Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaka Hamada

Takahiro Kato

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Masaaki Shimizu

Yasuhisa Ishizawa

Kensaku Tanaka

Kenzoh Ina

Taketo Hasegawa

Hiroshi Takakura

Masaki Sagoh

Takashi Minagawa

Fumio Furukawa

Masayuki Utsumi

A character processing apparatus provides improved layout and formatting. In a preferred embodiment, the character processing apparatus includes a character data memory for storing a plurality of groups of character data, a first format data memory for storing a plurality of format data each having a correspondence with a different one of the groups of character data and a second format data memory for storing a plurality of format data having no correspondence with character data. The apparatus designates either one of (a) the groups of character data stored in the character data memory and (b) the plurality of format data stored in the first format data memory, and further designates one of the plurality of format data stored in the second format data memory.

Character processing apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Masaka Hamada