JPS6316364A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the easy production of documents by securing registration of the ruled line font and at the same time selecting properly the registered font like the normal characters or symbols for application. CONSTITUTION:When a user ruled line pattern production mode is selected via an input device 2, a ruled line pattern production/register picture is displayed on a display device 3. Then a font pattern is produced on said production/ register screen with operations given through the device 2 in the same procedure as the production of normal external characters while shifting a cursor to the desired areas. This produced user ruled line pattern is stored in a memory device 4 with a registering instruction given from the device 2. In such case, the ruled line pattern is set opposite to a prescribed code and at the same time the bit image data and the data length are stored in a user memory area in the device 4.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention enables the creation and user registration of a ruled line font used to add variations to documents, and the use of the font to draw ruled lines. It concerns a word processor.

[Blue Tatami of Invention] When using word processors, there is a demand for adding accents to documents and tables. Therefore, the underline,
In addition to shading, etc., ruled line functions are often used.

This draws the reader's attention by drawing ruled lines in a so-called predetermined pattern. In this case, the rules originally provided by word processors include thick/thin solid lines, double lines, broken lines,
The types are limited as shown by chain lines.

[Prior art]

In conventional word processors, the pre-installed ruled line patterns are limited depending on the model, and there are only a few types (some of which are insufficiently effective to meet the needs of users to create distinctive documents and tables). was not obtained.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a word processor that allows ruled line fonts to be easily registered and allows the registered ruled line fonts to be appropriately selected and used in the same way as ordinary characters and symbols.

[Structure of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to provide a word processor having the configuration described in the claims, that is, a display device that displays a creation screen for creating an arbitrary ruled line pattern, and a storage device that stores the created pattern. It has an input device for instructing pattern creation and selection, an output device for outputting the created document, and a control means for controlling each of the operations, and the control means is configured to control the pattern created by the input device. a word processor that controls to store the ruled line pattern in the storage device, and to synthesize the ruled line pattern on an arbitrary part selected by the input device and display it on the display device or output it from the output device. achieved by

[Effects of the Invention] According to the word processor of the present invention, an operator can create and register any arbitrary and imaged ruled line pattern, and can convert the registered line pattern into ordinary characters, symbols, etc. Can be used similarly. Therefore, it is possible to easily emphasize a desired part of a document or table, and it is possible to create a unique document.

[★Example]

The invention will now be disclosed with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which examples are shown.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a Japanese word processor according to the present invention. A suitable input device 2 such as a keyboard, image reader, etc. centered around the CPU 1,
It is formed of a display device 3 such as a CRT or LCD, a storage device 4 built in or connected externally, and an output device 5 such as a printer or plotter.

When the user selects the user ruled line pattern creation mode from the input device 2, a ruled line pattern creation/registration screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display device 3.

FIG. 2 is composed of 24 dots vertically and 24×N dots horizontally. On the user ruled line pattern creation/registration screen, a center line is displayed in the horizontal direction, and a font pattern is created in the same manner as normal character registration. On such a ruled line pattern creation/registration screen, a font pattern can be created by operating the input device 2 to move the cursor to a desired location and using the same procedure as for creating normal external characters. Therefore, it is possible to create an arbitrary and unique ruled line pattern. The user ruled line pattern created in this way is stored in the storage device 4 in response to a registration instruction from the input device 2 shown in FIG.

In storage, the ruled line pattern is associated with a predetermined code, and the bit image data and data length are stored in a user storage area in the storage device 4.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a user ruled line font pattern, which here consists of 24×48 dots. This corresponds to N=2 in FIG.

When actually using ruled lines, handling of intersections and corners of ruled lines becomes a problem. Normal intersection/corner parts are r・1・
There are nine types: ', 1, 〒-1, sea lion, and 10. In accordance with these general basic patterns of intersections and corners, ruled lines are drawn using the user-registered ruled line pattern and its thickness.

