JPH01176573A - Document preparation and editing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable printing to be performed by blind designation of a part of a document, by providing a blind means wherein a section for characters not to be printed is designated and a means wherein only a section for designated characters is not printed. CONSTITUTION:Blind printing means a function which is likely not to print a part of a text in printing, and a section as an object is called a blind section. In order to designate the blind section, it can be established by inputting a blind printing character key 15 to both ends of a section required for blinding. This blind printing character key is inputted by pushing down the blind printing character key 15 of a input device. Further, there are two kinds of printing such as an ordinary printing mode and a blind printing mode. The ordinary printing is established by input with a print key 13, and the blind printing is established by input with a blind printing mode setting key 16.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a device (hereinafter referred to as a "document creation and editing device") having a document creation and editing function, such as a word processor, an office computer, a personal computer, a data processor, a workstation, etc. Regarding print processing functions.

4. Conventionally, a word processor or the like as a document creation/editing device is equipped with at least an input device, a display device, and a printing device as described above, and can visually display characters input from a human-powered device on the display device. Generally, when printing text that has been edited by inputting characters, all of the specified print pages of the text are printed.

Therefore, when a user does not want to print a portion of a document whose pages are designated according to the printing purpose, it takes time and effort to edit the document again and delete unnecessary parts. Also, when registering it.

Similar documents are duplicated, document management becomes complicated, and it is extremely inefficient.

For example, if you create a test document like the one shown in Figure 10 using a Japanese word processor (hereinafter also referred to as a "word processor"), and also try to manage the model answer document like the one shown in Figure 11 using a word processor, creates two types of documents,
There were inconveniences in managing the same data, such as registration.

In particular, when a part of a question is changed, the same part of the model answer must also be changed, which is extremely inefficient management.

Purpose This invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to enable printing by designating a part of a document as blind (excluding printing) according to a user's designation.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a document creation/editing device that includes at least an input device, a display device, and a printing device, and is capable of visually displaying characters input from the input device on the display device. , comprising a blind printing designation means for specifying a character section not to be printed when printing text inputted by the input device, and a blind printing means for not printing only the character section designated by the designation means. .

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of a personal word processor as a document creation/editing device embodying the present invention.

This personal word processor includes a keyboard 1 as an input device, a liquid crystal display (LCD) 2 as a display device, a thermal printer 3 as a printing device, and a floppy disk device 4 as an external storage device.

The keyboard (hereinafter referred to as the "input device") 1 includes character keys for inputting characters, a conversion key for instructing kana-kanji conversion, a shift key for switching characters input with the character keys,
A key group 10 including a line feed key, etc., a function instruction key 11 for instructing various functions in combination with character keys, and an execution key 12
, a print key 13 for instructing printing, a cursor movement key group 14 for instructing movement of a cursor on a liquid crystal display device (hereinafter referred to as "display device") 2, and a blind printing character key 1 related to blind printing of the present invention.
5 and a print mode setting key 16.

In addition, the display device (LCD) 2 has an editing area for displaying input characters after conversion into kana-kanji, K-line, etc.
A line information display area that displays line information (line information) such as the right edge and tab position, a scale display area that displays information such as the number of digits or characters, key human characters, candidate kanji,
Input mode.

Current position of the cursor (page 2 lines, 2 columns), paper size.

Maximum number of characters, full/half-width, printing conditions (character spacing, 2 line spacing,
A guidance display area that displays guidance such as print mode, vertical/horizontal writing), characters on one page of the document currently being edited, etc.
Alternatively, it has a layout display area that displays a layout in which a format such as a square line is reduced and a pattern created when creating external characters.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a control section of this personal word processor.

A microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as "microcomputer") 21 of this control unit 20 includes a CPU and a ROM.

It is comprised of a RAM, a machine/○, etc., and controls the entire apparatus, including document creation/editing 7 display control, print control 2 character enlargement control, and blind printing processing according to the present invention.

The ROM 22 stores various fixed information such as a control program necessary for controlling this apparatus, standard format (paper size, two-character pitch in paper direction, line pitch) information, two-character code, and the like.

The RAM 23 includes an input buffer area for storing data input from the input device 1, a text storage area for storing input character data, and a floppy disk device (FD).
D) It is used as a data area for storing various data including a character generator area for storing character patterns read from 4, an area for storing setting format information, line information, etc., and a working area for program execution.

The dictionary memory 24 includes a dictionary area that stores dictionaries necessary for kana-kanji conversion, and a character pattern storage area (character generator) that stores character patterns of characters in a predetermined typeface, such as Gothic or Mincho. .

The keyboard controller 25 is in charge of determining input data from the input device 1 and transferring lighting control data for LEDs (not shown) attached to keys, etc.
is internally equipped with a video memory (VRAM), etc., and controls the display of the display device (LCD) 2, and a floppy disk controller (FDC) 27 controls the FDD 4.

The floppy disk loaded in the FDD 4 includes a floppy disk storing a character pattern in a predetermined format, for example, a Mincho font, a floppy disk storing a Gothic character pattern, and the like.

