JPS62247452A - Word processor with format setting function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the direct image of a format through the sense of vision by setting the format based on the position designated on a display screen and displaying the set format in a pattern in response to the designated screen position. CONSTITUTION:A display part 1 is provided together with an input part 2 which designates the screen position of the part 1 for input, a format setting means 3 which sets a format based on the screen position designated by the part 2, and a display control means 4 which displays the format set by the means 3 in the form of a pattern in response to the screen position designated by the part 2. When the screen position of the part 1 is supplied with designation in accordance with the format showing the spaces among characters, the spaces among lines, etc., to be set, the means 3 sets a format based on the designated position and at the same time the set format is displayed in a pattern under the control of the means 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] This invention relates to a word processor with a formatting arm.

[Summary of the Invention] In a word processor, when a position on a display screen is specified and input, a format is set based on the specified input position, and the set format is made to correspond to the specified input screen position. By displaying the pattern, the format can be visualized directly.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] Conventionally, when setting the column pitch and line pitch when setting the format in a Japanese word processor, the format format is displayed in numbers, so it is difficult to visually determine the actual character spacing and line spacing. This invention was made against the background of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to visually visualize the format directly. An object of the present invention is to provide a word processor with formatting means that can be set while changing the format.

[Means for Solving the Problems] Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention. In Fig. 1, 1 is a display section, and 2 is an input section for specifying and inputting the screen position of this display section l. , 3 is a formatting means that performs formatting based on the screen position specified and input from this input section 2; 4
is a display control means for displaying the format set by the format setting means 3 in a pattern corresponding to the screen position specified and input from the input section 2.

[Operation] To explain the operation of the present invention, when the screen position of the display section l is specified and inputted from the input section 2 according to the format such as the one-line spacing between characters to be set, the format setting means 4 inputs the specified input position. Formatting is done based on position, and
The format set under the control of the display control means 4 is displayed in a pattern.

[Example] This invention will now be described in detail based on an example shown in FIGS. 2 to 7. Note that this embodiment shows an example in which the present invention is applied to a Japan 3B personal word processor.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic sectional view of this word processor, in which 11 is the case body, 12 is an electronic circuit (mC large-scale integrated circuit), and 13 is a circuit board.

A liquid crystal display panel 14 is disposed inside the case main body 11, and a plurality of transparent touch electrodes T are provided on a transparent surface glass 15 disposed above the liquid crystal display panel 14. ... are arranged in a matrix.

The liquid crystal display panel 14 is driven according to a dot matrix display method, and the display contents differ depending on the normal mode and format setting mode. Figure 3 shows the display contents in normal mode, where A is the layout display area, mouth is the function key display area, C is the character key display area, 2 is the text display area, and E is the kanji conversion candidate display area. be. In this case, a cursor will be displayed in the "new" part of the 1st sentence display section 2, and by directly specifying and inputting the conversion key and its kanji candidate (touch input where the kanji candidate is displayed, as described later), "new" will be displayed.
Kanji conversion is performed.

FIG. 4 shows the display contents in the format setting mode, where a is a format image display section, b is a format display section, C is a paper size display section, and d is a function key display section. The liquid crystal display panel 14 is electrically connected to the circuit board 13 via an interconnector 16.

Further, a plurality of touch electrodes T formed on the front glass 15 are arranged along an XY coordinate system, and constitute a touch panel 17. In the touch panel 17, each coordinate position is formed by electrical processing, and when a human body such as a finger touches the touch electrode T, the contact capacitance component generated on the touch electrode T at that time is detected and the coordinate position is input. This is a known configuration. When the touch electrode T constituting the touch panel 17 is touched with a finger while visually confirming the display contents of the liquid crystal display panel 14, the position touched by the finger is designated and input. In this case, for example, when the user touches the top of the function key display section, the touched function key is designated and input. In addition,
The touch panel 17 is electrically connected to the circuit board 13 via an ink connector 18.

Next, the circuit configuration of this word processor will be explained with reference to FIG. The data is taken into the CPU (Central Processing Circuit) 23 via the CPU.

The CPU 23 executes various processes of this word processor, such as input processing, kanji conversion processing, 1 sentence creation processing, formatting processing, etc. In addition to the normal calculation section and control section,
The A, B, f registers required for formatting are provided. Here, the A register is a counter used to set the digit spacing, the B register is a counter used to set the line spacing, and the f register is a flag register in which a horizontal writing designation flag is set. And 1 for CPU23
10M24, a kanji dictionary memory 25, and a document memory 26 are connected via a path line.

