Subject: Announcement: Improvements in Poor Man's Chinese TeX

From: Stephen G Simpson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 20:54:08 -0500

POOR MAN'S CHINESE TEX

NEW SUPPORT FOR BIG-5 CODES AND TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS

Poor Man's Chinese TeX is a set of TeX fonts and macros for inclusion
of Chinese characters in TeX documents.  It was originally conceived
and implemented by Thomas Ridgeway
([email-masked]) in December 1990.  The
original implementation provided support for GB coded, simplified
Chinese characters, based on 24 x 24 bitmaps.  Only rudimentary
support for traditional characters was provided.

Now, as a result of efforts by Mark Leisher ([email-masked]) and
myself, there is an improved set of Poor Man fonts and macros for
BIG-5 coded, traditional Chinese characters.  The fonts are based on
24 x 24 bitmaps.  The character coding scheme used is completely
compatible with the popular ETEN word processor.  Approximately 13000
characters are provided.

The latest Poor Man fonts and macros and some documentation are now
available for anonymous ftp at ftp.math.psu.edu, directory
pub/simpson/chinese/pmc.

Some additional Poor Man software, including font creation programs,
has been available for some time at crl.nmsu.edu.

The Poor Man macros and fonts are known to work well with Unix TeX
3.1, dvips 5.4, and xdvi.  Recently there has been some discussion
here on CCNET concerning which PC TeX programs and drivers work well
with the Poor Man macros and fonts.

Stephen G. Simpson               [email-masked]
Department of Mathematics        +1 814 863-0775
Pennsylvania State University    home: +1 814 238-2274
University Park, PA 16802