Subject: Chinese Script, Nisus, etc

From: Huangxin Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1991 22:05:06 EDT

Here is just an update about what I said in my last two postings on CCNET.

(1)  Put Chinese Script into English System:  Now it works great.  My Mac
will looks indentical to the English System (no special Apple characters
being treated as Chinese characters, etc.  All the dialog is in English)
except there is a small script icon on upper left corner, which
allow you to switch between several scripts system (so you can put mainland,
Tainwan, Japan, or a little bit of Arabian...  all into the same English
system).  The last one installed will be the default system and Finder.

The crucial point is you should do installation twice, if the second
installation System version is the same as the system on the hard disk,
it will keep the script resources on the that system when it install the new
one.  Basically the installer treat the script similar to DA or fonts
in the system.  When it update the system, it will try to keep these resource
intact.

When you switch to Chinese script, you can use Ed Lai's cihui input to
input Chinese.  So far it is agreed this is the best method.  What
amazes me is its learning ability.   It can guess, learn and remember
you input pinyin to make several characters into a cizu.

(2)  About my second question about Nisus, thank to LaoWeng, who points
out that this is a feature, not a bug.  Text font in Nisus is script
dependent.  If certain part of text is in *Beijing* in Chinese script,
you cannot directly change it to other font which is not part of the
Chinese script.  You you can force it to change by holding down the
Shift key.

Hope this information is useful for someone.

		Huangxin Wang 王璜鑫, University of Pennsylvania