PMC(1) USER COMMANDS PMC(1) NAME pmc - Poor Man's Chinese TeX SYNTAX \input pmCs or \input pmCb DESCRIPTION _P_m_c is a pair of TeX input files, pmCs.tex and pmCb.tex. They allow easy inclusion of Chinese characters in TeX docu- ments. They support simplified (mainland style) Chinese characters and traditional (Taiwan or Hong Kong style) Chinese characters, respectively. USAGE (SIMPLIFIED CHARACTERS) Near the beginning of your TeX file, put a line such as ``\input pmCs''. Thereafter, TeX will process GB character codes appearing between ``\beginchinese'' and ``\endchinese'' statements, using the wccs fonts. This pro- vides simplified (mainland style) Chinese characters. The conditional ``\bigC'' may be used to give your simpli- fied Chinese characters an extra magstep 2 magnification. For instance, a title might be implemented as ``\centerline{\bigCtrue ...}''. USAGE (TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS) Near the beginning of your TeX file, put a line such as ``\input pmCb''. Thereafter, TeX will process ET BIG-5 char- acter codes appearing between ``\beginBchinese'' and ``\endBchinese'' statements, using the wcb5 fonts. This provides traditional (Taiwan or Hong Kong style) Chinese characters. There is no magnification conditional for ET BIG-5 coded traditional characters analogous to ``\bigC'' for GB coded simplified characters. ADDITIONAL REMARKS Simplified and traditional characters may both appear in the same document. The only restriction is that \beginchinese- \endchinese and \beginBchinese-\endBchinese groups may not overlap. TeX DVI files produced using _p_m_c can be previewed and printed as usual, using _x_d_v_i and _d_v_i_p_s respectively. The use of inferior DVI drivers such as _d_v_i_t_o_o_l, _d_v_i_2_p_s, and _d_v_i_a_l_w is not recommended. Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 07 November 1991 1 PMC(1) USER COMMANDS PMC(1) If your Chinese document is unformatted (i.e. not a TeX document), you can print it using _c_2_p_s. In order to make full use of _p_m_c, you will need a way to create and edit files containing GB and/or ET BIG-5 charac- ter codes. For this purpose, our system provides _c_x_t_e_r_m, _c_v_i, and _c_e_m_a_c_s. BUGS The quality of the Chinese characters provided by _p_m_c is not very high. Chinese characters following ``\beginchinese'' or ``\beginBchinese'' on the same line are not printed correctly. This has an easy workaround: Put ``\begin- chinese'' or ``\beginBchinese'' on a line by itself. When using pmCb.tex, Chinese character codes whose second byte is \ or { or } will cause problems inside arguments to macros such as \centerline{...}. Some ways to work around this bug are suggested in pmCb.tex. DOCUMENTATION See the files in /usr/local/doc/tex-inputs/pmc. Also, some information on GB and ET BIG-5 character codes can be found in /usr/local/doc/cxterm/input. SEE ALSO tex(1), xdvi(1), dvips(1), gb2big(1), big2gb(1), cxterm(1), cvi(1), cemacs(1), cless(1), c2ps(1). AUTHORS Poor Man's Chinese TeX is the creation of Thomas Ridgeway, ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu. The port to traditional Chinese characters is the work of Mark Leisher, mleisher@nmsu.edu, and Stephen G. Simpson, simpson@math.psu.edu. COMMENTS Please send comments and questions to Stephen G. Simpson, simpson@math.psu.edu. Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 07 November 1991 2