JPH0517571B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device, and more particularly, to an improvement in a document creation device that uses a word processor to print documents with headings such as headers and footers. It is.

[Conventional technology]

When printing a document with headings using a word processor, for example, "All about word processors, latest edition" (October 1988)
13th: Published by Kyoikusha), headers and footers are set and printed on the top and bottom sides of the paper, respectively.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Conventionally, headings for the header and footer are printed on the top and bottom sides of the paper, respectively, as described above, but conventionally, formats with different paper orientations such as portrait and landscape formats have been used. When binding a document containing a mixture of , it was not possible to align the heading positions.

The present invention makes it possible to specify the position of a heading on a sheet of paper on any side, top, bottom, left, right, etc., and allows users to place headings on various documents at desired positions. An object of the present invention is to provide an improved document creation device that can align the positions of headings even if they are different and bind them into a book.In other words, it has a general search function for the content of bound documents and can make the positions of the headings easier to see. That is.

[Means for solving problems]

The purpose is to provide an input means for inputting characters, commands, etc., a document creation means for creating a document from the characters inputted by the input means in accordance with input commands, a storage means for storing the created document, and a document creation means for storing the created document. In a document creation device that has a display means for displaying a document, and a printing means for printing a created document, the position on which the heading is printed on the top, bottom, left or right side of the paper can be determined for each paper size such as A3 or A4. , furthermore, a heading position specifying means for specifying each paper orientation such as portrait and landscape in addition to each paper size, and a heading specified for each paper size and each paper direction by the heading position specifying means. heading position storage means for storing the position in the storage means, and further comprising: a heading position storage means for storing the position in the storage means; This is achieved by providing a heading printing means for printing.

[Effect]

Therefore, by adopting the above-mentioned configuration, the present invention allows the user to specify the position of the heading on the paper on any side of the top, bottom, left, right, and so on, and allows the user to place the heading on various documents at the desired position. Therefore, even if the documents have different paper sizes as well as different paper directions, the heading positions can be aligned and bound. In other words, the positions of the headings having a general search function for the contents of the bound book can be aligned to make them easier to see.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on an embodiment of the drawings. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the overall schematic configuration of a document creation device.

In FIG. 2, a code input device 1 such as a keyboard for inputting characters, commands, etc. passes the input characters and codes of commands to an input analysis section 2.
The input analysis section 2 receives character codes and command codes from the code input device 1, passes the character codes as they are to the processing section running in the document creation mechanism 4, and in the case of commands, sends the contents to the document creation mechanism control section. Notify 3.

The document creation mechanism 4 is composed of processing units necessary for creating and printing documents, such as a document processing unit 5, a heading setting processing unit 6, a print processing unit 7, etc., and includes a document creation mechanism control unit. 3 controls a processing section constituting the document creation mechanism 4. The control method will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 10.

The document creation mechanism control section indicated by reference numeral 3 in FIG.
When it receives a notification from the input analysis unit 2 or the processing unit running in the document creation mechanism 4, it starts and first analyzes the notification (step 1001 in FIG. 10).
If it is a command code from the input analysis section 2, the command is analyzed (step 1002), and if it is a command that can be processed by the running processing section, the command is passed to the running processing section (step 1002). If not, it checks whether the processing section for that command can be started (step 1004), and if it can be started, the processing of the currently running processing section is interrupted (step 1005), and a new processing section is started. A processing unit that processes the input command is activated (step 1006). If it fails to start,
An error message such as an input error is displayed (step 1007). Additionally, if the notification received at the time of startup is a notification indicating the end of processing from a processing section in the document creation mechanism 4, the processing of the processing section that was interrupted due to the processing section being started will be restarted. (Step 1008).

The document processing unit 5 creates a document by creating, updating, etc. document data. Here, document data is data that constitutes a document, such as paper size, paper direction, etc., as shown in FIG.
Format data 34 that holds values such as vertical/horizontal writing, size of top, bottom, left and right margins, line spacing, character spacing, etc., as well as real data 33 consisting of actual data such as text and figures, and furthermore, On the other hand, it consists of a page management section 31 that manages pages, areas, etc., and an area management section 32.

