JPS62279956A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve quality of combination printing of a basic character and a sectional phonetic symbol character, by obtaining an offset quantity of sectional phonetic symbol character patterns from an offset table then moving the sectional phonetic symbol character pattern vartically by said offset quantity and performing the printing. CONSTITUTION:Received data are inspected at a printer control section 2, and if it has been specified to synthesize a character with a back space code or a code sequence for designating the horizontal printing position, an offset table 4 is inspected. Said offset table 4 contains a basic character code, a sectional phonetic symbol character code and an offset quantity ho. The printer control section 2 obtains the offset quantity ho from the offset table 4 then takes out the basic character pattern 6 and the sectional phonetic symbol character pattern 7 from a character pattern section 5 thereafter shifts the sectional phonetic symbol character pattern vertically by the offset quantity ho. Then the sectional phonetic symbol character pattern is ORed with the basic character pattern and outputted to a print mechanism section 3.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] 3. Detailed Description of the Invention Technical Field The present invention relates to a printer device that receives data from a host device and prints it, and in particular, prints data separately from basic characters by park space code or horizontal print position designation. The present invention relates to a blinking device having a function of synthesizing a phonetic note character.

i Rice Dan I Conventionally, when this type of printer synthesizes basic characters and piecemeal diacritic characters such as umlauts and acute accents using backstrip codes or horizontal print position designation food sequences, the printer prints the piecemeal characters after printing the basic characters. The diacritic characters were printed at the same position, or the character pattern of the basic characters and the character pattern of the diacritic characters were logically ORed and output to the printing mechanism.

In the above-mentioned conventional printer, the combined print result is a pattern that is the logical sum of the basic character pattern and the diacritic character pattern, so for example, the basic character is an uppercase rAJ, and the diacritic character is an umlaut. In the case of
There is a drawback that the vertical position of the umlaut does not change when the basic character is a lowercase raJ and the diacritic character is an umlaut. In other words, although the vertical position of the sectional diacritic character pattern should change to an appropriate position depending on the combination of the basic character and the sectional diacritic character,
The disadvantage is that it does not change.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a printer device that can correctly print composite characters formed by combining basic characters and segmented note characters.

Composition of the Invention According to the present invention, there is an interface unit that receives data from a host device, a character pattern generation unit that generates a character pattern received by the interface unit, and a basic character code and a divisional note character received by the interface unit. There is obtained a printer device characterized in that it is equipped with an offset table that indicates the amount of onset with respect to the character pattern of the subdivisional note when combining it with the code and printing it, and a printing mechanism that prints according to the character pattern.

Embodiment Next, the present invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the drawings showing an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, when data is transmitted from a host device, this data is received by an interface unit 1. At this time, the printer control unit 2
This data is checked in , and if it is specified that characters are to be combined with a backspace code or a horizontal print position designation code sequence, the offset table 4 is checked. This offset table 4 stores the basic character code, the segmented starting note character code, and an offset ah0, and the offset ff1h0 is the segmented starting note character pattern 7, as shown in FIG. This is the amount of difference between the target printing result 8 and the printing position of the categorical note character.

The printer control unit 2 obtains an offset lh from the offset table 4. After obtaining the basic character pattern 6 and the segmented note character pattern 7 from the character pattern section 5,
The segmented starting note character pattern is vertically shifted by the offset amount h0, and the result is logically summed with the basic character pattern and output to the printing mechanism section 3. In this way, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, the combination of the basic pattern 6 and the segmented starting note character pattern 7 offsets the segmented starting note character pattern 7 ah. A print result 8 is obtained which is shifted by the same amount.

As described in detail, the present invention obtains from an offset table the amount of offset of the character pattern for the character to be printed by combining the character for the character for the character to be printed by combining the character for the character for the character for the character to be printed, and prints the character for the character for the character by the offset amount. By printing the musical note character pattern by moving it in the vertical direction, it is possible to improve the print quality of composite printing of basic characters and segmented musical note characters.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing printing results according to this embodiment. Explanation of symbols of main parts 1...Interface section 2...Printer control section ・3...
・Printing mechanism section 4...Offset table 5...Character pattern generation section Fig. 1 Fig. 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] An interface unit that receives data from a host device, a character pattern generation unit that generates character patterns received by the interface unit, and a unit that combines the basic character code and diacritic character code received by the interface unit for printing. What is claimed is: 1. A printer device comprising: an offset table that indicates an onset amount for a sectional diacritic character pattern; and a printing mechanism that prints in accordance with the character pattern.