JPH0248768A - Document generating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To always print or displaying output a well-balanced document by setting constants respectively for the character size of a first font, the character interval of the first font and the line interval of a third font, and multiplying them respectively. CONSTITUTION:On the assumption that the character size of the full size character of the first font is MX1XMY1, the character size of the full size character of a second font is made to be such a thing that MX1 and MY1 are multiplied by the constant set on the basis of the full size character size of a first character font. Besides, the constant is stored in an external storage device, and is stored as the constant combined with the changing constant of the character size as being providing with also with the changing constant of the character interval and the changing constant of the line interval peculiar to the second font, and is read in by a CPU. Then, at the time of printing, each character font MP1, MP2... is developed in a line buffer for printer as keeping the space of the character interval portion of MP21, MP22.... Thus, the character size, the character interval and the line interval can be always changed and set automatically as keeping the best balance.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides a method for printing documents by changing the character size, character spacing, and line spacing for each font when printing documents in fonts with different dot configurations. The present invention relates to a document creation device.

(Prior art) In a document creation device, dots with different dot configurations (
When printing or displaying character fonts with different resolutions (24 x 24 dots for Mincho fonts, 32 x 32 dots for calligraphy fonts, 60 x 60 dots for outline fonts, etc.), the font size, character spacing,
It is necessary to change the line spacing and output it at the same time.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) One possible method for changing and setting the character size, character spacing, and line spacing is for the user to manually set the format settings when changing the font, but It is troublesome to select and set these each time a change is made, and it is also difficult to select and set them each time a change is made.
It is not always possible to obtain line spacing.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and provides a document creation device that can automatically change and set the font size, character spacing, and line spacing in an optimal balance as the font changes. The purpose is to provide.

[Structure of the invention] (Means and effects for solving the problem) The present invention has the following features:
When changing from a font to a second font with a different dot configuration for printing or display, a first constant is set to the character size of the first font, a second constant is set between the characters of the first font, A third constant is set between the lines of the third font, and the character size, character spacing, and line spacing of the second font are obtained by multiplying each constant according to the set constant, so that the balance is always maintained. Documents can be printed or displayed.

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the document creation device according to the above embodiment.

In Figure 1, 11 is a microprocessor (CPU)
, 12 is a ROM accessed by the microprocessor 11, and 13 is a RAM.

A microprocessor (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU) 11 controls the entire device, and the ROM 12 and RA
By accessing M13 and starting a program according to input instructions, document creation processing, external character conversion processing, key manual control processing, etc. are executed. The RAM 13 consists of areas for storing various control information such as a document area, line image area (print buffer), external character registration area, word/phrase registration area, and a cursor position register that stores the cursor position on the document display screen. .

The ROM 12 includes a program area that stores programs that determine the operation of the CPU 1l and input processing programs associated with manual key input, a character pattern area that stores display or print character patterns, etc., and a character size set for each line in a document. , a line modification area that stores line modification information such as character spacing and line spacing data for each line, and a dictionary area that stores various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or romaji into kanji. are doing.

Also, 14 is the keyboard (KB) and 1B is the liquid crystal (LC).
D) A display, 19 a printer (PRT), and 21 a floppy disk device (FDD). keyboard 14
inputs information necessary for document creation etc. to CFULL via the keyboard ink face (KB-IF) 15. The keyboard 14 is provided with various function keys, including character keys, cursor keys, ``hiragana'' shift keys, ``katakana'' shift keys, kanji conversion keys, and the like. The liquid crystal display 16 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display device with about 10 lines. Display controller (display-
The CTR 17 controls the display of the liquid crystal display 16 using the display dot memory 18 under the control of the CPU II. The floppy disk device 21 has disk interfaces (FDD-IF) 2, 3 . Under the control of the CPU 11 via the
Memorize level characters, etc. The printer I9 connects to the CPU II via the printer interface (PRT-IF) 20.
Under the control of , the created document or the character information read into the main body from the floppy disk device 21 is printed.

The following describes the operation when printing a document with the above configuration, where the character font used in the middle of the document is changed from the first character font to a second character font with a different dot configuration (dot resolution). I will explain. Note that "the dot configurations are different" means that the size of the mesh (dot matrix) used to represent the basic size characters is different.

