JPS5971528A - Original forming machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency and to attain an easy change in character size and writing style, by executing the command formation of character input and layout while observing a monitor with the mode switching of the same machine. CONSTITUTION:In selecting the word editor mode, a cursor 31 appears on the screen of a CRT and urges the character input. The operator inputs character at each character string of an original where the character size and writing style are in order into one. When all the formation of character words is finished, a file name is given to the data and registered on a magnetic disc 2, and the word editor mode is finished. In selecting the command editor mode next, the CRT screen is divided into two display sections 41, 42, and X, Y coordinates 43, 44 on the screen of the original are displayed on the upper display 41 and the inputted command is displayed on the lower display section 42. After all the arrangement is finished, the mode is transferred to the trace mode and the formed characters are written on the original.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a manuscript creation machine.

Recently as part of office automation.

Word processors were developed and came to be used for drafting internal documents. A word processor skillfully utilizes the information processing and memory capabilities of electronic technology such as microcomputers.

It has editing functions that were not available in traditional handwriting or typewriter writing. However, the print quality of word processors is generally lower than that of printed text (
In the case of kanji, many characters are composed of 24 x 24 dots) 9 It was inappropriate for external documents and typesetting manuscripts where formatting is important.

On the other hand, the phototypesetting machine used to create the first version of the manuscript.

The print quality was good, with nine character sizes and one typeface available, but it had the complexity of having to go through a chemical process unique to photo processing. Furthermore, although computerized phototypesetting machines have memory capabilities that are comparable to fully automatic phototypesetting machines, the process of actually creating typesetting manuscripts is complex, and it took a considerable amount of time to fully master the process. Additionally, the lack of a CRT or other screen monitor made editing the manuscript extremely difficult.

The present invention solves the problems of the prior art described above.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a complete manuscript creation machine that has manuscript editing capabilities superior to that of a word processor, and can make hard copies of manuscripts with print quality close to that of a phototypesetting machine.

The manuscript creation machine according to the present invention directly displays the entire manuscript.
Monitor rich, operators such as ']'.

You can create the entire manuscript while looking at the screen.

In addition, its editing function has more commands than a word processor in order to make full use of the typesetting capabilities of a phototypesetting machine.

For example, in a word processor, when a character string containing kanji is selected using a kanji keyboard or a kana-kanji conversion method, those characters are displayed at the cursor position on a display device such as a CRT. Since the CRT screen corresponds to the paper surface of the original, character selection and positioning are ultimately performed at the same time, with a few exceptions such as alignment at the beginning of a line.

this is.

This is natural for word processors that only have one or two font sizes, but for full-scale typesetting.

Before deciding on the position of the characters, it is necessary to decide on the size, font, etc. of the characters. Furthermore, it has become common for the position of the characters themselves to be slightly changed depending on the size of the characters.

In other words, as the size of a character, font style, arrangement, etc. become larger, the types of commands related to text creation will inevitably increase. Computer phototypesetting machines perform these typesetting operations by inserting various control codes between nine characters of input data.

It is not direct, and changes to the manuscript are not easy.

So, what is the efficiency of editing work with the manuscript creation machine according to the present invention? In order to improve the performance, we created a group of commands to select two characters, arrange the characters, and process line drawings on the same machine.
I also tried to make the modes in which all of these commands are executed independent of each other. In other words, selecting all types of one character is.

In the first mode, the types of characters (character codes) to be input are created continuously as character data. However, even in this mode, you can delete, insert, etc. the created character data. That's how it is. In the following, this will be referred to as the full word editor mode.

Next, lay out a series of character data input by this word editor one after another, and.

A second mode for creating and editing all commands for drawing line drawings such as ruled lines is available. In the following, this will be referred to as command editor mode. A sixth mode is provided in which these commands are actually executed to create a typesetting original height. Hereinafter, this will be referred to as i-trace mode. This generally corresponds to the ability of a computer to process all six steps of data creation, program creation, and program execution within the same machine. In conventional word processors, there is no part of these that corresponds to program creation, and in conventional computer phototypesetting machines, the machine that creates all the data and programs is different from the machine that actually rewrites the program, making it easy to compile typesetting manuscripts. It can be said that it was not 0.Next, a manuscript creating machine according to the present invention will be further explained using an embodiment.

This example uses paper (A 3 = 297mm x 420
mm), with a printing quality of 11 pieces/mill (16 pieces/plate).

The purpose is to create a manuscript. As a character, mxn dots (128x128 dots) per character.
Do you have font data consisting of on a magnetic disk and retrieve all 7 ont data?

Or by interpolating amm (2mm)
It supports characters of any size from BMM (16mm). For example, even if the minimum character size is 2 mm, the pattern will consist of 32 x 32 dots.1 A normal word processor font is 24 dots.
Taking into consideration the fact that it is x24 dots, it can be said that the quality of each character has improved dramatically.

