JPH0426488B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a word processor, and particularly to a word processor that can be used to print out the address and sender of postal items such as postcards (hereinafter simply referred to as postcards) and sealed letters. The present invention relates to a word processor having a printing function in a predetermined standard output format.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, information devices such as word processors,
Some are equipped with printers that can print postcards. In such information equipment, address book data is input into the information equipment in advance in order to print address data and the like on postcards and the like.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in such information devices, address book data must be entered in advance, and when inputting data, character positions, lines, and digit spaces must be determined in order to print standard formats such as addressee and sender. It is necessary to input data while keeping in mind the print format of postcards such as the following, and input requires a lot of effort.

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to print the address and sender in a standard output format on postal items such as postcards from address and sender data written anywhere in the document.

[Means to solve the problem]

The means of the present invention are as follows.

A specification means for specifying the printing of an address and sender in a standard output format on postal items such as postcards and envelopes, and a document storage means for storing a mixture of address and sender data and document data consisting of multiple items of data. and a search means for searching the address and sender data stored in the document storage means when the printing of the standard output format is specified, and a search means for searching the address and sender data retrieved by this search means. This is a print output means for converting into a standard output format and printing it out.

[Effect]

The operation of the means of the invention is as follows.

When the specification means specifies printing in a standard output format, the search means searches for the addressee and sender data stored together with the document data in the document storage means, and retrieves the retrieved addressee and sender data. The printout means converts it into a standard output format and outputs it as a printout.

Therefore, the addressee written anywhere in the document,
Based on the sender data, it is possible to print the address and sender's standard output format on postcards and other postal items.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows its configuration, and 10 is a central processing unit CPU. 12 is a keyboard for specifying standard output format printing, for example postcard printing; 14 is a key input control unit. 16 is a document memory in which the created document is stored, and 18 is an address pointer of the document memory 16. 20 is a print format memory;
22 is a kanji ROM. 24 is a printer carriage, and 26 is a carriage control section.
28 is a platen of the printer, and 30 is a feed control section. 32 is a print head of the printer, and 34 is a print pattern buffer. In this case, the printing head 32 moves in dot units (1/80 inch = 0.14111...mm), and the platen 28 moves in 3/4 dot units (1 step).
It is.

36 controls the carriage and feed control unit 2 according to the line and column information from the print format memory.
6 and 30, and prints the printing pattern corresponding to the document code from the CPU 10 into the above kanji.
This is a print control unit that refers to the ROM 22 and passes it to the print pattern buffer 4. Reference numeral 38 denotes a format conversion processing section that takes out data corresponding to the addressee and sender from the document memory 16 and converts it into a format for postcard printing when a postcard printing designation is made from the keyboard 12. 40a and 40b are an address buffer and a sender buffer, respectively, in which the format-converted address and sender data are stored, and 42 is an address buffer and a sender buffer, respectively.
It is a pointer. 44 notifies the print control section 36 that postcard printing, that is, vertical writing printing, and also sends the address and sender buffer 4.
There is a postcard printing processing unit that passes information on the data stored in 0a and 0a and the position where each data should be printed. 46 is a display section, and 48
is a display control section.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a document stored in the document memory 16, in which the addressee and sender are entered in the order of name, postal code, and address, separated by a comma mark ",". Furthermore, for the sender, a sender mark "*" for identifying the sender is entered at the beginning of the sender.

FIG. 3 shows a standard format for printing postcards. In this case, the addressee postal code 301 is printed in double-width.

The destination address 302 is printed in double-width. however,
This address 302 has a maximum of 13 characters in the first line and 2
Only a maximum of 11 characters can be printed on each line and the third line, and a line feed is automatically performed after the maximum number of characters on each line has been printed. Also, if the maximum number of characters (35 characters) is exceeded, the addressee's name will not be printed. Note that when printing the destination address 302, the input numbers are automatically replaced with corresponding Chinese characters.

The addressee's name 303 is automatically printed in quadruple size and evenly distributed. In this case, only a maximum of 12 characters will be printed, and if that is exceeded, the addressee will not be printed.

Further, the sender's postal code 304 is printed in half-width characters.

The sender's address 305 is printed in full-width characters.

However, this only prints a maximum of 15 characters on the first line and a maximum of 13 characters on the second line, and line breaks are automatically performed. Also, if the maximum number of characters (28 characters) is exceeded, the sender's name will not be printed. Note that when printing the sender's address 305, the input numbers are automatically replaced with corresponding Chinese numerals.

