JPH03123930A - Character processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a character processor which can promptly identify and recognize a printing interruption cause and an input character string that is requested by collectively displaying input character information corresponding to an interrupted line generated in the middle of a printing processing. CONSTITUTION:CPU 1 consists of a printing interruption control code existing line display means 1a, a one line segment processing means 1b, a printing interruption control code detection means 1c and the like, and the means 1b reads document information in a line unit from the text area of RAM 6 being a document memory. The means 1c retrieves document information in the line unit, which the means 1b segments. When a printing interruption instructed state is detected, the means 1a being the interruption control means interrupts the printing processing of document information by a printer 11, displays document information corresponding to the line which is printing interruption- instructed in a display unit 9 and permits an operator to clearly display the presence or absence of interruption occurrence and document information on a printing interrupted place.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a character processing device equipped with a printing means for printing document information edited and displayed on a display means, and particularly to a character processing device that is capable of interrupting the printing process during printing. The present invention relates to a character processing device.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in this type of device, a character processing device capable of interrupting printing during printing processing has been put into practical use.

Generally, when printing is interrupted at a specific position in a document, a control code is set in advance at the specific position of the document, printing is interrupted based on the setting, and the operator can insert the character string etc. In many cases, the user is prompted to input information.

In this case, the following notification methods (1) and (2) are often adopted as means for notifying the operator of the interruption during printing processing.

(1) A message indicating a temporary suspension is displayed on the screen of the display device serving as the display means, for example, simply rP as shown in Figure 8(a).
A method of displaying a message such as "Ause..." to notify the user.

(2) A method of notifying the operator of printing interruption and comments regarding the printing interruption by means such as displaying comment information in the document on the screen, as shown in FIG. 8(b).

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, according to the above-mentioned conventional example, if, for example, the printing interruption specific position is a position where a character string etc. is to be inserted, and the operator is required to input the insertion character string by temporarily interrupting printing, In some cases, it is unclear to the operator why printing was interrupted on the relevant printing line, that is, the reason for the interruption, and it is difficult to deal with the problem.

In addition, even if it is recognized that printing has been interrupted for mail merge printing, it is unclear what kind of character string input the printing was interrupted for, that is, the content of the requested document is not clear, and the requested character string is not clear. It takes a considerable amount of thinking time to recognize this, which inadvertently extends the printing interruption time and significantly reduces print processing efficiency.

Furthermore, even if the device is equipped with a means to display comment information attached to the control code in the document on the screen, it is necessary to enter the comment line in advance when creating or editing the document, and even if the comment is If it is not entered, there will be operational problems such as the operator being confused because no information regarding the reason for the interruption will be obtained, as described above, and it will be difficult to use the merge print process that is effective in the character processing device. It was executed smoothly and could not be done.

This invention was made to solve the above problems, and by displaying input character information corresponding to interrupted lines that occurred during egg processing all at once, the reason for printing interruption and the required input character string can be determined. The object of the present invention is to obtain a character processing device that can instantly identify and recognize characters.

[Means to solve the problem]

The character processing device according to the present invention includes a detection means for detecting a print interruption instruction state by searching document information read out as a print candidate from a document memory line by line during printing processing by the printing means; The apparatus is provided with an interruption control means that interrupts the printing process of the document information based on the interruption instruction state and controls the display means to display the document information corresponding to the line for which the printing interruption instruction has been given.

Further, the detection means is configured to analyze a specific code input in the document information to detect a printing interruption instruction state.

Further, the detection means is configured to detect a printing interruption instruction state from a specific printing stop command input state during printing processing by the printing means.

(Operation) In the present invention, when the printing process by the printing unit is started, the detection unit searches for line-by-line document information read out as printing candidates from the document memory, and when the printing interruption instruction state is detected, the interruption control unit interrupts the printing process of the document information, controls the display means to display the document information corresponding to the line for which printing is interrupted, and clearly displays to the operator whether or not an interruption has occurred and the document information at the location where printing is interrupted. possible.

Further, when the detection means analyzes a specific code input in the document information and detects a printing interruption instruction state, the interruption control means interrupts the printing process of the document information, and also prints the document corresponding to the line for which the printing interruption instruction has been made. To control the display of information on a display means, and to make it possible to clearly display to an operator whether or not an interruption has occurred and document information of a printing interruption location.

