Recorder with display indicating a symbol for text and graphical data

Abstract

A recording apparatus capable of recording characters and graphical representations, having a display which is adapted to display a special symbol together with the characters, so that the special symbol indicate the position of a graphical representation to be recorded before or after a written description or between written descriptions. The apparatus may have a display which has at least one indicator area adapted to effect selective display of each one of numerical values of plural groups of numerical data in a memory, which are recorded in a graphical or tabular form. The desired one of the numerical values of the desired one of the numerical data groups is dsiplayed by designating corresponding one of blocks of a hypothetical table defined by rows and columns. When one block of the hypothetical table is designated while the numerical value corresponding to another block adjacent to that one block is displayed, the numerical value corresponding to the designated block is displayed. Thus, the desired numerical values may be displayed one at a time as if the indicator area and the hypothetical table are moved relative to each other such that the indicator area is moved from one block to another of the hypothetical table.