JPS63188077A - Sentence preparing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate printing according to an arbitrary printing format, by a method wherein a means for detecting the printable region of a material to be printed ready to perform printing output is provided and the printable region of the material to be printed is preliminarily detected and a sentence is prepared at every printable region to perform printing output. CONSTITUTION:The index 27 in the longitudinal direction formed to the head 25 of a printer 23 is used to perform paper feed and the movement of the head 25 and matched with the position of the left upper corner Z0 of a printing region A to store said position. Continuously, the index 27 is matched with the position of the left lower corner Z1 of the printing region A to store said position. Further, the index 29 in the lateral direction of the head 25 is matched with a printing start position a0 to input said position. Thereafter, CPU 1 receives the registering order of a printing format and applies the index of the printing format relating to paper 101 to a paper format memory 11 to store the same. Then, the printing format is read from the memory 11 and, thereafter, a document ready to print is inputted. By this method, the printing according to an arbitrary printing format can be easily and accurately performed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a text creation device such as a word processor.

(Prior Art) With the development of microcomputers, printers, etc. in recent years, the development of so-called word processors has progressed rapidly, and at present they are on the verge of becoming popular even in general households.

By the way, word processors, which are rapidly becoming popular, need various useful applications in addition to functions that allow them to simply create and print sentences based on characters, symbols, etc., in order for them to become more widespread in a wide range of fields in the future. It is expected that sex will be required.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) For example, printing formats may vary depending on the owner of the word processor, the purpose of use, the field of use, etc., and printing according to each printing format may be appropriate. Being able to do so is an extremely useful feature. That is, with current word processors, when creating and printing a sentence on paper 101 whose print format is predetermined as shown in FIG. C)) It is necessary to create sentences paying attention to fit within each area, and when printing, it is necessary to create sentences that fit within each area ((A) ~
Each time printing starts on (C)), the print head of the printer is moved to the printing start position ((
It is necessary to perform manual pre-positioning in a state where there is no index so as to face aO) to (Co)). However, in addition to the time it takes to create text and print, there are issues that need to be improved, such as it is difficult to ensure perfection and printing errors are likely to occur, especially since positioning to the printing Og start position is time consuming. That's what I'm doing.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a text creation device that can easily and accurately print in accordance with any print format. .

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a text creation device that creates and prints out a text based on symbols including input character information, and the present invention is as shown in FIG. As shown, a print area detection means 51 detects a printable area on a printing medium to be printed, and a text composition means creates a sentence in a format corresponding to each detected printable area. 53, and a printing means 55 for printing the created text in a required printable area on the printing medium.

(Function) The text creation device according to the present invention has a means for detecting a printable area on a printing medium to be printed, and detects a printable area on the printing medium in advance. By creating and printing out text for each area, it is possible to support printing materials of any printing format.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the head 25 of the printer 23 is provided with visible indicators 27° 29 for reading the printing frame that constitutes the printing area of the paper. By detecting the print format of the paper in advance, it is possible to perform appropriate printing on paper of any print format. In addition, in FIG. 3, 31 is an ink ribbon cassette, and 33 is a cassette mounting stand.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a text creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The text creation device shown in the figure is applied to, for example, a Japanese word processor, and includes a CPU 1 consisting of a microprocessor or the like.
The entire operation is controlled by fIllrn, and bus 3 is connected to this CPU. This bus 3 includes a keyboard 19 for manually inputting text information and other information such as control information, a display 21 for displaying text information entered from the keyboard 19, and a display 2.
A printer 23 that prints the character information etc. displayed in 1.
are connected via interfaces 13, 15, and 17, respectively, and a program memory 5 that stores programs for the operation contents of the text creation device and word processor, and a font that stores fonts of symbols including characters. A memory 7, a document memory 9 for storing created documents, etc., and a paper format memory 11 for storing the print format of the detected paper are directly connected.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, assuming that printing is performed on the paper 101 shown in FIG. 1. Note that FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the flow of processing, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the operation section of the keyboard 19 (excluding a part of the numeric keypad).

First, after setting the paper 101 at a predetermined reference position in the printer 23 in order to detect the print format of the paper 101 to be printed, the user presses a required key indicating the start of the print format detection operation. CPLJl receives this key human power and performs steps 110 to 170.
(step 100).
).

First, the user feeds the paper and moves the head 25 by operating the necessary keys while looking at the vertical index 27 formed on the head 25 of the printer 23, and the index 27 is set in the printing order [
(For example, press "Space" at the top left corner ZO of A>.
After operating the keys to memorize this position, continue operating the paper feed keys (Key 2, Key 3) to move the paper 101 vertically (in the direction of the arrow in Figure 9) and mark the index 27 in the printing order. [Align with the lower left corner Z1 of (A)
Press the "Space" key to memorize this position. C.P.
U1 is a line segment Z that constitutes a print area (A) on paper 1°1 by such an operation.

Recognizing that there is a frame line al consisting of Zl, the frame line a
1. Memorize the position, length, etc. on the paper. Thereafter, the same data is inputted for the frame Fja2 of the print area (A) by the same operation (steps 110 and 120).

Furthermore, by moving the head 25, the user aligns the horizontal indicator 29 with the position aO where he/she wants to start printing the document in the print area (A>) and selects a "space".
This position is input by operating a key (steps 140 and 150).

