Subject: Info about ByX 2.0

From: "LI Jialin, UGA Physics" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 90 22:51:03 EST

The following message is posted for Yang Yongxin(ByX 1.10's author) who
does not have an email account. Please don't send questions to this account.
Comments are welcome. Thanks.
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    Byx 2.0 is near completion, responding to popular demand and
    thanks to countless suggestions from ByX users. The authors
    of ByX have greatly enhanced ByX and added Laser printing
    capability. ByX has now changed from a basic Chinese editor
    to completed Word Processing and Desktop Publishing software
    with trilingual capabilities.

Internal Code:
    GB(Chinese National Standard), compatible with CCDOS and other
    programs from Mainland China

System requirements:
    MS-DOS or PC-DOS v2.1 or higher.
    - No special operating system, such as CCDOS needed.
    Harddisk
    Display:
      EGA, VGA or Hercules compatible
      Maximum of 720 Chinese charaters can be displayed on one
      screen(18 lines x 40 columns) on EGA; 810 for Hercules
    - No extended or expended memory needed; no add-in cards;
      nothing's left in memory after completion

Input Method:
    PinYin plus 4-tone, or without 4-tone(same as TianMa)
    Allows single word, sentence or whole article PinYin input,
    4-tone can be used anywhere in the text as optional.
    Spacing between PinYin and words is also optional.

Dictionary:
    PinYin dictionary includes all 6763 GB charaters
    Word dictionary is user definable

Speed :
    For those familiar with PinYin or can type English quickly, 2000
    character per hour is achievable. After several weeks of use,
    one can continuously type at this speed for two hours, if
    someone else reads the Chinese text.

Editing features:
    ByX is a full featured micro-emacs style editor. ByX itself
    is write with ByX. Features such as cut and past, forward and
    reverse search, global and query replacement, macro, command
    repeat all have been included. To help the user to cope with all these
    features, al multi-screen on-line help is available.

Printing features:
    For HP Laserjet II and compatible:
        Multi-column Chinese text in Son4, Fong Son, Kai, and Hei(bold)
        with up to 64x64 points in resolution. An enhanced enbeaded
        command set has been developed to direct laser printing;
        One page on-screen pre-view is also provided;
        One can choose to print any single page of whole file
    IBM compatible 9pin, Epson compatible 9pin and 24pin printers:
        will still be supported as v1.10

Other features:
    Russian, with proportional printing.
    zW conversion for network communication.
    A music program, plays your favorite music or compose your own.

Release date: late may or early June.
Estimated price:
    1. Basic version: includes editor and limited laser fonts
       around $50
    2. Full version: Includes more fonts
       probably around $120

This release will be available in all popular disk format
for more info call

Yan2  Yong3Xin1 at (415) 526-2576 - west coast:
or
Zhao4 san1ping2 at (617) 424-1592 - east coast