JPS61286177A - Document-forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a variety of printed documents to be formed, by a method wherein a line feed quantity is designated, and a printing-starting position for the next line is so set that the line space between the relevant printing line and the next printing line is 0. CONSTITUTION:The document-forming device is provided with, for example, nine kinds of line pitch information B, O, H, K. E, 1-4. Line feed K designates a forward line feeding by 16/12 inch on the basis of em characters. The paper feed quantity after printing character strings in the K-th line is equivalent to the character size with a magnification of 1 where a vertical magnification is an integral number. Where the vertical magnification is not an integral number, the paper feed quantity is equivalent to the character size with a magnification represented by the fraction part of the vertical magnification. Therefore, line feeding by the amount of the character of the character size, namely, line feeding with zero line space is performed. Accordingly, the first character string with the first character size and the second character string with the second character size can be connected to each other with no gap therebetween, which is suitable for forming, for example, an enlarged vertical rule.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document creation device with a print character size variable function.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] Recent document creation devices such as Japanese word processors have
Many printers now allow variable print font size.

Conventionally, in this type of document creation device, there is no known device that performs a line break such that the line spacing between the enlarged character line and the next line becomes 0, so that the next line can be connected and printed. It wasn't.

[Purpose of the Invention] This invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to include a line feed amount of one character in one of the line feed pitch values that can be selected and specified, and to specify a line feed l of one character. In this case, the print start position of the next line can be advanced so that the line spacing between the corresponding print line and the next print line becomes O, regardless of the font size, and this allows you to create a variety of printed documents. The goal is to provide a document creation device that can.

[Summary of the Invention] In this invention, document information to be output is output in units of rows.
A first specifying means for selecting and specifying one of a plurality of line break pitch values including a line feed amount for one character, and a second specifying means for selecting and specifying one of a plurality of character scaling factors for each line of document information. Two designation means are provided. At the time of printing, the pattern of the printed document is developed at the magnification specified by the second specifying means,
The lines of this expanded print document pattern are printed once or in multiple times depending on the above-mentioned magnification. At this time, the line printing paper feed amount required to print the line of the print document pattern is determined based on the above magnification.

Further, the line feed pitch value specified by the first specifying means is converted into a line feed paper feed amount proportional to the above-mentioned magnification. Then, if the line break amount for one character is specified by the first specifying means,
A line feed with a line spacing of O is executed by feeding the printing paper in the forward direction by the difference between the line feed paper feed amount and the line printing paper feed amount each time the corresponding line is printed.

[Embodiment of the Invention] FIG. 1 shows a block configuration of a document creation device, for example, a Japanese word processor, according to an embodiment of the invention, and 10 is a CPU that controls the entire device. 12 is R
OM, which includes a program to control the entire device, a program to enlarge characters, and a program to control printing according to line modification information including character size, character spacing, and line pitch specified on a line-by-line basis, etc. It has a program area 14 in which is stored. The ROM12 further includes:
A character pattern area 16 in which character patterns corresponding to character codes including kanji handled by the device are registered, and "kana"
Alternatively, it has a dictionary area 18 in which various dictionaries for converting readings input in "Romaji" into Kanji are registered.

20 is a RAM, as shown in FIG. It has a custom character pattern area [23] for registering custom characters. The RAM 20 further includes a word registration area 24 in which up to five words are registered per document, and a word registration area 24 that stores which word is selected when the same sound instrument a word generated in kana-kanji conversion is selected, and stores the word that is selected from the next time onwards. A temporary dictionary area 25 used for a learning function that displays the word with priority, a print image area 26 with a print image capacity for printing one line of full-width characters, and registers 51 to 6 used for print control.
It has 3 areas.

Referring again to FIG. 1, 31 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF), and 33 is a keyboard (KB). 35 is a display controller (display CNT), 37
is an indicator. The display 37 is, for example, a 1 line x 10 character liquid crystal display. The display pattern displayed on the display 37 is stored in a display dot memory 39.

41 is a printer interface (PRT-IF), 43
is a printer (PRT) that prints Chinese characters, etc. under the control of the CPU 10. For example, the printer 43 is 24
It is a thermal transfer printer with a dot print head. 4
5 is a cassette interface (CMT-IF), and 47 is a cassette magnetic tape device f (CMT) used as a data recorder for storing documents and the like.

