memory 3 into a printing pattern and records it, and prints Japanese characters and European characters in dot configurations of different sizes. be.

The printing device uses Pica characters as a European character typeface.

It is possible to record in multiple fonts such as elite characters.For example, this character dot configuration is as shown in (4) in Fig.
It is composed of a dot matrix of 24x24 and a dot matrix of character spacing C, and Japanese characters are composed of a matrix of a
It consists of

Furthermore, although the elite characters of European characters are not shown, they are composed of, for example, a 24×17 dot matrix and a dot f between characters.

Therefore, when printing, this printing device 5 is instructed to select a font for European characters in advance, and prints in the designated font, and also prints Japanese characters in the matrix configuration described above.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a character dot number table that stores the number of vertical dots and the number of horizontal dots in the character matrix of each of a plurality of fonts for Japanese characters and European characters, and the number of intercharacter dots C and f for each font for European characters. When printing, the main control device (C
PU) refers to the data in the table 6 and prints the printing device 5.
It controls the

Next, the print control operation of the document creation apparatus having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be further explained below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 3.

Now, character information containing a mixture of Japanese and European characters is input from the input device 1, and this input text data is edited and stored in the text memory 3, and an attempt is made to print the text data to create a document. When printing, a printing instruction is first given, and for European characters, the font is also given.

Then, the printing operation begins, and the character data retrieved from the text memory 3 during this printing is first judged by the main control unit (CPU) 2 as to whether or not it is a Latin character (step Sz in FIG. 3). ), in the case of a Roman character, the specified font in the character dot number table 6, for example, if a bi-character is specified, the printing device 5 is controlled according to the character dot information and character spacing dot information of the bi-character. Then, the first character is printed (step S2), and then the print head is moved only to the dot c between the characters (step S3).
), completes the printing cycle for one character.

If European characters continue, the printing cycle is repeated to continue sequential character printing.

Next, when Japanese characters are retrieved from sentence memory 3,
It is determined that it is a Japanese character (step S+),
Next, from the character dot number table 6, the font of the specified European character, in this example, the horizontal dot number data b in the character matrix of bi-literal characters, the data of the number of dots between characters C, and the number of horizontal dots in the character matrix of Japanese characters. The data d is taken out and the number of inter-character dots of the Japanese character is calculated (step S4). This calculation calculates the number of dots between characters in a Japanese character so that the sum of the number of horizontal dots d and the number of dots between characters is exactly twice the number of horizontal dots and the number of dots between characters in the font of the European character. calculate.

In other words, the number of dots between characters in Japanese characters is e, the number of horizontal dots in Japanese characters is d, and the number of horizontal dots in biographical characters is d.

Assuming that the number of dots between characters in bi-power characters is C, e=2X(b+
c) Perform the calculation -d to calculate the number of inter-character dots. This sets the character spacing between Japanese characters and this inter-character space to be twice the character interval between European characters and this inter-character space.

Thereafter, the printing device 5 is controlled according to the character dot information of the Japanese characters and the intercharacter dot information obtained by the above calculation, and the characters are first printed (step S4), and then the print head is moved only for the intercharacter dots (step S4). S6), the printing cycle for one character is completed. If Japanese characters continue, the printing cycle is repeated and printing continues in sequence.

As described above, the text data containing a mixture of European and Japanese texts in the text memory 3 is printed by the printing device 5 and created as a document.

This created document has a Japanese character that is thick in the horizontal direction (the sum of the number of horizontal dots in the character matrix and the number of dots between characters), and a Japanese character that is thick in the horizontal direction (the sum of the number of horizontal dots in the character matrix and the number of dots between characters). Therefore, the positions of the printed characters on the top and bottom of successive printed lines are aligned even if European and Japanese characters are mixed, resulting in an easy-to-read document.

In the example above, a bi-power font is selected as a Roman character, but if an elite character is selected, the dot count data of the elite character is extracted from Table 6 and controlled in the same way as above. Ru.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the number of dots between characters of Japanese characters is calculated, but the numbers of dots between characters corresponding to bi-power characters and elite characters are described in advance in Table 6 above. Let it be stored in memory,
When the characters to be recorded are Japanese characters, it is also possible to extract the corresponding dot number data from the table 6 according to the designated font.

Furthermore, although a plurality of fonts can be selectively printed as the printing fonts of European characters by the printing device, it is of course possible to print only one predetermined font of European characters.

Furthermore, in the case of symbols related to Japanese characters, that is, even when printing symbols that are composed of dot matrices smaller than the dot matrix of Japanese characters, the number of horizontal dots and the number of inter-character dots by the character matrix of this symbol are It is more preferable to adjust the number of inter-character dots of the symbol so that the sum is equal to the sum of the number of horizontal dots and the number of inter-character dots in the character matrix of Roman characters.

<Effects> As described above, the document creation device of the present invention can produce Japanese and Japanese documents.
a character input means having a Japanese character input key and a European character input key for inputting a European text; a language mode indicating means capable of indicating whether the input language by the character input means is Japanese or European; A text memory that stores text information, a control circuit that executes editing processing according to the language specified by the language mode instruction means, and a control circuit that separates Japanese character data and European character data from the text memory into different sizes. In a document creation device that is equipped with a printing device that records in a dot matrix configuration and that creates documents in which Japanese and European languages are mixed, when the printing device creates the document,
A means for determining whether the characters to be recorded are Japanese character data or European character data, and a printing device that prints either character spacing data for Japanese characters or character spacing data for European characters based on the determination result by the means. 1 consisting of the Japanese character and the inter-character space.
The character spacing is set to an integer multiple of the one-character spacing made up of the Roman characters and this intercharacter space, and this allows for continuous printing lines when creating a document by editing a text that contains both Japanese and European characters. Each character position in the upper and lower line positions is aligned, and the characters can be recorded in an orderly manner, resulting in an easy-to-read and beautiful document.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the text creation device of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a diagram showing the character marks recorded by the printing device included in the device, and Figure 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the device during printing. 0 is the input device, 2 is the main control device , 3: Text memory, 4: Display device, 5: Printing device, 6: Character dot number table. Agent Patent attorney Takeshi Sugiyama (and 1 other person) compilation /FJ 64 no 69 So 2 z 3I21

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A character input means having a Japanese character input key and a European character input key for inputting Japanese or European sentences, and an ability to indicate whether the input language by the character input means is Japanese or European. a language mode instructing means, a text memory for storing the input text information, a main control device for respectively executing editing processing according to the language instructed by the language mode instructing means, and Japanese characters from the text memory. In a document creation device that is equipped with a printing device that records data and Roman character data in a dot matrix configuration of different sizes and that creates documents in which Japanese and European characters are mixed, the characters that are recorded when the document is created by the printing device. means for determining whether is Japanese character data or European character data, and supplying either character spacing data for Japanese characters or character spacing data for European characters to a printing device based on the determination result of the determining means. 1. A document creation device characterized in that the one-character interval between the Japanese characters and the inter-character space is set to an integral multiple of the one-character interval between the European characters and the inter-character space.