JPS63109070A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document editing device capable of appropriately displaying a document together with information on a printing color, by displaying a code or character representing a designated printing color, at least one boundary of a character string displayed on a monochromatic display means. CONSTITUTION:A document editing device displays a character string constituting a document being inputted and edited on a monochromatic display means M1. When a printing color is designated by a printing color designating means M2, a code or character representing the designated printing color is displayed at least one boundary of the character string, together with the character string, on the monochromatic display means M1 by a color boundary displaying means M3. Therefore, in the document editing device provided with a printing function, each of the character strings constituting the document being edited is displayed on the monochromatic display means M1 together with the code or character representing the designated printing color, which is displayed at least one boundry of the character string.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document editing device, and more particularly to a document editing device equipped with a printing function.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of document editing device uses a monitor television capable of displaying multiple colors (colors) to display characters, etc. in a color-specified area in color for each character. Multicolor printing is performed using a printing device, such as a color thermal transfer printer using a multicolor ribbon, a color inkjet printer, or a color laser printer.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] However, using a color monitor television,
Problems have arisen in that the device becomes large and loses portability, requires a large installation space, and also increases power consumption and manufacturing costs. Therefore, in recent years, various document editing devices have been provided that use liquid crystals or EL panels as display means, with an emphasis on portability.However, at present, these display means generally have a monochrome display. , colored ones have not yet become widespread due to low yield and manufacturing costs.

The present invention has been made with the aim of solving these problems, and is intended to provide a document editing device with a multicolor printing function without using a color monitor TV or the like.
An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing device that can suitably display documents together with information regarding print colors.

[Means for solving the problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following configuration as a means for solving the problems. That is, as illustrated in FIG. 1, a document editing device having a monochrome display means M1 for displaying a character string constituting a document to be input/edited in a monochrome color, and a printing function for printing the document is used. a print color specifying means M2 for specifying the print color of the displayed character string; and a code or character representing the specified print color for at least one of the character strings displayed on the monochrome display means M1. This is the configuration of a document editing device characterized in that it is equipped with a color boundary display means M3 for displaying at the boundary.

[Function] The document editing device of the present invention having the above configuration displays the character strings constituting the document to be input/edited on the monochrome display means M1, but when the print color is specified by the print color specifying means M2, the color boundary The display means M3 displays a code or character representing the designated print color on at least one boundary of the character string on the monochrome display means M1 together with the character string. Therefore,
In a document editing device equipped with a printing function, each character string constituting a document is displayed with a monochrome display means M along with a code or character representing a designated print color on at least one boundary thereof.
1 is displayed.

[Embodiment] In order to further clarify the configuration of the present invention described above, a document editing device as a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described next. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a schematic structure of this document editing device, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing its electrical structure.

As shown in the figure, the document editing device of this embodiment includes a keyboard 2 with various keys arranged, a monochrome liquid crystal panel 3 that allows the angle of the display surface to be set freely, and a color printer 4 that prints documents in multiple colors. .

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 3, inside this document editing device there is an electronic control device 1 configured as an arithmetic and logic operation circuit.
0 is included. The electronic control unit 10 includes a well-known CPU 1. ROM12. In addition to the RAM 13, there are a keyboard input circuit 14 for inputting keys from the keyboard 2, a line memory 15 for storing contents to be displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3, an intelligent printer control circuit 16 for controlling data input/output with the color printer 4, etc. are provided, and these are interconnected via a bus 17. Furthermore, a panel drive circuit 18 that reads the contents of the line memory 15 and displays characters, etc. on the liquid crystal panel 3 is also incorporated.

As shown in Fig. 2, the keyboard 2 connected to the keyboard input circuit 14 has normal character keys 21 corresponding to the characters to be input, as well as keys for converting kana to kanji, copying and deleting character strings, etc. Function keys 22 for instructing editing operations, etc., a print color specification key 24 (key stamped with "color" in FIG. 2) for specifying the print color of characters to be input/edited,
Furthermore, cursor keys 26 and the like for instructing movement of the cursor on the liquid crystal panel 3 are provided. Therefore, the CPU
11, key images from the keyboard 2 can be input via the keyboard circuit 14. The CPU II performs processing such as displaying character strings in response to instructions from the keyboard 2.

On the other hand, the liquid crystal panel 3 is connected to the above-mentioned panel drive circuit 18, and as shown in FIG. 2, is a large-sized panel that displays 40 characters by 6 lines.

The characters to be displayed are stored in line memory 1 by the CPU 11.
5, the contents are read out cyclically by the panel drive circuit 18 and displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3. The liquid crystal panel 3 has an area for displaying input characters and a color display character area for indicating the print color, as well as a guidance line (lowermost row) for displaying the status of editing operations, explanations of next operations, etc. . In addition, on the right-slanted front glass of the liquid crystal panel 3, there is a pattern “・
” is displayed.

The color printer 4 incorporated in the document editing device is of a type that thermally transfers ink from an ink ribbon 41 stored in a ribbon cartridge 40 onto printing paper 44 using a thermal head 43. It is possible to print in three colors of green. The ink ribbon 41 has black, red, blue, and green solid ink pigments coated in sequence on a ribbon base. An optical sensor 45 is incorporated in the ribbon cartridge 43.
The color of the pigment in the area fed to the thermal head 43 can be identified. Therefore, by sending the print data from the CPU 117'F to the intelligent printer control circuit 16 together with a control code for printing such as a color control code, the printer control circuit 16 also controls the feeding of the ink ribbon 41 and prints the specified color. The document can be printed on the printing paper 44 using the steps shown in FIG. The color printer 4 includes a head transport motor 48 that transports a carriage 47 carrying a thermal head 43 and a ribbon cartridge 40 in the paper width direction, a paper feed motor 52 that transports printing paper 44 through a platen 50, and furthermore, is provided with a ribbon winding motor 54 etc. that controls the winding of the ink ribbon 41 mentioned above,
All of them are connected to the printer control circuit 16, but since these controls are well known, the explanation will be omitted.

The document editing device having the above configuration includes an electronic control device 10
The following input/output processing is performed according to a procedure (program) stored in the ROM 12 in advance.

(1) Keyboard 2 via keyboard input circuit 14
(2) Display the specified range of the document consisting of the input string on the liquid crystal panel 3. (3) A process of outputting a control code related to print color and data of characters to be printed to the printer control circuit 16 to print the document in multiple colors. The CPU 11 transfers necessary data etc. to the bus 1.
ROM12.7 via ROM12.7. RAM13. line memory 15
．． Keyboard input circuit 14. It communicates with the printer control circuit 16 and the like to perform control for realizing the above processing.

Controls such as winding up the ink ribbon 41 and feeding the necessary colored parts to the thermal head 43, transporting the carriage 47, and feeding the printing paper 44 are based on control codes sent from the CPU 11. Intelligent printer control circuit 16 is processing. Further, the line memory 15 is for storing characters and the like displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3 in the form of dot patterns, and the panel drive circuit 18 is for displaying the contents of the line memory 15 on the liquid crystal panel 3 as they are. That is, the display on the liquid crystal panel 3 is performed using a so-called bitmap display method.

Next, among the processes performed in the above-mentioned electronic control device 10, particularly the character input display process that involves designation of a print color will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the document editing apparatus of this embodiment is powered on, a document to be input/edited is opened, and a character input mode is entered, the character input display routine shown in FIG. 4 is executed. In addition, immediately after the document editing device is started, as shown in Fig. 5 (A>
As shown in the figure, no document is displayed on the LCD panel 3, and half-width spaces as a color display character area and full-width spaces as an input character area are displayed alternately. The color display character "Kuru" is displayed in the first half-width space, and "." is added at the "black" position in the right frame of the liquid crystal panel 3.

First, wait until there is some key force from the keyboard 2 (step 100), and if there is any key force, it is determined whether or not it is a color change instruction using the print color designation key 24 (step 110). .

If the key entered via the keyboard input circuit 14 is not the print color designation key 24, then a determination is made as to whether or not the character string is confirmed (step 120). This document editing device converts the input in kana characters into kanji, and after determining the desired character string, it converts it into kanji and converts it into text.
AM'13, and the characters before confirmation are displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3 as inverted characters. If a new character is input while the character string remains unconfirmed, one character is added to the unconfirmed character string, the character is reversed, and the input is sent to the line memory 15 and displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3. (Figure 5(B)).

