JPS6328660A - Document preparation apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To feed a line and print characters with the lower end position of printed characters fitted entirely to a lateral rule by constituting the title apparatus so that a line pitch is always allowed to correspond to a lateral rule and at the same time, the upper end position of a printing head may be set to a feed line at a position obtained by subtracting the vertical character size of printed characters from the lower end of the line beforehand. CONSTITUTION:When an enlarged character 33a exists, a lower subdivision printing process is performed at a printing position P2 following the upper subdivision printing of the enlarged character 33a a printing position P1, if the vertical character size Y0 of the enlarged character 33a is larger than the vertical width H of a printing head 31. Further the lower end position of the printed character is allowed to be printed at a position which meets a lateral rule corresponding to the initialization position of the printing head 31. Next, if the printing of a single line of an enlarged character pattern is completed, the upper end position of the printing head 31 is set to a feed line at a position obtained by subtracting the vertical size Y1 of an enlarged character 33b to be printed from the lower end of an interlinear space G of a following line. Then the enlarged character 33b is printed at its lower end position, fitted to a lateral rule 32.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Purpose of J1 Ming] (Industrial field of application) The present invention, when printing including enlarged characters, aligns the lower edge position of the print with the horizontal ruled lines of the printing paper and performs a print line break. The present invention relates to a document creation device having a printing function.

(Prior art) For example, when using paper such as report paper on which horizontal lines are preprinted, in order to perform printing that aligns the print lines with the horizontal lines, as shown in FIG. 5 (A), , the position of the print head 31 of the printer (in this case, the lower end position of the head)
It is necessary for the operator to set it visually while maintaining a constant relative distance d from the horizontal ruled line 32. In this case, as shown in FIG. 5(B), the printed characters are enlarged characters 33
, if the print head 31 is aligned in the same way as in the case of printing the basic size characters, the enlarged characters 3
3 corresponds to the printing width of the print head 31 from the top,
Since line feeds are printed sequentially as shown by arrow a, the lower end portion protrudes below the horizontal line 32.

In other words, as shown in FIG. 6, if the initial setting position or line feed position of the print head 31 is always the same regardless of the size of the enlarged character 33, the upper end line U of each character 33 and the upper horizontal ruled line 32 Although the interval rJ4t is kept constant,
The distance d between the lower edge of the character and the horizontal line 32 is variable, and the horizontal line 32 is relative to the lower edge of the print head 31 set at the beginning of printing.
The distance do is not maintained at all.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention is advantageous in that when performing Bunji-in printing including enlarged characters, for example, the printing position with respect to the horizontal ruled line of the paper does not differ depending on the printing line, and the bottom edge of all printed characters is printed. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can easily print line breaks with the position aligned with horizontal rules.

[Structure 1 of the Invention (Means and Effects for Solving Problems) That is, the document creation device according to the present invention includes a line pitch register for managing enlarged character information corresponding to each text line in a document area, and a line pitch register that is set in advance. Basics (a basic line pitch register that manages the rabitch, a character bottom position calculation means that calculates the vertical character size of the next line print character based on the enlarged character information managed by the line modification register, and a character bottom position a line pitch determining means that sets the line pitch to a minimum integral multiple of the basic line pitch managed by the basic line pitch register, which exceeds the vertical character size of the next line of printed characters obtained by the calculation means, and printing an enlarged character pattern; The enlarged character division printing means divides and prints by the vertical width of the head, and the ?I printing means prints an enlarged character pattern for one line, and then prints the lower end of the next line of characters based on the line pitch determined by the line pitch determining means. a character lower end position calculating means for calculating the position, and a character lower end position of the next line obtained from the print head am after printing one line by the character lower end position calculating means, and subtracting the vertical character size of the next line printed character. a line feed amount calculation means for calculating the line feed amount up to the line feed position, and a line feed ill tl1 means for changing the printing position of the print head based on the line feed amount obtained by the line feed a calculation means, is always made to correspond to horizontal ruled lines, and the upper end position of the print head is set to a line break at a position obtained by subtracting the vertical character size of the printed characters from the lower end of the line pitch.

