[texhax] Typing Chinese with plain TeX

[Rodolfo Medina]

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	Tang wrote:
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"Rodolfo Medina" <romeomedina at libero.it> writes:

> Hi, Tang:
>
> great! Now I can correctly visualise chinese characters in files.
> I followed the first procedure you suggested.
> First I checked the presence of the font name 'fangsong ti' with the command
>
>         $xfontsel
>
> . Then I said
>
>         emacs .emacs
>
> and added the lines you suggested at number 1) of your message.
> Then I closed Emacs, reopened it with the file math1gb.tex and...
> voil\`a! The chinese characters finally appeared.
> Besides, I can easily switch from chinese to english input method and vice
> versa just tiping 'C-\'.
> Fantastic!
Congratulation!
>
> Now I'm asking you two more things:
> 1) how is it possible to display chinese characters in emails, like you do,
> and in the same format you use,
>    which I find very nice
>    (though I send and receive e-mail using Windows and not Linux,
>     because I didn't manage to configure Internet connection with Linux);
   I use Gnus as my mail client. Since your Emacs handle chinese well now,
   then gnus also can display chinese. Please get the last release
   from Gnus homepage
   
       http://www.gnus.org
       
    The Gnus FAQ is a step by step turorial. you should read it
    carefully.

       http://my.gnus.org/FAQ/

   After you have finished Gnus installation, add this line in your
   .gnus.el file:

      (setq gnus-default-charset 'cn-gb-2312
          gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets '(unknown-8bit x-unknown
          iso-8859-1))

    in order to handle chinese characters.

   I use mule-gbk(http://mule-gbk.sourceforge.net) to deal with
   chinese, which is a bigger charset than cn-gb-2312. But I think
   gb2312 charset is enough for you.

   You can also install the *simsun.ttf*, which is a vector type
   font and have more pretty visual effect. Just change the font
   name 'Fangsong ti' to 'simsun'. 'Fangsong ti' is a
   bitmap font. so can't be zoomed in and out arbitrarily.

   You even can specify different fonts for ascii characters and
   chinese characters:

      Edit the .emacs:

      (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
          "-*-courier new-normal-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-chinese,
          chinese-gb2312:-*-fangsong
ti-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0" t)

      (setq default-frame-alist
                (append
                 '((font . "fontset-chinese"))
                 default-frame-alist))

     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
     OR

     Edit you ~/.Xdefaults
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Emacs.Font: fontset-chinese
     Emacs.Fontset-0:-*-courier new-normal-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-chinese,\
          chinese-gb2312:-*-fangsong ti-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0
     --------------------------------------------------------------------------

     $xrdb ~/.Xdefaults

     restart Emacs.

     This setting let emacs handle ascii characters with 'courier
     new' and handle chinese characters with 'fangsong ti'.

     
> 2) how can I do a surprise to my sister and type in Chinese the message
>         'Welcome back home, Carolina!'
>    that I can show her next week?
>

    'h' 'u' 'a' 'n' '1'
    'y' 'i' 'n' 'g' '5'
    'n' 'i' '1'
    'h' 'u' 'i' '2'
    'j' 'i' 'a' '1'
    ','
    'Carolina!'

    You will get "欢迎你回家, Carolian!"。:)
    
> Thanks again for your precious help,
>                                 		Rodolfo
>
>
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