Then, based on the position of the frame line al+82 and the print start position ag input through the operations in steps 110 to 1-40, the CPU 1 determines whether the paper 10
The existence, position, size, etc. of the printing area (Δ) in 1 are calculated (step 150). In this example, for ease of explanation, it is assumed that the print area is a rectangle, and the frames a3 and a4 for the print area (A) can be easily determined by cpui from the input data described above. Can be done.

Below, the user performs the same operation to print areas (B), )C.
) also for the frame line (b+, b2.C+.

C2) and the print start position (bo, co>), the CPU 1 can calculate the position, size, etc. of the print areas (B) and (C) respectively through similar processing, and as a result, Detection of the print format for the entire paper 101 is completed (steps 110 to 160). After this, CPU i receives a print format registration command from the user (for example, operation of the "Function 1" key (KeVl)) In response, the print format for the paper 101 is stored in the paper format memory 11 with a heading attached (step 170).

Therefore, from now on, when printing a document on the paper 101 in the print format shown in FIG. 9, it is sufficient to read the corresponding print format from the paper format memory 11 and then input the document to be printed. .

When inputting this document, the CPU 1 displays the read print format on the display 21, and also displays character information that is sequentially input in creating a document to be printed in each print area. If A), for example, it is formed according to the format of (m rows x n columns) (steps 180 and 190). As a result, the user does not have to worry about the printing format when inputting character information, and it is also possible to reduce the frequency of key operations.

If you want to change the document input area from the - printing area to another printing area while entering the page, for example, by operating the "page break" key (KeV4), the display 2
The cursor can be moved on the display screen of No. 1 to the printing start position in the print area to be changed.

After completing the document input as described above, the paper 101 is set at a predetermined reference position in the printer 23 and printing is started, as in the case of inputting the print format, so that the print format of the paper 101 is followed. The required document will be printed (step 200, 2
10).

Note that the calculation method of the print format is not limited to this embodiment, and may be changed as appropriate depending on the size, shape, etc. of the print area. It goes without saying that the data to be input will also change accordingly in response to this change.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a text creation device according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the feature is that an optical sensor 41 constituting a frame line detection section 43 for detecting the forest line constituting the print area of the paper is provided near the head 25 of the printer 23, and the document creation device The reason is that the printing area itself is automatically detected.

In FIG. 6, the system configuration is substantially the same as the configuration shown in FIG. 2 described above, except that a frame line detection section 43 is added.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained using the processing flowchart of the CPU 1 shown in FIG. 8, assuming the case where the print format of the paper 101 shown in FIG. 9 is detected.

When the paper 101 is set at a predetermined reference position in the printer 23 and the user performs a necessary key operation to instruct the start of print format detection, the CPLJl receives this and starts the following detection process (step 300). ).

Proceeding to step 310, the CPUI starts moving the set paper 101 in the direction of the arrow in FIG. Along with this movement, the optical sensor 41 detects the print area (A
) to (C) horizontal frame lines a3, a4. b3
, b4. (Since i3, c, are detected sequentially, the movement m of these frame lines from the movement start position is sequentially memorized, and after the movement, the paper 101 is returned to the initial position (step 31).
0-340).

Next, the CPU 1 sequentially moves the head 25 to intermediate positions of the frame lines detected in the above-described process, and sequentially moves the head 25 leftward and rightward based on each intermediate position. ! Vertical frame lines al and a2+bl in (A) to (C).

b2. c, , c2 is detected and the moving vJ group up to that point is detected (steps 350 to 410). Based on these data, the CPU 1 processes the paper 101.
The printing area from the start position of the movement.

The length of the vertical frame line can be found from the distance between the horizontal frame lines in It can be calculated as the length of the line, and as a result, each printing area (A) to (C
) on paper 101 for print format (
position, thickness, etc.) can be detected (step 420).

Note that in the processing from step 310 to step 410, when the head 25 is moved from an intermediate position between the horizontal frame lines that constitute different print areas, there is no vertical frame line to be detected. If so, the process immediately proceeds to the next two horizontal frame lines.

Thereafter, CPLJl stores the detected print format in the paper format memory 11, and reads it as appropriate when printing (step 430).

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the print format can be detected with less effort than in the above-described embodiments.

In this embodiment, the optical sensor 41 and the like are used to obtain data necessary for calculation of the print format. may be directly grasped as a type of image information.

Further, the calculation method of the print format is not limited to this embodiment, and may be changed as appropriate depending on the size, shape, etc. of the print area. It goes without saying that the data to be input by the optical sensor 41 etc. also changes in response to this change.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, there is a means for detecting a printable area on a printing medium to be printed, and the printable area on the printing medium is detected in advance, and the printable area is detected in advance. By creating and printing out sentences for each printout, it is possible to correspond to printing materials of any printing format, so printing according to any printing format can be performed easily and accurately.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a claim correspondence diagram, FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of a text creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a partial configuration of the text creation device shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 4 goes to processing flowchart 1 for explaining the operation of FIG.
Figure 5 is a diagram showing the keyboard of the text creation device in Figure 2;
FIG. 6 is a system configuration diagram of a text creation device according to another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a partial configuration of the text creation device of FIG. 6, and FIG. FIG. 9 is a processing flowchart for explaining the operation shown in FIG. 9, and is a diagram showing an example of a printing medium.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A text creation device that creates and prints out a text based on symbols including input character information, which detects a printable area on a printing medium to be printed. means, text composition means for creating a text in a format corresponding to each detected printable area, and printing for printing the created text in a required printable area on the printing medium. A text creation device characterized by having means.