From: Eric Durant <edurant@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: TeX virgin, wanting to output Japanese
Date: 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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Grant Ito wrote:
>I had heard that it is possible (and potentially least costly
>method) to output Japanese using TeX, so I've started researching
>what it would take. I've never used TeX before and am wondering
>what all I would need to do this on my Windows 98 machine.

You might also want to consider JWP, a free Japanese word processor
for Win3.1+.  It is designed for non-Japanese Windows, has fluid kana
and kanji input methods and loads/saves several character encodings
(SJIS, EUC, ...).  OTOH, TeX would give you better output in most
cases, but it has a much steeper learning curve.

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/japanese/monash/jwp131.rme

-- Eric Durant
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