Subject: Word for Windows 2.0 and Chinese Windows

From: Carlos McEvilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 22:15:59 EST

One more note about Windows and Chinese:

You can create a Big-5 file under another Chinese system such as ETen
if you prefer this to working in Windows.  Then you open the document
in Word for Windows, responding to the "convert from file type" prompt
(not an exact quote) with the "Convert from Text" choice.

Word will read the text file in and, if Chinese Windows is running,
display it in Chinese characters (fanti).  Last time I asked Microsoft
Taiwan, they said there were no plans for a simplified character
version (however that might change now that China has a new copyright
law).  They also had no plans to add pinyin input, but said that such
a facility could be added by third parties.

One more nice thing Chinese Windows gives you is easy control of several
fonts; you change fonts in Word for Windows the same way you do for
English, and characters may be up to 127 points in size.

Here's a trick: if you need to add some big Chinese characters to a
(Windows) paintbrush picture:

1. Type the text
2. Select the text
3. Copy the text to the clipboard (Edit->Copy)
4. Open Paintbrush
5. Choose the text tool and click to position the cursor where you
   want the characters
6. Paste the characters from the clipboard (Edit->Paste)

If the characters you get from this method are too small, you can:

1. Type the text in Word
2. Select the text
3. Select a font, then type 127 into the point size box
4. Position the text to be captured in the middle of the screen
5. Press [Print Screen] (this captures the entire screen to the
   clipboard; you might need several megabytes of memory for this to
   succeed)
6. Open Paintbrush
7. Choose Edit->Paste to paste the image from the clipboard into
   Paintbrush.
8. Use Paintbrush's editing tools to erase the unwanted background
   captured along with the Chinese characters.