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From: yy@cbnews.att.com (alan.j.lapenn)
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Subject: Re: Byx 1.1 Chinese editor for DOS available by ftp
Summary: I'd be interested in the pinyin articles.
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.142700.25802@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 14:27:00 GMT
References: <MLEISHER.91Mar17162431@ithaka.nmsu.edu> <7198@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <29561@cs.yale.edu>
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In article <29561@cs.yale.edu>, horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
> 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.
> 
> 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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Alan LaPenn
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