The ROM 24 stores various microprograms and the like, and also functions as a character generator. In addition, the kanji dictionary memory 25 is used when performing ephemeral kana-kanji conversion and romaji-kana-kanji conversion, and the document memory 26 is used to store input sentences, and format data set in advance is also stored in this document memory 26. be remembered. Print @27 is configured by a thermal printer, and can print, for example, up to 80 characters per line.

The display data output from the CPU 23 is converted into a display drive signal by the display control section 28 and then sent to the display section 29 and displayed on the liquid crystal display panel 14.

Normally, formatting is done by following these steps:
That is, the normal mode is switched to the formatting mode. Then, in the formatting mode, after specifying the paper size and writing style, specify the column and then specify the line. When the normal mode is switched to the formatting mode, the operation according to the flow shown in FIG. 6 is executed. First, the presence or absence of a touch input, such as whether a human body such as a finger has touched the touch electrode T constituting the touch panel 17, is detected (step S1). If there is no touch input, the system remains in a standby state until the presence of a touch input is detected. Become. Then, when the presence of a touch input is detected, a touch input position is determined according to the position data taken into the CPU 23 from the transparent touch input section 21 (step S2), based on the touch input position determined in this way. next step S
At step 3, it is determined whether the "specified" position of the key display section d shown in FIG. 4 has been touched, or in other words, whether the designated key has been input. As a result, if it is detected that the designation key has been input, the process proceeds to step S4, where it is determined whether the paper size has been designated, that is, whether the position of the paper size display section C has been touched, and the result of this determination is Switch to a specification input mode in which it is possible to input paper size specification or writing style specification according to (step S5,
S6) In this case, the display section set to the specified input enable mode is highlighted. In the display example of FIG. 4, the paper size display section C is highlighted as indicated by diagonal lines, thereby clearly indicating that the paper size specification input mode is set. When the switching process to the designated input mode is completed, the process returns to step S1.

If it is detected in step S3 that there is no designated input, the process proceeds to step S7, where it is checked whether the cancel key on the machine key display section d has been input. Here, if the cancel key is input, the formatting is returned to the initial state (step S8). Note that such initialization processing is of course also executed when switching from normal mode to formatting mode. Next, it is checked whether or not there is a manual release key on the arm key display section d (step S9).

Here, if the release key is input, the formatting mode is canceled and the mode is returned to the normal mode.

If it is determined in step S9 that the release key is not manually operated, the process proceeds to step SIO, and in this step SIO, in the paper size specification input mode, it is determined that there is a size specification, that is, the position of the paper size display section C has been touched. is detected, the next paper size candidate is selected and designated and displayed on the paper size display section C (step S l
l).

Therefore, every time there is such a size specification, the selected paper size will be displayed in the paper size display section C from "B4" to "A".
4" → "A3". In the next step S12.313, whether or not the writing style is designated is checked in the writing style designation input mode. In this case, the presence or absence of touch input at the "horizontal writing" position on the waterfall key display part d is checked, and as a result, if vertical writing is specified, it is changed to horizontal writing (
Step 314), and if horizontal writing is specified, the writing is changed to vertical writing (step S15). In this case, when the vertical writing is changed to horizontal writing, the horizontal writing kiff 5'f is on, that is, the flag register f is set to l'' (step 516).

When such writing style specification is completed, the process advances from step S12 or steps S15 and S16 to step S17,
The presence or absence of line or column spacing is checked. In this case, the presence or absence of a touch input within the range of the format image display section a is checked, and if there is a touch input, the process proceeds to step 318, where the line and interdigit average value calculation and display processing, which will be described later, is executed. after that.

Return to step 31.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing specific details of the calculation and display processing of average values between rows and digits shown in step 318 of FIG. First, this flow includes steps S21 to S33.
2, digit formatting process.

Next, row formatting processing is performed in steps 523-541.

That is, in step 321, it is determined whether the content of the A counter is rQJ, and if it is "0", it is detected that it is the initial input of a digit. In this case, the process proceeds to step 322, and a base dot is displayed at the specified position where the touch input was made. Here, in the format image display section a of FIG. 4,
The dot displayed at the top left becomes the base dot. Note that the size of the dot display corresponds to the normal character size. Then, the process advances to step S23, and the value of the A counter is incremented by 1 to become rlJ. As a result, the flow is initially exited at this point.

