It is possible to add sequential numbers with a high degree of freedom when creating labels on which numbers of a plurality of terminals on a terminal board are printed.

A label creation apparatus 1 that creates a punch block label R, on which a number of a plurality of terminals 51 on a punch block PB having the plurality of terminals 51 grouped into two or more groups are printed, includes head number designation units 11, 16, and 43 that designates a head number of a numerical sequence for each group, and numerical sequence print units 16, 45, and 46 that assign the numerical sequence numbers continuously from the designated head number to each terminal 51 and print the numerical sequence for each group.

A printing apparatus wherein character data to be tabulated is input. The data representing the printing position of the specified digit of one piece of character data is input in a tab memory (9). Then, data designating a tab operation is supplied to the address converting circuit (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1001). In accordance with this data, address converting circuit converts the addresses of the pieces of character data such that the specified digit of every piece of character data is printed at the position represented by the data stored in the tab memory (9).

There is provided a typewriter with which the margins and tab positions are electronically set by using a memory. A photosensor (88) is attached to a carriage (82) of the typewriter. The typewriter has a plurality of position indicators (20, 22, 24, 26) which may be moved in the same direction as the carriage (82) to desired positions. The indicators protrude from the housing of the typewriter through a horizontal slits and can thus be seen by the typist. Their respective positions may be detected by the photosensor (88). The carriage is automatically moved once over the longest distance it can move, each time the power supply switch of the typewriter is closed. As the carriage is moved over this distance, the positions of the indicators are written into a memory in response to the output signal from the photosensor.

An electronic typewriter has a text memory (104) for storing a text input by operating a keyboard (124) and a printing format suitable for the text. A number identifying both the text and the printing format is also stored into the text memory (104). Before the printing of the text, the printing format is displayed and may be changed or corrected by a mode control panel (128).

Method of printing on a printer (15) records from a file of spatially related data stored in a text processing system comprising a processor (11), a keyboard (10) and a display (14); consisting in establishing for the printer (15) the number of print positions in each line, transferring to the printer (15) header data including field names and maximum field width, starting another print line whenever the next field name exceed the number of print positions remaining in the line until the header data has been transferred, storing print position data identifying where each field begins, and transferring to the printer (15) a control character prior to the transfer of each record. Column to cause the data associated therewith to be aligned with the start of its corresponding field name.

An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the technology includes an obtaining section, a determining section, and an instructing section. The obtaining section obtains a first design image or corresponding data corresponding to the first design image. The determining section determines one or a plurality of second design images different from the first design image on the basis of the first design image or the corresponding data obtained by the obtaining section. The instructing section instructs printing of one or both of the one second design image determined by the determining section and a plurality of the second design images determined by the determining section.

Tab codes produced at a typewriter keyboard (8) are converted to a form for text storage that includes travel distance and destination information. By using a multiple section code with distinct tab code identifier bytes on either end, the overall tab code can be embedded with normal single byte character codes in a text string and processed specially during forward or reverse operations with storage. For forward operation on a text string, coded destination information is extracted from a preselected byte of the multisection code, upon detecting the tab identifier, and special logic (2, 4, 10), first extracts the destination information, and then automatically passes over the remainder of the code to arrive at the next code of the text string. By so indicating the tab destination in the tab code, a tab operation is enabled to be independent of the active tab settings at the time of playback. Accordingly, the operator need not be concerned with resetting the tabs to their original condition when at a later time a document is printed from storage. And, by providing travel distance information, it is possible to back over or erase a tab operation without loss of correspondence between the print position and the reference point in the stored text string.