[comp.text.tex] Japanese emTeX Version 2.00

jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert) (04/29/91)

Dear netters,

I just released Version 2.00 of my freeware Japanese [La]TeX system. JemTeX is 
a package containing everything needed to typeset beautiful Japanese text. You 
should, of course, already have a Japanese text editor, TeX, and METAFONT. 
Turbo-Pascal sources and executables are included for DOS computers. UNIX 
users are now supplied with C programs (gcc) so they too can enjoy JemTeX. 

If you are interested in METAFONT code for japanese and chinese, the program 
jis2mf will interest you. This much improved program generates automatically 
METAFONT code out of 24*24 bitmap files. Smoother and better positioned 
japanese characters are the main improvements. METAFONT code for 61 japanese 
fonts of 128 characters covering punctuation, english, hiraganas, katakanas, 
and kanjis (level 1 and 2) is included indirectly in JemTeX. 

My program jem2tex will turn the output of your favorite DOS or UNIX japanese 
text editor into a standard TeX, LaTeX, or MuTeX document. Thanks to several 
users from Japan, it handles fine points of japanese punctuation, spacing, and 
hyphenation much better than before. Switching to C for jem2tex.exe has also 
improved the speed substantially since Turbo-C has buffered I/O for non-text
files, contrary to Turbo-Pascal. 

The file JEMTEX2.ZIP includes a 40 page long user's guide jguide.tex where you 
can find all the details. It is (or will be available soon) from: 

  SIMTEL (USA) (tenex) (192.88.110.20) or? (26.2.0.74) 
  utsun (Japan) (binary) (133.11.11.11)

Please feel free to contact me if you wish more information, or simply to be 
put on my mailing list which is only now officially beginning. 

                                         Francois Jalbert
                                         <jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
                                         <jalbert@CS.UBC.CA>