Then, when entering this flow again, the value of the A counter is rlJ, so from step 521 to step 3
The process proceeds to step S24, where the value of the A counter is incremented by 1 to become "2." Next, the process proceeds to step S25, where it is detected whether a digit has been specified, that is, whether a touch input has been made within the range of the format image display alla. If no digit designation is detected, the program jumps to step 333, but if one digit designation is detected, the process advances to step 526, where it is determined whether the content of the flag register f is "1". In this case, as described above, the horizontal writing designation flag is set in the flag register f, and if the horizontal writing designation flag is turned on, steps S27 and 328 are executed, and if it is turned off, steps s29 and S30 are executed. That is, if horizontal writing is currently specified, horizontal pitch average calculation processing (step 527) is executed. This calculation process is
This function calculates the average value of the intervals between multiple touch positions input in the horizontal direction of the format image display area a, and based on the average value of the horizontal pitches determined by this, the format image display fia displays the input specified positions in the input specified position. The corresponding dots are displayed (step 528), that is, the dots corresponding to the number of A counters are sequentially illuminated in the horizontal direction from the base dot at the average pitch calculated as described above (see FIG. 4).
On the other hand, if vertical writing is specified, vertical pitch average calculation processing (step 529) is executed. This calculation process involves calculating the average value of the intervals between multiple touch positions input in the vertical direction of the format image display area a.
Based on the average value of the vertical pitch determined in this manner, dots corresponding to the designated input positions are displayed in the format image display section a (step 530). That is, dots corresponding to the number of A counters are displayed as described above. The dots are sequentially illuminated in the vertical direction starting from the base dot at the average pitch calculated.

Therefore, in both the horizontal writing designation and the vertical writing designation, the process proceeds to step 531, and the number of digits is calculated by dividing the calculated average pitch by the length of the digits of the paper size. That is, it is calculated how many digits can be input per line of the currently specified paper size. Then, the calculated number of digits is displayed on the form display section, and the horizontal pitch average value (in millimeters) calculated in the above-mentioned step S27 or step S29 is displayed on the form display mb. Here, in the display example of FIG. 4, if the character input area in the horizontal direction of A4 size paper is, for example, 180 + am, then 180 in.
÷ (5.0 layer pitch>+5.0m ugly character width>)
The wealth will be 18 digits.

When this type of digit formatting process is completed (input for 3 dots including the base dot is completed), steps 333 to 333 are completed.
The line formatting process shown at 341 is performed. In this case, steps 333 to S41 are the steps S24 to S3 described above.
2, the details of which are left to the digit formatting process. Therefore, first, the value of the B counter that counts the number of row designation inputs is incremented by 1 (step 533), and then,
If the presence of line designation is detected in step 334, horizontal writing or vertical writing designation is checked in step S35, and if horizontal writing is designated, vertical pitch average value calculation and dot display processing (step S36.3'37) are executed. If vertical writing is specified, horizontal pitch average value calculation and dot display processing (steps 538 and 539) are executed. and,
Row number calculation and display processing (steps 340 and 341) is executed. As a result, in the display example of FIG. 4, 30 lines are displayed in A4 size with a line spacing of 5.0 square meters.

In this embodiment, in the format setting mode, when you touch the touch panel 17 on the format image display area a with your finger, the format for one digit and line is automatically set, and the format image display area a also displays the settings. Since the old-style content is displayed in a pattern with dots, the formatted content can be confirmed by the pattern display in the format image display section a in an image similar to the actual character display.

In addition, although the above embodiment describes the formatting of columns and lines, it is also possible to set tabs, decimal Φ tabs, margins, etc. Also, the layout display section may be used as the display section for displaying the set format data. May be used.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained in detail above, the present invention is capable of specifying and inputting a position on one display screen in a word processor, and a format is set based on the specified input position, and the set format is also specified. By displaying a pattern corresponding to the input screen position, it is possible to directly imagine the format visually.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of this invention, Figure 2 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of this invention.
7 to 7 show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of a personal word processor to which the present invention is applied, #l3rI! i is the display state diagram in normal mode, the fourth
The figure is a display state diagram in formatting mode, Figure 5 is a basic block circuit diagram of this word processor, Figure 6 is a flowchart showing the formatting operation, and Figure 7 is the line of step 318 shown in Figure 6. , is a flowchart showing specific details of inter-digit average value calculation and display processing. 14...Liquid crystal display panel, 17...Touch panel, 21...Transparent touch input section, 23
...-CPU, 24...ROM, 29.old...display section. Patent applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] a display section, an input section for specifying and inputting a screen position of the display section, a format setting means for setting a format based on the screen position specified and input from the input section, and a format setting means for setting a format based on the screen position specified and input from the input section; A word processor with a formatting function, comprising display control means for displaying a pattern on the display section corresponding to a screen position specified and input from the input section.