(Actual example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment. In FIG. 1, a microprocessor (CPU) 10 is a circuit that controls the entire document creation device, and executes document creation processing, custom character creation processing, printing processing, etc. A RAM 11 is used for branch creation. This is a memory that stores various necessary information.This RA~1
111, the sentence m area that stores the created branch, the line image area (print buffer), the external character registration area (external character (84 ward 01
points) ~ (16 points in 84 wards)), word registration area (word (1)
- (10)), a character pitch register for printing format settings, a line pitch register, a center line spacing pitch register, a page line number register, and other various control information are stored in the area. Here, in the above document area, the created document is stored in its original creation style, and each sentence in this branch area is stored.
A line decoration register is provided corresponding to each line. This line decoration register stores the magnification value when the corresponding sentence's own line is stored as an enlarged character, and this enlarged character information is read out by the CPU 10 when printing the created writing, etc., and is used as printing system information of the printer controller 24, which will be described later.ROM 12
is a program section 3 that stores a document creation processing program, a print processing program, etc. that determines the operation of the CPU 10;
, a character pattern area 14 for storing specific character patterns such as display or print character patterns, and a dictionary area ll1t15 for storing various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or romaji into kanji. are doing.

The keyboard (KB>16) is a key-powered device for inputting input information necessary for document creation etc. to the CPU 10 through the keyboard controller (KB-CNT) 17.

The keyboard 16 includes Hiragana keys and Kana/Fg4 conversion keys necessary for document creation, as well as print mode designation keys, selection/execution keys, end keys, numeric keys, and the like. The display device f18 is, for example, a liquid crystal display device with 10 lines and 401fi display. Display controller (display-CN
T) 19 performs display control on the display 18 using the CPU 1017) illIO grin display V-RA~120. A floppy disk device (FDD) 21 and a disk controller (FDD-CNT) 22 constitute an external memory that stores created documents and stores external characters, second level characters, etc. in advance.

Printer (PRT) 23 and printer controller (P
RT-CNT) 24 constitutes a printing device for printing created correspondence or character information read into the main body from the floppy disk device 21 in accordance with printing control by the CPU 10. Here, the print controller 24 is equipped with a line feed control section 24a and a print control section 24b, and the printer 2
3 printing operation and modified i':i operation! 1 crime.

In this case, the character pitch and line pitch of the printed characters in the mark 81 process are multiples (X, Y) given by the following formulas (1) and (2), and are the basic character pitch and line pitch in the print format settings, respectively. It is determined that the pitch is an integer multiple of the pitch.

Character pitch magnification <X> = 1 horizontal character size/basic character pitch + 11 ... Formula (1) Line pitch magnification (Y) -
1 vertical character size/basic line pitch + 11...
Equation (2) However, 11 means rounding down to the decimal point.

In other words, the above character pitch magnification (X) and line pitch magnification (
Y) are both given by the minimum integer R1i obtained by adding "1" to the ratio of the printed character size to the basic pitch. Here, the vertical character size and horizontal character size of the printed characters are calculated by the CPU 10 based on enlarged character information managed in the row rA decoration register in RAMII.

The line feed control section 24a and the print control section 24b are each equipped with a line counter for managing the number of lines printed in the printer 23, a print line pointer for managing the lines of the printed document within the document area to be printed, and the like.

Next, the operation of printing a document including enlarged characters by the document creation device configured as described above will be described.

First, set this device to print mode, for example, and enter the basic character pitch according to the vertical ruled interval of the paper and the basic line pitch according to the horizontal ruled interval by setting the mark @ format, and then select/execute. When the key is operated, the document line within the document area specified by the print line pointer is read out from RAMII to the printer controller 24. Here, cpui
o determines whether there is expanded character information in the line decoration register corresponding to the 3 lines of the read sentence. After checking the expanded character information in the line decoration register, the process corresponds to the flowchart shown in FIG. Document printing processing is performed as shown in FIG.

