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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: Byx 1.1 Chinese editor for DOS available by ftp
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Date: 19 Mar 91 08:21:37 GMT
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In article <7198@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> cheung@mathcs.emory.edu (Shun Yan Cheung) writes:
>In article <1991Mar18.043137.8338@ox.com> mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) 
<writes:
<
<<Thanks to the developers of Byx, Yan Yongxin and Zhao Sanping, and
<<Rupert Zhu of Waterloo, Byx 1.1 is now available by anonymous ftp
<<from crl.nmsu.edu in zip format.
<
<I love it ! Two problems though, it's simplified Chinese, and
<guessing what the pinyin of a character is tough. I wonder if
<byx can be modified easily to use the unsimplified characters.

Don't bet on it.  Yan Yongxin once told me, "Wo3 dui4 fan2ti3zi4 hen3 fan3gan3."
(`I'm opposed to unsimplified characters.')  The new version of his editor
supports only some of the unsimplified characters.

<For the latter problem, I don't see any good solution, except
<investing in fancy input devices like a lightpen.

Are you from Taiwan?  (I'm guessing from the spelling of your name that you're
from Hong Kong, in which case you probably don't know Mandarin....)  A few
years ago, I posted to SCC three articles on pinyin for those from Taiwan.
I'll repost them if there's interest.

					--Scott

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