JPS63141760A - Printing control system of vertical writing document - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate printing disturbance at the time of vertical writing printing, by providing a conversion table constituted so that one code of a rule character is judged from the character codes of a header region and/or a footer region and, when the rule character code is discovered, said rule character code is converted to a rule character code rotated by 90 deg. to the left. CONSTITUTION:The document of a header/footer region and the document of the text are stored in a reading memory 15. The character code of the header/footer region to be printed together with the text is sent out to a conversion table 14 at every one character. A rule character code is preliminarily stored in the conversion table and it is searched whether this code coincides with the sent code. when the code is present on the table as the result of searching, the code corresponding to a rule character code preliminarily rotated by 90 deg. to the left is outputted to a printer driver 22. Since vertical writing printing is preliminarily indicated to the printer driver 22, a pattern wherein a character excepting the rule character code is rotated by 90 deg. is formed while a pattern generator 23 is used and sent out to a printer 24 to perform printing.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] A document created in horizontal writing can be printed with 90 characters excluding ruled lines.
A Japanese document creation device that creates a vertical document by rotating the header/footer area by 90 degrees.Vertical writing allows printing correction of the ruled lines in the header/footer area by rotating only the ruled line characters in the header/footer area by 90 degrees. Document printing control method.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a print control method for vertical printing in a document creation function of a Japanese document creation device, a personal computer, or the like.

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, document creation functions in word processors and the like have been installed not only in devices dedicated to document creation, but also in terminal devices, office computers, and the like, and are being widely used.

On the other hand, the document creation function creates documents in horizontal writing in most cases due to computer processing limitations. However, there are still cases where documents are written vertically in books, manuscript papers, documents submitted to government offices, etc., and it is necessary to print documents created horizontally in vertical writing.

In such a case, it is desired that the printed output be obtained in the same way as a document created in vertical writing from the beginning.

[Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention] Regarding the case of printing a conventional horizontally written document in vertically written form, for example, the r
The following method is generally adopted, as described in the New Edition: All Latest Editions of Word Processors.

When a horizontally written document is printed vertically, the printed characters are rotated 90 degrees, but even if a horizontally written document is printed vertically, a small problem actually occurs.

In particular, for ruled line characters, if the ruled lines are rotated 90 degrees and printed, the frame, etc. will not be printed continuously, so in general, character codes such as predetermined ruled lines should not be rotated. vertical writing control.

Therefore, when printing a horizontally written document vertically, special characters such as ruled lines are printed without being rotated 90 degrees, and only general characters are printed with 90 degrees rotated.

In addition, when creating a document, apart from the created document,
A header/footer is provided as a function to print annotations, titles, etc. to be added to the document on each page to be printed.

Generally, such a header/footer is printed horizontally even in vertical printing.

Further, unlike a created document, the header/footer stores a document to be printed as a header/footer together with, for example, a formatting screen.

This example is shown in FIG. 4 as an example of document creation.

In the figure, 1 represents a header area, 2 represents a created document, 3 represents a bladder area, and a character area 4 surrounded by a broken line represents one character area.

Originally, the created document 2, header area 1, and bladder area 3 are created on separate screens, but for convenience of explanation, they are shown together.

FIG. 5 shows an example in which the created document shown in FIG. 4 is printed vertically using a conventional document printing method.

That is, when vertical printing is performed, the header area 1 is printed horizontally above the vertically written document 2, and the bladder area 3 is printed horizontally above the vertically written document 2.
It is printed horizontally at the bottom of the vertically written document 2. For this purpose, the three characters at the right end of the header area 1 created in Fig. 4 and the created document 2 are used as print data for the printing device.
The 16 characters of the top line and the 3 characters from the right end of bladder area 3 are output to the printer as one line of print data, and then the 3 characters from the second line from the right end of header area 1, and the created document. The 16 characters on the second line of 2 and the 3 characters on the second line from the right end of the bladder area 3 are output to the printer as one line of print data.

Thereafter, the data will be output sequentially in the above order.

On the printer side, since a vertically written document is specified in advance, characters other than ruled line characters are rotated 90 degrees and printed out.

What should be noted in the example of the print output result shown in FIG. 5 is the result of printing ruled line characters in the header area 1 and bladder area 2.

As is clear from this print result, the ruled lines in header area 1 and bladder area 3 are originally designed to be printed horizontally, so if they are simply output as print data, the order in which the print data is output to the printer may be changed. As a result, when viewed as a vertically written document, the document is essentially in the same state as if it had been rotated by 90 degrees, and there was a drawback that accurate ruled line printing could not be performed.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above drawbacks, in the present invention, before outputting to the printer, the ruled line character code is determined from the character codes in the header area and bladder area, and if the ruled line character code exists, the character code is The character code is converted into a character code with ruled lines rotated 90 degrees before being output to the printer.

To this end, in the present invention, the code of a ruled line character is determined from among the codes of characters in the header area and/or bladder area, and when a ruled line character code is found, the ruled line character code is rotated 90 degrees to the left. A conversion table is provided for converting to ruled line character code and outputting it.

[Effect]

By providing a conversion table, the header area and/or
Or, since the ruled line character code is detected from the character code in the Mazda area, the code is converted to a code rotated 90 degrees to the left, and then output to the printer.
Even in vertical printing when there are ruled lines in the header/floating area, it is possible to eliminate disturbances in the print result.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a detailed explanatory diagram of the present invention.

