Typesetting CJK Languages with Ω

This paper describes how to typeset Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages with Omega, a 16-bit extension of Donald Knuth’s TeX. In principle, Omega has no difficulty in typesetting those East Asian languages because of its internal representation using 16-bit Unicode. However, it has not bee...

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Hauptverfasser:	Cho, Jin-Hwan, Okumura, Haruhiko
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied sciences Blank Space Computer science control theory systems Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface Exact sciences and technology Input Stream Japanese Character Line Breaking Punctuation Mark Software
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Zusammenfassung:	This paper describes how to typeset Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages with Omega, a 16-bit extension of Donald Knuth’s TeX. In principle, Omega has no difficulty in typesetting those East Asian languages because of its internal representation using 16-bit Unicode. However, it has not been widely used in practice because of the difficulties in adapting it to CJK typesetting rules and fonts, which we will discuss in the paper.
ISSN:	0302-9743 1611-3349
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-540-27773-6_10