JPH064342B2 - Vertical writing control method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] Based on a computer main body for creating document data composed of at least character data and ruled line character data in horizontal writing, and based on the document data and vertical writing printing instructions transmitted from the computer main body, Of the document data, only character data is 9
In a vertical writing control method for a document system including a printing device for performing vertical writing by rotating 0 degree, in a computer main body, document data stored separately in a header area, a footer area, and a main body are stored. For the characters in the header area and the footer area, it is determined whether the characters are ruled line characters, and if they are ruled line characters, the ruled line character code corresponding to the ruled line character obtained by rotating the ruled line character by 90 degrees. A vertical writing print control method, comprising: converting the data into a print data and transmitting the print data to the printing device.

[Industrial application field]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a vertical writing print control method in a Japanese document creating apparatus or a document creating function in a person or the like.

Recently, the document creation function in word processors and the like has been widely used not only in devices dedicated to document creation but also in terminal devices and office computers.

On the other hand, the document creation function creates a document in horizontal writing in most cases due to the processing convenience of the computer. However, in books, manuscript papers, documents submitted by government offices, and the like, there are still examples in which a document is created in vertical writing, and it is necessary to print a document created in horizontal writing in vertical writing.

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

[Problems to be solved by conventional technology and invention]

If you want to print a conventional horizontal document vertically,
For example, the following method is generally adopted as described in "Newton's Separate Volume, All Latest Version of Word Processor" issued by Kyodosha Co., Ltd. on October 13, 1983.

When a horizontally written document is printed vertically, characters to be printed are rotated by 90 degrees in the printing device and printed. However, even if a horizontally written document is printed vertically, a small problem actually occurs.

In particular, regarding ruled line characters, when the ruled lines are rotated by 90 degrees and printed, the frames and the like are not actually printed continuously. Therefore, in general, in the printing device, regarding the character codes of the predetermined ruled lines and the like, Vertical writing is controlled so that it does not rotate.

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

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

Generally, such a header / footer is printed horizontally even in the case of vertical writing.

Further, the header / footer is different from the created document and stores the document to be printed as the header / footer together with, for example, the format screen.

This example is shown in FIG. 4 as a document creation example.

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

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

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

That is, when vertically printed, the header area 1 is horizontally printed above the vertically written document 2, and the footer area 3 is
The document 2 is printed horizontally below the vertically written document 2. Therefore, as the print data for the printing apparatus, the rightmost three characters of the header area 1 initially created in FIG.
16 characters of the topmost line and the rightmost 3 characters of the footer area 3 are output to the printer as print data for one line, and then the 3rd character of the second line from the rightmost of the header area 1 is created. 16 characters in the second line of document 2 and footer area 3
The three characters in the second line from the right end of are output to the printer as print data for one line.

After that, the signals are sequentially output in the above order.

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

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

As is clear from this print result, since the ruled lines in the header area 1 and the footer area 3 are originally printed horizontally, the output order of the print data to the printer is changed when they are simply output as print data. As a result, when viewed as a vertically written document, the state is substantially the same as when rotated 90 degrees, and there is a drawback that accurate ruled line printing cannot be performed.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned drawback, the ruled line character code is determined from the character codes in the header area and the footer area before output to the printer, and if the ruled line character code exists, the character code is left. The character code of the ruled line rotated by 90 degrees is converted and then output to the printer.

Therefore, in the present invention, the ruled line character code is determined from the character codes of the header area and / or the footer area, and when the ruled line character code is found, the ruled line character code is rotated 90 degrees to the left. It is provided with a conversion table for converting into a ruled line character code and outputting it.

[Action]

By providing a conversion table, the header area and /
Alternatively, since the ruled line character code is detected from the character codes in the footer area, the code is converted to a code rotated 90 degrees to the left and then output to the printer.
It is possible to prevent the print result from being disturbed even in the vertical writing when there is a ruled line in the header / footer area.

