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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1997
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The storing portion stores character skeleton form information indicating a skeleton form shared between a plurality of fonts for the elements of a corresponding character, element contour shape information indicating the contour shapes of elements for each font, and element skeleton form information indicating the skeleton forms of elements for each font. The determination portion determines whether or not a element corresponding to a font code and a character code input by the input portion is to be subjected to a cursive processing with another element. The first modification portion modifies information indicating the skeleton form of a set of elements to be processed corresponding to the prescribed font into a processable form. The second modification portion modifies the element skeleton form information of the set of elements based on information indicating the modified skeleton forms. The third modification portion modifies the element contour shape information of the set of elements based on the element skeleton form information modified by the second modification portion. The connection portion connects the contour shapes of the set of elements based on the element contour shape information modified by the third modification portion. The pattern producing portion produces a character pattern, using element contour shape information corresponding to the connected contour shapes.