Subject: Chinese troff?

From: "W. Wilson Ho" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 91 01:29:34 -0700

Hi,

	Has troff (or Gnu groff) been ported to support Chinese
characters?  Or is there anyone working on it?  I believe that all
that is needed to be done is to define Chinese font files in groff's
downloadable font format.  Am I correct?  Can anyone send me pointers
to the relevant information?

	Thanks!

Wilson

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From: Guangfan Xu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 91 14:24:20 DNT

I bought BYX 2.0A (the enhanced ver.) last year. It came with a postscript
printing program. It's called pchroff. I think it was a Chinese troff hacked
by JB Wang (who used it also in his Ch-series, ChTeX package)
Since I used it only  a few times, I cannot attribute my failure to print
even the sample file included in BYX V2.0A to program bugg. Maybe I have
not learnt all the magic dot commands in pchroff.--):
Is there any BYX 2.0A user out there on this list? Have anyone tried BYX
's new updating. I received updating discount list from BYX & Co, I have
not decided to buy the updating since it costs 100 US! I am still learning
how to use the original version.
If this program is what you have called troff like-, I can tell you pchroff
use the same Chinese fonts as BYX/LSP uses. It's not true GB since character
zones and symbol zones are separated in BYX/LSP/pchroff package.
Can anyone of CCN give a detailed account?

                     Hope this could help you.
                                   guangfan xu