haccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway) (04/24/91)
In article <2562@fornax.UUCP> liu@fornax.UUCP (Lixin Liu) writes: > >Hi, I have a few questions about dviscr from emTeX, hope someone could answer >them. > [ 1 question deleted] >2. I have used poorman Chinese and Japanese macros and fonts with emTeX. > I have to use btex.exe to make it works. When I try to display the article, > I got the error 2100:DVI file corrupted (undefined font). Same DVI file > displayed correctly on SUN 4 using xdvi. At beginning I thought this is > because dviscr running out of memory. So I decide to display only two > characters. The DVI file generated by btex correctly displayed by dviscr, > but error 2100 happened again when I use blatex.exe (dvips produced a > correct postscript file). > >Lixin >liu@cs.sfu.ca Due to the large number of fonts which may be used --- and most likely will be used in any reasonably large sample of text --- poorman's Chinese and Japanese (or for that matter any similarly structured system which deals with the large hanzi/kanji character sets through a multiplicity of fonts, e.g. JEMTEX or jTeX) will break many dvi translators which are not expecting any dvi file to actually use a significant number of different fonts on a single page. . . . "will break many dvi translators" includes _every_ dvi translator running on a PC which I have tried so far. I would be pleased to hear of any success people are having with dvi translators on PCs or Macs which do handle kanji/hanzi without going bang. [No, I don't need to hear about dvi translators which succeed in printing kana only]. cheers, Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing Center/NorthWest Computing Support Center 35 Thomson Hall, University of Washington, DR-10 Seattle, WA 98195 phone: (206)-543-4218 Internet: ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -