Word processor with text layout display function

Claim 1

A word processor with a text layout display function, comprising: input means for entering character string text data and for inputting instructions to readout a text frame; text frame storage means for storing a plurality of text frame types; format storage means for storing a text format for display within a text frame; text frame readout means for reading out from the text frame storage means, in response to an instruction from the input means, a single text frame; displaying means including a screen for concurrently displaying on the screen an input region within which text data entered from said input means is displayable as the text data is entered from said input means and a text frame display region within which the text data entered from said input means is displayable, as the text data is entered from said input means, in a layout format defined by the text format stored in said format storage means; display control means for concurrently displaying test data entered from said input means in said input region and the text frame read out from said text frame storage means in said text frame display region; first cursor display means for displaying a first position-identifying cursor within the input region at a location at which text data is entered from said input means; output means for displaying, in said text frame display region, the text data in said input region in a layout format defined by the text format stored in said format storage means, and for concurrently displaying in the text frame display region of the display means screen, as new character string text data is entered from said input means and is displayed in the input region of the display means screen, the new text data in a layout format defined by the text format stored in said format storage means; dividing means for dividing the text frame into a plurality of concurrently displayed frame regions; frame region selecting means for selecting any one of the plural frame regions for receiving new text data entered from said input means in layout format; second cursor display means for displaying, concurrently with the display of said first cursor in the input region, a second cursor within said selected frame region at a location relative to the layout formatted text data displayed in said selected frame region that corresponds to the location of the first cursor in the input region relative to the text data concurrently displayed in said input region; and input region identifying means for identifying and displaying in the selected frame region, in layout format, the new text data concurrently entered and displayed in the input region.