JPH03129564A - Document processor with repeated printing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain repeated printing by an optional format by editing inputted document information to a block size specified as one data block and developing the edited data block to a repeated printing format to print our the data block. CONSTITUTION:A format such as the number of characters in a line to be printed in a block and the number of line feeds is set up from a block size stored in a block size storing means 103 by an edition means 104 and one of document information stored in a document information storing means 102 is edited as a data block based upon the set format. Then the edited data block is copied as plural data blocks based upon the printing information stored in a printing information storing means 105 and developed to a repeated printing format by a developing means 106 and plural data blocks are printed out by a printing means 107 based upon the developed format. Consequently, repeated printing utilizing the inputted block size as one data block can be attained.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to a document processing device such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating sentences in Japanese, and in particular, the present invention relates to a document processing device such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating sentences in Japanese. The present invention relates to a document processing device capable of copying a plurality of blocks of text and printing the plurality of blocks of text.

(B) Conventional technology Conventionally, in this type of document processing device, one block of text to be printed on label paper, etc. is input, and then it is copied into multiple blocks of text and printed. When repeatedly printing, text commands for repeated printing are input using a method different from normal text input.

In other words, the text input for repeated printing is an independent special function, in which the desired format can be selected from among the formats installed in the system in advance, and the text for repeated printing can be input in the selected format. I'm trying to expand it and print it.

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in this conventional document processing device, a format for repeated printing is pre-installed in the system, so there is freedom in the size and shape of the format for repeated printing that can be set. There is a problem that the user is limited to printing repeatedly according to the prepared paper size (block size), and the user is free to create the desired format and print repeatedly with the desired block size. The problem arose that I couldn't do it.

The present invention has been made in consideration of these circumstances, and provides a document processing device with a blank spot printing function that allows the block size to be set externally and allows repeated printing in any format. It is something to do.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention includes an input means 101 for inputting various document information and inputting a block size, a document information storage means 102 for storing the input document information,
A block size storage means 103 that stores the input block size, and the number of characters per line that can be printed in the block based on the block size of the block size storage means 103.
an editing means 104 that sets a format such as the number of line breaks, and edits the document information stored in the document information storage means 102 as one data block based on the format; the number of characters per line that can be printed on each paper of various sizes; A print information storage means 105 that stores print information such as the number of line feeds in advance, and an editing means 105 copies one data block that has been processed based on the print information in the print information storage means 105 and returns it as multiple data blocks. This is a document processing device with a repeat printing function, which includes a developing means 106 that develops into a printing format, and a printing means 107 that prints a plurality of data blocks in the format developed by the developing means 106.

Note that the input means 101 according to the present invention may be any device capable of inputting various document information and inputting a block size, and a keyboard device or a tablet device is mainly used.

Furthermore, the document information storage means 102 and the block size storage means 103 may be of any type as long as they can store the input document information and block size, respectively.
RAM consisting of core memory, IC memory, etc., and external storage devices such as floppy disk devices, magnetic disk devices, etc. are used.

Further, the print information storage means 105 may be any device that can store print information such as the number of printable characters per line and the number of line breaks for each size of paper in advance, and may be a ROM consisting of a core memory, an IC memory, etc. An external storage device such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device is used.

It is generally convenient to use a microprocessor as the editing means 104 and the expansion means +06.

Further, the printing means 107 may be any device that can print a plurality of data blocks in the format developed by the development means 106, and an impact type or thermal transfer type printer is mainly used.

(e) Effect As shown in FIG. 1, according to the present invention, the input means +0
The document information input from 1 is stored in the document information storage means 102, and the block size is stored in the block size storage means 10.
3 is stored.

Further, the print information storage means 105 stores in advance print information such as the number of printable characters per line and the number of line breaks for each paper of various sizes.

Then, the editing means 104 sets a format such as the number of characters per line that can be printed in the block and the number of line breaks based on the block size of the block size storage means 103, and the format is stored in the document information storage means 102 based on the format. The document information obtained is processed as one data block.

Thereafter, the edited data block is copied into a plurality of data blocks by the expansion means +06 based on the print information in the print information storage means 105, and is expanded into a repeat printing format.
This prints the data block in expanded format.

Therefore, it is possible to repeatedly print the input block size as one data block.

(f) Examples Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the drawings. Note that this invention is not limited to this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

In the figure, a keyboard is equipped with a kana key for inputting other character strings, a block size setting key for setting the block size for repeated printing, a format setting key for specifying the print paper size, a print key for instructing printing of text, etc. , and controls various document data and block size data.
Enter.

The control unit 2 is configured with a microprocessor and includes a ROM.
Various data processes, which will be described later, are performed by a control program written in the program memory 3 consisting of the following.

