JPS6189059A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print a multi-linguistic sentence in well-arranged layout by switching vertical position information of printed characters by language. CONSTITUTION:Font direction information and language information with were inputted from an interface 1 are supplied to a font position information switching circuit 5. Address information from the circuit 5 is supplied to a font position information memory 6 together with address information which is outputted from a font switching circuit 2. The font position information memory 6 memorizes information Xo, Yo, Xw, Yw to prescribe the position of a printed character and information of character size Xs, Yx. Information to prescribe a vertical position Yo is set in each memory block as a different value. For small English letters. f, g, j, q, y, z, information Yo is set so that these letters may be printed at a vertical position from other small letters, a, b, c. For this reason, it is possible to print English letters in well-arranged layout as is the case with the conventional English typewriter.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a printer device used in a Japanese language processing device or the like.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, there is a processing device that inputs Japanese or English text from a keyboard or the like and prints it out using a printer, but in this device, the first information representing the font of the printed characters, whether the printed characters are written vertically or horizontally, is used. The second information representing the printed characters and the third information representing the printed characters are output to the printer device, image information corresponding to the first to third information is generated on the printer device side, and image information corresponding to the second and third information is output to the printer device. Generating first position information representing the positional relationship to the leftmost (or rightmost) image with respect to the origin of the printed character image and second positional information representing the positional relationship with the origin of the next printed character image based on the information; The image information is configured to be printed at a position specified by first and second position information.

In other words, for example, when printing the English letters "f" and "g", as shown in Figure 3, "〆"
and "9", and generates information to the image technician of "9", as well as X to the lower left image with respect to the origin C, which is the intersection of the hair lines A and B, which are the reference lines in the vertical and horizontal directions of printed characters.
The length in the direction (horizontal direction) Xo, the length Yo in the Y direction (vertical direction) from the origin C to the lower left image, the origin C of the current printed character IVJ and the origin of the next printed character "t". Generates positional information of lengths Xw and Yw in the X direction and Y direction, and prints a printed character at the position specified by each positional information using these positional information and information Xs and Ys representing the size of the printed character. is configured to print.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the past, even when printing Japanese text,
Furthermore, even when printing English text, information about the length Yo in the Y direction from the origin C to the lower left end of the image is set to the same value. For this reason, in the case of Japanese text, the bottom edges of the printed characters are printed aligned, as shown in Figure 4(a), but in the case of English text, the bottom edges of the printed characters are also printed, as shown in Figure 4(b). There was a problem in that it was impossible to print English text in the beautiful layout that could be obtained with a conventional English typewriter.

[Means and effects for solving the problem] The present invention provides means for changing the position information in the vertical direction (vertical direction) with respect to the origin of the printed characters according to the language of the printed characters (Japanese, English, etc.). , which is configured to determine the layout of printed characters.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and an ink face 1 includes font name information (first information) representing the typeface of printed characters (Gothic, upper case, lower case sensitivity, etc.), printed characters Font direction information (second information) representing whether the text is written vertically or horizontally, character code information (third information) representing printed characters, and language information (fourth information) representing the type of language are input. Each of these pieces of information is given, for example, from the main body of the Japanese language processing device.

Among these pieces of information, font name information and font direction information are input to the font switching circuit 2. The font switching circuit 2 corresponds to each of a plurality of printable fonts, including the distinction between vertical writing and horizontal writing, as shown in FIG. 2(a).
For example, when receiving font name information and font direction information specifying font I among fonts ■ to font ■, address information B1 is output. This address information Bl is input to the font image information memory 3.

As shown in FIG. 2(b), the font image information memory 3 includes four memory blocks MB(1) to MBQV) corresponding to printable fonts 1 to It stores image information for uppercase and lowercase letters, Japanese vertically written characters, and horizontally written characters. Therefore, when the address information Bl corresponding to, for example, the font ■ is input from the font switching circuit 2, the four memory blocks M
MB(11) is selected from B(1) to MBQV).

Then, by giving the character code information as the lower address information, the image information of the character corresponding to the character code information is read out of the image information of the English capital letters stored in the memory block MB(1). This image information is composed of m×n (m, an integer of n≧2) pixels, and is supplied to the page image creation circuit 4.