〔Example〕

 FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of an embodiment 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 1 for controlling the entire computer.
2, program memory 13 that stores the program for the processor to operate, memory 15 that is a work area for creating data for creating and printing documents, and the creator of the document creates the document interactively with the computer. A keyboard display controller 16 for controlling a display 20 and a keyboard 21 for operating a floppy disk device 19 for storing a created document and a program for operating a computer, and a floppy driver 17 for controlling input / output. A driver 18 for outputting print data for printing and its control information to a printer driver 22.

In the case of a workstation or the like, a channel control mechanism for connecting to a host computer is also provided.

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

The computer body 10 is based on the designation from the keyboard 21,
When the document creation is designated, the program for creating the document is executed from the contents of the program memory 13 so that the creator sequentially stores the character string input from the keyboard 21 in the memory 15 and displays it. Create a document while displaying it on 20.

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

Further, with respect to the document in the header area and the footer area, a document for the header area and the footer area is created based on the designation from the keyboard 21 separately from the body and stored in the memory.

Therefore, in the memory 15, the document of the body and the document of the header and the footer area are separately stored. (Refer to the document creation example in FIG. 4.) When the text creation is completed, the command including the keyboard 21 causes the program termination routine to copy the document created on the memory including the header and footer areas to the floppy driver 17 The writing process to the floppy disk device 19 is completed via.

Next, the case of printing the created document will be described with reference to the operation flowchart of the embodiment shown in FIG.

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

In the flow chart of FIG. 2, symbols (1) to (3) are symbols for referring to the operation of each step.

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

Step, when print, print format and document are specified from the keyboard 21, the print control program is started, the document in the header area and the footer area and the document in the body area are read from the floppy medium of the floppy disk device 19 and the memory 15 To store.

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

Step, the data (character code) for one line of the printer of the main body document excluding the header / footer is moved to and stored in a predetermined line buffer area of the memory 15.

In the step (1) and (2), the text stored in the line buffer area and the character code of the header / footer area to be printed together are sent to the conversion table 14 one by one.

In the conversion table, first, all the codes corresponding to the character code of the ruled line are stored in advance in the table, and whether this code matches the code sent in the step Search for.

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

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

Step, it is judged whether or not the reference of the code in the header / footer area for one line is completed, and steps up to 6 are repeated until it is completed.

When finished, go to the next step.

In this state, since the line buffer has all the character codes for one line, the character code for one line is output to the printer driver 22 in this state.

Steps 1 to 3 are repeated until one document is completed, and is completed when the code output for all lines is completed.

Since vertical writing is specified in advance in the printer driver 22, characters other than ruled line character codes are
A result pattern which is rotated by one degree is created using the pattern generator 23 and is sent to the printing device 24 line by line for printing.

FIG. 3 shows an example in which the created horizontal writing document shown in FIG. 4 is printed out by employing the method of the present invention.

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

〔The invention's effect〕

In the present invention, like the abnormality, the code of the ruled line character in the header / footer area is forcibly converted into the code rotated by 90 degrees, so that the print disorder in the vertical writing can be eliminated. .

[Brief description of drawings]

 FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an example of vertical document output of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an example of document creation by horizontal writing. , Fig. 5 shows a conventional vertical writing document output example. In the figure, 1 is a header area, 2 is a created document, 3 is a footer area, 10 is a computer main body, 12 is a processor, 13 is a program memory. , 14 is a conversion table, 15 is a memory, 16 is a keyboard display control, 17 is a proppy driver, 18 is a driver, 19 is a floppy disk device, 20 is a display, 21 is a keyboard, 22 is a , A printer driver, 23 is a pattern generator, and 24 is a printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A computer main body for horizontally creating document data composed of at least character data and ruled line character data, and among the document data based on the document data and vertical writing printing instructions transmitted from the computer main body, In a vertical writing control method for a document system including a printing device for performing vertical writing by rotating only character data by 90 degrees, a header area, a footer area, and a body are separately stored in the computer body. For the characters in the header area and the footer area of the document data that have been set, it is determined whether the characters are ruled line characters. If the characters are ruled line characters, the ruled line characters are rotated 90 degrees, which corresponds to the ruled line characters. A vertical writing control method, comprising converting the ruled line character code to be transmitted to the printer.