JPS61286922A - Document forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain partial printing by forming a printing stop line retrieving means and a printing stop control means and temporarily stopping the printing at an optional line position on the way of printing. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 11 reads out line modifying information in a line property buffer formed in a RAM 14 successively from the line modification of the 1st line to retrieve a line position on which 'printing stop' is set up. Then, the CPU 11 finds out the number of lines to be printed and then executes printing processing up to the line position to be printed on the basis of the printing information of a printing information holding part. Thus, partial printing can be attained from an optional line position on the way of printing.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field of invention] The present invention relates to a document creation device having a line modification function.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] Conventionally, document creation devices such as Japanese word processors use a CRT display as a document display mechanism and an external storage such as a floppy disk device as a document file mechanism. The structure was large and expensive. However, in recent years, various innovations and improvements have been made, such as using an LCD (liquid crystal display) for the display mechanism and a CMT (cassette magnetic tape device) for the document file mechanism, and small, lightweight, and low-cost devices have been realized. It has come to pass.

In such low-cost and compact document creation devices, for example, there are major constraints on the display screen size of the LCD that serves as the input mechanism, and it is necessary to use a small screen size of 1 to 2 lines and 10 characters. things are used.

In a low-cost and compact document creation device that is limited by its input and output mechanisms, it is important to make effective use of its input and output mechanisms to create highly functional, multifunctional, and easy-to-use devices. The big question is whether to realize the device.

For example, conventional low-cost and compact document creation devices of this type with a small number of display character digits do not have a function that can temporarily stop printing at an arbitrary line during printing.

For this reason, in the past, for example, when an operator wants to change the print format in the middle of printing, or when the operator wants to change the print ribbon color and print colors from a line position that is halfway through printing, or when the operator wants to print colors from a line position that is halfway through printing, When you want to shift the position, or because the number of characters that can be displayed at one time is severely restricted, you want to type out a part of the document and check or refer to it, and you can easily do this with a simple operation. I couldn't do it.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and is a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of displayed character digits, which does not require complicated operations and can be used to print documents in the middle of printing. It is possible to temporarily stop printing at any line, and to allow the operator to intervene in the printing operation at any line position during printing. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device that can easily realize a wide variety of document printing such as printing, color printing, multi-column printing, etc.

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention provides a line attribute setting means for setting i-characteristics including a print stop instruction for each line of a document, and storing attribute information set by this means in association with the lines of the document. and the line attribute storage section ′ in response to an instruction to print the document.
a print stop line search means for searching a print stop control means for the print stop control means;
This print stop line 1 includes a print stop control means for stopping printing at the line position searched by the search means,
This system is configured to selectively print parts of any area of the output document up to a specified line position.This allows printing to be temporarily stopped at any line during printing without the need for complicated operations. This allows the operator to intervene in the printing operation at any line position during printing, and allows printing, for example, of partial printing of a specified line document area that cannot be displayed at once on the display, color printing, multi-column printing, etc. This makes it possible to easily print a wide variety of documents.

[Embodiments of the invention] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 10 is a keyboard (KB), a data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device serving as external storage, a liquid crystal display (LCD),
The control target is each input/output control circuit unit that controls input/output of each mechanical unit such as a serial printer (PRT),
R has a processing unit (CPU) that controls the entire device, as well as a dictionary area, character font area, program area, etc.
It is a large-scale integrated circuit device that is integrated into a single chip together with an internal storage section consisting of OM and RAM, and in actual equipment it has 100
Consisting of a pin terminal structure, patent application No. 59-204
No. 455, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-204456, Japanese Patent Application No. 1987-
This is realized based on the semiconductor integrated circuit technology disclosed in No. 204462 and the like.

Hereinafter, this large-scale integrated circuit device will be referred to as superintegration or SI.

11 to 19 are internal components of the above 5110, respectively. Of these, 11 is the CPU that controls the entire device, and in addition to processing such as manual key recognition, kana-kanji conversion, document editing and proofreading, it also performs line-by-line character decoration according to line attribute information and print stop control. Executes line-qualification processing that includes.

In the actual machine, this CPU 11 has a logical structure equivalent to 280.

Also, in the figure, external buses and connection terminals connected to the system bus inside the 5110, and even the inside of the S10 are shown.

