JPH0352091B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a monitor printing method, and in detail,
This invention relates to an improvement in a monitor printing method that prints only full-width characters when printing on a monitor used for proofreading work, even when characters with a character width smaller than full-width are printed in full-width characters.

(Prior Art) In a plate-making system using an electronic computer, a monitor (galley print) used for proofreading is created using a monitor printer. In this case, monitor printers are desired to keep costs down, so they do not have a wide range of functions, and the size of characters to be printed is limited to 2 arc minutes or 4 arc minutes.
Even if it is an arc minute, it is often printed in full-width characters.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In such a monitor printer, if a line in which a predetermined character arrangement such as right alignment, centering, or equal spacing is specified contains many half-width or quarter-width characters. The width of the printed part on the line of the monitor printer is larger than that of the actual printed matter, and as a result, the remaining space is less, and the line has been processed by right alignment, centering, equal space division, etc. The drawback was that it was difficult to distinguish.

(Means to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention has been devised in view of the above-mentioned problems, and is a monitor printing method using a printer capable of printing only full-width characters. When the insertion space calculated based on the number of printed characters of the text to be monitored is smaller than the value of the number of printed characters specified by the monitor due to the character arrangement such as equal space division, the printed characters specified by the monitor will be inserted instead of the space. This paper proposes a monitor printing method in which a space calculated based on the number of characters larger than the number of characters is inserted for character arrangement such as centering, right alignment, equal space division, etc.

(Function) To eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks and create a monitor that makes it easy to check whether right alignment, centering, space division, etc. are being performed even though a monitor printer that is not rich in functions is used. This is a monitoring method that allows you to That is, the present invention
With a monitor printer that can only print full-width characters,
Even for characters smaller than full-width, in the monitor printing method that prints in full-width, the insertion space calculated based on the number of printed characters is the original character arrangement such as right alignment, centering, and equal spacing, so the insertion space calculated based on the number of characters to be printed is the document that should originally be printed. When the value is smaller than the value of , a space calculated based on a number of characters larger than the number of characters to be printed can be inserted for the character arrangement instead of the space.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below based on the illustrated example.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a block configuration for implementing the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a paper tape reading device, and a paper tape on which the contents of an article to be proofread are recorded (punched) is read by this device.
Reference numeral 2 designates a keyboard, which is used to enter processing start and other necessary commands and data. Reference number 3 is a microprocessor;
Each data process described later is executed according to the program stored in the program memory 4. Reference number 5
is a data buffer, which is used to store data read by the paper tape reader 1 and various data required in the process of data processing. Reference numeral 6 denotes a printer, which has an internal print control circuit and reads out font data from the font memory 7 in accordance with data supplied from the microprocessor 3 to create a monitor. The font memory 7 stores full-width fonts necessary for printing, and is usually used on a CRT of a kanji input machine or proofreading machine.
Display font memory is shared. Reference numeral 8 is a size table, and a table indicating the size (full-width, half-width) of each character is stored.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a data format for paper tape. In the figure, 11 is a start code, indicating that data is recorded from here.

Reference numeral 12 is a label section, in which abbreviations indicating article content, number of lines, number of characters, font, vertical writing, horizontal writing, and various other information necessary for plate making are recorded. 13 is the classification code, label part 1
2 and the next article data section 14. In the article data section 14, character codes indicative of the article content are continuously recorded in necessary locations along with function codes such as line breaks and font designation codes. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the size of a character is distinguished by the character code itself. For example, for the applicant, the same number "1" is coded "2331" if it is a full-width character, and "7822" if it is a left-width character. and,
Correspondingly, the code 2331 is stored in font memory 7.
The address corresponding to the code 7822 stores the font that indicates a full-width "1" as shown in Figure 3A, and the address corresponding to the code 7822 stores the font "1" that indicates a left-sided half-width character as shown in Figure 3B. In addition, the address corresponding to character code 2331 in size table 8 stores the number "1" indicating full-width, and the address corresponding to code 7822 stores the number "1/2" indicating half-width. ing.
The two-dot chain lines in FIGS. 3A and 3B represent the periphery of the font, that is, the periphery of the font consisting of, for example, 24 vertical and horizontal dots, and are not the font itself. Also, the U-shaped symbol in the font in Figure 3B is to make it easier to understand that the character "1" will be a left-hand half-width "1" on the actual printed surface. The entire font (1 and C) is printed as one character (full-width, of course) on the monitor.

