JPS5868138A - Character processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability by providing a means of indicating insertion after storing data to be inserted in a temporary memory in a processor previously and another means of indicating insertion while allowing data to remain on an external recording medium, and using a lfag for discrimination between the body. CONSTITUTION:A CPU performs arithmetic, logical judgement, etc., to perform processing according to input data from a keyboard KB. The keyboard KB consists of a key group for character input and a registration key MK, a name key NK, a print key PK, a call key CLK, a storage key MK, a start key SK, etc. Processed data are displayed on a display device DISP. In a buffer BUF1, information inputted through the keybaord KB is stored, and documents, rolls of names, etc., are generated. In a buffer BUF2, information where insertion is to be made is stored and information to be inserted is generated by using the buffer BUF1 and then transferred to the buffer 2 directly or through another storage medium, e.g. an existent device DISC. Said routes are discriminated by a flag FG, and key processing is performed according to the flag.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a character processing device for realizing a merge printing function in a character processing device such as a word processor.

there were.

However, when attempting to perform an insert process, the insert data is rarely stored in a specific medium.

Furthermore, when the insertion data is created, it cannot be used for the insertion process unless it is saved in a storage medium of e'', -n%.

Furthermore, there is no way to easily instruct whether or not to add an underline to the inserted data. Furthermore, when the inserted data is of variable length, it is not easy to add an underline a-=-sv as a result.

Furthermore, even if a symbol designating the insertion position was present in the inserted arc, the symbol could not be used for the purpose of removing the means for designating the position.

The purpose of non-invention is 281 as a method of handling insertion-l-events.
The object of the present invention is to provide a processing device that enables similar methods and has good operability.

Another object of the present invention is to register the insertion data in the processing device in advance before performing the insertion process, and to use the same data at a solo exhibition.
j: To provide.

The object of the present invention is to
To provide a processing device which can be executed very easily when attempting to print without adding an effective tab function during input 2 editing, and furthermore when inputting fraudulent data.

The purpose of the present invention is to
To provide a processing device fd which can easily instruct whether or not to make an angry power 11.

Another object of the invention is to provide a processing device 1Wfi that can make the length of the unlined line to be added in the inserted gap variable in accordance with t1 even if the inserted data has a variable length. 7).

Hereinafter, one disaster application ψ0 according to the present invention will be explained.

The CPU1 microprocessor performs calculations and logical judgments. )/IS address bus A13. Control bus CB, data bus DB Tr: Intermediate L
-C1- Control the controllers, etc. connected to AB, CB, and DB.

AB is the address bus for 4Fj 7 for 11 works and 11 targets
(Transfer FJ number.

OB is the control bus for each tfill go target K
The Hill bell signal is for all signals.

The DB transfers data from each building via a data bus.

The ROMFi is an external memory that must be used to store the control sequences shown in FIGS. 6 to 6.

The RAM is a random access memory, and each building data KB is a key fob, which consists of a group of keys for the operator to give instructions to the non-equipment. KB consists of a key %OK for inputting characters, and a group of keys FK for commanding volume (2! function). FIG. 2 shows the keyboard number t11.

*-p CK fi, including, for example, character keys and underline keys. The keys gPFK are registration key RK, name key NK, print key PK, call key OLK
, save key MK, start key SK, B tab set key BT
K, B tab execution key BTEK, its Sendai type editing key, such as Q, cursor movement key, tab key, etc.

DISP is a display device and refresh memory.

Cursor register, C:f (includes T controller, CRT, etc.).The CFtT controller has the role of displaying character code information written in the refresh memory and cursor position information stored in the cursor register on the CRT. The contents of the buffer 7BUk''l, which will be described later, are displayed on the CRT according to instructions from the CPU.

DISP also has an underground display function. That is, it is determined whether or not there is an angle line based on the upper 1 bit of the 8-bit character code, and the result is displayed on CI ('I').

PRT is a printing device, and plays the role of printing tiir data stored in a buffer BIJEl'3, which will be described later, according to instructions from the CPU.

This is a storage device that stores the text created by the DISOB device.

NAME BEG is a register for temporarily storing a name given to each document, that is, a file name when storing a document in the 6+I DISC.

BLIF 1 is a buffer for storing information such as characters inputted from the keyboard KB, and documents such as letters, lists, etc. are created here. The information stored here is
It is assumed that one character is expressed in 8 bits, the lower 7 bits express the character type, and the upper 1 bit expresses whether or not there is an underline.

The contents of buffer BUFl are generally BUli' 1 (
N). That is, it is assumed that BUF1(N) represents the Nth coarse information in the buffer BUF1.

