JPS63113597A - Document generator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] (Industrial Field of Application) This invention is an object of the present invention to display text information inputted manually in a word processor or the like by displaying it on a display device with line breaks every desired number of characters. The present invention relates to a text creation device that creates text, and more specifically, relates to a text creation device that reduces and displays characters when the number of characters displayed in each line on a display device is equal to or greater than a reference number of characters.

(Prior Art) In word processors, computers, etc., symbols such as characters are usually displayed on a display device by aggregating them into a large number of dots, and the number of 196 dots is usually fixed by the display device. Therefore, the maximum number of characters that can be simultaneously displayed in one horizontal or vertical line of a display device is usually determined to be, for example, up to 40 characters.

Therefore, if the number of characters per line exceeds the above maximum number, for example 40 characters, scrolling techniques are used, characters that exceed the maximum number of characters that can be displayed on the display device are not normally displayed, but are scrolled as necessary. to display the characters that are not displayed. To explain specifically, for example, when processing a sentence of 60 characters per line on a display device that can only display up to 40 characters per line, the display device normally displays only up to 40 characters at the same time, and the rest The 20 characters are not displayed. However, the remaining 20 that are not displayed
If you want to see the displayed characters, you can display the remaining 20 characters by moving the displayed characters, that is, by scrolling and moving the displayed characters on the display device like winding or rewinding a scroll. It is displayed on the device so that it can be viewed.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In conventional devices, if the number of characters per line exceeds the maximum number of characters displayed on the display device (19), the characters cannot be displayed simultaneously and the display screen must be scrolled one by one. This makes the operation cumbersome, and it is difficult to see the displayed content in its entirety and at the same time. The problem is that it is difficult to understand quickly.

Another problem is that some devices cannot process sentences in which the number of characters per line exceeds the maximum number of characters.

This invention has been made in view of the above, and its purpose is to provide a text creation device that can simultaneously perform visual processing, such as display processing and printing processing, even on texts whose number of characters per line exceeds the maximum number of characters. It is about providing.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, a sentence is created and visually processed by inserting symbols containing input character information into a new line every desired number of symbols. As shown in FIG. 1, this invention is a text creation device that includes a symbol number setting means 1 for setting the number of symbols per line, and a number of symbols set by the symbol setting means 1 and a number of symbols per line. an enlargement/reduction ratio calculation means 3 for calculating an enlargement/reduction ratio of enlargement/reduction of the set number of symbols with respect to the reference number of symbols based on a reference number of symbols; and a pattern creation means for creating a pattern in which the input symbols are enlarged/reduced according to the enlargement/reduction ratio. The gist of the present invention is to include a means 5 and a processing means 7 for visually processing the input symbol of the enlarged/reduced pattern.

(Operation) In the text creation HH of the present invention, the scaling ratio of the set number of symbols to the reference number of symbols is calculated, a pattern is created in which the input symbols are scaled according to this scaling ratio, and the input symbols of this pattern are visually processed, For example, it is displayed.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a text creation device according to a practical example of the present invention. The text creation device shown in the figure is applied to, for example, a Japanese word processor, and includes a CPU 2 consisting of a microprocessor or the like.
1 controls the overall operation, and a bus 23 is connected to this CPU 21. This bus 23 includes a keyboard 25 for manually inputting text information and other information such as control information, a display 27 for displaying text information entered from the keyboard 25, and a display 25.
Two printers that print the character information etc. displayed in 7 are interfaces 25a, 27a and 29a, respectively.
A program memory 31 which stores the program of the operation contents of the text creation device and the Word Brorezza in binary form, a font memory 33 which stores fonts of symbols including characters, and the display 27.
A display image memory 35 storing display images such as character information displayed on the printer 29, and a print image memory 37 storing print images such as character information printed by the printer 29 are directly connected.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing the parts related to the text creation device of the overall system configuration shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the text creation device shown in FIG. However, before explaining both figures, the basic principle of this text creation device will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display screen of an example of a display device used in a word processor to which the text creation device is applied, that is, the display 27 shown in FIG. 2. As an example, this display screen can display 640 x 16 dots, and as shown in Figure 5(a), it is possible to display 640 x 16 dots.
It is capable of displaying 40 characters of the standard size of 16 x 16 dots per line. FIG. 6(a) shows an example of the dot pattern of a character having the standard size of 16×16 dots for the character [East].

As shown in Figure 5(a), on a display screen of 640 x 16 dots, which can only display up to 40 characters of the standard size of 16 x 16, if you wish to display 41 or more characters, This can be done by reducing the size in the direction.

For example, if the number of dots in the horizontal direction per character is 10 and one character is displayed with 10×16 dots, then 640÷10=64, and 64 characters can be displayed.

Figure 5(b) is an example of displaying 45 characters, in which case the size of one character is 640÷45=1
From the calculation (4<remainder 10), there are 14 dots in the horizontal direction, and the same 16 dots in the vertical direction, so one character is 14 x 1.
45 characters can be displayed at the size of 6 dots,
It is shown that a remainder of 10 dots is formed at the right end. The 14 x 16 dot character pattern in this case is shown in Figure 6(b) - as an example, the character ``Higashi'' is similarly shown, but the 14 x 16 dot pattern is reduced horizontally from 16 dots to 14 dots. The dot characters are also displayed in almost the same way as the reference or standard characters shown in FIG. 6(a).

To summarize the above, first, set the number of characters you want to display in one line on the display screen to, for example, 45 characters.

Then, the number of dots per line on the display screen, for example 64
By dividing 0 by the number of characters set above, for example 45 (640÷45), the number of dots per character, for example 14.
is calculated, and a reduced character pattern is created from the calculated number of dots.In this embodiment, as a method for doing this, a character compression ratio is calculated, and the reduced character pattern is created using this compression ratio. In other words, a compressed character pattern is created.

For example, if you want to display up to 45 characters on a display screen that can display 40 standard characters per line, this compression rate is 4.
Divide 0 by 45 to calculate the compression ratio of 40÷45=0.88, or focus on the number of dots per character and calculate the number of dots for one character in the case of 45 characters.640÷45 = 14), this number of dots, 14, is divided by the number of dots of the reference character, 16, to obtain a compression ratio of 14÷16=0.88.

Next, the configuration of the functional blocks of the text creation device shown in FIG. 3 mentioned above will be explained. In the figure, a key input section 41 corresponds to the keyboard 25 in FIG. If it is desired to display up to 45 characters, character count setting information of 45 is input. This character count setting information is
It is stored in the setting format storage section 43, and is supplied from there to the next-stage one-character compression ratio calculation section 45. This one-character compression rate calculation unit 45 is also connected to a standard format storage unit 47, which stores the base tV compression rate of one character according to the number of characters in one line. , this stored reference compression ratio is supplied to the one-character compression ratio processing section 45. Then, this one-character compression rate calculation unit 45 calculates the character yi! stored in the old setting storage unit 43! 1 for the set number of characters based on the setting information and the standard compression rate.
The compression rate per character is calculated, and this compression rate per character is stored in the next-stage single-character compression rate storage section 49.

On the other hand, the character information input from the key human power section 41 is
The input character code is supplied to the input character code storage section 51.

This input character code storage unit 51 is a part that stores character codes inputted manually from the key input unit 41,
The character code corresponding to the character information input from the key input section 41 is supplied from this input character code storage section 51 to the input character pattern storage section 53 at the next stage. The input character pattern storage section 53 is also supplied with the character pattern stored in the character pattern memory 55, and this character pattern is stored in accordance with the character code supplied from the input character code storage section 51.

The character pattern stored in the input character pattern storage section 53 according to the character code in this way is supplied to the one-character compression pattern calculation section 57, and in this one-character compression pattern calculation section 57, it is extracted from the one-character compression ratio storage section 49. A character pattern is calculated according to the supplied compression rate. The character pattern calculated according to this compression ratio, that is, the compressed character pattern, is produced by the one-character compressed pattern performance unit 5.
7 is stored in the input character compression pattern storage section 59, and supplied from there to the display control section 61.

The compressed character pattern thus supplied to the display control section 61 is transferred from the display control section 61 to the display 2.
7, and the compressed character pattern is displayed as shown in FIG. 6(b), for example.

Next, the operation will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, the number of characters per line is set according to the character number setting information supplied from the key human power section 41, and it is checked whether this set number of characters is equal to or greater than the standard number of characters 41, which is the standard character @ 40 plus 1 (step 110.120>.