FIG. 3 is a diagram explaining the structure of the document area 21 and line modification area 22 provided in the RAM 2G. Document information (character code string) and line modification information are stored in a state in which they are associated with each other on a line-by-line basis. be done. Line modification information is indicated by white text (
outline flags that specify the character format (
3-bit rotation/italic information to specify (rotation, italic), 4-bit font size information to specify font size, print stop flag to specify to stop printing mid-print, 2-bit character to specify character spacing It consists of 4-pit line pitch information that specifies the amount interval information and the line pitch (line feed pitch).

The above-mentioned line modification information can be interactively set for each line by the operator operating keys on the keyboard 33 while looking at the display screen of the display 37. For example, to set font size information, display the font size screen by key operation, and specify one of the numbers 1 to 9 on this screen (actually two screens, 1 to 5 and 6 to 9) with a key. I can do it. The setting of the character spacing information is carried out by displaying a character spacing screen by key operation and specifying one of the numbers O to 3 on this screen using a key. Similarly, to set the line pitch information, display the line pitch screen by key operation,
The letters B, O, H, K on this screen.

E, one of 1 to 3 (actually B, O, H, E.

This is done by specifying two screens (1 to 3) using a key.

Note that if the above key designation is not performed (information), predetermined standard setting values are applied. This standard setting value is 24 (vertical) x 24 for the font size.
(horizontal) 1 indicates a dot, 1 indicates a 3-dot character spacing (in this example, the character spacing based on standard character size, i.e., full-width character size), and 1 indicates a line pitch (in this example Then, if the line pitch is based on the full-width character size, then it is 30/120 inch (3 bits is 2/12 inch).
1 (this value is a display character on the screen, and is actually “0100”) indicating 45 dots in this example (0 inches).
).

Next, the operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be explained.

In this embodiment, printing control by CP Ll 1u is as follows:
This is carried out according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the operator wants to print an input document or an edited document, the operator presses the [Print] key (actually, the [Print] key on the keyboard 33).
[Function] key and [\] primary key. CPU 10
If there is a key manual operation, it is checked whether or not the [Print] key manual operation was performed in step S1>. If No, other key manual processing (step 82) is performed, and if YES, step S3 is executed. In this step S3, the print line pointer indicating the document line to be printed from now on is initialized to 1, and the next print start line N indicating the first line of the document lines to be printed in the next print cycle is initialized to 1. Ru. The next print start line N and print line pointer are set in registers 51 and 52 secured in the RAM 20.

After executing step S3, the CPU 10 displays a print menu (step 84). In this state, the operator can specify the left margin and vertical/horizontal printing. After this, the [Select] key is operated, and the CPU 10
(step S5), CPtJlo is RAM
The line modification information of the Nth row of the row modification area 22 secured in the row modification area 20 is referred to, and the printing stop flag is checked (step 86). Then, the CPU 10 determines whether printing stop is designated by the print stop flag (step 87), and if No, checks the document line in the document area 21 corresponding to the Nth line (step S8). And C.P.
Ll 10 determines whether there is no character code in the document line, that is, whether the document is END (step 89). If it is not document END, the Nth line set as the next print start line is one of the document lines to be printed from now on and is not (the first line of) the document line to be printed in the next print cycle. , CPU 10 is N
is incremented by 1 and a new next print start line is set (step 510). When step S10 is executed, step S
Returning to step 6, the above processing (determination of presence or absence of print stop designation, determination of document END) is performed for the newly set Nth line.

Now, if the CP LJ 10 determines in step S7 that printing stop of the Nth line is specified, or if it determines that the document END is determined in step S9, it performs the calculation of N-1 and determines the print stop for the current print cycle. The number of print lines M indicating the number of lines of the document to be printed (note that this is not the number of lines as a print result) is determined (step 511).

This number of print lines M is determined by the register 5 secured in the RAM 20.
Set to 3. Next, the CPU 10 determines whether M is 0 or not (step 812), and if M is 0 (because there is no print line), the CPU IO ends print control. On the other hand, if M=O, CPU 1
In order to prepare for printing, 0 first takes out the line modification information of the first line indicated by the print line pointer from the line modification area 22 (step 513). CPU 10 then executes step 814 to determine the actual line feed IT.

In step 814, first, based on the character size information in the line modification information, the number m of vertical dots and the number m' of horizontal dots of a character of the size specified by the information are determined, for example, from a character size table prepared in the ROM 12 (Fig. (not shown), 24
Magnification based on double-width characters of x24 dots (vertical magnification m/
24. The lateral magnification m-/24) is determined. Similarly, based on the line pitch information in the line modification information, line breaks based on the full-width character specified by the same information! (n/120. unit; inch) is, for example, a line feed amount table prepared in the ROM12 (
(not shown). Then, by multiplying the line feed amount n/120 by the vertical magnification m/24, the actual line feed I for the character string of the specified character size (character magnification)
T is determined and the register 54 is secured in the RAM 20.
is set to At this time, the line feed amount T may be determined by further multiplying by a proportionality constant k.

Note that the reason why the line feed amount indicated by the line pitch information is expressed in the format n/120 is because the paper feeding unit of the printer 43 in this embodiment is 1/120 (inch).

Therefore, n/120 indicates paper feed by n units. Similarly, the line feed amount T (m·n/24)/120 indicates line feed paper feeding by (m−n/24) units proportional to the specified magnification. However, n/120. (m-n/24)/120 is not an integer, so actually the n part of n/120,
Only the (m-n/24) portion of (m-n/24)/120 is stored in the table in the ROM 12 and the register 54 in the RAM 20.

In this embodiment, n has a plus/minus sign indicating the line feed direction, as is clear from FIG.

Note that the above m, m=, and n can be set in advance in the print control program instead of in the table.

Now, the number of dots in the print head of the printer 43 is 24 dots, which corresponds to the number of vertical dots in a full-width character.

For this reason, character strings such as enlarged characters having more than 24 vertical dots cannot be printed by driving the print head for one line, and must be printed in several batches. Therefore, in this embodiment, the number S of slices of the character (character pattern) to be printed is determined, assuming that 24 vertical dots are one slice (step 515). This number of slices S is determined based on the specified character magnification and furthermore on the front of the character/character shape, but here, for the sake of simplicity, it is assumed that it is determined from the magnification m/24. However, m
If /24 is not an integer, the integer larger than and closest to that value is used. For example m-32
In the case of (size 2 designation), S=2 is adopted. The number of slices S obtained in step 815 is RA
It is set in register 55 reserved in M20. C
When the P U 10 completes step S15, it initializes the slice number pointer L indicating the slice to be printed in the print head driving operation for one line to 0. L-0 indicates the first slice.

Next, the CPU 10 first prepares, for example, in the ROM 12, character spacing (n-dots) based on the full-width character specified by the same information, based on the character spacing information in the line modification information of the first line. n
By multiplying ' by the horizontal magnification m'/24, the actual character spacing U (unit: dots) proportional to the magnification is determined (step 517). This character amount interval U is set in a register 61 secured within the RAM 20.

When the CPU 10 executes step 817, the CPU 10 sets the number of characters of the character string in the first line (in the document area 21) indicated by the print line pointer as the number of print characters in the second line in the register 57 in the RAM 20 (step 818 ). and c
p u io first initializes the in-line character pointer P to 1 (first character digit), which specifies the character position (character digit) of the next character to be extracted from the character string in the th line (step 5).
19). This character pointer P is set in register 58 within RAM 20.

Next, the CPU 10 transfers the character pattern of the slice L (L-0) of the character (first row, Pth column) specified by the print line pointer and the character pointer P (P-1) to the print image area in the RAM 20. In order to write to the print image area 26, a write start address Q within the print image area 26 is determined taking into account the left margin (step 520). This write start address Q (
If a left margin for d dots is required, the relative address within the print image area 2G will be 3d, as understood from the configuration of the print image area 26 described below. The write start address Q is set in the register 59 in the RAM 20.