BUF2 is a buffer that stores information to be inserted. The information to be inserted as described later is in the buffer BU.
It is first created using Fl, and then moved to the buffer BuF2 by one of the two paths described below. one,
Buffer HUF 1 to 161m buffer BUFi'2
The other path is to temporarily transfer the data to the buffer BUF2 via another storage medium such as the storage device 1DIisG. Furthermore, the information stored in the buffer BUF'2 consists of a plurality of records delimited by certain delimiter information. Alternatively, it may be a plurality of fixed length records. The answer of buffer BUF2 is generally expressed as buffer BUli□2(N). That is, buffer BUF2 (N) represents the N-th M let in U buffer BUF2. As another expression method, it is expressed as BUF2 (P, Q). In other words, BUF'2 (P, Q) represents the Q(i-th information) of the P-th record in buffer BUF2.If the information in buffer BLJF2 is determined to be and BUIi'2 (P, Q). In particular, it is obvious that buffer BOF 2 has a fixed correspondence.

BUF6 is a buffer for storing the information to be printed, and the buffer BUD''1 stores the information to be inserted of the list stored in buffer L3[JF'2.
It stores the information that is the result of being inserted into the information that should be inserted into the letter temple stored in .

The FC has 10,000 of the two routes mentioned above, that is, the buffer BU
ii' This is a flag to notify that information has been transferred directly from i to buffer γ[i[JF2.

CPTER should be displayed on ah'r.
It is a register for storing the position of
At the same time, it is associated with the address of buffer BUF i. That is, as mentioned above, the buffer BUF1
Internal medicine of C1 (J+ displayed on T, buffer BtJF i yen place + tX and OR'1' J second a)
The register CP'I'li:i(
The operator can know the correspondence as a cursor on the ORT J2.

The operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be explained.The operator starts the operation by turning on the power and pressing the start key. Furthermore, pressing the start key is always performed when starting a task.

By pressing the start key, the screen on CH'I' is cleared and a new document is ready for creation. Here, the operator operates the keyboard KB to create a new illiterate, etc., or create another 611, and
Edit the document saved in C.

First, I will briefly explain each B-tab machine.

The operator can freely set the B tab at the desired position in the input sentence. The setting method is to press the B Tape Set Gear BTK. This is exactly the same as the method of inputting characters. The operator can move the cursor by pressing a cursor key (not shown), but by pressing the B-tab execution key BTEK, the cursor can be moved all at once to the position where the B-tab is set. This function greatly assists in inputting documents, etc. In this way, text data, list data, etc. can be inserted by using the single character key or many other transposition keys.

It is used to create data to be inserted such as letters.

Next, what is the operating method when trying to perform mail merge printing? 6F? I will clarify.

Operator first creates the information to be inserted. Figure 6 (
An example is shown in 2). The cliff marks here are delimiters for each record, and each record has a name written on it. Once you have created the list, DISC it.
You can save it in , and retrieve it when needed, or you can directly register the name fσ you just created as the information to be inserted.

Saving 0 to the storage device iQ DISC is performed as follows.

First, enter the file name when saving. To enter, press the name key NK and then enter the file name from the keyboard KB. After that, the data is saved by pressing the save key MK. The saved list can be used as a file to be inserted into the bale. On the other hand, it is also possible to use the list just created as data for insertion without saving it to the storage device DISC #. At that time, 1, the operator only has to press the registration key RK. Easily insert the data next. Of course, you can create it anew, or you can call it up from the storage device [DISC].

To recall from the storage device @DISC3, press the name key NK, then enter the file name from the keyboard KB,
And press the discharge key. The data to be inserted, such as a letter, is created and completed using a known method. Fig. 6 shows its fy1]. Here, the mark ■ can be input by pressing the B tab set key BTK. When insert printing is executed, if insert data has been registered one after another at this position using the insert record key RK, insert printing will be executed simply by pressing the print key.

If the registration has been made in advance and the storage device is
If insertion data such as a directory is stored on the DISC, first press the name key NK, and then input the file name from the keyboard KB.

Next, press the print key PK to display the storage device DIS.
Insertion printing is performed using one smeared data such as a list stored on C.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained in detail using the flowchart i. shown in FIGS. 6 to 5.

Figure 6 is the main flowchart of this actual flow example.

By turning on the power, flow 4. is executed and the above-described operations are executed. Below, each step of F-F will be explained.

There are data r,'F input from i and KB. If it has been entered, proceed to step 2.

2. Search the data input from KB.

6. If the input data is from a character key, tab set key, etc., proceed to step 4. For the tongue, step 5 = 4t.

4. Write the input data to the position corresponding to the cursor pointer in Butr1, )! - Increment the value of the vine pointer. By this, CRTlli!
The inputted data will be displayed at the position where the cursor is located, and the cursor will advance by one.

