Economical display generation of a large character set

Abstract

Electronic computers find wide applications in the fields such as document production, compilation of printed articles, language translation. The need for high speed printers and display systems for various types of characters and symbols is increasing. There is a high demand for high speed printers and display systems for "Kanji (Chinese characters)" in Japan and other Oriental countries. A character generator with a font capacity greater than 1000 is required. Nearly the same number of character fonts might be needed also in Western countries, if special fonts of Greek or Roman alphabets, italics, bold face, or special mathematical symbols are included.