First, in step S1, CPUl0
Based on the enlarged character information in the decoration register, the vertical character size Yo of the enlarged character 33a corresponding to the character magnification value is calculated. Then, in step S2, the step S
It is determined whether or not the vertical character size YO of the enlarged character 33a obtained by the calculation process in step 1 exceeds the vertical width H of the print head 31. In this step S2, (YE
S), that is, when it is determined that the entire enlarged character 33a cannot be printed in one printing operation with the printing width H of the print head 31, the process proceeds to the enlarged character division printing process from step S3 onwards. In step S3, the CPU 10 subtracts the vertical width H of the print head 31 from the vertical character size YO of the enlarged character 33a to calculate the insufficient printing width of the print head 31 for the enlarged character 33a. Then, in step S4,
Based on the printing shortage width calculated in step S3 above,
A pack line feed is performed from the initial setting position of the print head 31.

That is, the operator determines the lower end position of the print head 31.
If the alignment position W1 is set in advance as shown by arrow 2 with respect to the horizontal ruled line 32 of the printing paper, in step S4, according to the insufficient printing width calculated by cpuio,
The line feed control unit 24a of the printer controller 24 reversely rotates the paper roller of the printer 23 to perform a back line feed of the printing position by the print head 31. Then step S
In step 5, the print control unit 24b causes the printer 23 to perform a printing process corresponding to the print width H of the print head 31, and in step $6, the print control unit 24b changes the print position of the print head 31 in accordance with the width H. Begin on a new line.

Here, if it is determined (No) in step S7, that is, it is determined that printing of characters for - line has not been completed yet, the process returns to step $5 again, and the print control unit 24b controls the printer 23.
is further printed 111f'F, and the upper part of the enlarged text f33a with the above printing position MP1! 11 printing is performed at the printing position P2. That is, in the case of enlarged character printing, the divided printing line feed processing in steps 85 to S7 is repeated until the enlarged character vertical width Y is reached. As a result, the printed enlarged characters 33a are printed at a position where the lower end position matches the horizontal line 32 corresponding to the initial setting position of the print head 31.

In this way, when the printing of the enlarged character pattern for - lines is completed, in step S8, the printing fixed text! ! Whether or not all document lines in the area have been printed is determined based on, for example, the point value of the print line pointer. If it is determined in this step S8 that <No), that is, there are still document lines to be printed, the process proceeds to print position line feed processing for printing the next document line in steps 89 to S12.

That is, in step $9, the printed enlarged character 33a
Based on the vertical character size YO and the vertical width H of the print head 31, the distance IM from the current upper end position of the print head 31 to the lower end of the printed character 33a is calculated. This distance M
is the vertical character size YO of the printed characters 33a of the print head 31! [Divide by H and obtain from the remaining value. After this, proceed to step 810 and print character 3 on the next line.
The vertical character size Yl of 3b is calculated based on the enlarged character information managed in the row IFJ register corresponding to the printed document row. Then, the process proceeds to step S11, and the vertical direction of the next line printed character 3 calculated in step S10 from the distance from the lower end position of the printed character 33a to the lower end position of the next line printed character 33b, that is, the interline pitch G. The character size Y1 is subtracted to calculate the distance S between the lower end of the printed character 33a and the upper end of the next line printed character 331).

Here, the line spacing G is determined based on the vertical character size Yl of the next line printed characters 33b calculated in step 810 and the basic line pitch according to the print format setting, and the basic line pitch according to the equation (2). This is obtained from the magnification (Y), and as a result, a line pitch that is an integral multiple of the basic line pitch that exceeds the vertical character size Y1 of the next line of printed characters 33b is obtained, and the bottom position of the next line of characters 33t) is inevitably Like other printed characters, it will be aligned with the horizontal line 32. Then, the process proceeds to step 812, where the line feed is minus 1, that is, (M
+S) and this line break! l (M+S) is set in the line feed control section 24a to perform a line feed at the printing position of the print head 31 in the printer 23.