On the other hand, the font direction information and language information input from the interface 1 are transferred to the font position information switching circuit 5.
supplied to

The font position information switching circuit 5 has two memory blocks corresponding to the distinction between Japanese and English, as shown in FIG. 2(C), and the memory block corresponding to Japanese corresponds to vertical writing and horizontal writing. Address information Y,,Y, for switching the vertical position information Yo (see Figure 3) of the image at the lower left end with respect to the origin of the printed character is stored, and is also printed in the memory block corresponding to English. Address information Y for switching the vertical position information Yo of the image at the lower left end with respect to the origin of the character is stored. Therefore, when the font direction information and language information specifying Japanese are inputted vertically, address information Yl is output. Further, when language information specifying English is input, address information Y is output. This address information Y, -
Y, is supplied to the font position information memory 6 together with the address information B-BIV outputted from the font cutting circuit 2.

The font position information memory 6 stores the address information Y output from the circuit 5, as shown in FIG. 2(d).

Memory block MB (Yυ~
MB(Y3), and each memory block has submemory blocks SMB(1) to SMBffV) corresponding to address information B)-B■ output from circuit 2, and each submemory block has Information Xo, Yo that defines the position of printed characters in the character code information fee.

It stores Xw, Yw and character size information Xs, Ys. In this case, information Y that defines the vertical position
o is set to a different value for each memory block, and is the English lowercase letter f, ♂, ! ,y=,y.

The information Yo is set for 夛 so that it is printed at a position lower in the vertical direction than other lowercase letters a, b, c, . . . .

Therefore, address information J-B■ corresponding to the font and address information Y, -Y corresponding to the language are stored in the font position information memory 6.
, is input, positional information Xo, Yo, XW that defines the positional relationship of printed characters according to these fonts and languages is input.
, Yw and size information Xs, Ys are output for each character code.

These pieces of information Xo-Yw, Xs, Ys are input to a positional character information synthesis circuit 7, where they are combined with character code information and output as character information having positional information. This character information having position information is input to the page image creation circuit 4, collated with the image information output from the font image information memory 3, and edited into image information for one line. Then, the edited image information for one line is output to the printing mechanism 9 via the printer interface 8 for each scanning line. That is, the printing mechanism 9 has one character mxn.
It is constructed of a rask scan type printing mechanism that sequentially scans and prints an image consisting of pixels from the pixels of the first scanning line in the horizontal direction to the pixels of the nth scanning line. Therefore, one line of image information edited by the page image creation circuit 4 is output to the printing mechanism 9 via the printer interface 8 for each horizontal scan line. This results in 1
A line of characters is printed.

In this manner, in this embodiment, the information Yo that defines the vertical position of printed characters is switched for each language. Therefore, in the case of English sentences, f, ? .

The characters i, g-, y, and > are printed at positions lower in the vertical direction than other characters, and it is possible to print English text with a beautiful layout similar to a conventional English typewriter.

Note that although the embodiments have been described using Japanese and English as examples, the present invention can be similarly applied to other languages that require different printing positions in the vertical direction. Further, although the printing mechanism is of a rask scan type, it may be a printing mechanism that prints characters in units of characters.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, since the vertical position information of printed characters is switched for each language, texts in multiple languages including Japanese can be printed in beautiful layouts.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the years in memory of each circuit in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a diagram showing the definition of position information of printed characters. , FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the advantages of conventional printed characters. 2... Font switching circuit, 3... Font image information memory, 4... Page image creation circuit, 5... Font position information switching circuit, 6... Font position information memory, 7... Position Appended characters (1'i'i4 synthesis circuit, 9...printing mechanism.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Receiving first information representing the font of printed characters, second information representing whether the printed characters are written vertically or horizontally, and third information representing the printed characters, means for generating image information corresponding to third information; and means for generating image information corresponding to third information;
means for receiving the information and generating first position information representing the positional relationship between the origin of the printed character image and the leftmost or rightmost image, and second positional information representing the positional relationship with the origin of the next printed character image. and which prints characters corresponding to the image information at print positions specified by the first and second position information, receiving fourth information representing the language of the printed characters, 1. A printer device comprising means for changing information in a vertical direction with respect to an origin of a printed character image of first position information using fourth information.