Logic such as a counter/timer provided in the figure is omitted from the illustration.

12 to 18 are internal components of 5IIO connected to the internal system bus of the CP tJ 11, respectively.

Of these, 12 are peripheral control circuits (bidirectional interface circuits), one of the three ports is used to output keyboard scan data (4 pits) and cassette write data (1 bit), and the other One port is used for inputting a keyboard return signal (8 bits). This peripheral control circuit is hereinafter referred to as PPI. In the actual machine, this PP112 has a logical structure equivalent to 8255.

13 is a decoder (DC
E).

14 is a RAM, in which a document buffer area, line modification information area, external character pattern area, provisional dictionary area, etc. are secured, and a line image buffer (D-BLIF>
140 areas are secured, the details of which will be described later with reference to the memory map shown in FIG.

15 is a ROM, in which system programs,
Dictionaries, character fonts including English fonts, conversion tables, messages on multiple screens, etc. are stored.

16 is a cassette interface circuit (CMT-INTF) which performs read/write control of a data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device serving as external storage under the control of CP tJ 11; The reader section outputs all "1" data for about 10 seconds before starting writing, and then outputs bit serial cassette write data (line modification area data/document area data/external character pattern) from the PP112. Area data/phrase registration area data/Ii
(defined dictionary area data, etc.), and then outputs all 0°' data for about 2 seconds as a trailer section.

17 is an LCD control circuit (LCDC>), and a RAM
It accesses a row image buffer 140 provided in 14 and outputs LCD display data.

18 is a printer controller (PRTC), and CP
Print image data is output via the RAM 14 under the control of U11.

A clock generator (CG) 19 receives a basic clock output from an external oscillator (O20) 20 and outputs a predetermined frequency-divided clock, timing signal, etc.

20 is an oscillator (O20) that generates a basic clock and supplies it to the clock generator 19 inside 5IIO, 30 is a keyboard (K8) connected to the same PP112 and decoder 13 inside 5IIO, and 40 is capable of recording write data. A D/A converter that converts the analog signal into a digital signal, and A that converts the reproduced analog signal into a digital signal.
S via a CMT adapter 41 having a /D converter.
A data recorder (CMT) using an audio cassette magnetic tape device connected to the cassette interface circuit 16 inside IIO, 50 connects the LC inside 5IIO via an LCD driver (LCD-DRV) 51.
A liquid crystal display (hereinafter referred to as LCD) is connected to the D ill m I circuit 17, and 60 is a serial printer connected to the printer controller 18.

Here, the display size of the LCD 50 is configured as 1 line x 10 digits (1 digit; 24 x 24 dots) as shown in Fig. 5, of which 9 digits excluding the rightmost digit are used as actual character display digits. One digit is used to display the shift mode. Further, at the bottom of each digit, there is provided a guide display section consisting of a small number of dots (8 x 24 dots) including a line modification indicator for displaying the presence or absence of line modification. Furthermore, the serial printer 60 enables forward/reverse paper feed control, and when printing a line for which a reverse line feed (line feed B/line feed 0 (enlarged characters only)) is set in the line modification settings described below. Then, feed the paper in the opposite direction.

FIG. 2 is a memory map of the RAM 14 shown in FIG.
, a document buffer 14 that stores document information (character code string)
1. For each line of the document stored in the document buffer 141, check whether or not to stop printing, as well as character spacing, line pitch,
A line attribute buffer 142 that stores various line modification information such as character size, rotation/italics, and outline designation, and a custom character pattern buffer 143 that stores registered custom character patterns. Furthermore, a temporary dictionary area, a control information area, a phrase registration area, etc. are provided. Here, 3888 bytes (54 x 72 bytes) are allocated to the line image buffer 140, and the document buffer 14
1, 198 bytes (99 lines x 2 bytes) are allocated to the line attribute buffer 142, and 216 bytes are allocated to the external character pattern buffer 143.
Bytes (3 characters x 72 bytes) are allocated.