On the other hand, if the character string is confirmed by pressing the confirm key, etc., a process is performed to display the confirmed character string (step 140) (see FIG. 5(C)). Furthermore, when a character string is inputted continuously without changing the print color after the character string has been determined, the character string is determined in the same manner with the leading half-width space left blank. After the processing of steps 130 to 140 explained above, rNEXTJ can be handled, and this routine is temporarily ended.

Next, the case where the print color designation key 24 is pressed will be explained. A key input is accepted (step 1.00), and if it is the print color designation key 24, it is determined that the color has been changed (step 110), and the processes from step 150 onwards are performed. That is, change the text color specification control code (step 150), change the print color display on the right end of the liquid crystal panel 3 (step 160), and then insert the specified color display character in the half-width space at the beginning of the input character string. Display (step 170).

Each time the print color specification key 24 is pressed, the print color is specified.
Since the color changes in the order of "black" → "red" → "blue" → "green" → "black," the user can specify the desired print color by pressing this key 24 as appropriate. The pattern "." indicating the print color moves sequentially each time the key 24 is pressed once, and the color display character of the specified print color is displayed in the first half-width space where the next character string is input. For example, when the print color specification key 24 is pressed once from a state where the print color is black, the display "・" moves to the left of the character "red" and the color display character "red" is displayed in the half-width space. . This situation is shown in FIG. 5(D).

The input character string is highlighted (steps 120 and 130) as in the case of the print color "black" (see Fig. 5).
(see E)), once confirmed, it is displayed in the normal state (steps 120 and 140>. This state is shown in Figure 5 (F), and as shown in the figure, the input character is Since it is displayed together with "red" displayed in the half-width space, it is possible to easily know the color printed by the color printer 4 while using the liquid crystal panel 3 that displays a medium color. When changing the print color of a character string, the range can be specified using the cursor keys 26, and the print color can be changed using the print color specification key 24. Therefore, the document editing device of this embodiment can For example, the printed color of characters can be clearly displayed using the thin monochrome liquid crystal panel 3, and while the multicolor printing function is fully utilized, portability can also be fully satisfied. Since the document editing device of this embodiment displays the printed color on the monochrome liquid crystal panel 3, the display means can be enlarged, and this is combined with the adoption of a configuration (tilt panel) that allows the angle to be freely changed. This makes it easier to visually check documents.
The usability of document input and editing can be greatly improved.

In this embodiment, the color display characters corresponding to the print colors are determined in advance, but the configuration is such that they can be defined by the user, and the color code corresponding to the color display characters (for example, "
"red" is defined as "52") may be displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3.

Further, the color display character area may be either half-width or full-width, or it may be displayed so as to overlap one character at the end of the character string without providing any special area. Furthermore, it is also possible to provide areas at both ends of the character string and express the color with the characters displayed in both areas. In this embodiment, a half-width space is provided at the left end of each character as a color display character area, but a half-width space may be provided to display color display characters only when changing the print color.

Although a liquid crystal panel is used in the embodiment as a monochrome display means, other means such as an EL panel or a plasma display may be used.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment. For example, a configuration in which a printing device (color printer) is separated from a text editing device, or a configuration in which the printing color is Furthermore, it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various ways without departing from the spirit of the present invention, such as a configuration with multiple colors, for example, seven colors.

1 gram of gas As described in detail, the document editing device of the present invention has the extremely excellent effect of being able to clearly display the printed colors of characters constituting a document using a monochrome display means. Therefore, the display section can be easily enlarged, and it is also easy to achieve both multicolor printing function and portability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the basic configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the schematic configuration of a document editing device as an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the electrical system thereof. , FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a character input display routine in the embodiment, and FIG. 5 (A> to F) is an explanatory diagram showing display examples. 2...Keyboard 3...LCD panel 4...
・Color printer 10...Electronic control unit 24...
Print color specification key 40... Ribbon cartridge 41... Ink ribbon 43... Thermal head 4
4...Print paper

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A document editing device comprising monochrome display means for displaying character strings constituting a document to be input/edited in a single color, and a printing function for printing the document, wherein the displayed a print color specifying means for specifying a print color of a character string; and a color boundary display means for displaying a code or character representing the specified print color on at least one boundary of the character string displayed on the monochrome display means. A document editing device comprising: