Patent Document ID: 4553860
Application ID: 06529696

Base Claim:
1. A method of printing a plurality of documents based on a text, with alterations of phrases from one document to another in at least one phrase-inserting part of the text, comprising the steps of: storing into a phrase memory plural sets of phrase data representing plural different phrases to be inserted into the respective documents, said sets of phrase data being designated by respective phrase-indicating codes each consisting of at least one character the number of which is smaller than the number of characters constituting each of said plural different phrases; storing into a work memory at least one set of work data comprising selected plural ones of said phrase-indicating codes in such manner as to specify the order in which said phrase-indicating codes are read out, said work data being designated by a working-group code; storing into a text memory at least one set of text data representing a text of document, said text data including said working-group code at a position corresponding to said at least one phrase-inserting part of the text; printing out said text data to produce a first one of said plurality of documents, while upon reading of said working-group code, reading out from said phrase memory and printing out the first set of said phrase data designated by a first one of said phrase-indicating codes of said work data, so as to insert the first phrase into said at least one phrase-inserting part of the text of the first document; and printing out said text data to produce second and subsequent ones of said documents, while printing out second and subsequent sets of said phrase data which are designated by second and subsequent ones of said phrase-indicating codes of said work data, so as to insert the second and subsequent phrases into said at least one phrase-inserting part of the text of the second and subsequent documents.

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Claim 2:
2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said text has plural phrase-inserting parts and said work memory stores plural sets of said work data designated by the respective working-group codes corresponding to said plural phrase-inserting parts, each one set of said work data comprising a group of said phrase-indicating codes of an equal number, said phrase-indicating codes of one set of said work data being sequentially read out from said work memory in combination with the corresponding ones of each other set of said work data, said plural sets of phrase data designated by the read-out phrase-indicating codes being printed out from said phrase memory so that the phrases associated with each one group of said phrase-indicating codes are inserted into one of said plural phrase-inserting parts, and those associated with the other groups are inserted in the other phrase-inserting parts.