Further, the microcomputer 21 controls the printer 3, and
At 028, head drive data corresponding to the characters to be printed is outputted, and each heating element of the thermal head (print head) 30 is driven and controlled via the driver 29 to print a desired character.

Furthermore, this microcomputer 21 outputs space drive data to l1028 to drive and control the space motor 32 via the driver 61 to move the carriage 33, and also outputs line feed drive data to the driver 34.
The line foot motor 35 is driven and controlled through the driver 67 to rotate the platen 3, and ribbon foot drive data is output, and the ribbon foot motor 38 is driven and controlled through the driver 67 to feed the ribbon 3.

Next, an outline of this embodiment will be explained.

First, blind printing is a function that does not print a part of text during printing, and the target section is called a blind section.

A blind section can be designated by inputting the blind printing character key 15 at both ends of the section to be blinded, as shown in FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b).

This blind printing character key is pressed by pressing the blind printing character key 15 of the input device (keyboard) 1 shown in FIG.

In addition, there are two printing modes: normal printing and blind printing mode.
There are different types, and their settings are made by inputting the print key 13 for normal printing and inputting the blind printing mode setting key 16 for blind printing, as shown in FIG.

When the print mode setting key 16 is input, a print mode setting screen appears as shown in FIG. 5(a).

Therefore, since the current print mode "Normal" is highlighted, press the cursor movement key "
→” moves the inversion to “Blind”. here,
When the execution key is pressed, the set blind print portion (non-print portion) is displayed as shown in FIG. 5(c).

Actually, when printing in blind printing mode, Figure 6 (
The document shown in a) is set as a blind section in Figure 4 as shown in Figure 6(b).
Only the part marked "s is a pen" is not printed.

These blind printed characters (hereinafter also referred to as "blind printed marks") are half-width characters with 6 characters as shown in Figure 4.
There is a "bu" inside the square, but it is written as [bu] in the specification.

-8= Also, in normal printing, the document shown in FIG. 6(a) is printed.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functions of a portion related to blind printing processing, which is the main part of this embodiment.

The portion related to this blind printing process is the input device 12 display device 2. In addition to the printing device B, there is also an input data control unit 4.
02 Edit processing section 412 Edit data area 422 Character manual processing section 43. Text section 44, print control section 45. Print data creation department 4th.

Print buffer 47. Printing device control unit 48. Print determination processing section 49. Print mode setting processing unit 50° Print mode storage unit 51. Font area 52 and display data processing section 5
6.

Next, the functions of each of these components will be explained.

Input device 12 display device 2. Printing device B is as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and is the input and output portion of the functions related to this blind printing process.

When the input data control section 40 receives input data from the input device 1, the input data control section 40 executes an editing processing section 412 according to the type of the data.
Character input processing section 43. The respective data are transmitted to the print control section 45 and the print mode setting processing section 50.

When the editing processing section 41 receives an editing command from the input data control section 40, the editing processing section 41 performs the corresponding editing on the editing data area 42 and the text section 44.

The editing data area 42 receives and stores editing processing data from the editing processing section 41. and print data creation section 46. Print determination processing section 49° Display data processing section 53
Output the edited data to .

When the character input processing section 43 receives character data from the input data control section 40, it performs a character insertion process on the text section 44.

The text section 44 receives character data from the editing processing section 41 and the character input processing section 43 and stores it. and print data creation section 46. This text data is output to the print determination processing section 4/2 display data processing section 53.

When the print control section 45 receives a print command from the input data control section 40, it outputs a print data creation command to the print data creation section 46. The print control unit 45 also controls the printing device control unit 48 based on the completion result from the print data creation unit 46.
Outputs print commands to .

When the print data creation unit 46 receives the print data creation command from the print control unit 45, the print data creation unit 46 creates the edit data area 42, the text part 44. Print data is created with reference to the font area 52. At this time, a request is issued to the print determination processing unit 49 to determine whether blind printing data creation processing should be performed, and print data is created based on the determination result. The created data is output to the print buffer unit 47, and the print control unit 45 is notified of the completion result.

The print buffer 47 receives one line of print data created by the print data creation section 46 and temporarily stores it. This print data is then output to the printing device control section 48.

When the printing device control section 48 receives the printing command from the printing control section 45, the printing device control section 48 refers to the print buffer 47 and prints the printing device 3.
Outputs print commands and print data.

The print determination processing section 49 refers to the edit data area 42, text section 44, and print mode storage section 51, determines whether blind printing processing should be performed, and outputs the determination result to the print data creation section 46. .

When the print mode setting processing unit 5o receives a print mode setting command from the input data control unit 40, it refers to the print mode storage unit 51 and causes the display data processing unit 53 to display a menu as shown in FIG. Output data. Further, upon receiving print mode designation information data from the input data control section 40, the print mode information is stored in the print mode storage section 51.

The print mode storage section 51 receives print mode information from the print mode setting processing section 50 and stores it. and,
This print mode information is output to the print determination processing section 49 and the print mode setting processing section 5o.

The font area 52 stores font data of characters to be printed, and is used by the print data creation section 46 and the display data processing section 5.
Output this font data in step 3.