Furthermore, when the detection means detects that a specific printing stop command is input during the printing process by the printing means, the interruption control means interrupts the printing process of the document information, and also prints the document corresponding to the line for which the printing interruption instruction has been made. To control the display of information on a display means, and to make it possible to clearly display to an operator whether or not an interruption has occurred and document information of a printing interruption location.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the main parts explaining the data display processing configuration of a character processing device showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a central processing unit (CPU); It is composed of display means 1a, line cutout processing means 1b, printing interruption control code detection means 10, etc., and the line cutout processing means 1b reads out document information line by line from the text area of RAM 6 which serves as a document memory. The printing interruption control code detection means 1C searches the document information in line units cut out by the line cutting processing means 1b, and when detecting the printing interruption instruction state, print interruption control code existing line display means serving as an interruption control means. 1a interrupts the printing process of document information by the printer 11 serving as a printing means, displays the document information corresponding to the line for which printing interruption has been instructed on the display 9 serving as a display means, and indicates whether or not an interruption has occurred and the location where printing was interrupted. Document information is clearly displayed to the operator as described below.

Note that the printing interruption control code includes a printing-time stop code, a printing insertion code, a position code, etc. input in the document information.

When the printing process of the printer 11 is started, the one-line cutting processing means 1b acquires a code from the document information held in the RAM 6, and executes one-line cutting processing to arrange and print each line. At this time, the printing interruption control code detection means 1c searches the extracted one line of document information to determine whether or not the printing interruption control code exists, and when it detects that the printing interruption control code exists, Line information for display is created based on line information (line buffer), which will be described later, of the document information extracted by the printing interruption control code detection means 1c. In accordance with this, the print interruption control code existing line display means 1a interrupts printing by the printer 11, and causes the display 9 to display all the document information of the line.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the character processing device shown in FIG. 1, and the same components as in FIG. 1 are given the same reference numerals.

In the figure, 2 is a system bus (SYSBUS) that outputs data and addresses to each device connected to the system bus 2 via an address bus and a data bus. 3 is a keyboard through which document information, control commands, etc. are inputted as key information via a keyboard interface 4; 5
is the system ROM, which contains the control procedures executed by CPU 1,
For example, a control execution processing procedure as shown in FIG. 5 is stored. 10 is a printer interface.

7 is a CRT controller which displays the document information stored in the RAM 6 via a display interface 8, for example in a CR
It is controlled to display on the display 9 made up of T.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the memory map of the RAM 6 shown in FIG. 1, and 6a is a screen data area (
Screen data necessary for display on the display 9 is stored in the Screen Data Area.

6b is a work area, which includes a command flag area ComF1g, a bit number area 5tpCdBLt that stores the bit number corresponding to the print interruption control code in the command flag area ComF1g, and a print interruption control code detected from the command flag area ComF1g. Flag area StpCdF1g indicating the presence
, Line information storage area Line that holds the character code and control code information extracted by the single line extraction process.
Buf.

Line information storage area PrtLi created for printing based on the content stored in the line information storage area LineBuf
neBuf, display line buffer area DspLin
It is composed of eBuf, etc.

A text area 6c stores document information input from the keyboard 3 according to a document format.

Next, the printing interruption instruction line display processing operation in the character processing device according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating the printing interruption instruction line display processing operation in the character processing device according to the present invention, and (a) shows the document information 21 stored in the text area 6C shown in FIG. For example, this corresponds to a state in which a character string 23 is sandwiched between line feed codes 22 and a print interruption control code 24 is input.

Note that if the printing interruption control code 24 exists, the printing interruption control code is set in the printing interruption control code area 5tpCd.

(b) shows the printing interruption line information display state, when the line is cut out by the one line cutting processing means 1b and the printing interruption control code 24 (stop code 5TOP) is detected by the printing interruption control code detection means 1C, printing is interrupted. The control code existing line display means 1a displays document information (character string rDe) on the display 9.
This corresponds to a state in which one line of "ar Mr,") is displayed.

Next, character processing operations in the character processing device according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a one-line extraction processing procedure by the one-line extraction processing means 1b shown in FIG. Note that (1) to (7) indicate each step.

First, execute the initial setting processing routine that initializes the line information storage area LineBuf secured in the work area 6b of the RAM 6, the flag area Stp[:dFlg indicating the existence of a printing interruption control code, etc. 1) Read from the text area 6C. Obtain the code from the issued document information, and if it is a control code, command flag area ComF1
Set each corresponding bit of g, and if it is a normal character, execute flag setting processing such as retaining the character code (2
).

Next, the printing interruption control code detection process (details will be described later) by the printing interruption control code detection means 1C is executed (
3). Next, in step (2), a line buffer creation process is executed to set the obtained character code, command flag, etc. in the line information line buffer. 4) One line extraction processing means 1b
5 to determine whether the single line extraction process has finished.
), if No, return to step (2), and if YES, execute a printing interruption control code existing line display processing routine (details will be described later) by the printing interruption control code existing line display means 1a (6), then 1 line. Execute the printing process (7)
, ends the process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a printing interruption control code detection processing procedure by the printing interruption control code detection means 1C shown in FIG. In addition, (1), (
2) shows each step.