FIG. 4 shows an example of recording in the article data section 14 for arranging various characters, and FIG. 5 shows the corresponding arrangement on the printed paper. FIG. 4A shows an example of right alignment (FIG. 5, 21), in which a variable space code VS is placed at the beginning of one line of data 1l, and a line feed code CR is placed at the end. This variable space code VS is "printing from the number of characters"
Subtract the number of characters and use this code to get the remaining space
This is a function code that instructs to insert it into equal parts in the part marked with VS. Similarly, FIG. 4B shows an example of centering (FIG. 5, 22), and FIG. 4C shows an example of equal space distribution (FIG. 5, 23). In Figure 4, CC
is a character code string, 24 in Fig. 5 is the paper outline, PW is the indentation width, and each character string 21, 2
2 and 23 are simply shown as straight lines.

Next, we will explain the procedure for reading article data recorded in this manner and creating a monitor. First, a paper tape on which data is recorded is mounted on the paper tape reading device 1, and a "paper tape reading" command is inputted from the keyboard 2. In response to this command, the microprocessor 3 reads data from the paper tape and stores it in the data buffer 5. Next, when a "monitor print" command is input from the keyboard 2, the microprocessor 3 processes the article data according to the program stored in the program memory 4, and supplies it to the printer 6. The printer 6 creates a monitor as shown in FIG. 6 based on these data.

This process uses several registers and counters. Here, general-purpose registers within the microprocessor 3 are used as these registers and counters. Note that the number of registers of microprocessors differs depending on the model, so if this number is insufficient, a storage area corresponding to the registers may be set in the data buffer 5.

The following registers and counters are used. "Line start address register"...In this embodiment, the text data is formatted as a bar, so it is necessary to recognize where the data at the start of the line to be processed is stored.
The corresponding address (hereinafter, simply "address" refers to the address of the data buffer 5) is stored in this register. “Check address register”……code determination is 1
Since the processing is performed one code at a time starting from the first data of the row data 1l, this register stores the address of the data buffer 5 in which the code to be determined is stored. “Print character count register”…
...The number of characters in the actual printed matter (here, counted in full-width characters) is stored in this register. Limit space number register: The minimum value α of the number of spaces in the VS code portion is stored in this register.
"Monitor predetermined character filling register"...The new monitor character filling number is stored here when there is less space to be inserted into the variable space code VS section and the space is reallocated. Normally, it is sufficient to set the maximum number of characters on the monitor and printer as the specified number of characters on the monitor, but if the number of printed characters is less than this maximum number of characters, lines that are right-justified as a result of processing may be Since it may happen that the printed area is too far to the right from the normal printed area, this monitor predetermined number of characters is set appropriately. VS code address register……The address with the VS code is stored. Monitor printing data register: Stores data to be supplied to the printing section 6 (in the data buffer 5). “Number of characters counter”: Used to add up the number of characters in one line. “Size counter”: Used to add up the size of each character in one line. The size can be expressed in any way you like, but in this example, the full-width font size is 1, and 2 arc minutes, 3 arc minutes, and 4 arc minutes are each expressed as 1/1.
It will be expressed as 2, 1/3, and 1/4. “VS code number counter”……Used to add up variable space codes VS included in one line of data.

After storing the data in the data buffer 5, the microprocessor 3 performs initial settings for each of the registers and counters. That is, first, the address of the first data of the article data 14 is set in the line start address register and check address register. Further, the number of printed characters specified in the label section 12 is set in the printed character number register. When you want to change the number of characters to be printed, enter the new number of characters from the keyboard and store it in the register. The maximum number of characters for the monitor printer is set in advance in the "Monitor predetermined character number register".
When necessary, a new predetermined number of characters may be set from the keyboard 2. The character number counter, size counter, and VS code number counter are each set to 0.

Next, the microprocessor 3 processes the data line by line in the procedure shown in FIG. This process is the process of extracting one line from the stick-beating article data,
This process is broadly divided into the integration of the number of variable space codes VS, address storage processing, and calculation processing of the number of spaces to be inserted into the VS code portion.

First, the process of extracting one line from the article data on the stick is performed in the routine of steps 31 to 35. In other words, one line of the article data of the stick is started from the beginning of the article data, the corresponding character size of each character code is accumulated in order, and the address where this accumulated value reaches the set value in the printing character register, or the line break before that. The address ends with a code (including cases where a line feed code is added to make the first line blank). Therefore, if the start address of the article data is set in the check address register in the initial settings and step 31 is entered, the start data will be checked, and if this is a character code, 1 will be added to the character counter in step 32. size table 8 in step 33.
The character size of the character code is read from
This is added to the character size counter. Next, the process moves to step 34, where it is checked whether the integrated value of the size counter has reached the set value of the printing character filling counter, that is, whether the end of one line of data has been reached. Of course, here we are checking the first data, which is a character code, so the result is no, and in step 35, 1 is written to the check address register.
is added, and this is repeated until the data for one row is extracted. However, if a new line code is encountered in the middle of this routine, the routine will proceed from step 31 to steps 36, 37, and 38 and exit from this routine. In this case, the number of printed characters will not be 0 because it is in the middle of one line of data, and the process will proceed to step 39. move on. Further, if the line feed code is neither CR nor variable space code VS, proceed from step 37 to step 35. Furthermore, if there is a line feed code CR at the beginning of the article data, this routine is not entered and the process proceeds to step 38 from the beginning, and since the number of characters to be printed is 0, the process proceeds to step 40.

