JPH085232B2 - Document processing device - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus used for document creation, document storage, document restoration and the like.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of document processing apparatus has a function of setting or changing a line spacing, and if a blank line is inserted, the set line is set according to the number of inserted lines. It is configured so that a line spacing that is an integral multiple of the spacing can be given.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the above-described conventional document processing apparatus, since there is no concept of setting the line spacing according to the type of line feed, various line feeds, that is, characters exceeding the allowable number of characters per line are used. Natural line breaks, paragraph breaks,
Insert a blank line when it is necessary to adjust the line spacing for the purpose of visual aesthetics and readability for forced line feed, etc. where the operator gives a line feed instruction for chapter division. There is no choice but to rely on artificial means such as resetting the line feed amount for each line, and there are the following problems.

(1) When a simple blank line is inserted, the line spacing becomes an integral multiple of the set value. Therefore, the line spacing becomes too large, and the line spacing adjustment is often too rough and insufficient.

(2) Every time a forced line break occurs due to paragraph breaks, human intervention is required to perform a troublesome operation of adjusting the line spacing.

(3) In order to artificially adjust the line spacing, in a large document that spans multiple pages, it is necessary to take great care in unifying the line spacing according to the type of line feed throughout the document.

The present invention solves such a conventional problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an excellent document processing apparatus capable of setting a line spacing according to the type of line feed.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention divides an input signal into a character signal, a forced line feed signal and a natural line feed signal by a character determination circuit, and in the case of a character signal, character generation occurs. Generate the corresponding dot matrix signal from the circuit, and force line feed signal,
In the case of a natural line feed signal, a line spacing signal set in advance is generated and printed on paper.

Operation The present invention has the following effects due to the above configuration. In other words, by simply giving the type of line breaks where the lines in the document change, the preset line spacing is automatically applied according to the type of line breaks. , You can easily create easy-to-read line layout documents.

Furthermore, when the application state of the line spacing is unsatisfactory, the entire document can be collectively readjusted or partially revised.

Embodiments The drawings show the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. 1
Is a character input circuit such as a keyboard, 2 is a character determination circuit for determining an input character signal input from the character input circuit 1, 3
Is a trigger circuit that generates a trigger signal according to the type of line feed when the determined result is a line feed signal. This trigger circuit 3 includes a natural line break 3b that naturally breaks when the number of characters for one line that has been preformatted is reached, and
It is composed of forced line break 3a that breaks lines at paragraph breaks even if the number of characters for a line is not reached. Reference numeral 4 denotes a line spacing setting circuit that can set a line spacing according to the type of line feed. This line spacing setting circuit 4 sets a line spacing for the above-mentioned forced line feed.
And a natural line feed line spacing setting circuit 4b for setting the line spacing at the time of the natural line feed. Reference numeral 5 is a line spacing generation circuit that inputs the line spacing data set by the line spacing setting circuit 4 by a trigger signal of the trigger circuit 3 to generate a line spacing signal, and 6 is a result determined by the character determination circuit 2, A character generation circuit for generating a character in the case of a character signal.
Reference numeral 7 denotes a printing circuit which operates in response to a line feed signal and a character signal generated by the line spacing generation circuit 5 and the character generation circuit 6.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, by using the result determined by the character determination circuit 2 as a trigger, the data input to the line spacing setting circuit 4 is fetched by the line spacing generation circuit 5, so that an arbitrary line spacing can be obtained. Since it is possible to generate, it is limited to natural line break and forced line break here,
Trigger circuit 3 for other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters etc.)
Also, there is an advantage that only the row interval setting circuit 4 needs to be added.

It should be noted that instead of the wiring logic as shown in the above one embodiment,
It is obvious that the essence of the present invention is not changed even if a part or the whole is replaced by the program logic.

For example, if you want to partially revise an already-entered document, you can adjust the line spacing for that part separately for natural line breaks and forced line breaks. Of course, other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters, etc.) Can be readjusted. If you expand the part you want to modify to the whole document, you can batch the whole document and insert natural line breaks, forced line breaks, and other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters et
It is also possible to readjust the interval in c).

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION The present invention is clear from the above-described embodiment. You can also readjust by natural line break and forced line break,
Of course, other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters, etc.) can be readjusted, so the operator can easily enter any part of a document that has already been entered, such as natural line breaks, forced line breaks, and other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters).
etc) interval can be readjusted.

(2) If you expand the part you want to modify to the whole document, you can adjust the intervals of natural line breaks, forced line breaks, and other types of line breaks (paragraphs, chapters, etc.) all at once in the whole document. It's also easy to readjust into a document that's aesthetic and easy to read.

It has the effect of.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawing is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... Character input circuit, 2 ... Character determination circuit, 3 ... Trigger circuit, 4 ... Line spacing setting circuit, 5 ... Line spacing generation circuit, 6 ... Character generation circuit, 7 ... Printing circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document in a designated area that has already been input,
A natural line feed signal is sent every time the preset first number of characters is measured from the beginning of the designated region, and a paragraph line feed signal is sent when the preset second number of characters is measured from the beginning of the designated region. When a line feed signal is detected from the character determination circuit that sends a forced line feed signal, and for the above natural line feed signal and the above forced signal, set arbitrarily set line spacings and The line spacing / paragraph spacing setting circuit for arbitrarily setting paragraph line breaks, and the character determination circuit, when any one of the natural line feed signal, the compulsory signal and the paragraph line feed signal is sent, A document processing device comprising a line spacing / paragraph spacing generation circuit for adjusting the line spacing / paragraph spacing in a document in the designated area according to a corresponding set value of the line spacing / paragraph spacing setting circuit.