Details of the heading setting processing unit 6 will be described later, but the heading setting processing unit 6 is activated when a heading setting key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and for example,
Display data necessary for displaying the headline setting screen 41 as shown in the figure is read from the storage device 12 and passed to the display control section 8, where it is displayed on the display screen 9. Note that display data for displaying the pagination position designation screen 41 is stored in the storage device 12 in advance. Then, when the operator specifies the headline position for each paper size on the headline setting screen 41 and creates a headline character string, and then presses the "execute" key, the headline setting processing section 6 When the value and character string are set in the heading management table 51 in FIG. 5 and the process is terminated, and the "Cancel" key is pressed, the specified value is invalidated and the process is terminated. Issue a notice of termination to Department 3.

The display control section 8 develops the display data given from the document creation mechanism 4 into display dot pattern data and displays it on the display screen 9.

Details of the print processing unit 7 will be described later, but the print processing unit 7 is activated when the input analysis unit 2 analyzes that a print process is instructed, and generates print data for printing the specified document. If heading printing is specified, the physical printing position on the paper is determined from the specified position, and print data for printing the heading at that position is generated and printed. The information is passed to the control unit 10, a termination notification is issued to the document creation mechanism control unit 3, and the process is terminated.

The print control unit 10 develops the print data given from the print processing unit 7 into print image data,
Printing is performed by controlling the printing device 11. The storage device 12 also stores documents created by the document creation mechanism 4, contents of the heading management table 51 shown in FIG. 5, display data of the pagination position designation screen 41 shown in FIG. 4, and the like.

Next, a method for setting headings in this embodiment will be explained.

When the operator presses a heading setting key while creating a document, a heading setting screen 41 as shown in FIG.
Furthermore, a heading character string to be printed out is input. Here, the position is specified by inputting the position of the margin and further a number corresponding to the position within the margin. For example, if you want to print Heading 1 on the top right side of the paper for A4 portrait paper, or on the right side of the right side for A4 landscape paper, the margin position and within the margin for paper size A4 on the heading setting screen 41. The positions may be set to 1 and 3, respectively. After inputting a number for the required paper size and inputting index characters, the user can press the "execute" key to set the index. In this case, heading 2
is placed on the opposite side to heading 1, so for heading 2, only the position within the margin need be specified. For example, if the specification of heading 1 for paper size A4 is as described above, if the position within the margin of the heading is specified as 1, the paper will
In the case of A4 portrait, Heading 2 will be printed on the bottom left side.

The processing related to these heading settings is performed by the heading setting processing unit 6 described above.
This will be explained according to the diagram.

The heading setting processing unit shown by reference numeral 6 in FIG. 2 is activated when the heading setting key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and first sets the heading position for each paper size as shown in FIG. 4. The heading setting screen 41 to be specified is displayed, and in order to indicate the position specified for each paper size by referring to the value of the heading management table 51 shown in FIG. The number of the corresponding item in is displayed in the numerical input area 42 (step 101 in FIG. 1). When a key on the code input device 1 is pressed (step 102), the key is judged (step 103), and if it is a cursor key, the area between each input area 42 and 43 is specified. If it is a character or a number, the cursor position is determined (Step 105). If a character is entered in the numerical input area 42, it is determined as an error (Step 107), and the value is In this case, the entered numerical value is displayed in the numerical input area 42 where the cursor is currently located (step
106), in the case of the character input area 43, the input character is displayed in the character input area 43 where the cursor is currently located (step 108). If it is the "execute" key, the contents of the heading management table 51 are updated with the specified data and the process ends (step
109), if it is the "cancel" key, invalidate the specified data and exit (pass 110).

For the heading position set as described above, the print processing unit shown by reference numeral 7 in FIG. 2 performs the following processing when the operator instructs printing.

That is, in FIG. 2, the print processing section 7
First, a print condition setting screen is displayed, and the operator is asked to specify print conditions such as whether or not to add headings. When the printing condition settings are completed, printing data necessary for printing according to the printing conditions is generated and passed to the print control unit 10, thereby printing the document. At that time, if headings are specified in the printing conditions, before printing each page, follow the flow shown in Figure 6 and the management table shown in Figures 7 and 8 to determine the position of the headings. Determine. First, set the paper size and paper direction of the page to be printed in the third step.
Based on the page management section 31 and format data section 34 of the document data shown in the figure (step 601 in Fig. 6), based on this paper size, the margin position and within the margin are determined from the heading management table 51 in Fig. 5. Find the position number of (step 602). Next, the margin to be printed and the printing direction are determined based on the margin position determination table 71 shown in FIG. 7, the obtained margin position number, and the paper direction (step 603). Finally, the heading print position within the margin is determined using the margin position determination table 81 shown in FIG. 8, the print margin obtained in step 603, the printing direction, and the margin position number obtained in step 602. Determine (step 604). In the case of the illustrated embodiment, heading 2 is printed on the opposite side to heading 1, so if the margin position number obtained in step 602 is 1 to 4 (see Figure 4), If the value is 4 plus 5 to 8 (also the 4th value)
(see figure), the value obtained by subtracting 4 is used as the margin position number for heading 2, and the following steps 603 and 604 are performed.