Types of alphabets include alphanumeric characters, Greek letters, kana, and kanji included in rxSg1 level and 2nd level.

In addition, the symbols for each song are in two types: Mincho typeface and Kotsuk typeface.

FIG. 1 is a complete summary of the Glock diagram of the embodiment. 1 is a microcomputer that controls the entire system. 2 is a magnetic disk with a storage capacity of 10M, which contains a system program, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, and an image buffer.

The above-mentioned character font data and the like are stored in it.

In particular, character font data is compressed to save memory space.

When this manuscript creation machine is turned on, the system program is transferred from the magnetic disk 2 to the transition [...program RAM] by the resident program in to+v13.
The program is loaded into the memory 4, the program starts running, and the operator enters all the various commands from the keyboard 5 to complete the manuscript preparation work. In addition to the nine regular English characters, the keyboard 5 can also input all kana characters using the shift key.

During the word editor mode, it is mainly used to input and create characters by converting kana to kanji. 9 is a floppy disk (product name) drive for data exchange. This allows you to record and save character data created in word editor mode and command groups created in command editor mode on a diskette (product name), and conversely load those data into this text creation machine. The original image itself created in the shredded trace mode can also be compressed and saved and read out in the same way.

8 is a CRT for monitoring. This CRT has P scanning lines (660 lines), horizontal resolution Q points (862 points), and displays all nine characters and images, but the displayed contents differ in the six modes described above. During command editor mode and trace mode, the entire image and sound of a paper (A3) document is projected. However, for a paper (A6) document created with a resolution of t pages/- (16 pages/-), one point (44 pages/-) in the vertical direction is printed.
80 points) and 8 points (6144 points) in the horizontal direction, so this CRT screen has 1/l (1/1
8) is compressed and displayed. In other words, the UxV of the original original image created in the image buffer of the magnetic disk 2
Take the logical sum for the pixels of the point (8 x 8 points), and it is 1cR
It corresponds to one pixel of the T screen. And this CR
The data for T display has been transferred to the video RAM 6 for overall display. A cursor that can be moved using the keys on the keyboard 5 is displayed on the cBT screen, and image data near the cursor position is always transferred to the video ram 7 for partial enlargement. 6. Partially enter the video ram by pressing the enlarge key.
7 can be switched and displayed on the original uncompressed original 1cRT.

The position ij of this partially enlarged display is placed on the side where the cursor does not exist among the upper and lower halves of the CRT screen, thereby allowing the operator to perform all minute image processing that cannot be performed with the entire image.

Reference numeral 10 is a cylindrical scanning inkjet printer that takes all hard copies of originals created on the magnetic disk 2, and has a printing accuracy of 6 copies/-). The printed manuscript can be read as is or used as a draft manuscript for printing.

Hereinafter, a case will be described in which the entire manuscript shown in FIG. 2 is actually created.

First, when all modes of this manuscript creation machine are set to word editor mode, a cursor appears on the CRT screen prompting the operator to input a single character. Therefore, the operator
In the manuscript (Figure 2), input all the characters using kana-kanji conversion, etc. for each character string in which the nine character sizes and fonts are fixed.

Here, the characters displayed on the CRT screen are in the ROM2.
It is based on font data composed of 4x24 dots.

If the string is long and the cursor reaches the right end, a new line will be automatically inserted. Then, at the end of the character string, the line feed key is fully input.The serial number in Table 9 is added to the beginning of the character string, and the cursor 51 is moved to a line feed. Figure 6 CR in food editor
See T display). However, as mentioned above, the character string created in this manner has undetermined character size, font position, etc., and these are determined by the next command editor mode. When the operator finishes creating all nine character data, the operator gives the data a full name as a file, registers it on the magnetic disk 2, and exits the word editor mode. If you want to change character data midway by yourself, use the function keys on the keyboard 5 to insert a character (line), delete one character (line), convert one character, etc., as with a normal word processor. . Other commands in food editor mode include inputting all kanji codes directly, inputting kanji codes, merging character strings (combining all two character strings into one), dividing character strings (combining 1 character string into 2 characters), ) etc. The character data created in this way can be printed as a hard copy using the printer 10.

Next, when the mode of the document creator is changed to the command editor mode, the CRT screen is divided into two parts as shown in FIG. 4 (CRT display in the command editor). C
The display section 41 at the top of the RT screen shows the manuscript screen gold hail,
X coordinate 46. The X coordinate 44 is displayed. A display section 42 at the bottom of the CRT screen.

This is a command display section, and commands input from the keyboard 5 are displayed. Parameters associated with the command, such as font size and position specification, are also displayed in this area.

The following commands are used in command editor mode.

First, regarding one character, (a) Size specification (
(2 mm to 16 mm or point designation), (b) font designation (Mincho font, Bontsuku font), and (c) font designation (true face, half face, long face, italic).