Integration of the variable space code VS in one line of data and address storage are performed in the routine for extracting one line of data. That is, if there is a VS code in the article data, proceed from steps 31 to 36 and 41, where the VS code counter is set to 1.
is added and the address is stored in the VS address register, and then the process advances to step 35, where the routine for retrieving one row of data is continued.

When one row of data has been extracted,
That is, the result of step 34 is YES or
If the result of step 38 is no, proceed to step 39 as described above.
Proceed to , but here the variable space code in one line
If there is no VS, there is no need to insert a space into the article data, so proceed to step 40.

On the other hand, variable space code in one line of data
If you have VS, proceed from step 39 to step 42.
The process advances to ~44, where the calculation process of the number of spaces to be inserted into the VS code portion described above is performed. That is, first, in step 42, the number of spaces to be inserted into the portion to which the variable space code VS is attached is calculated based on the original number of printed characters. In this case, the number of printed characters is obtained from the printed character number register, and the number of printed characters and the number of VS codes are obtained from the respective counters. For example, if the number of printed characters is 40, it is 1.
If the number of characters printed per line is 30, the difference is
10. If the VS code is 1, the number of spaces inserted into the part to which the VS code is attached will be 10, and this will be greater than a predetermined value a stored in the limit space register, for example 5, or If they are equal, proceed to step 44 from here. In this case, the character arrangement, such as right alignment, is easily visible on the monitor.

On the other hand, if the number of characters for one line is 39 under the same conditions, the space inserted into the VS code portion in step 42 will be 1, which is smaller than the predetermined value a. In this case, if the characters are printed as is, there will be less space on the monitor, making it difficult to visually recognize the character arrangement. The process then proceeds to step 43, where the space is calculated again using the setting value of the monitor predetermined character filling register, for example 80, in place of the printing character filling number. For example, if the conditions are the same, the difference between the predetermined number of characters and the number of printed characters is 41, and if this is divided by the number of VS codes, which is 1, the number of spaces allocated to the VS code portion is calculated to be 41, and the process proceeds to step 44.

When moving from step 42 to this step 44, the number of spaces calculated based on the number of characters to be printed, and when moving from step 43 to this step 44, the number of spaces calculated based on the number of characters specified for the monitor. is inserted at the position of the variable space code VS in the data for one row. in this case,
The start address of one line of data is obtained from the line start address register, the end data of one line is obtained from the check address register at the end of data extraction for one line, and the address of the VS code is obtained from the VS code address register. One line of data with spaces inserted in this way is stored in the monitor print data register.

At step 40, data is supplied to the printer 6. In this case, if steps 38 and 39 are answered YES, the data from the first address of the data buffer row to the check address is
When proceeding from step 44, the data in the data register for one line is supplied to the printer 6, and the printer 6 performs a printing operation for one line based on this data. The microprocessor 3 then adds 1 to the check address counter in the final step 45. The address after the addition is the address where the first data of the next row of data is stored, and this address is stored in the row start address register, and the next row of data is processed.

In this way, a monitor as shown in FIG. 6 described above is created. In addition, in the figure, printed characters are simply shown by solid lines. In the same figure, 51 is the peripheral edge of the paper on the monitor, MW is the print width of the monitor, PW is the print width of the monitor corresponding to the number of printed characters, and 52 to 54 are the right alignment, centering, and space distribution according to the method of the present invention. This is a line with character arrangement.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the monitor printing method of the present invention, a monitor on which the character arrangement can be easily recognized can be created without complicating the functions of the printer, and configuration work can be performed more efficiently. be able to.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a block configuration for implementing the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of recording article data, FIGS. 3A and B are diagrams showing an example of a font, and FIG. Figures A to C are line diagrams showing various character arrangement examples, Figure 5 is a line diagram showing an example of a print format, Figure 6 is a line diagram showing an example of a monitor format, and Figure 7 is a line of article data. This is a flowchart showing the processing procedure. 21, 22, 23...predetermined character arrangement, PW...
...Print character width, MW...Monitor character width.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A monitor printing method that uses a printer that can print only full-width characters, and for character arrangement such as centering, right alignment, and equal spacing of the monitor-printed text, insert space calculated based on the number of printed characters in the monitor-printed text. is smaller than the monitor's predetermined number of printed characters, instead of the space, a space calculated based on a number of characters larger than the monitor's predetermined number of printed characters is used for the centering, right alignment, space equalization, etc. characters. A monitor printing method characterized by insertion for arrays.