Subject: Chinese publishing - mac

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 19:57:42 -0500

This is my opinion: I have no actual experience on some of these things.

Worldscript, yet to be publicly released by Apple, is the only way that
I know to get System 7.1 to process Chinese language. No system
switching is needed when you use Worldscript in System 7.1.

No Beijing version of system 7.0 was released.  ChineseTalk II was only
released for Taiwan version (1.0 for 7.0, 1.1 for 7.0.1).

Worldscript supports TrueType Chinese fonts (PostScript or Truetype is
needed for laser quality printout). Several complications are raised for
Worldscript. 1. Availability: most people would have to wait until Apple
officially release it to the market. "Under the table" deals exist in Taiwan,
not sure it is also the case in the Mainland. 2. No input modules are
officially released either. This may be solved by getting Ed Lai's beta
version of Cihui input from Apple public ftp site; 3. Difficulty in getting
Chinese Truetype fonts.  Some companies in Taiwan are to release TT fonts,
but most of them will be in traditional styles.

As of dtp software, as long as Chinese Pagemaker is compatible with system
7.1, it should not have any problem with worldscript.  One other option
should be Nisus which has quite a few layout features, and is compatible
with Chinese scripts.

Besides those that are available in the US, Hua-yuan Technology (or Micro-
Macro as they used to call themselves) of Beijing Xisi Beidajie may have
something useful. They developed a simple WP program (Xiao Maque) a few yrs
ago that supports HGB coding. It was saidthat they also have a dtp
package for the mac.  No info regarding the availability of TT fonts in
Beijing is heard.

Mr. Wang Hao-yang of Pai Technology (Taiwan) may help to provide more info
regarding WorldScript and TTfonts, his e-mail address is [email-masked]

Feel free to correct me if anyone knows more in this area...

Jack