JPH01109423A - Editing and outputting system for printing list - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the correct editing output to respective types of a printer by providing an editing instructing signal to instruct beforehand by how many columns printing is executed to a printing list paper and a printing line number acquiring means to obtain the number of the lines which can be printed to one printing list paper. CONSTITUTION:An editing instructing means 1 prepares an editing instruction record and outputs it to a list output file 7 in accordance with the number of the columns of printing specified by a program 5 beforehand. An editing instructing record identifying means 2 identifies the editing instruction record of the record inputted from the list output file 7, obtains the number of the columns edited from the number of the columns of the editing instructing record, and a printing row number acquiring means 3 uses the number of the rows of printing specified by the type of the printer beforehand and obtains the number of the rows of the printing of the printer to be outputted. An editing output means 4 receives the supply of the number of the columns of the printing and the number of the rows of the printing and prepares the table of the row number X the column number. Thus, it is sufficient that a user is not conscious of the printer to output and even when the output is executed to respective types of the printer, the editing and outputting can be correctly executed to the list paper unit.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a print list editing and output system, and more particularly to a method for outputting a multi-column edit list to a print list sheet of execution results output by a program.

[Supervision] U [Mu] Traditionally, in this type of multi-column editing list output method, the number of lines that can be printed on one list sheet can be determined by the user using a predetermined value in the program and a startup parameter when starting the program. Since it is the specified value, the execution results for the number of columns to be edited are temporarily saved in the memory area of the program, and when the execution results for one list sheet have been accumulated, the saved execution results are saved for each column. Arrange them in columns and place them at the beginning of the list sheet]
- The records are output sequentially starting from the - code, and the system's output program outputs the records sequentially to the printing device.

In this way, in the conventional multi-column edit list output method, the number of lines that can be printed on one sheet of list paper is determined in advance by the program, and the value specified by the user using the startup parameter when starting the program is used. The system's output program can output to a variety of printing devices.

Therefore, if the user is not aware of the printing device that outputs, there is a drawback that if the user misidentifies the printing device that outputs, a list that is not correctly edited for each paper of the list will be output.

Furthermore, when creating a program that performs similar multi-column editing, there is a drawback in that the program must also create a process for performing multi-column editing.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a print list editing/output system that allows correct editing and output for various printing devices without the user being aware of the type of printing device for outputting.

Structure of the Invention According to the present invention, there is provided a print list editing/output system for editing and outputting program execution results in a plurality of columns on a print list sheet, the editing instruction for instructing in advance how many columns to print on the list sheet. means for obtaining the number of lines that can be printed on one printing list sheet of the printing device to be printed; and a record for printing that is input thereafter according to the number of lines to be printed and the number of print columns specified above. There is obtained a print list editing/output system characterized by comprising: editing means for editing and outputting the edited text to the printing device.

Next, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, one embodiment of the present invention includes an edit instruction means, an edit instruction record identification means 2, a print line number acquisition means 3, an edit output means 4, a program 5, an output program 6, It consists of a list output file 7 and a printing device M8.

The editing instruction means 1 is included in the function of the program 5, and creates an editing instruction record according to the number of print strings predetermined by the program 5, and outputs the list output file 7.
It has a function to output to.

FIG. 4 shows the record format output by the program 5 and input to the output program 6. As shown in the figure, a print record is composed of a record body part containing the content to be printed and a record header part set in advance at the beginning of this record body part. Then, an edit instruction record exists, and the record length is
In addition to the record identifier, there is a part where the number of print strings in the edit output list is specified in advance. In this column number specification section, the number of print columns is specified from the editing instruction means 1.

The list output file 7 is a file that stores program execution results converted by the program 5 into records for sequential printing.

The output program 6 is started upon receiving information from the system about what kind of printing device the output is to be made to, and performs the functions of the editing instruction record identification means 2, the print line number acquisition means 3, and the editing output means 4. Contains.

