| 摘要 |
Method and apparatus for specifying and forming characters, such as Chinese or Roman characters. The characters are considered as being formed of one or more components, each of which components is in turn formed of one or more elements. The elements exist in various different variant forms. The specifying and forming of characters is effected by reference to a memory having first memory store (26) which for each character stores identities of the components thereof, a second memory store (28) which, for each component, stores information of the form X1, Yi, Zi....Xn, Yn, Zn, where the Xi, Yi specify the start point of the ith element in the component and Zi specifies a particular variant form of the element needed in forming the particular component, and a third memory store (30) storing, for each element variant, information as to how to draw that variant. In processing Chinese characters the elements comprise strokes identified by alpha numerics and accessing the memory is effected by using a code train made up of these alpha numerics, which code train may, however, be compressed by omission of one or more of the alpha numerics. Where two characters have a similar uncontracted alpha numeric code train, different contractions of the code train are used to identify the two characters. Inputting of code trains may be effected by a keyboard having only a number of keys corresponding to the total number of the elements, for Chinese characters, the five basic strokes. |