4 R for converting ephemeral character strings into kanji and kana mixed sentences
This is a kana-kanji conversion dictionary consisting of OM.

5 is a display device consisting of a CRT display device, LC (liquid crystal) display device, or EL display device, etc., and displays various input kana character strings, kanji-kana mixed sentences converted to kana-kanji, and the layout when setting the block size. , display repeatedly printed text.

6 is an impact type or thermal transfer type printer;
Prints the specified repeated printing text.

7 is a ROM, and this ROM 7 contains A4 size and B
Print data such as the number of printable characters per line, number of line breaks, and character spacing for each size of paper such as 5 paper is written in advance.

8 is RAM, which stores various sentences converted into kana-kanji,
Memorize the block size entered from the keyboard.

From the block size stored in the RAM 8, the control unit 2
Format data such as the number of characters per line that can be printed, the number of line breaks, and character spacing is set in the block, and the sentences stored in the same RAM 8 are edited as one data block based on the format data.

Further, print data corresponding to the paper size specified from the keyboard l is read from the ROM 7.

Then, based on the print data successively output from ROM 7, the number of vertical and horizontal data blocks is calculated from the size of one edited data block, and the edited one data block is copied according to the number of data blocks. The data blocks are created into multiple data blocks and expanded into a format for repeated printing.

Then, the printer 6 prints the plurality of data blocks in the developed format.

Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are explanatory diagrams showing an example of the format of bare reverse printing, and Fig. 3 shows the case where the number of characters per line of the entire sheet of A4 paper is 40 characters and the number of lines is 40 lines. - An example of the format when the number of characters per line of the data block is set to 10 characters and the number of lines is set to 10. Figure 4 shows an example of the format when the number of characters per line of the data block is set to 40 characters and the number of lines is set to 8. It shows.

As shown in these figures, in the format settings, select the repeat printing paper and set the vertical block size A and horizontal block size B shown in Figure 3, or the vertical block size C and mouse block size D shown in Figure 4. By inputting in millimeters from the keyboard 1, the format such as the number of characters per line and number of line breaks that can be printed in the block is calculated from these block sizes, and the format shown in Figures 3 and 3 is printed on A4 paper K. 4
The data of l blocks indicated by diagonal lines in the figures are copied at 15 locations in FIG. 3, 4 locations in FIG. 4, and so on, and are developed into a repeat printing format and printed.

In this example, the size of the original paper for printing is A4 size, but it is of course possible to repeatedly print on any size paper such as A3.84.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control section 2 will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, in the key input state (step 21), when the block size setting key is pressed (step 22), the third
A screen for inputting vertical block sizes A, C1 and horizontal block sizes B, D shown in FIGS.

Furthermore, when the format setting key is pressed (step 24), a format setting screen is displayed on the display device 5, and A4 paper size is set as the paper for repeated printing (step 25).
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Furthermore, when the sentence creation key is pressed (step 26),
Store the input text in RAM 8 (step 27)
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Next, when the print key is pressed (step 28), the number of vertical blocks is calculated by dividing the number of vertical lines of the paper size by the number of lines of input text. Calculate the number of blocks in the section direction by dividing the maximum number of lines in the input text (step 30), and repeat printing as shown in Figures 3 and 4 based on the number of blocks in the vertical direction and section direction. Determine the format of (
Step 31).

Then, in step 32), the text stored in the RAM 8 is set as one data block, and it is copied into a format for repeated printing and developed into multiple data blocks.
The text stored in M8 is repeatedly printed in the expanded format (step 33) a. If the print key is not pressed in step 28, the process moves to other processing.

In this way, by editing the input text to the specified block size, copying it into multiple data blocks, and printing it, the input text can be repeatedly printed in any block size. becomes possible.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to this invention, input document information is edited into a specified block size as one data block, and the edited data block is developed into a repeat printing format and printed. Therefore, it becomes possible to repeatedly print input document information in a wide variety of block size formats.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of this invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the invention is applied to a Japanese word processor, and Figures 3 and 4 are examples of repeat printing formats. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment. 1...Keyboard, 2...Control unit, 3
...Program memory, 4...Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary, 5...Display device, 6...Printer, 7...RO
M, 8...RAM. Figure B

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting various document information and inputting block size, document information storage means for storing input document information, block size storage means for storing input block size, and block size storage Editing means that sets a format such as the number of characters per line that can be printed in the block and the number of line breaks based on the block size of the means, and edits the document information stored in the document information storage means as one data block based on the format; A print information storage means that stores in advance print information such as the number of printable characters per line and the number of line breaks for each size of paper, and one data block edited by an editing means based on the print information in the print information storage means. A document processing device with a repeat printing function, comprising: a developing means for copying and developing a plurality of data blocks into a format for repeated printing; and a printing means for printing a plurality of data blocks in the format developed by the developing means.