COLUMN TYPESETTING DEVICE, COLUMN TYPESETTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THIS PROGRAM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optimally set the spacings between characters within each column for column typesetting. PSOLUTION: Characters are allocated to character classes and the spacings between the characters are set according to the character classes in such a way that if a glyph ID corresponding to any of the characters exists, the character is allocated to any of the character classes according to the glyph ID, and that the characters are allocated to the character classes according to the unicode values of the characters only if such glyph IDs do not exist. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI