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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames C. Buchanan, Edward V. Rutkowski, Jr.
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In a typewriter having text storage capability, the hyphen code that is stored in response to depression of a hyphen key is conditioned on printing position and on the codes adjacent to the hyphen code in a text string. If a hyphen is keyed after the start of the return zone, is preceded by a graphic representative code and is followed by a keyed carrier return, a distinctive hyphen code representative of a syllable hyphen is recorded. Otherwise, a regular hyphen is recorded unless the hyphen key has been depressed in conjunction with a condition key (e.g. the CODE key), in which case a code representative of a required non-breaking hyphen is recorded. As a result of so controlling the recorded hyphen codes at the time of keyboarding, the operator's intentions for hyphenation may be achieved with little departure from normal keyboarding routine.
In a typewriter of the kind having a keyboard apparatus that sequentially produces coded signals representing printing operations, said signals including a coded normal hyphen signal representative of a hyphen printing operation, plural coded signals representing graphic printing operations and a coded carrier return signal, said typewriter further including a printing apparatus that responds to coded signals to position a print point and to print indicia along a line, means for maintaining a stored record of the present printing position along a line, means for establishing a beginning location for a return zone along said line, and storage means for storing said coded signals originating from said keyboard apparatus, a hyphen characterization system comprising:
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