8. A character processing apparatus comprising: designating means for designating a desired one or more of a plurality of items of modification information for each graphic pattern in order to generate a plurality of graphic patterns; means for displaying inputted characters and graphic patterns corresponding to modified character patterns of the inputted characters corresponding to different parameters, the parameters being based on the designated one or more items of modification information; and means for changing a pattern of at least one desired inputted character on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a desired character pattern from the graphic patterns corresponding to the character patterns, wherein the parameters include hatching, tilting and shadow modifications.
8. A character processing apparatus comprising: designating means for designating a desired one or more of a plurality of items of modification information for each graphic pattern in order to generate a plurality of graphic patterns; means for displaying inputted characters and graphic patterns corresponding to modified character patterns of the inputted characters corresponding to different parameters, the parameters being based on the designated one or more items of modification information; and means for changing a pattern of at least one desired inputted character on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a desired character pattern from the graphic patterns corresponding to the character patterns, wherein the parameters include hatching, tilting and shadow modifications. 12. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the graphic patterns corresponding to the character patterns comprise dot patterns based on vector data.