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diff --git a/language/chinese/CJK/cjk-4.8.5/doc/japanese/ascii.txt b/language/chinese/CJK/cjk-4.8.5/doc/japanese/ascii.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..41815cca5a --- /dev/null +++ b/language/chinese/CJK/cjk-4.8.5/doc/japanese/ascii.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +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 |