FIG. 3 shows the structure and contents of the row modification information stored in the row attribute buffer 142 shown in FIG. 2 above.
Here, 1 bit ("11 + 1. Stopped/"0": No stop) is assigned to the presence or absence of printing stop, and 2 bits ("OO°'; Character spacing 0 (0 dot) to "11" are assigned to the character spacing. 3 (12 dots)) is assigned to the line pitch, and 4 bits (“1111”: line feed B (line feed amount; -8 inches/12
0>, oooo”; line feed O (line feed amount; O inch/120
), "0001'': Line feed H (Line feed 1: +8 inch/
120), 0010"; Line feed K (Line feed amount: +16 inches/120), "0011"; Line feed E (Line feed amount: +20 inches/120), "0100": Line feed 1 (Line feed amount: +3
0 inch/120) ~ “0111”: Line feed 4 (Line feed amount;
+60 inches/120)) and 4 bits for the font size (“0001”; size 1 (24 x 24 dots)
~ “1001”: Size 9 (576 x 576 dots)
) and 3 pits for rotated/italic (“000”; no rotation/oblique specified, “001”; rotation 1 (90”),”
010"; rotation 2 (180"), "011"; rotation 3 (270°), "100": italic designation),
One pit (“1”; present/“0”; absent) is assigned to the presence or absence of white outline.

Figures 4 (a) to (i) show the above line modification settings!
This table shows each selection screen (line modification setting menu screen) and the order of screen switching operations. ) is used to select items (specify selection items using the cursor) by operating the cursor keys.

This display switching to the maintenance S screen is performed on the actual machine by [
The command for the line modification display mode is entered by pressing the [W/-/-/〃] key while holding down the [Function] key.In order to simplify the explanation, here, we will use the line decorations described above. The combination key operation for indicating the display mode is simply called the [line modifier key operation. Also, when setting the above line modification, by updating the selection screen using the up/down cursor keys, it is possible to indicate that the item selection on the selection screen before the update has been completed (the item at the cursor position has been selected). The line decoration information is written to the line attribute buffer 142, assuming that the line decoration setting has been completed by pressing the [Select/Execute] key. In addition, in the above line decoration display mode, if it is not selected, it will be in the selected state set in the format settings or the state set in full text deletion (for example, the cursor (diagonal line) position state shown in the figure). , each setting value at this time is referred to as a row modification standard value.

Figure 5 shows the display screen structure of the above-mentioned L CD 5G, where the display size is 1 line x 10 digits (1 digit; 24
Of these, nine digits excluding the rightmost digit are used as actual character display digits, and one rightmost digit is used for shift mode display. Furthermore, a guide display section consisting of a small number of dots (8 x 24 dots) is provided at the bottom of each digit.
For the character string displayed in the character display column, the presence or absence of line modification (when the line is modified, [---] is displayed), line, digit, number of characters in one line, etc. are displayed. The mechanism unit that displays the presence or absence of line modification is referred to herein as a line modification indicator. Furthermore, in the above-mentioned guide display section, there is a battery consumption indicator (in this case, a row modification indicator) that displays the consumption status of the battery that is the operating power source of the device at a specific digit position (first digit in the figure) different from the row modification indicator. Same mark)
is provided.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the display control flow of the line modification indicator. The "row modification standard value" shown here is as described above, and its explanation will be omitted here.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the print processing flow when "print stop" is set in the line modification settings. still,
On the actual machine, document printing instructions are entered by pressing the [-/\/≧/...] key while holding down the [Function] key. Here, to simplify the explanation, the above-described combination key operation for instructing document printing will be simply referred to as a [document print] key operation.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of the print menu shown in FIG. 7, and a similar menu is displayed even when printing is stopped at the line position of "Printing Stopped". here,
Using the same cursor key operations as when setting line decorations above, select "Vertical/Horizontal writing", "Left margin", "Japanese font (24X2
4 dots)/English font (18 horizontal dots, 24 vertical dots)
etc. can be set.

FIGS. 9(a) to 9(e) are diagrams showing various character forms set by the line decoration setting means, respectively. In the figure, U
indicates the character spacing, and KING indicates the line pitch.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the recording format of the data recorder 40 using the above audio cassette magnetic tape device. Under the control of the cassette interface circuit 16 in the above 5110, at the time of data writing, prior to the start of writing, All "1" data is written for about 10 seconds as the leader section, and then the pit serial cassette write data (row modification information/
Document information/external character patterns/registered words/phrases/temporary dictionary, etc.) are written, and then all "O" is written for about 2 seconds as a trailer section.
” data is written.

