hirai@swatsun (Eiji "A.G." Hirai) (12/18/87)
Hi:
Umm, I don't know if this is a stupid question or not but
are there any Postscript fonts for Japanese characters? I don't think
it would be too much of a hassle to define some katakana fonts and
hiragana fonts. I wouldn't expect anyone to define all the kanji fonts.
Any pointers or references will be eargerly gobbled up and eaten
with relish. :-) Please reply!
-a.g. hirai
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Internet: bpa!swatsun!hirai@rutgers.edu | of Cnossus, Cretehlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) (12/18/87)
I too would be interested in any ways available to print and/or display Kanji and kana on PostScript printers, Sun workstations, Macs, etc., without having to purchase custom hardware. Herb Lison
mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) (12/21/87)
In article <10441@emerald.BBN.COM>, hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) writes: > I too would be interested in any ways available to print and/or display >Kanji and kana The Hershey fonts come with several large files of bitmapped "oriental" fonts. Unfortunately none of them are mapped to character equivalences, and I don't know my way around the alphabets enough to do this. The Hershey fonts also come with tools for converting the bitmaps into PostScript-able fonts, etc, etc, etc. If you want the Hershey stuff, you might want to post to comp.sources.wanted or make arrangements to get 'em from me somehow. It's not proprietary stuff, for a few odd reasons. Note - for you laser-lovers, the Hershey fonts also include several sets of map symbols, dingbats, and European fonts, including old english, script fonts, cyrillic, etc. If you have TRANSCRIPT source code, I can also send you notes on the mods to the Makefiles, ditroff, etc, that I made to allow us to use them all with ditroff. Main disadvantage is - it is slow as hell to download 12Kb of font before your file... Output is lovely, though. Technical papers have a certain "je ne sais quoi" when printed in odd fonts... --mjr(); -- Once, there was NO fun... This was before MENU planning, FASHION statements or NAUTILUS equipment... Then, in 1985.. FUN was completely encoded in this tiny MICROCHIP... It contains 14,768 vaguely amusing SIT-COM pilots!!
hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama) (12/22/87)
in article <10441@emerald.BBN.COM>, hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) says: > Xref: suvax1 comp.lang.postscript:79 soc.culture.japan:185 > > I too would be interested in any ways available to print and/or display Kanji and kana > on PostScript printers, Sun workstations, Macs, etc., without having to purchase custom > hardware. Well, it might not help you, but the Kawasaki font (Mac) found on MacTheKnife vol 2 does have katakana. Though the quality of the font is not of correspon- dence quality, it might serve to make posters/signs/quick memos/etc. Further, you could take a font editor, like FONTastic and move around the kana until it conforms to the Japan Standard keyboard. ------------- It's a start - Pat Hirayama - Seattle University
lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) (12/22/87)
In article <1483@osiris.UUCP> mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: >... > If you want the Hershey stuff, you might want to post to >comp.sources.wanted or make arrangements to get 'em from me somehow. It's >... And here's another way to get them -- by email from the csnet info-server. Here is an index provided by the server, with instruction on how to send requests to it: Request: mod.sources Topic: index-volume4 Updated: 5 Feb 87 ============================================================================== CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC) Hotline: 617/497-2777 10 Moulton Street Email: cic@sh.cs.net Cambridge, MA 02238 Info-Server requests to: info-server@sh.cs.net ============================================================================== MOD.SOURCES INDEX-VOLUME4 ALL TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS Mod.sources topics come in three varieties: 1) Complete in one file. Example: 'dither' 2) A set of files corresponding to subtopics. Example: 'bourne' (set of 9 files) 3) A single file, corresponding to a subtopic. (You might want to request this if you have an incomplete set.) Example: 'smallc/Part3' You may request an indefinite number of topics and subtopics in one message. To request these three examples, send the following message. (You may use either upper or lower case letters.) To: info-server@sh.cs.net Request: mod.sources Topic: dither Topic: bourne Topic: smallc/Part3 Request: end The 'bourne' topic returns 9 subtopics in separate messages, each with a length of 60K bytes or less. The other two topics each return one message. You also receive a query receipt message, so this request causes the Info-Server to send you a total of 12 messages. This index for mod.sources, volume4, Topic: 'index-volume4', lists all topics and subtopics. 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