FIG. 5 shows the configuration of the print image area 26 when the print head is driven for one line (one slice print area).
This is shown schematically. As is clear from the figure, addresses O to 3 of the print image area 26 (print image area 26
The inner relative address) corresponds to each area obtained by dividing the 0th dot row (24 dots) of the print area for one slice into three parts in units of 8 dots (1 byte). In general, addresses 3n and 3n+1.3n+2 (relative addresses within the print image area 26) of the print image area 26 correspond to the nth dot row (24 dots) of the print area for one slice in units of 8 dots (1 byte). It corresponds to each area divided into three. Therefore, if a left margin of d dots is required, the write start address Q will be <3d as described above.

When the CP Ll 10 executes step 820, it first obtains the write end address R in the print image area 26 of the character pattern of the slice L of the character in the Pth column in the 1st row (Step 521). This write end address R corresponds to the first 8 pits of the final dot row of the character pattern of slice L. In this example where the number of horizontal dots is m-, the write start address Q is set to 3 (m'-1). It is found by adding. Write end address R is register 6 in RAM20
Set to 0.

When the CP Ll 10 determines the write end address R, it compares the same address R with the write end address LE, and determines whether R is larger than LE (step 52
2). This final write address LE indicates the first eight dots of the RH dot row (ie, print boundary) of one slice print area, as shown in FIG. 5, for example. Therefore, from step S22, it can be determined in advance whether a part of the character pattern of the slice L of the character in the P-th row and the P-th column exceeds the printing boundary.

The significance of step 822 above will be specifically explained with reference to FIG. 6 and FIGS. 7(a) and 7(b). now,
Assume that the character pattern of the character in the Pth row and the Pth column is an enlarged character pattern with a 48x48 dot configuration as shown in Figure 6, due to the specification of the line pitch information (size 5) in the corresponding row modification information. . Now, consider a case where, for example, a character pattern of slice O in the enlarged character pattern shown in FIG. 6 is written in the print image area 26. If the write end address R for the character pattern of slice O (the same applies to the character pattern of slice 1) is not greater than the end write address LE, the storage state of the pattern in the print image area 26 will be as shown in FIG. 7(a). Therefore, when the contents of the print image area 26 are printed, the above pattern will not exceed the print boundary. On the other hand, if the writing end address R for the character pattern of slice O (the same applies to the character pattern of slice 1) is larger than the writing end address LE, the storage state of the pattern in the print image area 26 is as shown in FIG. 7(b). As shown, when the contents of the print image area 26 are printed, part of the character pattern is missing because part of the pattern exceeds the print boundary. That is, in step 822, it is determined in advance whether or not the pattern will be printed without being missing if the enlarged character pattern is unconditionally written in the print image area 26. Note that the final write address LE is not limited to the print boundary fixed to the apparatus as described above, but may correspond to a print range specified by the operator, such as the right margin, for example. In this case, the step 822 determines in advance whether or not the enlarged character pattern will be printed without exceeding the print range when the enlarged character pattern is unconditionally written in the print image area 26.

If the determination in step 822 is No, CP Ulo
Step 523) of extracting the character (character code) in the Pth column of the first row specified by the print line pointer and the character pointer P from the document area 21, determines whether the character code is a line feed code (no pattern writing is required). It is determined whether or not (step 524). If it is not a line feed code, it is necessary to write a pattern, so after incrementing the character pointer P by 1 and advancing to the next character position (step 525), write the character pattern corresponding to the character code extracted in step 323 into the ROM 12. Extract from character pattern area 16' in (
step 526). The character pattern stored in the character pattern area 16 is a full-width character pattern composed of 24×24 dots (72 bytes). Character pattern area 1
The character pattern extracted from 6 is temporarily stored in a predetermined one-character storage area (not shown) in the RAM 20.

When the CPU 10 executes step 826, it first determines whether or not a change in character size or character form is requested based on the line modification information of the line, that is, whether or not conversion of the character pattern is required (step 527).

If pattern conversion is necessary, CPU io sequentially converts the character pattern in the one character storage area (i.e. original character pattern) into a character pattern of a specified size or form (step 528), and performs pattern conversion. If step 828 is not necessary, skip step 828, and then, if step 828 is skipped, the character pattern of the slice number (that is, sliced) indicated by slice number pointer L (if step 828 is skipped, because it is a full-width character, one character within the storage area) ) are sequentially written in the area starting from the relative address in the print image area 26 indicated by the write start address Q (step 529).