The display data processing unit 53 uses the edit data area 4 during editing.
2. Text section 44. Display data is output to the display device 2 with reference to the font area 52. Further, when setting the print mode, display data is created based on the display data from the print mode setting processing section 50 and the font data in the font area 52, and this display data is output to the display device 2.

Next, the functions of the part related to the blind printing process configured as described above will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 7.

First, the print buffer 47 is cleared (the print buffer 47 has one line and is a dot development area exclusively for printing), and the text for one print line is developed. This refers to the edit data area 42 and text section 44 of the block diagram shown in FIG. 1, and creates text development data as shown in FIG. (Text expansion data stores pointers to text addresses in half-width units in one line of text. Specifically, as shown in Figure 9, for half-width characters, pointers to text,
For full-width characters, a pointer to the text is placed in the first digit,
There is a full-width flag in the second digit position. Note that details will be described later. ) Next, one character's worth of text development data is fetched from the text development data, and if it is a blind print mark [B], a half-width null space is stored in the print buffer 47.

If it is not a blind printing mark, it is determined whether it is a control character or not, and if it is a control character, it is processed, and if it is another character, the character font is sent to the print buffer 47.
Store in.

Further, when the character processing for one line is completed, printing processing for one line is performed. If the printing process for one line has not been completed, the next character is extracted and the same process is repeated.

Furthermore, when the retrieved data for one character is a blind print character, after storing a half-width null space in the print buffer 47, it is determined whether or not the current mode is blind print mode. then performs the loop processing shown earlier.

If it is in the blind printing mode, the text development data for the next character is extracted, and it is checked whether it is also a blind printing mark. If it is not a blind printing mark, it is checked whether it is a control character.

If it is a control character, perform the corresponding processing. If it is not a control character, a null space of a size corresponding to the character is stored in the print buffer 47. When the printing for one line is completed, the printing process for one line is performed. If one line is not completed, the next character is fetched and loop processing is performed.

If it is a blind print mark, print buffer 47
A half-width null space is stored in , and if one line is completed, one line is printed, and if not, the blind printing process is exited and the next character is taken in.

After one line of print processing has been performed, it is checked whether the print data has ended or not, and if it has not ended, the process returns to the beginning and repeats this loop.

With the above processing, blind printing is possible for all character strings after [B] in one line unless the character string between the blind printing mark [B] and [B] and [B] are a pair. Become.

Next, a specific example of the print data creation process shown in FIG. 8 and the text development shown in FIG. 9 will be described.

FIG. 8(a) shows text, a-u are text address pointers, and each corresponding character is shown below the pointer. Here, pointers a and b are full-width characters, and a''-u is a half-width character.

FIG. 8(b) is text development data obtained by developing the text in FIG. 8(a). Here, 1 is a full-width character flag. Pointer a in FIG. 8(a).

Since b is a full-width character, the full-width character flag "1" is stored next to pointer a in FIG. 8(b).

The same applies to b. Further, r-100J in FIG. 8(b) is a no-character flag.

Figure 8(c) shows the print buffer where a is a full-width space and b is a full-width character.Solution J+c is half-width r (J,
d is a half-width blind printing character symbol [b], but it is null (empty) on the print buffer.

FIG. 9 is a concrete diagram of text expansion, and the full-width character "solution" is bl shown in FIG. 8(b) with a pointer and a full-width flag. Further, the half-width character "T" can only be expanded into a pointer.

Conventionally, for example, when a test document was created using a word processor, it was necessary to manage the test paper document containing only questions, as shown in Figure 10, and the model answer document, as shown in Figure 11, separately. However, if you specify the non-printing parts using the blind print specification means, you can print them all at once, as in the test document created in this example as shown in Figure 12. and can be managed.

Then, when printing, simply by switching to the re-blind printing mode using the blind printing means, it becomes possible to print the test paper and the model answers, which is very convenient.

Effects As explained above, according to the present invention, in a document creation/editing device, when a part of a certain document does not need to be printed, an operation of creating a new same document by copying etc. This eliminates the need to increase the number of documents. Therefore, it is possible to improve the efficiency of document management, and there is no need to re-edit newly copied documents by deleting them.
It's very convenient.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functions of a portion related to blind printing processing in an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example of a document creation/editing device embodying the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the blind printing section designation process of this embodiment; FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the blind printing mode setting process; FIG. An explanatory diagram showing an example of printing processing, Fig. 7 is a flow diagram showing the operation of this embodiment, Fig. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the process of creating print data, Fig. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific sequence of text development, FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a test paper document, FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a model answer document, and FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a test document created in this embodiment. 1. Input device (keyboard) 2. Display device (LCD) 3 Printing device (thermal printer) 15. Blind print character key 16 ・Print mode setting key 40 Manual data control section 41. Edit processing section -19 = 42 Edit Data area 43...Character input processing section 44...Text section 45
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Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A document creation/editing device comprising at least an input device, a display device, and a printing device, and capable of visually displaying characters input from the input device on the display device, comprising: When printing text,
A document creation/editing device comprising: blind printing designation means for designating a character section not to be printed; and blind printing means for not printing only the character section designated by the designation means.