A display control apparatus using a bit map method, for controlling character attribute data, such as an underline and an overline. In the apparatus, a line control memory is arranged to preset information of character attributes in units of lines of character fonts to be transferred to a video memory; in a DMA transfer sequence of a DMA transfer controller. Character attribute control is performed in a character controller for each line transfer according to the attribute information read out from the line control memory, and expansion of a character font from a character font memory area to the video memory can be simultaneously performed with processing of character attributes from the line control memory.