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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/CJK/doc/japanese/jp-fonts.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/CJK/doc/japanese/jp-fonts.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..49d2bae5190 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/CJK/doc/japanese/jp-fonts.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Data: Japanese Fonts Environment + + +Phototypesetting systems and font makers. + Syaken + Morisawa + Ryobi + +Font makers. + Dai Nippon Screen + Font Works + Ricoh ---> TrueType fonts (MS-mincho, MS-gothic; used in + Japanese MS-Windows) + (some further companies also make Japanese PS fonts, e.g. URW from + Germany) + +Printing companies. + Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) + Tokyo Syoseki Printing + Toppan Printing + (these are only the biggest companies; many further printing + companies are active in Japan) + +(Ref: `Dai' means `Big'. `Nippon' means `Japan'. `Syoseki' means `books'. + Ricoh is not only a font maker.) + + + 1. Syaken Co is the most famous and biggest company dealing with + phototypesetting systems and fonts in Japan. + + 2. Syaken does not make PostScript Fonts. Their fonts are used + only on Syaken's special phototypesetting machines which many + printing companies use. + + 3. Morisawa made Postscript Fonts in cooperation with Adobe Inc. + It is famous that their fonts have strong software copy + protection. + + 4. There are inexpensive PS fonts called `HEISEI Mincho' and + `HEISEI Gothic' made by the Nippon standard association (I + don't know the exact English name of this association). These + fonts are not so beautiful as Morisawa's PS fonts but cheaper. + + 5. In former times pure PostScript printers only had Morisawa's PS + fonts as builtin fonts. Now there are also pure PS printers + that use builtin Heisei fonts. + + 6. The dvi2ps program outputs Morisawa's font metrics. + + +This document contains no information about the relation about ASCII Nihongo +TeX and Syaken's phototypesetting machines. + +Version 1.0B4 (1996/02/09) written by tanaka3@ifos.se.fujitsu.co.jp |