When the CP LJ 10 executes step 829, the write start address Q becomes the write start address of the next character (for one slice) by adding three times the character interval U (dot) to the write end address R. The same address Q is updated to indicate (step 530). This achieves the character spacing of U dots. The character spacing is determined in step 817 as described above,
The character spacing is not based on the full-width characters specified in the font size information, but is obtained by multiplying this specified character spacing by the magnification (horizontal magnification) (specified in the font size information), that is, it is proportional to the magnification. This is the actual character spacing. Therefore, in this embodiment, while specifying the character spacing based on the image of full-width characters, the character spacing that matches the actual character size is automatically realized.

After executing step 330, the CPU 10 increments the number of printed characters V by 1 (step 531), and determines whether ■ has become 0 (step 532). If ■ is not O, CPU IO returns to step 321 assuming that an unprocessed character remains in the first line.

On the other hand, if ■=O, cpuio assumes that all the characters in the first line have been extracted and the corresponding character pattern (the character pattern of slice L) has been written in the print image area 26, and starts from step 333. First, the process moves on to control the printer 43 for printing the first line. The process starting from step 833 is performed even if the determination in step S24 is YES, even if it is not ■-〇, if the determination in step 822 is YES (that is, if the write end address R is greater than the final write address LE), or if the determination in step S24 is YES. This is executed both when the character code extracted from the document area 21 is a line feed code, and when printing of the corresponding character in the Pth column of the corresponding row is prohibited or unnecessary.

The CPU 10 first determines whether the character pointer P indicates 1, that is, whether step 825 of incrementing P by 1 has not been executed even once (step 533).

If it is not P-1, the CPU 10 first determines that the first character of the line is not a line feed code (that is, not a complete line feed), that is, determines that the character pattern to be printed has been written in the print image area 26. Then, the printer 43 is controlled to print the contents of the print image area 26 (step 534). Next, the CPU 10 clears the print image area 26 (step 835), L, and then subtracts the number of slices S by 1 (step 836). and c p
uio determines whether the number of slices S is O, that is, whether printing of the character string in the first row has been completed (step 537).

If the determination in step S37 is NO, the CPU 10 determines that the printing of the first line has not been completed, and first increments the slice number pointer L by 1 and specifies the slice number of the next slice to be printed. (Step $38).

Then, the CPU 10 controls the printer 43 to spread the printing paper as many times as the print head (full-width characters The paper is fed in the forward direction by the length of the vertical dot (step 539). As mentioned above, the paper feed unit of the printer 43 is 1/120 (inch).
The dot configuration of the print head is 24 dots, and 3 dots are 2/120 inch. Therefore, CPU
10 causes the printer 43 to perform a forward paper feed of 16/120 (inches) in step 839. After executing step 839, the CPU 10 returns to step 818 and performs processing for printing the next slice for the same character string in the first line as the previous time.

On the other hand, if the determination in step 837 is YES, that is, if the printing of the character string in the first line is completed and the number of slices S becomes O, cpu io performs the following steps to realize the line feed indicated by line feed IT. The value obtained by multiplying
)/120, and the result is set as the newline amount T (step $40).

This newly obtained absolute value of the bottom of the line feed indicates the paper feed l (inch) for the line feed paper that should be carried out after printing the first line, and the sign (plus/minus sign) is the paper feed direction. shows. As is clear, when the second line is full-width characters (size 1), L remains O (that is, the printing paper feed in step 339 is not executed), so the newly determined T is This matches T determined in S14.

c p u to executes step S40, or determines YES (P=1) in step 833,
In order to determine the paper feed direction, it is determined whether the line feed IT is greater than or equal to 0, that is, whether the paper is being fed in the forward direction (step 541). Note that when the determination in step 833 is YES, the printing execution in step 834 is skipped because the first character of the line is a line feed code and becomes a complete line feed.

c p u io causes the printer 43 to forward paper feed by T inches if it is T2C (step 54
2) If T<O, the printer 43 is caused to feed the paper in the reverse direction by the absolute value of T (step 543). As a result, the actual line feed pitch is determined by the ratio of the line feed pitch and the character size (number of vertical dots) of the printed characters on the second line to the line pitch (line feed pitch) based on the full-width character specified by the line pitch information. This is realized so as to match the ratio between the number of vertical dots and the number of vertical dots of a full-width character. That is, in this embodiment, while specifying the line pitch (line feed pitch) based on full-width characters, it is possible to realize a line pitch proportional to the size of characters specified by the character size information. Note that the determination in step 333 is YES.
In this case (that is, in the case of a complete line break), since printing is not executed, T obtained in step 814 is used as is.

