Patent ID: 8234567

Claim:
A word arrangement method for arranging a sequence of words in a line with an upper limit set on a number of characters per line, comprising the steps of: subtracting from the upper limit of the number of characters per line a number of characters from a top of a line to immediately before a word to calculate a number of blank characters and then setting a reference value for a ratio of the number of blank characters to a number of characters contained in the word; inserting a line feed immediately before the word when the number of characters from the top of the line to a tail of the word exceeds the upper limit of the number of characters per line and in addition the ratio of the number of blank characters to the number of characters contained in the word does not exceed the reference value; and inserting a line feed halfway within the word without hyphenation when the number of characters from the top of the line to the tail of the word exceeds the upper limit of the number of characters per line and in addition the ratio of the number of blank characters to the number of characters contained in the word exceeds the reference value.