FIG. 4 shows the state in which the ruled line pattern created by the word processor according to the present invention is used.
The pattern created and registered in the diagram is used, and the predetermined pattern described above is applied to the intersection. In this case, in character line output processing, one line of the text area is bit-expanded into a bit image buffer, vertical ruled lines, horizontal ruled lines, spaces between characters, etc. are determined and ruled lines are drawn.

In addition, line spacing processing is performed in the same way between lines, and processing for drawing a user registered ruled line pattern is performed.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for performing character line output processing. This flow is for character line output processing as in step S1. As in step S2, a determination is made as to whether or not one line has ended. If this judgment is YES, the contents of the image sofa are displayed on the output device 5 as in step S3.
The line spacing processing (
The process moves to the operation shown in FIG. 6).

If the determination in step S2 is No, it is subsequently determined in step S5 whether the output data is a ruled line. If this determination is No, a normal character font is output to the image buffer as in step S6.

If this determination is YES, it is then determined in step S7 whether or not it is a user ruled line.

If this determination is No, output processing of standard ruled lines to the image buffer is performed as in step S8.

If this determination is YES, it is determined in step S9 whether or not it is an intersection/corner portion of ruled lines.

If the determination in step S9 is No, step 3
In step 10, it is determined whether the line is a horizontal ruled line or not.

If this determination is YES, as in step 311, the user font pattern output last time is output to the 24-dot image buffer. Next, as in step S12, processing is performed to output dots between characters to the image buffer in the user font pattern, and the process returns to step S2.

On the other hand, if the determination in step SIO is No, since it is a vertical ruled line, processing is performed to rotate 24 dots by 90 degrees using the previously output user font pattern and output them to the image buffer, as in step S13. Next, as in step S14, the process of outputting the inter-character space to the image buffer is performed, and then the process returns to step S2.

In addition, if the determination in the previous step S9 is YES, as in step S15, the line thickness of the user ruled line may be used to intersect or
Generate a font for the corners and output it to the image buffer. As a result, it is determined whether it is necessary to draw ruled lines between characters as in the next step S16. If this determination is YES, processing from step S12 is performed. Moreover, if this determination is No, processing from step S14 is performed. In this way, character line output processing is performed.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the line spacing processing operation performed subsequent to step S4 in FIG. Step 3
At step 20, it is determined whether or not one line has ended. If this determination is No, it is determined in the next step S21 whether or not it is a vertical ruled line. If the determination here is YES, then in step 322 it is determined whether or not it is a user ruled line. If this determination is YES, in step S23, the dots between lines are output to the image buffer using the user font pattern previously output in the character line, and the process returns to step S20.

If the determination in step 322 is No, step 324
The process of outputting standard ruled lines to the image buffer is performed as shown in FIG. 2, and then the process returns to step S20.

If the determination in step S21 is NO, step 325
After outputting the line spacing to the image buffer in step S20, the process returns to step S20.

If the determination in step S20 is YES, step S2
6, the contents of the image buffer are output to the output device 5, and then in step S27, it is determined whether or not the output between lines has been completed.

If this determination is NO, return to step S20,
Repeat the previous action. If this judgment is YES,
Since there is no more content to process, step S2
The processing operation is completed as shown in step 8.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a word processor according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an example of a user ruled line pattern creation screen of the word processor according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is an example of the user ruled line registration pattern display screen 7. As shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is an example of a case where ruled lines are drawn using a ruled line registration pattern. 5 and 6 are flowcharts showing the operation of the word processor according to the present invention. In the figure, the correspondence of main reference symbols is as follows. 1: CPU 2: Input device 3: Display device 4: Storage device 5: Output device

Claims (1)

[Claims] A display device for displaying a creation screen for creating an arbitrary ruled line pattern, a storage device for storing the created pattern, an input device for instructing pattern creation and selection, and an input device for outputting a created document. an output device; and a control means for controlling each of the operations, the control means comprising:
The ruled line pattern created by the input device is stored in the storage device, and the ruled line pattern is synthesized on an arbitrary part selected by the input device and displayed on the display device or output from the output device. A word processor that can be controlled as follows.