JPH07253974A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display printing images when respective characters are printed based on set printing format information by the display images of an actual size. CONSTITUTION:The printing format information such as the column pitch and the row pitch of the characters for printing paper is optionally set from a transparent touch input par 21. The actual printing images at the time the respective characters are printed based on the set printing format information are displayed at a display part 29 by the display images of the actual size and the printing images of character data for the printing paper are immediately confirmed at an actual size level on a display screen.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing device such as a word processor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, in a document processing apparatus having a setting function such as a Japanese word processor, it is set by arbitrarily setting print format information such as digit pitch and line pitch of characters on a print sheet. Some are designed to display numerical data based on print format information.

[0003]

However, from the numerical data displayed based on the set print format information, the print image when each character is printed is not known,
It was necessary to set the print format information until the print image was intended by the operator. An object of the present invention is to enable a print image of character data on a print sheet to be immediately confirmed on a display screen at an actual size level.

[0004]

The means of claim 1 of the present invention is as follows. A document processing device for processing a plurality of character data stored in a document storage means, wherein the format information setting means arbitrarily sets print format information such as a digit pitch and a line pitch of characters on a print sheet. The display means displays an actual print image when each character is printed based on the print format information set by the format information setting means on the display screen as a display image of an actual size. The means of claim 2 of the present invention is as follows. The character pattern displayed as the actual size display image is a predetermined pattern prepared in advance.

[0005]

The operation of the means of claim 1 of the present invention is as follows. A document processing device for processing a plurality of character data stored in a document storage means, wherein print format information such as a digit pitch and a line pitch of a character on a printing paper is arbitrarily set by the format information setting means and is set. An actual print image when each character is printed on the basis of the print format information is displayed on the display screen of the display means as a display image of an actual size. The operation of the means of claim 2 of the present invention is as follows. The character pattern displayed as the actual size display image is preferably a predetermined pattern prepared in advance. Therefore, by setting the print format information such as the digit pitch and line pitch of the characters on the print paper, the print image when each character is printed based on the set print format information is displayed in the actual size. Since the image is displayed on the display screen, the print image of the character data on the printing paper can be immediately confirmed on the display screen at the actual size level.

[0006]

【Example】

 [Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS.
It will be specifically described based on. This example is in Japanese
Shows an example applied to a personal word processor
It Constitution FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional view of this word processor.
11 is a case main body, 12 is an electronic circuit part (large-scale integrated circuit)
, 13 is a circuit board. And inside the case body 11
Is provided with a liquid crystal display panel 14 and
A transparent surface glass disposed above the liquid crystal display panel 14.
A plurality of transparent touch electrodes T ..
It is arranged like a rick.

The liquid crystal display panel 14 is driven according to the dot matrix display system, and the display contents thereof differ depending on the normal mode and the format setting mode. 2 shows the display contents in the normal mode. In FIG. 2, a is a layout display part, b is a function key display part, c is a character key display part, d is a text display part, and e is a kanji conversion candidate display part. . In this case, a cursor is displayed in the "new" portion of the text display section D, and the conversion key and its kanji candidate can be directly designated and input (as will be described later, touching the display position of the kanji candidate) Kanji conversion is performed. FIG. 3 shows the display contents in the format setting mode, where a is the format image display section and b
Is a format display portion, c is a paper size display portion, and d is a function key display portion. The liquid crystal display panel 14 is electrically connected to the circuit board 13 via the interconnector 16.

A plurality of touch electrodes T formed on the surface glass 15 are arranged along the XY coordinate system to form the touch panel 17. Each coordinate position of the touch panel 17 is formed by electrical processing, and when a human body such as a finger is touched on the touch electrode T, the contact capacitance component generated on the touch electrode T at that time is detected and the coordinate position is input. It has a known configuration. Then, while visually confirming the display contents of the liquid crystal display panel 14, the touch panel 17
When the touch electrode T configuring the above is touched with a finger, the position touched with the finger is designated and input. In this case, for example, when the function key display section B is touched, the touched function key is designated and input. The touch panel 17 is electrically connected to the circuit board 13 via the interconnector 18.

Next, the circuit configuration of this word processor will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, 21 is the touch panel 17
The position data input from the input unit 21 is captured by the CPU (central processing unit) 23 via the input control unit 22.

The CPU 23 executes various processes of this word processor, that is, an input process, a kanji conversion process, a sentence creation process, a format setting process, etc.
In addition to the control unit, A, B, and f registers required for formatting are provided. Here, the A register is a counter used when setting a space between digits, the B register is a counter used when setting a space between lines, and the f register is a flag register in which a horizontal writing designation flag is set. And C
A ROM 24, a kanji dictionary memory 25, and a document memory 26 are connected to the PU 23 via a bus line.