Step 4 is further measured.

(1) Omit the input data to BUF 1.

If the input data is underground data,
Turn ON the upper 1 bit of the memory contents corresponding to the cursor position in BUF I.

If the input data is character data or output data from the tab set key, that data 1BLIF
Move to the position corresponding to the cursor position in i.

(2) Increment the cursor pointer.

(,5) The contents of BUF1 and the contents of the cursor pointer are written to the refresh memory and cursor register.

5. If the input data is from the start key, proceed to step 6. If not, proceed to step 7.

6. Initialize Baa7a, flag, etc.

■Clear refresh memory (fill with space hood) ■Clear NREG ■Clear BUFl ■Clear BUF2 ■Clear BUF3 ■Reset F'G ■Initialize cursor pointer ■Initialize cursor register 7, input data is tabbed If the input was from the execution key, proceed to step 8. If not, proceed to step 9.

8. Move the cursor to I☆1g where the B tab is set. To do this, sequentially read the BUF 10 contents starting from the position where the cursor exists, search for the position tU where the B tab code exists, and write the address corresponding to that position to the cursor pointer. Finally, the value of the cursor pointer is loaded into the cursor register and displayed on CI (T).

9. If the input data is input from a registration key, the process advances to step 10. If it is old, proceed to step 11.

1Q, move all the contents of BtJEl"l to BUF2,
Set FC.

11. If the input data is rarely entered from the name key, proceed to step 12. If not, proceed to step 16.

12. Next from KB, store the data to be stored in register N.
Manpower to REG.

16. If the input data is rarely input from the print key PK, proceed to step 14. If not, proceed to step 15.

14. Perform merge print processing. Details will be described later.

15. If the input data is input from the save key MK, proceed to step 16. If it is old, proceed to step 17.

16. Save the data stored in BUFl to DISC. The keyword (file name) at that time is register N1 (name stored in EG+'jl'f).

17. If the input data was entered manually using the ``Ko 1'' key, proceed to step 1B. If not, proceed to step 19.

18. From the DISC, Bunhi (+1 data etc.) 7.
Put it in BUFI. The keyword (file name) used at this time is the name stored in register Nf (EC).

19. If the input data is the 6th collection key of other systems, proceed to step 20. If not, proceed to step 21.

(Figure 4).

If 141 F G == 1, proceed to step 14.3.

If FG20, proceed to step 14.2.

14.2 Register N1()! :(r Ic l!,
-Selected data fr keyword (file name)
As L) From 18G to sentence t13 t,,BUF2
Store in.

14.3 Reset 1i’G.

14.6 Execute print processing. (Output the contents of BUF3 to the printer.) 14.7 Increment the current parameter P.

14. If B P = P + < ^X (that is, if the insertion is completed), return.

If not, proceed to step 14.6.

Here, P=PN^X indicates that insertion has been completed for all records of insertion data.

Next, the speed is measured for step 14.5. (Figure 5) 1
4.5. I All contents of BUFl:5tJF 5
Move to.

BUF3(N);13UF1(N)N=1.2.3
-#... 14.5.2 Set N to 1.

14.5.38UF3 If (N) is the B tab set code, proceed to step 14, 5.4. If not, proceed to step 14.5.7 K.

14.5.48UF 3 (N) is a code with an underground line, FU0, then STETZA 14. b. Proceed to step 5. If no, 14.5.
Proceed to step 6.

14.5.5 Insert editing process with underline ('r
cormorant.

BUF (N+Q-1) BLIF2(P,Q)+>1
3L] Q: 1, 2, 3 sea QMAX here>
indicates a hexadecimal code.

14.5.6 Process the insert tlil+II collection without underlining.

BUF(N+Q-1): BUF2()',Q)Q-1
, 2, 6*e・QHAX 14.5.7 NseN+1 14.5.8 If N = NM^X, return. If not, step 14. b, Proceed to “+”.

That is, the embedding process is completed for all data stored in BUF 5.

Other Application Example 1 In this embodiment, the internal FGK distinguishes whether it is a merge print due to registration or a merge print that is not registered, and this fact is displayed on the CRT, etc. Therefore, it may be possible to make it clear to the user that @-" is added.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the block NREG according to the invention.
...Register BUFi~6 ...Buffer applicant Canon Corporation

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an insertion processing device that outputs insertion data while automatically inserting it into the data to be inserted, a means for issuing an insertion instruction after storing the insertion data in advance in a temporary memory located within the processing device; , a means for instructing the insertion while leaving the insertion data in the external M[i storage medium, and a flag for distinguishing between the two means.