JPS6348072B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

The present invention relates to a document creation device. Conventionally, character pattern information such as characters and symbols specified by an input device such as a keyboard is read out from a storage device (character generator), and the read characters are displayed on a display screen for proofreading. In a document creation device that uses a dot-type printer to create a document while editing as appropriate, the keyboard has one input key for specifying each character such as a character or symbol. In particular, a special shift key is provided to select characters that have two types of patterns, uppercase and lowercase, such as alpha letters. In the case of shift-out, a code signal representing the capital letter A is obtained. However, with such conventional document creation devices,
For mathematical symbols such as +, -, and =, and special symbols such as brackets and colons, only one type of code signal representing the symbol is obtained from the keyboard, regardless of the operation of the shift key described above, and the specified special symbol is Since the output size of a symbol is fixed, in some cases the size and output position of the special symbol may become unbalanced with respect to the characters (or words) before and after the special symbol. The problem arises that it becomes unnatural. For example, as shown in Figure 1a, the colon ":"
If the characters before and after it are large, the overall balance will be maintained, but if the characters before and after it are small, the colon ":" will be too large and the balance will be poor. As shown in
If you use a small colon ":", the overall balance will be maintained if the characters before and after are small, but if the characters before and after are large, the colon ":" will be too small and the balance will be poor. Put it away. The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and
To provide a document creation device capable of arbitrarily outputting two types of special symbols, large and small, whose size and output position are well balanced with respect to characters before and after, etc., according to the operator's selection. be. Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Fig. 2 shows an example of the configuration of a document creation device, which includes a storage device (character generator) 1 in which predetermined character pattern information is stored for each character, symbol, etc.; A keyboard 2 that can read character pattern information arbitrarily, a display 3 that sequentially reads the read data and displays predetermined characters, symbols, etc. one after another, and The system is comprised of a dot-type printer 4 for recording documents and the like, and a CPU 5 (including internal memory) for controlling the entire system. In addition, keyboard 2 is shift in,
It has a shift key that can selectively switch between two shift-out modes and maintain that mode, and if you specify an input key such as "P" in the shift-in state, a code representing a capital letter P will be generated. It is output from keyboard 2, and if you specify "P" in the shift-out state, the lowercase p
A code representing the above is output from the keyboard 2. For example, if a capital letter P is designated, the display 3 and the printer 4 are displayed on the display 3 and the printer 4 based on the character pattern information read out from the storage device 1 according to the output from the keyboard 2 at that time. 24× as shown
A dot pattern of a capital letter P with a predetermined size and positional relationship is output within a dot area of 24 configurations (generally m x n configuration), and if a lowercase letter p is specified, the dot pattern shown in Figure 3 is also output. A dot pattern of the lowercase letter p, which is shifted downward within the dot area and has a predetermined size and positional relationship as shown in b, is output. In such a document creation device, the present invention allows the specified special symbol to be selected to be large or small depending on the shift-in or shift-out mode setting state when specifying the special symbol using an input key. It is meant to be. In other words, on the keyboard 2, special input keys are provided for mathematical symbols such as +, -, =, and special symbols such as brackets and colons. A code symbol representing the corresponding special symbol is output from the keyboard 2. At that time, if a colon ":" is specified by the input key in the shift-out mode setting state, the code symbol representing the corresponding special symbol is output from the keyboard 2 at that time.
According to the code signal output from A large colon ":" having a predetermined size and positional relationship within the area is output to the display 3 and printer 4, respectively. Note that the dot pattern information for this large colon ":" is set in the storage device 1 so that the size and position of the large colon ":" are balanced with the capital letter P shown in FIG. 3a. In addition, when a colon ":" is specified by an input key in the shift-in mode setting state, the CPU 5 will output a small colon ":" according to the code signal output from the keyboard 2 at that time.
According to the character pattern information read out from the storage device 1, as shown in FIG. 4b,
A small colon ":" having a predetermined size and positional relationship is output to the display 3 and printer 4 within the 24×24 dot area. In addition, this small colon ":"
Information on the dot pattern is set in the storage device 1 with a size and position that are balanced with the lowercase letter p shown in FIG. 3b. The following table shows examples of code signals for various special symbols in shift-in and shift-out modes.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Character input area for hiragana, katakana, etc., +,
A symbol input section such as -, =, parentheses, etc., a switching section for selecting and setting uppercase mode or lowercase mode, uppercase letters and symbols of sizes corresponding to uppercase letters are stored, and when uppercase mode is set in the switching section. a first storage section that stores lowercase letters and symbols of sizes corresponding to the lowercase letters, and a second storage section that stores lowercase letters and symbols of sizes corresponding to the lowercase letters and that is selected when the lowercase mode is set in the switching section; 1. A document creation device, wherein when input is received from the input section and the symbol input section, a pattern of characters and symbols of a size corresponding to a mode set in the switching section is output.