The ROM 24 stores various microprograms and the like, and also functions as a character generator. Further, the kanji dictionary memory 25 is used when performing kana-kanji conversion and romaji-kana kanji conversion, and the document memory 26 stores an input sentence. The document memory 26 also stores preset format data. Remembered.
The printing unit 27 is composed of a thermal printer and can print up to 80 characters per line, for example.

Then, the display data output from the CPU 23 is converted into a display drive signal by the display control unit 28 and then sent to the display unit 29 to be displayed on the liquid crystal display panel 14.

[0013] The operation usually, to do the formatting carried out in accordance with the following procedure.
That is, the normal mode is switched to the format setting mode. Then, in the format setting mode, after the paper size is specified and the writing style is specified, the digit is specified and then the line is specified. Then, when the normal mode is switched to the format setting mode, the operation according to the flow of FIG. 5 is executed.
First, the presence / absence of a touch input indicating whether or not a human body such as a finger touches the touch electrode T forming the touch panel 17 is detected (step S1). Here, if there is no touch input, a standby state is entered until the presence of touch input is detected. Then, when the presence of touch input is detected, the touch input position is obtained according to the position data taken into the CPU 23 from the transparent touch input unit 21 (step S2). Based on the touch input position thus obtained, the next step S3
Then, it is determined whether the "designated" position of the function key display portion d shown in FIG. 3 has been touched, in other words, whether the designated key has been input. As a result, when it is detected that the designation key has been input, the process proceeds to step S4, and it is determined whether the paper size has been designated, that is, whether the position of the paper size display portion c has been touched. Depending on the, the paper size designation or writing style designation is switched to a designated input enable mode (steps S5, S).
6). In this case, the display section set in the designated input enable mode is highlighted. In the display example of FIG. 3, the state in which the paper size display portion c is highlighted as indicated by diagonal lines is shown.
This makes it clear that the mode has been set to the paper size designated input enable mode. When the switching process to the designated input enable mode is completed, the process returns to step S1.

If it is detected in step S3 that there is no designation input, the flow advances to step S7 to check whether the cancel key of the function key display section d has been input. Here, if the cancel key is input, the format setting is returned to the initial state (step S8). Of course, such an initialization process is also executed when the normal mode is switched to the format setting mode. Next, it is checked whether or not the release key is input on the function key display section d (step S
9). Here, when the release key is input, the format setting mode is released and the normal mode is restored.

If it is determined in step S9 that the release key has not been input, the process proceeds to step S10, in which the size is designated, that is, the position of the sheet size display portion c is touched in the sheet size designation / input mode. When it is detected, the next candidate of the paper size is selected and designated and displayed on the paper size display portion c (step S11). Therefore, every time such size designation is made, the selected paper size is sequentially displayed on the paper size display section c as "B4" → "A4" → "A3". Further, in the next steps S12 and S13, whether or not the writing style is designated is checked in the writing designation input enabled mode. In this case, the presence / absence of touch input at the "horizontal writing" position on the function key display section d is checked. As a result, if vertical writing is designated, it is changed to horizontal writing (step S14), and if horizontal writing is designated, it is changed to vertical writing. (Step S15). In this case, when the vertical writing is changed to the horizontal writing, the horizontal writing flag is turned on, that is, "1" is set in the flag register f (step S16).

When such writing style designation is completed, step S12 or steps S15 and S16 to step S
Proceeding to 17, it is checked whether or not the line or column spacing is specified. In this case, the presence / absence of a touch input within the range of the format image display portion a is checked, and if there is a touch input, the process proceeds to step S18, and the line and inter-digit average value calculation and display process described later are executed. Then, it returns to step S1.

FIG. 6 shows the line shown in step S18 of FIG.
6 is a flowchart showing specific contents of inter-digit average value calculation and display processing. First, this flow is step S2
1 to S32, digit formatting processing, and then step S2
Line formatting processing is performed in steps 3 to S41.

That is, in step S21, it is determined whether the content of the A counter is "0", and if it is "0", it is detected that the digit is initially input. In this case, the process proceeds to step S22, and the base dot is displayed at the designated position that is touch-input. Here, in the format image display portion a of FIG. 3, the dot display at the upper left is the base point dot. The dot display has a size corresponding to a normal character size. Then, in step S23, the value of the A counter is incremented by 1 and becomes "1". This initially leaves this flow at this point.

