README for ftp.math.psu.edu, /pub/simpson/chinese/pmc/ This file created November 1991 by Stephen G. Simpson Last revised March 20, 1994, by Stephen G. Simpson Poor Man's Chinese TeX (abbreviated PMC) is a simple method for including Chinese characters in TeX documents. Two kinds of Chinese characters are supported: traditional (Taiwan style, Big5 coding) and simplified (PRC style, GB coding). This directory contains everything you need to install and use the Poor Man's Chinese TeX package, provided you are already using TeX with a 300 dpi printer. To install the package, simply place the inputs/*.tex files in your tex/inputs directory, the pk/*.300pk files in your tex/pk directory, and the fonts/*.tfm files in your tex/fonts directory. (Your TeX installation may have different names for these directories.) Optionally, you may also place the man page file man/pmc.man1 in your Unix man page directory. The formatted documentation file man/pmc.cat1 can be printed on any printer and contains simple instructions telling how to use the Poor Man's Chinese TeX package after it has been installed. If you wish to create additional fonts for Poor Man's Chinese TeX, you may want Thomas Ridgeway's original Poor Man programs, available for anonymous FTP at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu, /pub/poorman. You may also want some of Mark Leisher's programs, available for anonymous FTP at crl.nmsu.edu, /pub/misc/pmtex and /pub/chinese/et2bdf. I don't know of any comprehensive archive of Poor Man material. Note added April 18, 1993: A possibly more efficient way to create fonts for Poor Man's Chinese TeX is exemplified by my program et2pk, available for anonymous FTP at ftp.math.psu.edu, /pub/simpson/chinese/et2pk/. Note added September 27, 1993: There is now a much better way to create fonts for Poor Man's Chinese TeX. The technique is exemplified in my experimental program hbftopk, available for anonymous FTP at ftp.math.psu.edu, /pub/simpson/chinese/hbf/hbftopk. Note that hbftopk supercedes my old program et2pk. With the method of hbftopk, it should be possible to convert any HBF font into TeX PK fonts. However, this has only been tested for 24x24 fonts. Note added March 20, 1994: This PMC package now includes Jacques Richer's Chinese chess font, cchess46. For more information on cchess46, see ftp.math.psu.edu, /pub/simpson/chinese/pmc/doc/cchess.README. This Chinese chess font does not really have anything to do with PMC, but I threw it in just for fun.