The sender's name 306 is printed in full-width characters that are automatically evenly distributed. In this case, only a maximum of 12 characters will be printed, and if that is exceeded, the sender will not be printed.

Next, the operation will be explained with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. That is, when a print command is issued, it is determined whether the print command is a postcard print command or not (step ST401). If it is not a postcard printing command, the data in the document memory 16 is printed (step 402).

If it is a postcard printing command, first the document memory 1 is
The data corresponding to the designated address in 6 is converted into address format (step ST403), and the sender data is further converted into sender format (step ST404). Then, print the addressee (step ST405) and print the sender (step ST405).
ST406). The address specification is performed by specifying a line using a cursor key (not shown) on the keyboard 12.

The conversion to the destination format in step ST403 is shown in more detail in the flow chart of FIG. That is, first, the start address of the specified line is set in the address pointer 18 (step ST501). Then, input format determination processing for address data is performed (step ST502).
In other words, the data from the specified line has two commas ","
Three blocks of data separated by codes, the first block contains character string data of 12 characters, the second block contains numerical data of 5 characters, and the third block contains 35 characters. Check whether the format is such that there is string data inside. If there is an input format like the one above (step ST503). The data is converted into a format for printing and stored in the address buffer 40a (step ST504), and if the data does not exist, a printing unnecessary flag is set in the address buffer 40a (step ST505).

Further, the conversion to the sender format in step ST404 is shown in more detail in the flow chart of FIG. That is, first, the address pointer 42 is reset (step
ST601), search for the sender mark "*" (Step ST602). If this sender mark "*" is found (step ST603), the input format judgment process for sender data is performed (step ST603).
ST604). In other words, the data from the searched line with the sender mark "*" is three blocks of data separated by two commas "," codes, and the first block contains character string data of 12 characters. Check whether the format is such that the second block contains numerical data of 5 characters, and the third block contains character string data of 28 characters. If there is an input format as described above (step ST605), the data is converted into a printing format and stored in the sender buffer 40b (step ST606). Also, if you don't have one, or you can follow the steps above.
If the sender mark "*" is not present in ST603, a printing unnecessary flag is set in the sender buffer 40b (step ST607).

In this way, the above address and sender Tsuhua 4
The data converted to 0a and 0b are respectively stored and printed at predetermined positions on the postcard.

In this way, in order to automatically determine the address and sender data written in any position within the document and to automatically print according to the print format of the postcard, it is especially important to save a separate file such as an address book. The address and sender data in the document can be output as a letter without any need. That is, the addressee and sender data in the document memory 16 written in letter format are
You can easily print postcards by specifying and searching.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and for example, the address designation may be searched by separately attaching an address mark. Further, the input format (input order, number of characters) need not be limited to the input format of the above embodiment, as long as a corresponding judgment step is provided.

Moreover, although the above embodiment is an embodiment regarding postcards, it is similarly applicable to sealed letters.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, there is no need to create address book data, and it is possible to print the address and sender in a standard output format on postcards and other postal items from the address and sender data written in any position within the document. can.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a word processor having a format printing function according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a document including an addressee and a sender stored in a document memory, and FIG. The figure shows the postcard printing format, Figure 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation, Figure 5 is a flow chart for explaining the addressee format conversion operation, and Figure 6 is a flow chart for explaining the sender format conversion operation. This is a flow chart for 10... Central processing unit (CPU), 12... Keyboard, 14... Key input control section, 6... Document memory, 18, 42... Address pointer,
20...Print format memory, 22...Kanji ROM,
24... Carriage, 26... Carriage control section, 28... Platen, 30... Feed control section, 32... Print head, 34... Print pattern buffer, 36... Print control section, 38... Format conversion Processing section, 40a...Address buffer, 40b...Sender buffer, 44...Postcard printing processing section, 46...Display section, 48...Display control section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A specification means for specifying the printing of the address and sender in a standard output format on postal items such as postcards and envelopes, and document storage for storing a mixture of address and sender data and document data consisting of multiple items of data. means, a retrieval means for retrieving the addressee and sender data stored in the document storage means when printing in the standard output format is specified, and a retrieval means for retrieving the addressee and sender data retrieved by the retrieval means. A word processor having a format printing function, comprising a print output means for converting into the above-mentioned standard output format and printing it out.