Serial printing apparatus with sentence memory and display having correcting means

A print apparatus comprising:

• conveying means for conveying a recording material in two opposite directions;
• a carriage on which recording means for recording on the recording material is mounted, said carriage moving orthogonally with respect to the recording material;
• memory means for storing recording information for a plurality of lines, said recording information contained in said memory means comprising character information, character pitch information, line pitch information, and line break information;
• indicating means for indicating that said recording means is opposite to a character recorded before a character to which said recording means is presently opposite;
• discriminating means for discriminating whether the recording information of said recorded character is the line break information the basis of the indication by said indicating means;
• control means for controlling said conveying means and said carriage so that said recording means is opposite to a character recorded before a previous line on the basis of said character pitch information and said line pitch information, when said discriminating means discriminates that the recording information is the line break information and for controlling said carriage so that said recording means is opposite to a character recorded before a current line on the basis of said character pitch information when said discriminating means discriminates that the recording information is not the line break information;
• correcting means for correcting said recorded character;
• and
• updating means for updating the recording information of said recorded character corrected by said correcting means.