Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing method comprising:

• a storage step of storing in a memory character data to which a printing attribute has been added;
• a holding step of holding in-body location information for the character pattern of a specific character;
• an extraction step of employing the printing attribute that is added to the character data stored in the memory to extract body information for characters or for a character string that is represented by the character data;
• a position designation step of designating the location of the specific character in characters or in a character string to be laid out;
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• a layout step of, when the specific character in the characters or in the character string is located at the position designated at said position designation step, employing the body information and the in-body location information to determine the head position of a body that corresponds to the characters or to the character string, and of laying out the character string.

A storage medium in which is stored a control program for permitting a computer to arrange a character pattern, said control program comprising:

• code for a storage step of storing in a memory character data to which a printing attribute has been added;
• code for a holding step of holding in-body location information for the character pattern of a specific character;
• code for an extraction step of employing the printing attribute that is added to the character data stored the memory to extract body information for characters or for a character string that is represented by the character data;
• code for a position designation step of designating the location of the specific character in characters or in a character string to be laid out;
• and
• code for a layout step of, when the specific character in the characters or in the character string is located at the position designated at said position designation step, employing the body information and the in-body location information to determine the head position of a body that corresponds to the characters or to the character string, and of laying out the character string.