When the printing interruption control code detection process by the printing interruption control code detection means 1C is started, the stop code bit (Sto
pCdBit) is ON 1), if NO, the process ends; if YES, it means that the print interruption control code has been detected, so the flag area StpCdF1 is
Set the flag of g to ONL/(2) and end the process.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of a printing interruption control code existing line display processing procedure by the printing interruption control code existing line displaying means 1a shown in FIG. In addition, (1) ~
(5) indicates a step.

When the printing interruption control code existing line display process is started, it is determined whether the flag in the flag area StpCdF1g is ON or not.1) If No, the process is terminated, and if YES, the printing interruption control code is included in the created line information. exists, so as shown in FIG. 4(b), a printing interruption message display process is executed to display the printing interruption message "rPause..." 2), and the line information created by the one line extraction process is executed. 3) Execute the display line buffer creation process to create the display line buffer from 3), execute the 1 line display position setting process for the display 9 4), Figure 4(b)
), the contents of the display line buffer (display line buffer area DspLineBuf) are displayed on the screen of the display device 9 (5), and the process ends.

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which the document information of the print interruption line is displayed on the display 9 in accordance with the print interruption control code input in the document information as a printing interruption instruction. While printing is being executed, the document information of the line whose printing is interrupted may be displayed on the display 9 in the same manner as described above in accordance with a printing stop instruction inputted from the keyboard 3 or the host. This results in
It is possible to interrupt the printing process at any line position while checking the printing status, and check the document information of the corresponding interrupted line on the display 9.

In addition, in the above embodiment, a case was explained in which one line of document information is displayed on the screen as printing interruption property, but depending on the configuration of the display 9, printing interruption property is the main feature, and lines before and after the printing interruption property or relatedness are displayed relative to each other. It may be configured to display lines,
Alternatively, it may be configured to be displayed in a window.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention includes a detection means for detecting a printing interruption instruction state by searching document information read out as a print candidate from a document memory line by line during printing processing by a printing means, and a printing operation performed by this detection means. The present invention is equipped with an interruption control means that interrupts the printing process of document information based on the interruption instruction state and displays document information corresponding to the line for which printing interruption has been instructed on the display means. Character information can be clearly displayed at printing interrupted locations, and the conventional complicated preprocessing such as inputting comment information for interrupted lines can be omitted. Therefore, the reason for printing interruption and the required input character string in the interrupted document information can be immediately identified and recognized.

Furthermore, the detection means is configured to detect the printing interruption instruction state by analyzing a specific code input in the document information, so that printing is interrupted at a command instruction position arbitrarily placed when inputting the document information, and You can check the corresponding print interruption line information on the screen.

Further, since the detection means is configured to detect the printing interruption instruction state from the input state of a specific printing stop command during the printing process by the printing means, even if no printing interruption annotation processing has been performed on the document information. Even if printing is interrupted, printing can be reliably interrupted and the corresponding printing interrupted line information can be confirmed on the screen when printing is instructed to be interrupted. Therefore, it is possible to display abundant and effective information on the screen corresponding to print interruption, and it is possible to achieve excellent effects such as reducing the burden on the operator for the next operation and the delay in one input.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of main parts explaining the data display processing configuration of a character processing device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the general configuration of the character processing device shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the memory map of the RAM shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating the printing interruption instruction line display processing operation, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the one-line extraction processing procedure by the one-line extraction processing means shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the printing interruption control code detection processing procedure by the printing interruption control code detection means shown in FIG. FIGS. 8(a) and 8(b) are flowcharts showing an example of the display processing procedure, and are schematic diagrams illustrating the conventional printing interruption instruction line display processing operation. In the figure, 1 is a CPU, 1a is a print interruption control code existing line display means, 1b is a 1 line extraction processing means, 1C is a print interruption control code detection means, 6 is a RAM, and 9 is a display (CRT).
, 11 is a printer (PRT). Figure 1 C Figure C Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a character processing device comprising a display means, a document memory for storing document information to be printed, and a printing means for reading and printing the document information stored in the document memory, printing processing by the printing means a detection means for detecting a printing interruption instruction state by searching line-by-line document information read out as printing candidates from the document memory; and a printing process for the document information based on the printing interruption instruction state by the detection means. 1. A character processing apparatus, comprising: an interruption control means for controlling the display of document information corresponding to a line for which a print interruption instruction has been given on the display means. (2) The character processing device according to claim (1), wherein the detection means detects a print interruption instruction state by analyzing a specific code input in the document information. (3) The character processing device according to claim 1, wherein the detection means detects a printing interruption instruction state from a specific printing stop command input state during printing processing by the printing means.