If the standard number of characters is less than 41, that is, if it is 40 characters or less, there is no particular need to compress it, so step 130
The next step is to read out the matrix array pattern for the manually entered characters from the font memory 33 (
Steps 130, 140). Then, this read character pattern is stored in the display image memory 35 (
Step 150). Then, it is checked whether there are any more characters input using the keys (step 160), and if there are any more characters input, the process returns to step 140 and repeats the same operation, and the read character pattern is stored in the display image memory 35. . Then, the character pattern stored in the display image memory 35 is supplied from the display image memory 35 to the display 27 via the bus 35 and the interface 24a for display (step 260). , if the set number of characters is greater than or equal to the standard number 41,
For example, if the set number of characters is 45, the process proceeds to step 210 and after, and first the number of dots in the row direction of the display screen, for example 6.
The distribution of dividing 40 by the set number of characters performs the operation, and 1
The number of dots X for a character is calculated (step 220). This calculated number of dots x is memorized and it is checked whether the document is being created or not (steps 230 and 240). If the document has not yet been created, the process proceeds to step 250 and subsequent steps, where the 71-lix array pattern for the manually entered character is read out from the font memory 33, and the pattern is modified according to the number of dots X stored in step 220 (step 26).
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This modified pattern is stored in the display image memory 35 and then displayed on the display 27 in step 2.
80.290), then check whether there are any further character inputs using the keys (step 300); if there are any more character inputs, return to step 260 and repeat the same operation.

If the text is being created in the check at step 240, the process proceeds to step 320, where the display character pattern stored in the display image memory 35 is sequentially modified according to the stored number of dots X, and the modified display image is The character pattern contents in the memory 35 are displayed on the display 2.
7 (step 330). after that,
It is further checked to see if there are any characters written manually, and if so, the process returns to step 260 and repeats the same operation.

FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram of a text creation device according to another embodiment of the present invention, and this diagram shows how the text creation device shown in the functional blocks of FIG. On the other hand, this embodiment differs in that the compression ratio for one row is calculated and implemented, and for this reason, the third
The one-character compression rate calculation unit 45, the standard format storage unit 47, the one-character compression rate storage unit 49, the one-character compression pattern calculation unit 57, the input character pattern storage unit 53, and the input character compression pattern storage unit shown in the figure 59, a one-line compression rate calculation section 63, a standard format storage section 70, a one-line compression pattern calculation section 67, a one-line input character pattern storage section 65, and a one-line compression display pattern calculation section, respectively. The basic operation and principles are the same, except that the parts 69 and 69 are replaced to correspond to processing for one line.

In each of the above embodiments, the case where the information is displayed on the display 27 has been described, but the present invention is not limited to the case where the information is displayed on the display, but can of course be applied to the case where the information is printed by a printer. That is,
For example, if the printer can only print up to 40 characters with 16 x 16 dots, the printer shown in Figure 6 (1)
), by compressing it, up to 45 characters can be printed.

Further, in the above embodiment, only the case of compression, that is, reduction is explained, but the present invention is not limited to reduction only, and the basic principle can be similarly applied to the case of enlargement. It is.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, the scaling ratio of the set number of symbols to the reference number of symbols is calculated, a pattern in which the input symbols are scaled according to this scaling ratio is created, and the input symbols of this pattern are For example, if you want to display up to 45 characters on a display device that can only display up to 40 characters per line, the characters will be reduced at a reduction rate of 40/45. As a result, the displayed contents can be displayed simultaneously, so that the displayed contents can be viewed and understood in their entirety at the same time, and the displayed contents can be understood appropriately and quickly, and there is no need to bother with scrolling as in the past.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a claim correspondence diagram of the invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a text creation device according to an embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 3 shows the functional configuration of the text creation device of Fig. 2. Functional block diagram, Figure 4 is a flowchart showing the operation,
5 and 6 are diagrams for explaining the basic principle of the text creation device shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram showing the functional configuration of a text creation device according to another embodiment of the present invention. be. 1...Symbol number setting means 3...Enlargement/reduction ratio calculation means 5...Pattern creation means 7...Processing means ``A-fF'' Miyoshiffl Male Figure 1 Figure 8 Figure 2 Figure 4 Figure 5 (a) Figure 6 (b)

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A text creation device that creates and visually processes symbols containing input character information by starting a new line every desired number of symbols, and includes a symbol number setting means for setting the number of symbols per line. , an enlargement/reduction ratio calculating means for calculating an enlargement/reduction ratio of enlargement/reduction of the set number of symbols with respect to the reference number of symbols based on the number of symbols set by the symbol setting means and the reference number of symbols per line; and the enlargement/reduction ratio. 1. A text creation device comprising: pattern creation means for creating a pattern in which the input symbol is scaled according to the pattern; and processing means for visually processing the input symbol in the scaled pattern. (2) The expansion/reduction ratio is a reduction ratio of the set number of symbols to the reference number of symbols.
Sentence writing device described in section. (3) The text creation device according to claim 1, wherein the processing means includes a display means for displaying the input symbol of the enlarged/reduced pattern.