Here, the operation of one embodiment will be explained with reference to the above figures.

When inputting a sentence containing kanji, the key human input signal input from the keyboard 30 is
It is converted into kana-kanji under the control of i and stored in the document buffer 141 in the RAM 14. At this time, CPU 11
is transmitted via the PP 112 and further via the decoder 13 to the key □-
A scan signal is output to the board 30, and the return signal is input to the PP 112 to perform key discrimination and generate a key code. Furthermore, the dictionary in the ROM 15 and the provisional dictionary in the RAM 14 are indexed for the designated part of the kana/kanji manually inputted based on the same key code, and after the kana/kanji conversion process is performed, the converted kanji code is The input character code string including the input character code string is stored in the document buffer 141.

During the above-described document input, the input characters stored in the document buffer 141 are sequentially developed into patterns on the line image buffer 140 under the control of the CPU 11, and
Display control of D control circuit 17 and further LCD driver 51
A maximum of 9 digits are displayed on the LCD 50 using the display drive.

The previously inputted document thus input can be arbitrarily displayed as a character string of up to nine characters on the LCD 50 by operating the cursor keys, and can be used for proofreading, correction, etc. of the document.

If you want to modify characters or stop printing on a line-by-line basis for the above input document, use the cursor keys to select and display the character string at the line position you want to modify, then press the [Function] key or E line modification in combination with a specific key] Specify line modification by key operation.

When the CPU 11 determines that the [Line Modification] key has been operated, the CPU 11 switches the display mode of the LCD 50 from the document display mode to the line modification display mode. The situation is shown in Figure 4. FIG. 4(a) shows the display state in the document display mode, and FIG. 4(b) shows the initial display state after switching to the line modification display mode by operating the [Modify 11j] key. There is. Here, a selection screen for selecting the character amount interval is first displayed.

In this line modification display mode, the selection screen is switched by operating the cursor keys in the up and down directions, and items are selected by specifying the cursor by operating the cursor keys in the left and right directions.

For example, when the selection screen for selecting the character amount spacing mentioned above is displayed, if you do not select an item by operating the left/right cursor keys and switch the selection screen by operating the up/down cursor keys, the above selection screen appears. Assuming that the character amount interval displayed with the cursor has been selected, the next item on the newly displayed selection screen becomes the selection target.

Display the "Print Stop" selection screen by switching the selection screen above, move the cursor using the cursor keys and select "Print Stop", and then press the [Select/Execute] key to select "Print Stop". Line modification information having the control information "Printing Stopped" is stored in the line attribute storage area corresponding to the selected line position in the line attribute buffer 142. FIG. 3 shows the correspondence between the line attribute buffer 142 and the document buffer 141 and the setting contents of the line modification information at this time.

In the above line decoration setting means, the document buffer 141
After line modification settings have been made for any line position of the document stored in the document, the guide display section on the LCD 5o can be displayed by displaying the already input document in the document buffer 141 on the LCD 50 by operating the cursor keys. The line of the display string, digit, and number of characters per line are displayed, and
A row modification indicator is selectively displayed as well as a low battery indicator. The guide display form at this time is shown in FIG. 5, and the lighting control processing procedure for the row modification indicator is shown in FIG.

That is, in FIG. 6, when a display character string is selected by cursor operation, the line position, column position, and number of characters per line of the display character string specified by the cursor are displayed, and the line attribute buffer 142 is also displayed. The line decoration information for the corresponding row position stored in is referenced, and the same information is compared with the line decoration standard value to determine whether or not line decoration is set for the display line selected by the cursor. (Steps A11 to A15 in FIG. 6).

Here, if the line decoration is not set, that is, if the content of the above line decoration information matches the above line decoration standard value, the line decoration indicator will not be lit, and if the line decoration is set, i.e. If the content of the line modification information does not match the line modification standard value, the line modification indicator is turned on (steps A16 and A17 in FIG. 6). Such display control of the line modification indicator is performed for all lines of the displayed document selected by the cursor keys (steps A18 to A24 and AI2 to A17 in FIG. 6).

In this manner, the line position where the line modification has been performed can be easily confirmed from the lit state of the row modification indicator.

Next, the printing processing operation of the above-mentioned document will be explained.

