Subject: ETEN phrase boxes, from Urs Widmer

From: "Ross Paterson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 13:58:31 GMT

I've created a directory /incoming/bigbox on ahkcus.org containing some
ETEN phrase boxes supplied by Urs Widmer (who doesn't have interactive
ftp access).  His documentation is appended to this message.

The directory also includes a file notes.big5 containing some notes I've
made on the phrase boxes.
--
Ross Paterson
Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7

----------------------------- big_box.doc --------------------------------
The three PHRASE.BOXes have all the format needed for use in the
different ET-systems.  At the beginning of each of these files one may
add some parameters which influence the behaviour of the PHRASE.BOX.
For details see the ET-manual, page 8-27ff (edition 1988) or page 4-35
(edition 1990).

BIGRAD.BOX: This BOX contains the most frequently together the some 13,000
    characters of BIG-5 code.  If needed you may cut the whole thing
    into two parts, the first part beeing 5401 characters (records) long.
    This part will contain the most frequently used characters according
    to BIG-5, the remainder the remaining characters in BIG-5.  The first
    three digits are the Kangxi radical number, the remaining two digits
    the number of strokes of the remaining part without the radical.

BIGPIN.BOX: This BOX contains the Pinyin reading of the BIG-5 characters.
    Altogether there are well over 20,000.  This is due to multiple
    readings of one character.  The source for the readings is a KUOCHIAO
    manual, which contained this list.  I am afraid there are many mistakes
    or at least many readings; I really don't know where it comes from.

BIGWORD.BOX: This quite voluminous PHRASE.BOX contains some 15,000 words
    to be called by Pinyin.  Among its material are the 8000 most frequent
    words according to the "red" frequency dictionary from mainland China.
    When using this PHRASE.BOX just use a simple small editor (PE2 or 3)
    and do not load too many characters into memory.  You will be rewarded
    with quite a comfortable input method (similar to Cihui on APPLE)
    with Pinyin on ET-Systems.

In a way I hesitated a long time to give these PHRASE.BOXes away, because
I know that they still contain so many mistakes.  Since nevertheless I
can use them quite comfortably with ET, so I always postponed a necessary
proofreading.

Make any use of this material as you like.  In due case please make a
reference as to the source, if you create something useful somebody else
is also enjoying.  If you find mistakes, please let me know; of course
I would like to make my PHRASE.BOXes better and better.

If you give away copies of these PHRASE.BOXes, please copy also this
BIG_BOX.DOC file.  If necessary add to this file your comments, maybe
of improvements to the original files.

Enjoy Chinese computing with Pinyin

Urs

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