JP2908899B2 - Character processor - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character processing device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a character processing apparatus having a function of adjusting the position of a character string corresponding to the last line of a page of a sheet during printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a character processing apparatus in which a line feed pitch is defined by the sum of a character height and a line interval, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, it is determined whether the line feed pitch of the character string printed on the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit of the printable range. If the lower limit is exceeded, the character string corresponding to the last line of the page, ie, FIG. Is configured to print "was initialized" on the first line of the next page.

[0003]

However, in the conventional character processing apparatus as described above, the line feed pitch is defined as a pair of set values consisting of the character height and the line interval. Exceeds the lower limit of the printable range, the last line is not printed in the page being printed, but is printed at the beginning of the next page. For this reason, there is a drawback that a printing result results in an unnecessarily large space below the sheet, which makes the printing layout unnatural.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a character processing apparatus capable of arranging and printing character lines on paper in a well-balanced manner.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a line feed pitch is defined as a distance from the upper end of a character to the upper end of the next character.
A character processing device having a function of sequentially printing a character string of each line based on a predetermined line feed pitch, an instruction means for instructing release of setting of a line feed pitch for a last line of a page, and a character string corresponding to the last line of the page. Determining means for determining whether or not the line feed pitch exceeds the lower limit of the printable range; and a line feed pitch of a character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit and if the setting release instruction is given, the last line of the page is determined. The character string corresponding to the last line of the page is printed in one page together with the character strings of the other lines, ignoring only the line feed pitch, and the line break pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit and the setting release instruction is issued. If not, the character processing apparatus further includes a print line number adjusting unit that prints the character string on the first line of the next page.

[0006]

According to the present invention, when an instruction to cancel the setting of the line feed pitch of the last line of the page is issued, it is determined whether or not the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit of the printable range during printing. In this case, the line feed pitch is ignored only for the last line of the page, and a character string corresponding to the last line of the page is included in the same page and printed. If there is no instruction to cancel the setting, printing is performed on the first line of the next page.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. The present invention is not limited by this. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a character processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a control device that functions as a determination unit and a print line number adjustment unit.
It is composed of a microprocessor and controls the operation of this system. When printing a character string, the control device 1 determines whether the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit of the printable range, and determines that the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit. And when the instruction to cancel the setting is given, a character string corresponding to the last line of the page is printed in one page ignoring the line feed pitch,
If the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit and the setting release instruction has not been issued, control is performed to print the character string on the first line of the next page.

Reference numeral 2 denotes an input device which functions as an instruction means. In this embodiment, the input device is constituted by a keyboard. Character input keys for inputting characters, conversion keys for converting kana-kanji characters, and editing for performing various edits are provided. A key, a print key for selecting a print mode, a line number expansion key for instructing "necessity" of one page line number expansion in format setting, and the like are provided. The instruction to enlarge the number of lines per page is an instruction for releasing the setting of the line feed pitch for the last line of the page so that the character string corresponding to the last line of the page is contained within one page.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a display device.
A character string input from the keyboard 2 is displayed, and conversion candidates are displayed on the screen in accordance with the operation of the conversion key. Reference numeral 4 denotes a printing apparatus, which in this embodiment is constituted by a dot matrix type printer and outputs an editing result. Reference numeral 5 denotes a program memory which is composed of a ROM and stores a program for controlling the control device 1. Reference numeral 6 denotes a document data memory which is constituted by a RAM and stores document data. Reference numeral 7 denotes a printing memory, which is composed of a RAM, and is for expanding document data into actual printing data.

FIG. 2 shows the structure of the document data memory 6 described above. The contents of the document data memory 6 include format information 60, data 61, ruled line information 62, and other information 6
3 mainly. The format information is, specifically, paper size, vertical / horizontal insertion, vertical / horizontal writing information, one-line character number information, line feed pitch information, italic, underline,
Shading type information, justified printing, character dot type information,
Character height printing (line feed for character height), point type information, character dot type information, mode and decorative character information, and one page line number expansion information which is a feature of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the control device 1 described above. It is assumed that the print mode is selected and printing is performed as a premise. First,
Determine whether the line feed pitch (line height + line interval) of the line to be printed exceeds the lower limit of the printable range (step 1).
0) If it exceeds, it is further determined whether or not the expansion of the number of lines per page in the format information of the document data memory 6 is "necessary" (step 11). If the result of the determination is "necessary", the line to be printed next is printed on the current page, that is, one page, ignoring the line feed pitch amount (step 12). If the number of lines per page is "no", the next line is printed on the first line of the next page (step 13). The last line of a page to be printed on a sheet can be specified by using a conventional technique of subtracting a line feed pitch from a printable range for each line.

[0012]

According to the present invention, since the printing range of the paper can be fully utilized, the layout of the character lines can be appropriately adjusted by eliminating unnecessary margins.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a document data memory according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a line feed pitch of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 control device 2 keyboard 3 display device 4 printing device 5 program memory 6 document data memory 7 print memory

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-63-70370 (JP, A) JP-A-60-109883 (JP, A) Newton separate volume 1 Issued on March 20), Kyoikusha Co., Ltd., p. 204-205 (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G06F 15/20

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A line feed pitch is defined as a distance from an upper end of a character to an upper end of a next character, and a character string of each line is determined in advance.
A character processing device having a function of sequentially printing based on the line feed pitch, an instruction means for instructing the release of the line feed pitch setting for the last line of the page, and the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page being the lower limit of the printable range. determining means for determining whether exceeds, beyond the line feed pitch the lower string striking the page last row, and ignoring the only line feed pitch of the page last line if an instruction of the setting cancellation has been made the A character string corresponding to the last line of the page is printed on one page together with a character string of another line. If the line feed pitch of the character string corresponding to the last line of the page exceeds the lower limit and the setting release instruction is not issued, the character string is printed. And a print line number adjusting means for printing the first line of the next page.