Figure 2(a) shows the first font in the document (for example, 24X
24-dot Mincho font) character string rABcJ
This is an example of print output from the rabcJ printer 19. In the figure, MPi (i-12, 3,...) is ri
Between the Jth character and the i+IJth character, LF
j (j-1, 2, 3...) is "jJ-th row and r
Line spacing with j+IJth line, MXk (k-1, 2, 3
,...) is the horizontal size of the "k"-th character, MY
Similarly, k is the vertical size of the "k"th character.

These are set by the user's specifications at the time of initial setting for document creation, and are stored in the RAM 13. Also, instead of setting each position for each character, basic characters (for example, the second
The character spacing and line spacing for the full-width character "A" in figure (a) are set as line modification data, and the other quadruple-width characters (r
BJ ) and double-width characters (rcJ) may be calculated from the set value.

Next, the character string in Figure 2(a) is converted into a second character string with a different dot configuration.
FIG. 2(b) shows a state in which the printer 19 prints out the font using the following font. In the figure, M P 21 (i-1, 2,
3,...) is the character spacing between the riJth character and the i+IJth character, and LF2j (j-1, 2, 3,...) is the spacing between the jJth line and rj+IJth line. ,MX2
k (k-1, 2, 3, . . . ) is the horizontal size of the rkJ-th character, and MY2 is the vertical size of the "k"-th character.

Set the character size of full-width characters of the first font to MXkxMY
k (for example, MXI x MYl in Figure 2 (a)), the character size of the full-width characters of the second font is MX2 -MXkxα1 MY2 -MYkxα1... (
1). The constant αl is a value set based on the full-width character size of the first character font, and is set as a value unique to the second font. In addition,
The constants α1, α2, and α3 may be stored in an external storage device (FD) where the font set is stored and read when loading the font set, or they may be stored internally corresponding to the font. Good too. At this time, CP
UII reads 1, and as constants paired with the character size change constant αl, a character spacing change constant α2 and a line spacing change constant α3 unique to the second font are also read. α2 and α3
are also set based on the line spacing and character amount spacing of full-width characters of the first font. In other words, 1α2 and α3 are MP21-MPixα2...(
2) LF2j−LFjxα3...
・It is used as (3), and the character spacing of full-width characters of the second font newly determined in this way M P 21
A second font having an optimally balanced character spacing and line spacing corresponding to the character size is changed and set using the line spacing MPi and the character size MX2 and MY2. In addition, if the font size changes, such as double-width, quadruple-width, double-width, double-width, half-width, etc., the respective values ((1) to (
3) Equation) is multiplied by an optimal constant.

As shown above, when the font used during printing is changed in various ways, the font size, character spacing, and line spacing are automatically changed to the optimal values with a good balance depending on the font being used. It is something that In addition, the constant α1
, α2 and α3 may be stored in an external storage device (FD) in which the font set is stored, and may be read when loading the font set, or may be stored internally corresponding to the font.

When printing, each character font is MPIMP2,...
. . , MP21SMP22, . . . are developed in the printer line buffer with a space equal to the character interval, and the paper is fed according to the values of LFI and LF2.

Although we have shown an example of print output by changing settings from the first font to the second font above, this is done when creating a document, and the same character string as in the print example above is generated according to the changed settings. will be displayed and output on the liquid crystal display 1B.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, when printing or displaying in a second font having a different dot configuration from the first font, the first constant is set to the character size of the first font. , the second constant between the characters of the first font, the third
A third constant is set between the lines of the font, and by multiplying each of them according to the set constant, the character size, character spacing, and line spacing of the second font are obtained. , it is possible to provide a document creation device that can always automatically change and set the character size, character spacing, and line spacing in an optimal balance.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration, FIG. 2(a) is a diagram showing print output using the first font, and FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing printout using a second font. 11...CPU, 12...ROM, 13...RA
M, 14...keyboard (KB), 15...keyboard interface (KB-IF), 16...
Liquid crystal (LCD) display, 17...display controller (
display CNT), 18... display dot memory, 19.
... Printer (PRT), 20... Printer interface (PRT-IF), 21... Floppy disk device (FDD), 22... Disk ink face (FDD-IF). Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue

Claims (1)

[Claims] When changing from a first font to a second font with a different dot configuration for printing or display, a first constant is set for the character size of the first font, and a second constant is set between characters of the first font. A document creation device characterized in that the character size, character spacing, and line spacing of a second font are obtained by multiplying the line spacing of the first font by a third constant.