The present invention is as described above, and in the present invention, in addition to being able to specify the position of a heading on a sheet of paper on any side of the top, bottom, left, right, and so on, the user can add headings to various documents at desired positions. Even if documents have different paper sizes as well as different paper orientations, the heading positions can be aligned and bound. In other words, it is possible to align the positions of the headings having a general search function for the content of the bound document to make them easier to see.

For example, as shown in FIG. 9a, headings can be printed at the same position even if the paper orientation is different. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 9b, for example, specify the heading position for the paper to the right of the top margin of the A4 portrait paper and to the right of the top margin of the A3 landscape paper, fold the A3 paper into a valley shape along the dotted line 91, Dotted line 9
If you fold it into a chevron shape in Step 2 to make it A4 size, and bind it with other A4 size papers, you can align the heading positions on all the papers.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the description of the illustrated embodiments, according to the present invention, the position of the heading on the paper can be specified on any side of the top, bottom, left, right, etc., and the headings can be placed on various documents at the positions desired by the user. In addition, it is possible to bind documents with not only different paper sizes but also different paper orientations by aligning the heading positions. An improved document production device that can be easily viewed can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the overall schematic configuration of the document creation device, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the document data structure, and FIG. 4 is an example of a heading setting diagram for specifying the heading position and inputting heading characters. Figure 5 is a diagram showing an example of a heading management table that manages the designated value of the heading position corresponding to each paper size, as well as input heading characters, and Fig. 6
The figure shows the heading printing position determination processing flow in the print processing unit (numeral 7 in Fig. 2). Fig. 7 shows which side and direction the heading should be printed for each margin position number. A diagram showing an example of the margin position determination table to be determined, FIG. 8 shows the side to be printed,
A diagram showing an example of a margin position determination table that determines where to place a heading on the side to be actually printed based on the print direction and margin position number. Figure 9a shows the heading position when the paper orientation is different. FIG. 9b is a diagram showing an example of the heading position when the paper size is different, and FIG. 10 is a control flow diagram of the document creation mechanism control section (reference numeral 3 in FIG. 2). 1...Code input device, 2...Input analysis section, 3
...Document creation mechanism control unit, 4...Document creation mechanism,
5... Document processing section, 6... Heading setting processing section, 7
...Print processing unit, 8...Display control unit, 9...Display screen, 10...Print control unit, 11...Printing device,
12...Storage device, 31...Page management section, 32...
Area management section, 33... Actual data section, 34... Format data section, 41... Heading setting screen, 42... Numerical input area, 43... Heading character input area,
51... Heading management table, 71... Margin position determination table, 81... Margin position determination table, 91... Valley-shaped bending position, 92... Chevron-shaped bending position.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting characters, commands, etc., a document creation means for creating a document from the characters inputted by the input means according to the input command, and a storage means for storing the created document. , in a document production device that has a display means for displaying the prepared document and a printing means for printing the prepared document, it is possible to determine where on the top, bottom, left or right side of the paper the heading is to be printed on each side of the paper, such as A3 or A4. For each paper size, and in addition to each paper size above, portrait,
a heading position specifying means for specifying a heading position for each paper direction such as landscape; and a heading position storage means for storing in the storage means the heading position specified by the heading position specifying means for each paper size and for each paper direction; The printing means further includes a heading printing means for printing a heading according to the heading position information stored in the heading position storage means for each paper size and each paper direction during printing. document creation device. 2. The document creation device according to claim 1, wherein the heading position specifying means selects a position for portrait orientation and a position for landscape orientation from predetermined combinations for each paper size. Creation device. 3. In the document creation device according to claim 1 or 2, a second heading printing means for printing a second heading on a side that is a pair of the side specified by the heading position specifying means is provided. A document creation device equipped with a heading printing means.