Next, regarding the arrangement of characters peculiar to type 9, (a
) horizontal writing specification, (b) vertical writing specification, (C) square writing specification, (d) line start alignment specification, (e) line end alignment specification, and.

(f) There is a center alignment specification.

Furthermore, as commands related to line drawing processing, (1) ruled line drawing, (IQ straight line drawing, (b) broken line drawing, (lv)
There are chain line drawing and (V) circle drawing.

For commands other than those related to characters, it is necessary to specify the position and range respectively.
1/1 by specifying coordinates or moving the cursor all the way
Indicates with accuracy up to 6mm. commands (sometimes a combination of them).

After all the associated position specifications etc. are done, keyboard 5
When the line feed key is input from , the microcomputer 1 recognizes the rectangular area defined by the two points A-E (broken line) as the entire processing area, and executes the command without character data. This is a simulation, so to speak, and as a result, the type of command and the specified area are cleared on the display section 41, the first display section 42 is completely cleared, and the next command input is awaited.

As shown in FIG. 6, the displays on the display section 41 are different from each other so that the type of command can be easily distinguished. 6-1 is specified for nail writing (horizontal writing).

6-2 specifies the fill setting (vertical type), 6-3 specifies the 0 line start alignment (horizontal type), 6-4 specifies the 1 line start alignment (vertical type), 6-
5 specifies end-of-line alignment (horizontal type), 6-6 specifies end-of-line alignment (vertical type), 6-7 specifies center alignment (horizontal type), and 6-8 specifies center alignment (vertical type). ].

For all commands related to line drawing processing, one position is specified in the same manner, and then necessary parameters such as the number of lines and thickness are given. When the line feed key is fully input, the microcomputer 1 immediately executes the command, displays the result on the display section 41, clears the 0 display section 42, and waits for the next command input.

A group of commands input one after another in this way is R
Since the commands are stacked in the AM 4, they can be recalled again, they can be changed at any time, and all the commands can be issued by the printer 10. As described above, the operator can view the entire document and perform the layout of the document screen. After all the commands have been created and the entire assignment has been displayed on the 1 display section 41, a name is given to these commands as a file and registered in the magnetic disk 2, and the command editor mode is completely terminated.

Second, in trace mode, the display on the cRTiii surface is as follows:
This is the same as in the command editor mode (initially, both the display area 419 and the display area 42 are cleared), but in the trace mode, the characters actually created in the food editor mode are displayed in character strings with 9 serial numbers. The manuscript is written in accordance with the commands created in the command editor mode. In this case, the microcomputer 1 reads compressed character font data from the magnetic disk 2.

This corresponds to demodulating all of the data, calculating it, and writing it to the image buffer of the magnetic disk 2. However, line drawing processing can be executed without using character data, as in the command editor mode. The above character data and command group are specified by file name. Running trace mode.

Do you want the command to be automatically executed from start to finish like a normal computer program?

It is possible to switch between executions for each step, and breakpoints can be set to stop the process midway. In this way, the operator.

The display unit 41 allows you to see how the manuscript is being created (using the aforementioned enlarged image if necessary).

As soon as a correction is made, the user changes to the word editor mode or command editor mode, changes the 9-character data and the command group, and then changes to the trace mode again to create the manuscript. Although the original image is created in an image buffer within the magnetic disk 2, it can be given a name and saved on a diskette as a file.

The manuscript creation machine according to the present invention can input nine characters as described above,
Creating layout commands and executing commands can be done by simply switching the mode of the same machine, and since a monitor such as a CRT is connected, the overall efficiency of creating one typeface manuscript is improved, and one character Changes in size and font can be made extremely easily, an effect that conventional manuscript editing machines do not have.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing the main functions of a manuscript creation machine according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an entire example of a manuscript, and Fig. 6 is a CRT display in the word editor in the manuscript production machine according to the present invention. Figure 4 shows an example of this. Similarly, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the CRT display in the command editor, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing position specification by the CRT display. FIG. 1: Microcomputer 2: Magnetic disk 3: ROM4: RAM
``'Keyboard 6: Video ram for whole display 7: Video ram for partial enlargement 8: CRT 9: Floppy disk 10: Printer 31: Kernel 41
: Display section 42: Display section 46: X coordinate
44: Y coordinate Patent applicant Azuma Shi Co., Ltd. Figure 1 (6-7) No. 6

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] (a) A word editor function that manually creates character codes for characters in the content of a manuscript to be created, displays them on a display, and stores them as a series of character data. ←) What is the desired size and font for a series of character data? A command editor function that inputs a command r for determining and laying out all of these desired positional relationships while displaying them on the display, creates all command data, and stores this as a series of command data. (c) A trace function that edits the previous series of character data and sound 1 into the format of the manuscript to be created according to the series of command data. A manuscript creation machine equipped with.