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+ASCII Co. was founded by Mr. Nishi Kazuhiko, Mr. Tsukamoto, and Mr. Gunji.
+This company works in the software and publishing field. So ASCII was
+interested in the TeX system. They developed "ASCII Nihongo TeX" in
+cooperation with a group of the Keio University in 1987. ASCII Nihongo TeX
+is freeware. ASCII Co. implemented this system on MS-DOS in 1989 and sold
+it. ASCII Co. added the capability of vertical typesetting to Nihongo TeX---
+this is called the p version or pTeX (publishing TeX).
+
+ASCII translated some important books into the Japanese language. These
+books are of course typesetted with Nihongo TeX.
+
+ "The TeX book", "The Metafont book" Knuth.
+
+ "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" Lamport.
+
+Many articles about TeX appear in the "UNIX magazine" published monthly by
+ASCII.
+
+
+Some features of Nihongo TeX:
+
+ 1. The dvi file format is different from the original TeX's dvi file
+ format. (NTT-JTeX's dvi file format is the same as original one. So we
+ can use NTT-JTeX's dviware for the CJK package.)
+
+ 2. Nihongo TeX is not only capable of using TeX Font Metric files (tfm),
+ but can also use Japanese Font Metric files (jfm). The jfm file format
+ is defined as an extension of the tfm file format for Nihongo TeX. One
+ jfm file has about 7000 kanji character metrics and kerning
+ informations to cover entire JIS fonts (and thus avoiding subfonts).
+ [See shibuaki.txt for some details about space handling between
+ Japanese and ASCII characters.]
+
+ 3. Characters can be printed vertically.
+
+
+In 1992 Tsukamoto and Gunji retired from ASCII Co. and founded Impress Co.,
+and some engineers specialized on TeX moved from ASCII to Impress.
+
+Impress Co. works in same field as ASCII Co., namely software and
+publishing. In 1994 Impress made and sold "TeX for Windows" based on an
+older version of ASCII Nihongo TeX (a modified TeX version 2.99). This
+system runs on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Windows NT and has been sold to
+many PC users. Literature is also available for "TeX for Windows".
+
+A major drawback of this system is that it is not yet based on TeX 3 and
+thus cannot fully support LaTeX2e or multilingual issues.
+
+
+In November 1995 ASCII announced the latest version of Nihongo TeX (pTeX
+2.1.1) which is based on TeX 3.1415; this package also contains a format
+file of LaTeX2e <1995/06/01>.
+
+At the time of this writing (1996/02/09) ASCII Nihongo TeX's version is pTeX
+2.1.4 .
+
+
+Version 1.0 Beta2 (1996/02/09) written by tanaka3@ifos.se.fujitsu.co.jp