CWPR, a Chinese/Japanese word-processing system for use with the unix device-independent troff system

Abstract

A description is given of a collection of programs developed at UCLA for use with the programs of the standard device-independent TROFF (DITROFF) distribution, which allow user-customized Latin input of Chinese and Japanese on a high-resolution Apollo workstation and typesetting of this input on some of the devices supported by DITROFF. The input can be set to the standard, essentially unchanged, DITROFF, which has been supplied with tables describing the constant widths of all the characters of the JIS character set, and for which device drivers have been written to print the 24 multiplied by 24 bitmaps for these characters. The only change to the standard distributed DITROFF was to provide larger constant values for internal array upper bounds so that the full complement of 255 fonts and 512 different special characters could be handled.