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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Chinese TeX
Message-ID: <5578@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 19:25:57 GMT
References: <3313@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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From article <3313@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, by dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek):
>In article <20926@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jbw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jingbai  Wang) writes:
>...

I've been working at printing Chinese, too.  I'll be eager to use
JB's Chinese TeX (but where does the actual font come from?).
Here is what I have so far, in case it might be of interest to anyone:

1) A set of 34 TeX-compatible subfonts, in 4 sizes, derived from the
24x24 bit Chinese font available by ftp from hanauma.stanford.edu
in pub/zhongwen.  The subfonts are pk and tfm files, meant to
be used with JTeX (or JTeX slightly modified).

2) A program p2ps, derived from the JTeX utility k2ps (which came
in turn from a2ps) for printing unformatted text with a mixture
of ordinary roman and Chinese on a PostScript printer.  It uses
the fonts mentioned in 1).

3) A partially working modification of JTeX to use the Chinese
fonts in place of the JIS Japanese fonts.  (At the moment, not
all the Chinese characters can be printed.)

Now, it may be I'll just give up my little project once I can
try out JB's Chinese TeX.  I don't know -- my real interest in
all this is in working toward some generalized facilities for
composing and using large fonts -- not just Japanese and
Chinese.  But now I have some questions:

Don Hosek mentions a variety of JTeX that uses one big font
instead of a bunch of subfonts (did I get that right?).  That
interests me.  Where can I get it?

What's the right convention for escaping Chinese text?  I'm
just using the JIS conventions now.  What about texts that
have roman + Japanese + Chinese and maybe other character
sets?  Is there any agreed on convention?

What about editing?  Is there any public domain editing
software for Chinese, like maybe a Chinese version of emacs?

Does anyone have good ways of extending character bit maps
to other sizes (e.g. 24x24 to 36x36)?  (My way of doing this
has some problems.)

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu


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