The editing instruction record identifying means 2 identifies the editing instruction record of the record input from the list output file 7, and determines the number of columns to be edited from the number of columns of this editing instruction record.

The number of printed lines obtaining means 3 has a function of obtaining the number of printed lines of the printing device that outputs using a predetermined number of printed lines depending on the type of printing iiH.

The editing output means 4 receives the number of print columns and the number of print lines and generates a table of the number of lines x the number of columns shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the editing instruction record identifying means 2 which is the first cause. In FIG. 2, the edit instruction record identification means 2 inputs a record from the list output file 7 in step ^1, and checks the record identifier in the record header of the input record in step ^2 to determine whether it is an edit instruction record. do. In step ^3, the number of columns is determined from the entity part of the edit instruction record. Step A
4, the print line number obtaining means 3 is activated to obtain the number of lines. In step A5, start the editing output means 4 and output the list output file 7.
Edit and output the record. Step 80 and Step A
7, step 88, and switch A9, all records in the list output file 7 are printed.

Next, the overall operation of this embodiment will be specifically explained. When the program 5 is activated by the system, the edit instruction means 1 creates an edit instruction record using the number of columns predetermined by the program 5, and outputs it to the list output file 7.

Thereafter, the program 5 sequentially converts the execution results into records for printing and outputs them to the list output file 7, completes the list output file 7, and ends the execution of the program 5.

Next, when the contents of the list output file 7 are to be output to a printing device, the output program 6 is activated by the system after receiving information about which printing device to output the contents to. The output program 6 takes in a record from the list output file 7, determines whether it is an editing instruction record using the editing instruction record identification means 2, outputs the record to a designated printing device 8 if it is not an editing instruction record, and thereafter outputs the list. All records of the file are output to the printer 8 and the execution is terminated.

If it is an edit instruction record, find the number of columns to be edited from the record. Next, the line number obtaining means 3 is activated, and the number of lines to be printed by the printing device to be output is obtained using the number of lines to be printed that is predetermined depending on the type of printing device.

Next, the determined number of columns and rows are passed to the editing output means 4 and the editing output means 4 is activated. The activated editing output means 4 is
Create a table with the number of rows x number of columns shown in Figure 3 in the internal storage area, input records in order from list output file 7,
The print contents of the record are set in the table in order in the row direction. Then, when the table becomes full or when there are no more records in the list output file 7, the contents of each row of the table are output to the printer 8.

The above operations are repeated until there are no more records in the list output file 7, and when there are no more records, the processing of the editing output means 4 is terminated and the execution of the output program is terminated.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, before a program outputs an execution result record, an editing instruction record for instructing how many columns to print in a list is output, and the program outputs The output program of the system that inputs the recorded record and outputs it to the printing device identifies the editing instruction record that exists in the input record, calculates the number of lines that can be printed on one list sheet of the printing device to be output, and prints the determined line. By configuring the subsequent input records to be edited and output to the printing device using the number and the number of columns specified in the editing instruction record, the user need not be aware of the printing device to be outputted, and various types of Even when outputting to a printing device, it is possible to correctly edit and output each list paper, and when creating a program that performs similar multi-column editing, the editing instruction means 1
This has the effect that all you need to do is create a process for this.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a processing flow diagram showing the operation of the editing instruction record identification means, FIG. 3 is a diagram of the table configuration generated by the editing output means, and FIG.
The figure is a record format diagram of the list output file. Explanation of symbols of main parts 1...Editing instruction means 2...Editing instruction record identification means 3...
・Print line number acquisition means 4...Editing output means 8...Printing device

Claims (1)

[Claims] A print list editing/output system that edits and outputs program execution results in a plurality of columns on a print list sheet, the system comprising: an editing instruction means for instructing in advance how many columns to print on the list sheet; and a printing device for printing. A printing line number acquisition means for determining the number of lines that can be printed on one printing list sheet, and editing records for printing subsequently input according to this number of printing lines and the specified number of printing columns, and outputting the edited record to the printing device. A print list editing/output system comprising: editing means.