As a result, the upper end position of the print head 31 is set to the position where the vertical character size Yl of the enlarged character 33b to be printed is subtracted from the lower end of the line spacing G of the next line, and after this, the above-mentioned step By repeating the printing line feed process from step S85 to step S7 several times, the enlarged character 33b is printed with its lower end position aligned with the inside line 22 corresponding to the horizontal line 32. Then, until it is determined (YES) in step S8, steps 89 to
Line break processing in step 312 and step 85
~The printing line feed process in step S7 is repeated, and printing of the specified document is completed.

Therefore, from the print head position after printing the - line to the position of the bottom edge of the next line of characters based on the line pitch, which is an integer multiple of the basic line pitch, minus the vertical character size of the next line of printed characters! Find 1ffi and print line feed till
As shown in FIG. 4, even if there are enlarged characters 33 with various character magnifications in each document line of a specified print document, the horizontal lines 32 of the printing paper are always kept at a constant level. It becomes possible to print by aligning the lower end position of the print with the relative distance lid.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, there are provided a line decoration register that manages enlarged character information corresponding to each document line in a document area, and a basic line pitch register that manages a preset basic line pitch. , a character bottom position calculation means for calculating the vertical character size of the next line print character based on the enlarged character information managed in the line@decoration register, and a next line print character obtained by the character bottom position calculation means. line pitch determination means that sets the line pitch to a minimum integral multiple of the basic line pitch managed by the basic line pitch register that exceeds the vertical character size of the character; a character division printing means; a character lower end position determining means for calculating the character lower end position of the next line based on the line pitch determined by the line pitch determination means after printing an enlarged character pattern for one line by the division printing means; Line feed amount to calculate the line feed amount from the print head position after printing one line to the position obtained by subtracting the vertical character size of the next line printed character from the bottom edge position of the next line character obtained by the character bottom @ position calculation means. A calculation means, and a line feed control means for changing the printing position of the print head to a line feed based on the line feed amount obtained by the line feed amount ci outputting means. Since the top end position of the print head is configured to set a line break in advance at the position where the vertical character size of the printed characters is subtracted, when printing a document that includes enlarged characters, for example, the print position relative to the horizontal ruled lines of the paper may change depending on the print line. It is possible to provide a document creation device that can easily print line breaks to match the lower end positions of all printed characters with the horizontal lines without creating gaps.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the print processing operation in the same embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged character in the same real basket example. A diagram showing printing process vJ of a document including
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the printing state of enlarged characters corresponding to each character magnification in the same embodiment, and FIGS. 5 (A) and (B) are the initial setting position of the print head and the initial setting position, respectively. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the conventional enlarged character printing operation. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the printing state of enlarged characters corresponding to each character magnification by the conventional enlarged character printing process. 10...CPU, 11...RAM, 12...RO
M, 13...Program area, 14...Character pattern 6[, 16...Keyboard, 18...Display lit
, 23...Printer, 24...Printer controller, 24a...Line feed control section, 24b...Print control section, 31...Print head, 32...Horizontal ruled line, 33.3
3a, 33b--Enlarged characters.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Based on the line modification register that manages expanded character information corresponding to each document line in the document area, the basic line pitch register that manages the basic line pitch set in advance, and the expanded character information managed by the line modification register, A character size calculation means for calculating the vertical character size of the next line printed character, and a basic line managed by the basic line pitch register that exceeds the vertical character size of the next line printed character obtained by this character size calculation stage. A line pitch determining means that sets the line pitch to a minimum integral multiple of the pitch, an enlarged character division printing means that prints the enlarged character pattern by dividing it by the vertical width of the print head, and after printing the enlarged character pattern for one line by the division printing means. a character bottom position calculation means for calculating the character bottom position of the next line based on the line pitch determined by the line pitch determination means; and a next line obtained by the character bottom position calculation means from the print head position after printing one line. a line feed amount calculating means for calculating the line feed amount from the lower end position of the character to a position obtained by subtracting the vertical character size of the next line printed character; 1. A document creation device comprising: line feed control means for changing a print position.