JPS638857A - Sentence shaping device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To give the notation which is not inconsistent with a mixed notation system even when the sentence with a different notation system is mixed by inputting a word unit character string and a character unit character string and processing one side unit of them as the other side unit. CONSTITUTION:An input part 1 receives the code string of a character from a keyboard and a data communicating equipment, transmits it to a selector 2 and the selector 2 identifies whether the input character is an alphabetical character code or a Japanese character code and when the character is the alphabetical character code, the character is inputted to an English word generating part 3 and when it is the Japanese character code, it is inputted to a Japanese word generating part 4. The English word generating part 3, when one word of the alphabetical character code is received, outputs it to a driving-in processing part 5 together with a word identifying code, the Japanese word generating part 4 inputs the input character code and outputs it to the riving-in processing part 5 together with the word identifying cod. The driving-in processing part 5 continues to read the word from the Japanese word generating part 4 and the English word generating part 3 together with the word identifying code. One row is inputted to a driving-in processing part 6, and next, one row is inputted to a uniformly assigning part 6, it is assigned so that the division between adjoining words can be uniform.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text formatting device that performs notation processing by mixing character strings with different notations.

Prior Art and Its Problems When applying the European text formatting method, which treats words made up of multiple characters as units, to Japanese and Chinese texts that require formatting characters as units, it is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also improves the meaning of the sentences. It has the disadvantage that it cannot be conveyed correctly.

Similarly, when a Japanese or Chinese text formatting method is applied to a European text, similar drawbacks occur.

In recent years, with the globalization of the industry as a whole, there has been an increase in the number of cases in which texts with different formatting rules are mixed together, such as mixed sentences of European and Japanese languages, and a formatting device suitable for mixed sentences is desired. However, I still don't have anything that satisfies me.

When formatting a mixed sentence, one sentence has already been created for one of the sentences,
Regarding the equipment used, it is common to consider the shaping method of that equipment as the basis.

For example, in a formatting program that formats English text using a device designed to use English text, the processing of ``trillion allocation'' is performed on a word-by-word basis separated by spaces or line breaks. Regarding such methods.

Kernighan, B.W. and Plauger, P.J.
Translated by Izumi Kimura, “Baft Wear Manners”, Kyoritsu Shuppan ■ (19
81) Chapter 7 “Text Formatting” (p, p, 335-386
) is explained in

If you apply this type of formatting method to Japanese text, you will get
It will be processed line by line. Therefore, if the length of the input sentence becomes long, the finishing process will not be performed.

When the text to be input is short, fill-in is performed, but spaces at the end of the line that are less than the length of the text to be filled-in are not filled in and remain. Furthermore, if equal allocation is used, the allocation is done line by line, which is inappropriate for Japanese.

Figures 2 (a), (b), and (C) show how sentences are written by formatting in the conventional method.

(a) in the figure is the input text, “This is,”,”
A simple example is shown in which "This is an example" is entered in three lines.

Figure (b) shows the input text in figure (a) formatted using the English text formatting method. This is shown in (C) in the figure with equal allocation. (d) in the figure shows the generally expected state of text notation after allocation.

<Object of the Invention> Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a text formatting device that provides a notation that is consistent with the mixed notation system even when sentences with different notation systems are mixed.

<Summary of the invention> According to one embodiment of the present invention, the input text is The example wasu characters are separated into English words and Japanese characters.

To carry out the processing, Japanese characters are combined as words with English words that are exclusively read by Purple, and all are processed word by word. Equal allocation similarly treats Japanese characters as words and allocates the words within one line.

<Embodiment of the Invention> FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a text formatting device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The human power section 1 receives a character code string from a keyboard or a data communication device (not shown) and transmits it to the selector 2. The selector 2 identifies whether the input character is an English character or the character code is a Japanese character code.
Enter.

When the English word generation unit 3 receives one word worth of English character codes, it outputs them to the follow-up processing unit 5 along with the word identification code. The Japanese word generation section 4 inputs the input character code and outputs it to the follow-up processing section 5 together with the word identification code. The follow-up processing section 5 continues reading words from the Japanese word generation section 4 and the English word generation section 3 along with the word identification code. One line is input to the finishing processing section 6.

Next, when that one line is input to the equal allocation unit 6, the adjacent words are allocated evenly. Second
(d) of the figure shows an example of the notation after equal allocation obtained in this way. Output section 7 is equal allocation section 6
A four-volume character image is constructed from the assigned codes given by the user and outputted to a display or printer (not shown).

In Figure 1, the English word generation unit 3 and the Japanese word generation unit 4 are complementary, and everything else is the same, so one Japanese character is associated with an English word, and character-by-character processing and equalization are performed. It is easily understood that splitting can be done. Also,
The inter-word identification code may be added by the follow-up processing unit 6 when receiving each word.

<Effects of the Invention> As described in detail in the first embodiment, one Japanese character corresponds to one actual language, so regardless of the continuous length of the Japanese words to be scanned, the finishing process can be performed in units of Japanese characters. The uniform allocation is also done for each Japanese character, making it easier to read and eliminating the possibility of misreading.

Furthermore, since the generation of one Japanese komoro simply involves outputting input characters together with an identification code, it can be easily implemented using existing English language devices.

Furthermore, the Japanese word processing section 4 and the English word processing section 3 have substantially the same configuration, and only the timing of output needs to be controlled, making implementation easier.

Therefore, it is useful for practical use.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a text formatting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional example of text notation and an example in one embodiment of the present invention. 1: Input section; 2: Selector; 3: English word generation section; 4: Japanese word generation section; 5: Finalization processing section; 6: Equal allocation section; 7: Output section; Applicant: Yokogawa Huyulet Packard Co., Ltd. Agent, Patent Attorney, Yo Hase, Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A text formatting device which inputs a word unit character string and a character unit character string and processes one unit as the other unit. 2. The text formatting device according to claim 1, wherein the one unit is the character unit, and the other unit is the word unit. 3. The text formatting device according to claim 1, wherein the one unit is the word unit, and the other unit is the character unit.