At the time of document printing, document printing is specified by operating the [document print] key in combination with the [function] key and another specific key.

When the CPU 11 determines that the [Document Print] key has been operated, the CPU 11 switches the display mode of the LCD 50 from the document display mode to the print menu display mode. Figure 7 shows the situation.
and shown in FIG.

When the CPU 11 determines the operation input of the [Sentence-Print] key, it initializes the count value of the line counter indicating the print line position, and then controls the LCD Ill I11 circuit 11 to perform the operations shown in FIG. Print menus such as the following are sequentially and selectively displayed on the LCD 50 in accordance with cursor key operations (step 811.B12 in FIG. 7). The screen switching and item selection at this time are performed by cursor key operations in the same way as the screen switching and item selection during the line modification setting described above.
Screens such as "Horizontal writing", "Left margin", and "Japanese font (24 x 24 dots)/English font (horizontal 18 x vertical 24 dots)" are switched, and the document format of each screen can be changed by operating the left and right cursor keys. is selected. Regarding the "left margin" setting, each time the right cursor key is operated, the digit value is incremented (+1), and each time the left cursor key is operated, the digit value is decremented (-1).
) to be done.

After the document format selection operation according to the above display contents, the [Select/Execute] key is operated, so that this document format setting information is written to the print information holding section provided in the control information area in the RAM 14.

Next, the CPU 11 sequentially reads the line modification information in the line attribute buffer 142 starting with the line modification information of the first line, searches for the line position where "print stop" is set, and determines the number of lines to be printed. After obtaining the information, based on the print information in the print information holding section,
Print processing is executed up to that line position (Step 8 in Figure 7).
13-B21).

When printing stops at the line position where "Print Stop" is set, the above print menu will be displayed again, and the settings such as "Vertical/Horizontal", "Left Margin", "Japanese/English", etc. after the stop line will be displayed. It becomes possible to change the printing format.

Further, after setting the print format, by operating the [Select/Execute] key again, printing according to the newly set document format is started from the line position next to the above-mentioned stop line.

Also, if it is detected that the document to be printed has ended (there is no document on line L+1) before the above-mentioned "stop printing" setting line is searched, the number of lines to be printed up to that line position is calculated,
Execute the printing process up to the accompanying position (Step 8 in Figure 7)
13-B15.822-B24).

At this time, when printing is executed, the message [-Printing-] is displayed in the character display column of the LCD 50. or,
When printing is executed, character decoration is optionally performed on a line-by-line basis according to the contents of the line decoration information in the line attribute buffer 142 corresponding to the print line. The contents of each character modification at this time are shown in FIG. 3, and examples of each character font are shown in FIGS. 9(a) to (e).

In FIG. 9, U indicates the character spacing, and ■ indicates the line feed pitch. In addition, (a) in the same figure is a full-width (size 1) character string without character modification, (b) is a character string with enlargement specified (size 3), and (C) is a character string with rotation specified (rotation 2). ) is a full-width character string, (d) is a full-width character string that is italicized (with italics), and (e) is a character string that is outlined and enlarged (with whiteout, size 5). It shows.

In this way, character modification processing is performed on a line-by-line basis according to the line modification information stored in the line attribute buffer 142.

Further, when saving the above-mentioned document information on a cassette tape, document storage is specified by operating the [save] key in combination with the [auxiliary] key and the specific key. C.P.L.J.
When the Il determines that the [Save] key has been input, it displays the message [Save Document] in the character display column of the LCD 50, and when it determines that the [Select/Execute] key has been input, it starts the save process. That is, the CPU 11 selects the above [selection/
When the input of the [Execute] key is detected, it is determined that the data recorder 40 is ready for recording! i! Understand. First, when writing the data stored in the RAM 14, the data of the reader section is output. That is, here, data of all 1's is output for 1 second. After that, the RAM 14
The data stored in the cassette is read out, converted to bit-serial cassette write data, and output. This write data order includes line modification information stored in the line attribute buffer 142, document information stored in the document buffer 141, custom character patterns stored in the custom character pattern buffer 143, registered words and phrases stored in the word/phrase registration area, provisional This is the order of the temporary dictionaries stored in the dictionary area. Furthermore, after outputting this cassette write data, all "O" data is output as a trailer section for 2 seconds. These data are sequentially transmitted to the C through the PP 112 and further through the cassette interface circuit 16.
After being input to the MT adapter 41 and converted into an analog audio signal, it is supplied to the data recorder 40 and recorded (recorded) on a cassette tape set in the recorder.