When this flow is entered again, since the value of the A counter is "1" this time, the process proceeds from step S21 to step S24, and the value of the A counter is incremented by 1 to "2". Succeedingly, in a step S25, it is detected whether or not a digit is designated, that is, whether or not the range of the format image display portion a is touch-inputted. If no digit designation is detected, the process jumps to step S33, but if a digit designation is detected, the process proceeds to step S26 to determine whether the content of the flag register f is "1". In this case, the horizontal writing designation flag is set in the flag register f as described above. If the horizontal writing designation flag is turned on, steps S27 and S28 are executed, and if it is turned off, steps S29 and S30 are executed. That is, when horizontal writing is specified, the horizontal pitch average calculation process (step S27) is executed. This calculation process calculates an average value of a plurality of touch position intervals input and designated in the horizontal direction of the format image display part a, and the format image display part a is calculated based on the average value of the horizontal pitches thus obtained. Is displayed with a dot corresponding to the designated input position (step S28). That is, the dots corresponding to the number of A counters are sequentially lit and displayed in the horizontal direction from the base point dot at the average pitch calculated as described above (see FIG. 3). On the other hand, when vertical writing is designated, the vertical pitch average calculation process (step S29) is executed. In this calculation processing, an average value of a plurality of touch position intervals input in the vertical direction of the format image display section a is calculated, and the format image display section is calculated based on the average value of the vertical pitches obtained by the calculation. A dot corresponding to the designated input position is displayed in a (step S30). That is, the dots corresponding to the number of A counters are sequentially lit and displayed in the vertical direction from the base point dot at the average pitch calculated as described above.

In both horizontal writing and vertical writing, the process proceeds to step S31, and the average pitch calculated by the digit length of the paper size is divided to calculate the digit number.
That is, the number of digits that can be input per line of the currently designated paper size is calculated. Then, the calculated number of digits is displayed on the format display section b, and at the same time as step S2 described above.
7 or the average lateral pitch value (unit: millimeter) calculated in step S29 is displayed on the format display portion b. Here, in the display example of FIG. 3, if the character inputtable area in the lateral direction of A4 size paper is 180 mm, for example, 18
0mm / (5.0mm <pitch> + 5.0mm <character width>) = 18 digits.

When the digit formatting process is completed (the input of 3 dots including the base dot is completed), the line formatting process shown in steps S33 to S41 is performed. In this case, steps S33 to S41 are processes corresponding to steps S24 to S32, and the details thereof are left to the digit format setting process. Then, first, the value of the B counter for counting the number of times of row designation input is incremented by 1 (step S3).
3). When the line designation is detected in step S34, the horizontal writing vertical writing designation is checked in step S35.
When horizontal writing is designated, vertical pitch average value calculation and dot display processing (steps S36 and S37) are executed. When vertical writing is designated, horizontal pitch average value calculation and dot display processing (steps S38 and S39). ) Is executed. Then, the line number calculation and display process (step S4
0, S41) is executed. As a result, in the display example of FIG. 3, 30 lines of A4 size and a line pitch of 5.0 mm are displayed.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when the touch panel 17 on the format image display section a is touched with a finger or the like in the format setting mode, the format of digits and lines is automatically set and the format image display section a Since the set format content is displayed in dots as a pattern, the content formatted by the pattern display of the format image display portion a can be confirmed with an image similar to that in the case of actual character display.

Although the above embodiment has described the column and line formatting, tabs, decimal tabs, margins or the like may be set. A layout display section may be used as a display section for displaying the set format data.

[0024]

According to the present invention, by arbitrarily setting the print format information such as the digit pitch and the line pitch of the characters on the printing paper, each character is printed based on the set print format information. Since the print image at that time is displayed on the display screen as a display image of the actual size, it is possible to immediately confirm the print image of the character data on the printing paper at the actual size level on the display screen.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of an embodiment of a personal word processor to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a display state diagram in a normal mode of the same example.

FIG. 3 is a display state diagram in a format setting mode of the same example.

FIG. 4 is a basic block circuit diagram of the word processor of the same example.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a formatting operation of the same example.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the specific contents of row, inter-digit average value calculation, and display processing in step S18 shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 14 liquid crystal display panel 17 touch panel 21 transparent touch input section 23 CPU 24 ROM 29 display section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document processing device for processing a plurality of character data stored in a document storage means, and format information setting means for arbitrarily setting print format information such as a digit pitch and a line pitch of a character on a printing paper. And a display means for displaying the actual print image when each character is printed based on the print format information set by the format information setting means on the display screen in the display image of the actual size. A document processing device characterized by: 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character pattern displayed as the actual size display image is a predetermined pattern prepared in advance.