Text processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Ueda
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Abstract
A text processing apparatus allowing a line-end process to be performed easily, namely the division of a line-end word and hyphening. If a word at the end of a line exceeds the area of display or printing, the word is automatically transferred to a next line, but a part of the word that can be returned to the end of the original line is identified, and the operator can insert a hyphen after that part. Upon insertion of the hyphen, the above-mentioned part is returned to the end of the original line, and the remaining part of the word is displayed on the next line. In this manner the hyphenating of line-end word is made easy to perform on the display, and printing can be obtained in the form as displayed.
Claims17
A text processing apparatus comprising:
- input means for entering a character train including characters;
- memory means for storing characters entered by said input means;
- display means for displaying characters stored in said memory means;
- first control means for effecting a word wrap-around function on characters of a character train to be displayed by said display means;
- designating means for designating hyphenation of the character train displayed by said display means after said first control means effects a word wrap-around function;
- dividing means, in response to the operation of said designating means, for dividing a character train into a first portion to be displayed on one line and a second portion to be displayed on the next line when the character train exceeds a right margin of said display means after a word wrap-around function on the character train is performed;
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- second control means for moving each of the first and second portions of the character train to execute the hyphenation operation designed by said designating means.
A text processing apparatus comprising:
- input means for entering a character train comprising a plurality of characters;
- memory means for storing characters entered by said input means;
- display means for displaying characters stored in said memory means on a display screen having a display capacity sufficient to display a plurality of lines of characters;
- first control means for effecting a word wrap-around function on characters to be displayed by said display means;
- designating means for designating hyphenation of said character train displayed on a line where a cursor displayed by said display means is located after said first control means effects a word wrap-around function;
- dividing means, in response to the operation of said designating means, for dividing a character train on a next succeeding line of the display screen of said display means;
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- second control means for inserting a hyphen into a dividing position of said character train, and for displaying the character train divided by said dividing means on a plurality of lines of said display means after insertion of the hyphen at the dividing position of the character train.
A text processing apparatus comprising:
- input means for entering a plurality of characters comprising a word and a space;
- memory means for storing the word and the space, wherein the space punctuates the word comprising characters entered by said input means;
- display means for displaying the word and the space stored in said memory means;
- first control means for executing a word wrap-around operation on an input word when the input word exceeds a right margin of said display means to move the input word to the next line;
- designating means for designating hyphenation of a word subjected to the word wrap-around operation;
- dividing means, in response to the operation of said designating means, for dividing an input word moved to the next line in a word wrap-around operation;
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- second control means for displaying the input word divided by said dividing means on a plurality of lines of said display means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.