4. Electronic text preparing apparatus comprising: memory means for storing text including character information for each character of the text, the character information for each character having one of at least two different characteristics, at least one of said characteristics being common to the character information of at least two different characters; discrimination means for detecting, for each character, a selected characteristic of the character information for each character constituting the text stored in said memory means; pattern memory means for storing patterns, each pattern corresponding to one of the selected characteristics of the character information detected by said discrimination means; and layout means for causing said discrimination means to detect the selected characteristic of the character information for each character, which is stored in said memory means, for reading a specific pattern from said pattern memory means according to the characteristic detected by said discrimination means, and for displaying the layout of the text stored in said memory means utilizing the respective specific patterns detected by said discrimination means.
4. Electronic text preparing apparatus comprising: memory means for storing text including character information for each character of the text, the character information for each character having one of at least two different characteristics, at least one of said characteristics being common to the character information of at least two different characters; discrimination means for detecting, for each character, a selected characteristic of the character information for each character constituting the text stored in said memory means; pattern memory means for storing patterns, each pattern corresponding to one of the selected characteristics of the character information detected by said discrimination means; and layout means for causing said discrimination means to detect the selected characteristic of the character information for each character, which is stored in said memory means, for reading a specific pattern from said pattern memory means according to the characteristic detected by said discrimination means, and for displaying the layout of the text stored in said memory means utilizing the respective specific patterns detected by said discrimination means. 5. Electronic text preparing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said pattern memory means comprises a read-only memory.