Sony Corporation

Kouji Aoyagi

Toshio Sakurai

Yoshinori Tanba

Yoshio Hayashi

Michie Toyoda

Koichi Higeta

Tusnehiro Kashima

Akihide Demura

Tsutomu Amo

An automatic numbering apparatus for use with a text processing system has first storage element for storing a starting position specified on a display screen of a display and the kind or type of a corresponding outline number, an outline number generator for sequentially generating, when the starting position of the specified item is specified on the display screen and a predetermined key is operated, outline numbers corresponding to the starting positions of the specified items, second storage element for storing the outline number generated by the outline number generator, the starting position thereof, and a corresponding page and text inputted by a data input device (keyboard), and an outline searching device for searching for the outline number, the corresponding position and the corresponding page of the stored contents in the second storage means, whereby the text containing the items can be printed out and a table of contents comprising a list of the items and the corresponding pages as searched by the outline searching device can be printed out on paper. Document data formed from character data inputted by the data input device is stored in a text memory and displayed on the display device. When a mode detector detects that a numbering mode has been selected, a data processor searches for previously specified outline numbers and generates a subsequent index number, the index number automatically being set on a document text specified by the text data.

Apparatus for numbering outline data and for selecting outline format

A portable word processor incorporates a keyboard for typing-in data relating to a textual document, a microprocessor for processing the data, and a microcassette recorder for storing each page of the textual data when typing of the page is complete. A half-line character display is situated on an operating panel of the word processor above the keyboard. The microprocessor includes a text buffer memory having a capacity corresponding to one page, favorably 1800 characters or 66 lines. A cassette recorder interface is included to control operation of the cassette during transfer of textual data from the text buffer memory for storage on the microcassette tape, and transfer of the data to the text buffer memory from the tape for editing and revision of the textual document. The microcassette recorder can store pages of the textual data intermittently with voice recording, such as dictation, on the same tape.

Word processor

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Ayase, Japan

Kouji Aoyagi