In the figure, 10 indicates a computer main body having a document creation function, and the computer main body 10 includes a processor 12 that performs overall control, a program memory 13 that stores programs for operating the processor, and document creation and printing. A memory 15 is a work area for creating data, etc.; a keyboard display control unit 16 is used to control a display 20 and a keyboard 21 for a document creator to create a document in conversation with the computer main body; A floppy driver 17 performs input/output control with a floppy disk device 19 in which documents and programs for operating a computer are stored, and a printer driver 22 transmits print data and control information for printing.
It is composed of a driver 18 for outputting to.

Further, in the case of a workstation, etc., a channel control mechanism for connecting to a host computer is also provided.

The printer driver 22 receives control information such as print format such as vertical/horizontal printing, character spacing and line spacing from the computer main body 10, and print data, and generates code data while referring to the pattern generator 23. , and converts it into pattern data and sends it to the printer 24.

When the computer body 1O is instructed to create a document based on the specification from the keyboard 21, it executes a program for creating the document based on the contents of the program memory 13, and the creator inputs from the keyboard 21. The displayed character strings are sequentially stored in the memo 5 and displayed on the display 20.
Create the document while displaying the screen.

As a method for creating this document, a generally well-known method such as a kana-kanji conversion method or a kanji input method is adopted.

Regarding the documents for the header area and the Mazda area, the documents for the header area and the Mazda area are created separately from the main text based on the specifications from the keyboard 21, and are stored in the memory.

Therefore, on the memory 15, the main text document and the header and Mazda area documents are stored separately. (Refer to the document creation example in Figure 4.) When the text creation is complete,
In response to a command from the keyboard 21, a program termination routine completes the process of writing the document including the header and Mazda area created on the memory into the floppy disk device 19 via the floppy driver 17.

Next, the case of printing the created document will be explained along with the operational flowchart of the embodiment shown in FIG.

In the present invention, a conversion table 14 is provided in the computer main body 10 for determining a ruled line character code and converting the ruled line character code into a ruled line character code rotated 90 degrees to the left.

■ to ■ in the flowchart of FIG. 2 are symbols for referring to the operations of each step.

The steps below are the flow for printing a document created in horizontal writing in vertical writing.

Step (2): When printing, print format, and document are specified from the keyboard 21, a print control program is started, and the header area,
The document in the footer area and the document in the main text are read and stored in the memo January 5.

For the printer, control information for specifying the print format is sent to the printer driver 22 via the driver 18 in advance.
Send to.

Step (2): The data (character code) for one printer line of the main text of the document excluding the next header/footer is transferred to a predetermined line buffer area of the memory 15 and stored.

Step (2) In step (2), the main text stored in the line buffer area and the character code of the header/footer area to be printed in In are sent to the conversion table 14 one character at a time.

Steps ■, ■, ■ In the conversion table, first, all codes corresponding to the character codes of ruled lines are stored in the table in advance, and this code and the code sent in step ■ Search for a match.

As a result, if the code does not exist on the table, it is not a ruled line character code, so that character code is stored as is in a predetermined storage area of the line buffer.

Also, if the search result code exists on the table,
Since the code corresponding to the ruled line character code rotated 90 degrees to the left is stored in correspondence, that code is output.

Step (2): Determine whether the reference to the code in the header/footer area for one line has been completed, and repeat steps (2) to 6 until the reference is completed.

When finished, proceed to the next step.

Step (2) In this state, the line buffer has all the character codes for one line, so in this state, the character codes for one line are output to the printer driver 22.

Step (2) The processes of (1) to (2) above are repeated until one document is completed, and the process ends when all lines of code have been output.

Since vertical printing is specified in advance in the printer driver 22, the pattern generator 2 generates a pattern resulting from rotating 90 degrees for characters other than ruled line character codes.
3, and is sent line by line to the printing device 24 for printing.

FIG. 3 shows an example in which the created horizontally written document shown in FIG. 4 is printed out using the method of the present invention.

As can be seen from a comparison with the conventional document print output example shown in FIG. 5, the ruled lines in the header and border areas are printed without any blurring.

〔Effect of the invention〕

In this invention, the code of the ruled line character in the header/fusoda area is forcibly converted to a code rotated by 90 degrees, so it is possible to eliminate the misalignment of the printed part during vertical printing. I can do it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a detailed explanatory diagram of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an operational flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an example of outputting a vertically written document according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is an example of document creation using horizontal writing. , FIG. 5 is an example of conventional vertical document output. In the figure, 1 is a header area, 2 is a created document, 3 is a footer area, IO is a computer body, 12 is a processor, 13 is a program 14 is a conversion table; 15 is a memory; 16 is a keyboard display control; 17 is a processor driver; 18 is a driver; 19 is a floppy disk HH1; 20 is a display; 21 is a keyboard; , a printer driver, 23 a pattern generator, and 23 a printing device, respectively.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Japanese for printing a document vertically by creating a header and/or footer area and a document in horizontal writing, and then rotating the characters in the document excluding ruled line characters by 90 degrees and printing the document in vertical writing. A document creation device that determines whether characters in the header and/or footer area are ruled line characters, and if the result of this determination is that there are ruled line characters, a character code corresponding to a ruled line rotated by 90 degrees. 1. A printing control method for a vertically written document, characterized in that a conversion table (14) is provided for outputting a conversion table (14), and ruled line characters existing in a header and/or footer area are printed after being rotated by 90 degrees.