ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) (fwd)

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

  Hi all,

  I haven't had a look at this yet, but I'm sure some of you will be 
interested.  

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:23:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@example.com>
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Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)


Dear LaTeX2e users,


I've uploaded version 4.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


PS: The source part will be found unpacked!


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


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Version 4.1.0:  new:
20-Nov-1996         ttf2pk:
                      a new parameter -e has been introduced for selecting
                      the font encoding; possible values are `Big5' (the
                      default), `EUC' for extended Unix codes (JIS, GB, KS,
                      etc.), `SJIS', and `X'. The last value will treat the
                      TTF file as SJIS encoded but expects start_char in
                      JIS encoding (routines are in coding.{c,h}).

                      a new parameter -r has been introduced for rotating
                      the glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if its value
                      is non-zero. See ttf2pk.1 for details.

                      Some preliminary support for composite glyphs has been
                      included. Since hinting instructions are not supported
                      yet this is only of some academic interest. You can
                      watch the funny results with the mingli system font of
                      the traditional Chinese Windows 3.1 .

                      Support for different horizontal and vertical
                      resolutions has been added. Now you have one more
                      parameter to call ttf2pk:

                        ttf2pk pkname tfmname xres yscale startch nmbch ...

                      Currently you have to change yscale by hand in
                      MakeTTFPK (or makettfp.btm). [yres = xres * scale]

                      The source code has been prepared for pretty-printing
                      with c2cweb. Say `make documentation OS=<SYSTEM>' to
                      produce it (of course after installing the c2cweb
                      package). You will find precomputed .dvi files in the
                      `rest' part of the CJK package.

                    HSIEH Tung-Han <thhsieh@example.com>
                      contributed NTeXb5.doc for installing the CJK package
                      under NTeX.

                    hbf2gf:
                      if called in METAFONT-like mode, one additional
                      parameter has been added to allow printers with
                      different horizontal and vertical resolutions:

                        hbf2gf config_file subfont_nmb x_resolution y_scale

                      (y_resolution = x_resolution * y_scale; y_scale must
                      be a real number > 0; currently you must change y_scale
                      by hand in MakeTeXPK/maketexp.btm)

                      hbf2gf will now produce a .pl file even if in
                      METAFONT-like mode.

                      a new config file option `rotation' will rotate the
                      glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if set to `yes'.

                    vertical presentation forms of Big5 punctuation
                      characters added to punctuation tables in CJK.enc .

                    CJKvert.sty for vertical typesetting added. This is an
                      experimental feature! Please read vertical.doc for
                      further details.

*                   MakeTeXPK and friends:
*                     it's no longer necessary to rename TTF files to avoid
*                     underline characters. A configuration file will now be
*                     used (ttf2pk.cfg) which resides in $TTF2PKDIR (usually
*                     $TEXMF/ttf2pk) to describe the various TTF files.
*                     Please rename e.g. ntukai.ttf back to ntu_kai.ttf .
*                     The environment variable $TTFDIR has become obsolete.

                      The teTeX variants of the scripts can now produce tfm
                      files on demand---it's sufficient to simply install
                      the source files of a new font.

                changed:
*                   rubi.sty has been renamed to ruby.sty; the same is
*                     true for all commands in it: \ruby, \rubyoverlap etc.

                    new version (1.5) of ntu2cjk.

                    hbf2gf:
                      the option `target_size' has been removed. It will
                      be ignored now.

                      under DOS and OS/2 both `\' and `/' will be now
                      recognized as a path separator.

                    ttf2pk:
                      the -s parameter (to select a design size) has been
                      removed. The program now always assume a design size
                      of 10pt.

                      the parameter end_char has been replaced with
                      nmb_of_char (max. 256).

                      begin_char can now be either decimal, hexadecimal
                      (prefix `0x'), or octal (prefix `0').

                      x_offset and y_offset behave now similar to hbf2gf
                      (and most people would expect it that way): a positive
                      x (y) value shifts right (up); default is zero for
                      both parameters using the default placement as given
                      in the TTF file. The values are no longer integers but
                      real numbers and should be multiples of design size.

                      horz_esc and vert_esc are now real numbers too and
                      should be multiples of design size.

                      you no longer need to use -W, -H, and -D for getting
                      resolution independent .tfm files. ttf2pk now
                      correctly uses the values of the TTF file.

*                     PLEASE RECREATE ALL .TFM (AND .PK) FILES! Sorry for
*                     this inconvenience. I hope it will be the last time.
*                     Due to some optimizations the .pk files are about 5%
*                     smaller now.

                      The TTF part of the source code has been transformed
                      into a library (ttflib); the makefile has been
                      rewritten with a new syntax. Say `make' for details.

                    utils/ttf2pk/README.b5 and INSTALL.bg5 removed. They
                      were out of date.

                    modified MakeTTFPK/MakeTeXPK/InstallFont and
                      makettfp.btm/maketexp.btm/instfont.btm scripts.







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