The recording format on the cassette tape at this time is 10th.
Shown in the figure.

In this way, line modification information, external character patterns, etc. are stored in the external data recorder 40, separated from the document information.

As mentioned above, printing can be stopped at any line position in the document to be printed, so for example, the number of characters that can be displayed at one time is greatly restricted, so it is possible to type out a part of the document and check or refer to it. If desired, these can be easily achieved with simple operations. In addition, by combining the above-mentioned line-by-line printing stop instruction and changing the setting of the document form after the stopped line, if the operator wants to change the print form in the middle of printing, or if the operator wants to change the print form from the line position in the middle of printing, When you want to print by changing the print ribbon color, or when you want to perform multi-column printing, or when you want to shift the printing position from the line position where it is in the middle of printing, or when you want to print a mixture of vertical and horizontal writing on a line by line basis. Various document modifications can be easily realized with simple operations.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, in a low-cost and compact document creation device with a small number of displayed character digits,
a line attribute setting means for setting an attribute including a print stop instruction for each line of a document; a line attribute storage means for storing attribute information set by the means in association with a line of the document; comprising: a print stop line search means for searching the print stop control means in the line attribute storage section in response to a print instruction; and a print stop control means for stopping printing at the line position searched by the print stop line search means; By selectively printing parts of any area of the output document up to the designated line position, it is possible to temporarily stop printing at any line during printing without the need for complicated operations. This allows the operator to intervene in the print operation at any line position during printing, allowing for changes such as partial printing of a specified line document area that cannot be displayed at once on the display, color printing, multi-column printing, etc. A wide variety of character decorations and document printing can be easily realized.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a device in one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a memory map in the RAM in the above embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a device in the above embodiment. Figures 4(a) to 4(e) showing the structure and contents of modification information.
) is a diagram showing various selection screens and their display order in the above embodiment, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the structure of the display screen in the above embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a line modification indicator in the above embodiment. 7 is a flowchart showing the print processing flow in the above embodiment. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the contents of the print menu and its display flow in the above embodiment. Figure 9! (a) to (e) are diagrams showing various modified character forms in the above embodiment, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the recording format of the data recorder in the above embodiment. 10...S 1111...CPU, 12...PP
I, 13...Decoder, 14・RAM, 15・RO
M116・#ty Toi'interface circuit, 17
... LCD control circuit, 18... Printer controller, 19... Clock generator, 20... Oscillator, 30... Keyboard, 40... Data recorder, 41... CMT adapter, 50...・LCD. 60... Serial printer, 140... Line image buffer, 141... Document buffer, 142... Line attribute buffer, 143... External character pattern buffer. Applicant's representative Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 2 Figure 7 Figure 8 (c) VH3σ3 (d) A11 ("l)! Figure 9 Procedures (method) 1. Patent application for indication of the case 1986-129229 No. 2, Invention title document preparation device 3, Relationship with the case of the person making the amendment Patent applicant (307) Toshiba Corporation 4, Agent 17th Mori, 1-26-5 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Building 〒1
05 Telephone 03 (502) 3181 (main representative)
7. Contents of the amendment (1) On page 28, line 10 of the specification, the words "Fig. 4 (a) to (e)" are corrected to "Fig. 4 (a) to (i)."

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A line attribute setting means for setting an attribute including a print stop instruction for each line of document information to be output, and a line attribute for displaying the content of the attribute information set by the line attribute setting means. a display means; a line attribute storage means for storing attribute information set by the line attribute setting means in association with lines of the document; and print stop instruction information in the line attribute storage section in response to an instruction to print the document. It is equipped with a print stop line search means for searching, and a print stop control means for stopping printing at the line position searched by the print stop line search means, and selectively selects any area of the output target document up to the specified line position. A document creation device characterized by partially printing. (2) After stopping printing at the line position searched by the print stop line search means, when a print instruction is given again, the next print stop line position or the end of the document starts from the line position following the stop line. Claim 1, which executes printing up to the line
Document production device described in Section 1.