Now, in this embodiment, the line pitch information is B, O,
Nine types are available: H, E, 1 to 4 (see Figure 3).

Line feed B (reverse line feed, back line feed) specifies a line feed in the opposite direction by 8/120 (inch) based on full-width characters. In this case, the paper feed amount after printing the character string in the first line is calculated from the line pitch (minus value) for the character string of the specified character size, which is obtained by multiplying -8/120 (inches) by the vertical magnification. It is the absolute value of the value obtained by subtracting the paper feed amount required to print (the total set feed amount of paper feeds performed to print the same character string), and the subtraction result is negative in the paper feed direction. Therefore, it is in the opposite direction. Therefore, when line feed B is specified, a reverse line feed of 1/2 character of the character size specified by the character size information is realized.

Line feed 0 (line pitch O) specifies line feed 10.

In this case, the paper feed after printing a row of character strings on the cylinder is equal to the paper feed amount required to print the same character string (the total paper feed amount of the paper feeds performed to print the same character string). corresponds to the absolute value,
The paper feed direction is the opposite direction.

Therefore, when line feed 0 is specified, line pitch O (O line feed) is realized regardless of the character size specified by the character size information. In addition, when the number of vertical dots is 24,
Since the total paper feed amount during printing is O, the paper feed amount after printing is also 0.

Line feed H (half line feed, half line feed) specifies that a line feed is to be made in the forward direction by 8/120 (inch) when using full-width characters as the standard. In this case, the paper feed opening after printing the character string in the first line is determined from the line pitch for the character string of the specified character size obtained by multiplying +8/120 (inches) by the vertical magnification.
The absolute value of the value obtained by subtracting the paper feed required to print the same character string (the maximum paper feed of the total paper feed performed to print the same character string), and the paper feed direction is the result of the subtraction. The direction is indicated by the sign (positive/negative). Therefore, when a line feed H is specified, a forward line feed (half line feed) of 1/2 characters of the character size specified by the character size information is realized.

Line feed K (ruled line feed, line feed by one character) specifies that the line is broken in the forward direction by 16/120 (inches) based on full-width characters. In this case, the paper feed amount after printing the character string in the first line is determined from the line pitch for the character string of the specified character size, which is obtained by multiplying +16/120 (inches) by the vertical magnification. The value obtained by subtracting the required paper feed amount (total paper feed amount of paper feeds performed to print the same character string), that is, 16/120 (inches), and the subtraction result is positive in the paper feed direction. Therefore, the direction is forward. In this case, the specific paper feed amount is the character size of the magnification 1, that is, 16/120 (inches) when the vertical magnification is an integer, and is a fixed amount. On the other hand, if the vertical magnification is not an integer, the forward paper feed is equal to the character size of the magnification indicated by the decimal part of the vertical magnification.

Therefore, when a line feed K is specified, a line feed with only the character strength of the font size specified by the character size information, that is, a line feed with a line spacing of O is realized.

Since this line break can have a line spacing of O as described above, that is, the first character string of the first character size and the second character string of the second character size that follows the same character string. Since it is possible to connect lines without gaps, it is suitable for creating enlarged ruled lines (particularly vertical ruled lines), for example. In addition,
When creating horizontal ruled lines, the character spacing may be set to O.

Also, line feed E (English line feed) specifies a line break in the forward direction by 20/120 (inches) based on full-width characters, and line feed 1.2.3.4 specifies line feed in the forward direction by 20/120 (inches) when based on full-width characters. 30/120.40/120.45/120.6
Specifies forward paper feed of 0/120 (inch).

The above specific examples are shown in FIGS. 8 to 10.

Figure 8 shows an example of printing a document when the same values are specified for character spacing and line pitch (line feed amount) for each document character string, and different values are specified for character size. and a portion of the contents of the line modification area 22.

