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From: mjf@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory)
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Subject: Re: japanese fonts?
Summary: JIS fonts are included in several editors...
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Date: 9 Nov 90 15:27:40 GMT
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I'm not sure what format of Japanese fonts you're looking for, but
Mark's Own Kanji Editor by Mark Edwards (edwards@macc.wisc.edu)
contains the JIS 1 and 2 level kanji fonts (covering about 6000 kanji
between them).  I've been playing with MOKE a bit (version 1.1) and 
have gotten it to work but with a few bugs, though I won't rule out the
possibility that it's misinstalled.  I've used the printer driver for a
24-pin Epson with my 9-pin Panasonic with mixed results (but I've gotten
it to print the characters, which I never thought I'd see this side of
a Mac).  Now I'm just trying to remember where I ftp'd it...(Sorry)

I haven't followed up on the bugs because I think Edwards was planning to
write a version 2, to be released commercially, as I recall.  Maybe that's
out, I don't know.  In any case, much of MOKE, he says, depends on the
programs developed in Japan to read JUNET mail, etc., e.g. SKK by masahiko
@sato.rice.tohoku.junet.  These too have the JIS fonts and the .exe to 
put the kanji on the screen, though they are for reading mail, not editing.

I also saw a note the other day about a commercially available wordprocessor,
EW+ (could this be a port of EGWord on the MAC?  Must call the folks, they 
are right here in town...) from Information Technology Laboratory, Inc,
at 415 Madison Ave., 19th floor, New York, NY 10017, phone 212/832-5300.

I'd like to hear about any other editors (or successes or failures with them)
myself...          ------------Michael Flory (mjf@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu)