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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 03:19:47 +0100
From: Siepiau Pang <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Foreign languages on Amiga


Here is some information concerning using Japanese text on Amigas:

I know of only 2 PD(?) JIS text readers: jmore and jistoji. Both are available
on Aminet. jmore requires a set of kanji fonts which is not included in the
jmore archive. The fonts can be obtained on Aminet: @file{text/font/amknj16.lha}

I don't know of any JIS text editors which are free...

The following section is lifted from

  JAPAN.INF Version 1.2
  ELECTRONIC HANDLING OF JAPANESE TEXT
  March 20, 1992
  Ken R. Lunde
  Adobe Systems Incorporated
  1585 Charleston Road
  P.O. Box 7900
  Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA
  [phone] (home)
  [phone] (office)
  [phone] (fax)
  [e-mail]


8.6: AMIGA
     ANS (Amiga Nihongo System) version 1.0, produced by SoftHouse Tecnode
(102 Coupo Izumi, 1-4-5 Houya-shi, Izumi-machi, Tokyo 202 JAPAN), and
distributed in Japan by MIQ Japan, Ltd., has been released in Japan. It offers
a Japanese environment for Commodore Amiga users, is compatible with Amiga OS
2.0 (works fine with version 1.3, too), and requires at least 1MB RAM (more
recommended). ANS features Japanese windows/menus (these replace the English
menus), 12 and 24 dot-matrix Japanese fonts, Jinput/Joutput (both constitute a
Japanese front-end processor), XEDmini (a simple Japanese text editor with
built-in font editor, and can be used as a Japanese terminal), a kana-to-kanji
conversion dictionary for XEDmini and Jinput, Jfilter (for viewing Japanese
files while connected to an MS-DOS console), and utilities for Japanese code
conversion and communication. Note that XEDmini uses pcj (Japanese version of
pcd) for communications, and that one can do binary uploads/downloads while
working on files). I hear that it is reasonably priced, and very easy to use.
I was also told that the next release of ANS will be the Spring of 1992.
     JemTeX is a preprocessor that turns a Japanese text file (i.e., a TeX
file with Japanese text) into a standard (La/Mu)TeX file. The archive (zipped)
comes with the jis2mf utility along with a 24-dot bitmapped kanji font and a
program for generating kanji tables. With jis2mf you can make metafont files
out of the bitmapped font. JemTeX v2.0 will compile on an Amiga using Lattice
C, or on a UNIX machine using gcc. This program is available at the FTP site
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (133.11.11.11). JemTeX v2.0 was written by Francois
Jalbert ([e-mail] or [e-mail]).