In Fig. 8, the line break pitches Ll, L2, and L3 of a character string with a character size of 1.2.3 are different from the character size (vertical magnification) even though the same line feed amount (line feed 1) is specified.
The value is proportional to . Similarly, the character amount interval P1 of a character string with a character size of 1.2.3. Even if the same character spacing of 2 (6 dots) is specified for both, P2 and P3 have values proportional to the character size (horizontal magnification).

FIG. 9 shows a printing example when a line feed O is used to shade full-width characters and quadruple-width characters, corresponding to the contents (partial) of the document area 21 and line modification area 22. In this embodiment, the hatching pattern is prepared independently as one character. In this case, prepare a character code A for the first row and first column of the document, a shading code for the second row and first column, set the line pitch to 0 for the first line, and set the font size to When full-width characters are specified in the first and second lines, a half-width pattern of the same size is printed in the second line, overlapping the character A printed in the first line. If you want to shade a large number of strings,
All you have to do is input a string of shading codes and set the character spacing to 0. The above also applies to enlarged characters such as quadruple-width characters.

Figure 10 shows a printing example of the contents of the document area 21 and line modification area 22 (partially ).

Now, when the CP LJ 10 executes the paper feed in step 842 or step 343, it increments the number of print lines M by 1 (step 544), and determines whether M has become 0 (
step 545). If M is not O, there are still document lines to be printed, so cpulo increments the print line pointer K by 1 and advances to the next document line (step $4).
6) Return to step 813. On the other hand, if M is O, the CP Ll 10 first determines whether printing stop has been specified in the line modification information of the th line (step 547). If printing stop is specified, CP t
J10 returns to step S4 and displays a print menu. This allows the operator to change the color type by replacing the printing ribbon used for printing by the printer 43,
You can change the left margin value and settings for vertical/horizontal printing.

If stop printing is not specified for this, c p
uio determines whether printing of the document in the document area 21 is finished, and ends printing control.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, when one of the line feed pitch values that can be selected and specified includes the line feed amount for one character, and the line feed amount for one character is specified, the corresponding printing is performed. By feeding the printing paper in the forward direction by the difference between the line feed paper feed amount and the line printing paper feed amount each time a line is printed, the line spacing becomes O regardless of the character size, and the line is connected to the next printing line. Since the printing start position of the line can be advanced, a variety of printed documents can be created.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a memory map of the RAM 20 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a R
Document area 21 and practice 1 provided in A M 20! I
4 is a flowchart showing the print control procedure; FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of the print image area 26 provided in the RAM 20; FIG.
The figure shows an example of an enlarged character pattern, FIG. 7 shows an example of how the character pattern of FIG. 6 is stored in the print image area 26, and FIGS.
and the contents of the row modification area [22]. 10...CPU, 12...ROM, 20...RA
M, 21... Document area, 22... Line modification area, 26
...Print image area, 33...Keyboard (KB
), 37...Display unit, 43...Printer (PRT)
, 51-63...Register. Applicant's representative Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure 8 Figure 9

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A first specifying means for selecting and specifying one of a plurality of line break pitch values including a line break amount for one character for each line of document information to be output; a second specifying means for selecting and specifying one of the character magnifications; a pattern developing means for developing a pattern of a printed document at a magnification specified by the second specifying means; and a line of a printed document pattern developed by the pattern developing means. printing means for printing once or in multiple times according to the magnification; means for determining the line printing paper feed amount necessary to print the lines of the print document pattern based on the magnification; converting means for converting the line feed pitch value specified by the first specifying means into a line feed paper feed amount proportional to the magnification specified by the second specifying means;
If the line break amount for one character is specified by the specification method,
A document creation device characterized by comprising a paper feeding means for feeding printing paper in the forward direction by the difference between the line feed paper feeding amount and the line printing paper feeding amount each time a corresponding line is printed. (2) The paper feeding means is characterized in that, when the character magnification specified by the second specifying means is an integer, the paper is fed by the character size of the magnification 1. Document production device. (3) When the character magnification specified by the second specifying means is not an integer, the paper feeding means feeds the paper by the character size of the magnification indicated by the decimal part. Document production device described in Section 1.