Patent Document ID: 4737922
Application ID: 06774975

Base Claim:
1. A character data output apparatus, comprising: input means for inputting sentence data, and for inputting certain groups of character data with associated special format data which format data enables the corresponding group of character data to be printed in a desired format; first memory means for storing the certain groups of character data and the associated special format data inputted by said input means; second memory means for storing the sentence data inputted by said input means excluding the special format data; processing means for discriminating if the sentence data stored in said second memory means includes character data groups coinciding with the certain groups of character data stored in said first memory means; and output means for automatically outputting, when said processing means discriminates that a character data group coinciding with the certain groups of character data stored in said first memory means is included in the sentence data, all the coinciding character data groups in the sentence data stored in said second memory means in accordance with the associated special format data as stored in said first memory means.

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Claim 3:
3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first memory means comprises a plurality of storage areas, and each area stores character data for one registered word and attribute code data corresponding to the special format data associated with the registered word.