Subject: New Version of ChTeX Available

From: [email-masked] (M. Pinghua Young)
Date: 3 Jan 91 05:09:36 GMT

A new version of ChTeX is available at "neon.stanford.edu" for anonymous
ftp.  This new version allows ChTeX to work with LaTeX and different
Chinese font sizes in a single tex/latex file.  To fetch it, ftp to neon.
stanford.edu using "anonymous" as login and your email address as the
password.  ChTeX.tar.Z is under directory "incomming".  Once you get it,
use UNIX "uncompress" and "tar xvf" to retrieve the original files.  
Note: set type to binary (instead of ascii) when you ftp the compressed
ChTeX.tar.Z.  You also need dvi2ps from crl.nmsu.edu to convert the dvi files
to postscript files so that you can print them.

Enclosed is a copy of the file "readme.latex" which explains the new 
features of this version of ChTeX.  

************************  readme.latex ************************************
This version of ChTeX allows different Chinese font sizes in your TeX and
LaTeX files, and this read me file briefly explains how to use them.

There are 8 different Chinese font sizes as follows:
1.  \cHuge	- very bad looking
2.  \chuge	- bad looking
3.  \cLarge
4.  \clarge	- start to look bad with English
5.  \cMedium	- a bit larger than default (my favorite size)
6.  \cmedium	- default (I consider this unreasonably small)
7.  \cSmall	- small
8.  \csmall	- very small

To change Chinese sizes, you use {\cLarge \Zw pin yin here} so that the
Chinese characters inside {} will be enlarged.

If you want to enlarge all Chinese characters in a TeX/LaTeX file, you can
use "cctex" and "cclatex" -- C shell scripts modified by me to work with
this version of ChTeX and also to allow error checking.

Cctex and cclatex have 8 options as follows:

1. "H"	- correspond to \cHuge size
2. "h"	- correspond to \chuge size
3. "L"	- correspond to \cLarge size
4. "l"	- correspond to \clarge size
5. "M"	- correspond to \cMedium size
6. "m"	- correspond to \cmedium size
7. "S"	- correspond to \cSmall size
8. "s"	- correspond to \csmall size

So "cclatex -l mychinese.tex" will enlarge all Chinese characters in the file
mychinese.tex to a point size of "\clarge".  But {\cHuge \Zw pin yin} in your
tex/latex file overwrites this global option.

M. Pinghua Young <[email-masked]>  Jan. 2, 1991
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From: [email-masked] (Mark Leisher)
Date: 3 Jan 91 14:36:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Shun Yan Cheung) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]> 
>[email-masked] (M. Pinghua Young) writes:
>>
>>Chinese font sizes in a single tex/latex file.  
>
>A related question: anyone know where to get Chinese fonts ?
>By the way, how many different fonts are there available now ?
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>Shun Yan Cheung     |  [email-masked]                  Internet
>Emory University    |  [email-masked]			BITNET
>Dept of Math and CS |  Voice: (404) 727-3823
>Atlanta, GA 30322   |  Engineering: make it work. Research: make it work BETTER

Chinese fonts for TeX:
1. ChTeX comes with some CCLIB format fonts for the character bitmaps.
2. Thomas Ridgeway's Poorman system makes MetaFont fonts from CCLIB
   fonts.

Chinese fonts for X11:
All, or most of the X11 Chinese fonts are available anonymous ftp from
crl.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.14] in directory pub/chinese/.

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