Patent ID: 7681115

Claim:
A text editing and reproduction apparatus for editing and reproducing text data, the apparatus comprising: a text data separation section to treat, in a case of separating a text sample which is one sample of the text data at the time of separating and editing the text data, text data before a separation point as a first text sample, and to treat text data following the separation point as a second text sample, the text sample before the separation including a character string, each of the first text sample and the second text sample including the character string; an ornament time information addition section to add to the first text sample a first ornament elapsed time which indicates elapsed time for ornament display of the text sample and which is a display start time for the first text sample, and to add to the second text sample a second ornament elapsed time which indicates elapsed time for ornament display of the text sample and which is a display start time for the second text sample; and a text data reproduction process section to perform a reproduction process while maintaining continuity between the first text sample and the second text sample by reproducing and displaying on a screen the first text sample from the first ornament elapsed time to the time when the text sample is separated and by reproducing and displaying on the screen the second text sample from the second ornament elapsed time, wherein when reproducing and displaying the second text sample, the text data reproduction process section determines a start position of scroll display based on the second ornament elapsed time, displays the character string included in the second text sample at the start position determined, and scrolls the character string on the screen.