| From : kiky (박 용 섭) Date : Fri Nov 13 19:55:32 1992 Subject: Mule 베타 발표 ... 안녕하십니까. 얼마전에 Usenet에 Mule(MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs) 의 베타 발표가 있었습니다. 지금 일본어, 중국어, 한국어와 유럽의 여러 언어들을 지원한다고 하니 관심 있는 분들을 위해서 발표문을 헤더까지 손대지 않고 그대로 전재 합니다. 도움이 되시기를 ... 시카고에서 박 용 섭 -------------------------------------- Article 8441 of soc.culture.korean: Xref: news.acns.nwu.edu soc.culture.korean:8441 soc.culture.asean:13031 soc.culture.asian.american:13407 Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.asian.american Path: news.acns.nwu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-b arr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!etl.go.jp!handa From: handa@etlken.etl.go.jp (Kenichi Handa) Subject: Announce of Mule Ver.0.9.6 beta Message-ID: <HANDA.92Nov6202604@etlken.etl.go.jp> Sender: news@etl.go.jp (News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: etlken Organization: Electrotechnical Lab., Japan. Distribution: soc Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:26:04 GMT Lines: 221 Mule Beta Release Announcement Now we are beta testing Mule (MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs) and are trying to find "rugged" users who are familiar with both GNU Emacs and one of the languages that Mule can support. Mule is a modified version of GNU Emacs 18.58, it is distributed as a complete tar file or as a patch to 18.58. Mule can support a larger set of characters sets, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Europeans. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@etl.go.jp ---------- From README.Mule ---------------------------------------- ############################################################ 0. INTRODUCTION 1. WHAT IS MULE 2. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES 3. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS 4. INSTALLATION 5. DOCUMENTS 6. DISTRIBUTION 7. MAILING LIST ############################################################ 0. INTRODUCTION This directory contains the distribution of Mule Ver.0.9.6 beta. Mule is free software distributed either as patches to GNU Emacs (18.58) or as a complete tar file. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. Mule is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 1. WHAT IS MULE? Mule is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs. It can handle not only ASCII characters (7 bits) and ISO Latin-1 (8 bits), but also Japanese, Chinese, Korean (16 bits) coded in the ISO2022 standard and its variants (e.g. EUC, Compound Text). For Chinese there is support for both GB and Big5. A text buffer in Mule can contain a mixture of characters from these languages. To input any of these characters, you can use various input methods provided by Mule itself. In addition, if you use Mule under some terminal emulator (kterm, cxterm, or exterm), you can use any input methods supported by the emulator. 2. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES 2.0 ENGLISH Just type in. :-) 2.1 JAPANESE It is strongly recommended to install Wnn4.108. EGG system bundled with Mule can communicate with jserver of Wnn and provide you a very convenient Japanese inputting method. See 'doc/EGG' for the usage of this system. You can run Mule as a client of X window, or run it under some Japanese terminal (including such emulators as kterm and exterm). In the latter case, you can use any inputting methods supported by the terminal. Among other inputting methods are: EGG-SJ3, CANNA (bundled with Mule) SKK, boiled-egg (in 'contrib' directory) 2.2 CHINESE It is strongly recommended to install Wnn4.108. EGG system bundled with Mule can communicate with cserver of cWnn and provide you a very convenient Chinese (GB) inputting method. See 'doc/EGG' for the usage of this system. You can run Mule as a client of X window, or run it under some Chinese terminal (including such emulators as cxterm and exterm). In the latter case, you can use any inputting methods supported by the terminal. QUAIL system (bundled with Mule) also provides several inputting methods for: GB: PINYIN, PINYIN_with_TONE, CCDOSPY, SW Big5: PINYIN, ETZY, ZOZY See 'doc/QUAIL' for the usage of this system. Subscribers of alt.chinese.text will find it very useful to use GNUS (news reader written in Emacslisp) with hz2gb.el (in 'contrib/lisp.tar.Z'). It encodes/decodes HZ/zW encoding to/from Mule internal code automatically. 2.3 KOREAN Korean inputting method is provided by QUAIL system (bundled with Mule). See 'doc/QUAIL' for the usage of this system. You can run Mule as a client of X window, or run it under Hangul terminal or exterm. 2.4 EUROPEAN Many kinds of European character inputting methods are provided by QUAIL system (bundled with Mule). For the moment, QUAIL provides inputting methods for: Latin1, Latin2,.. Latin5, Greek (ISO8859-7), Hebrew (ISO8859-8), Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) See 'doc/QUAIL' for the usage of this system. As for Hebrew, however, right-to-left writing is not yet supported. Please wait for the next version. 2.5 OTHER LANGUAGES In the next version, we'll support Thai and Vietnamese. Arabic and Devanagali are also in our target, but we don't know if we can support them by the next version. We may need more time. 3. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS Basically, Mule runs on any systems (and machines) on which GNU Emacs runs. In addition, several systems (including MS-DOS) are supported. See etc/MACHINES. 4. INSTALLATION To install Mule, see INSTALL.Mule. 5. DOCUMENTS For the moment, we have the following documents. 'etc' directory contains: FAQ (for original GNU Emacs in English) FAQ.jp (for original GNU Emacs in Japanese) FAQ.Mule (for Mule in English) FAQ.Mule.jp (for Mule in Japanese) emacs.1 (man file for original GNU Emacs in English) mule.1 (man file for Mule in English) 'info' directory contains: emacs (for original GNU Emacs in English) mule-jp (for Mule in Japanese) egg-jp (for EGG in Japanese) canna-jp (for CANNA in Japanese) You may also find various documents under 'doc' directory. Especially, please refer 'doc/TERMINOLOGY' if you find unknown terms. Novice users may have to read 'doc/X11', 'doc/EGG', and 'doc/QUAIL'. The file NEWFEATURE is also very important. Since many of these documents (including this file) are written by non English-native (it's me), you may find may curious expressions. Please correct them. In addition, we are looking for volunteers who translate the documents to Chinese, Korean, and the other langauges. 6. DISTRIBUTION Mule is available by anonymous ftp from: etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]:/pub/mule sh.wide.ad.jp [133.4.11.11]:/JAPAN/mule If you are accessing from out of Japan, please use the latter site, which is faster. Either ftp the complete tar file (mule-0.9.6.tar.Z), *or* if you have an unmodified GNU Emacs 18.58 you can ftp just the patch file (diff-18.58-0.9.6.Z) and apply that. If you find a patch with version number higher than 0.9.6, apply that also. These directories contain several other useful files such as X's fonts and contributed softwares. See the file '00README'. We are looking for ftp sites out of Japan. If you can kindly provide this service, please send mail to handa@etl.go.jp. If you can't get Mule by ftp, please send request to mule-request@etl.go.jp. We send you patches by mail. 7. MAILING LIST We are running two mailing lists: mule@etl.go.jp (main language: English) mule-jp@etl.go.jp (main language: Japanese) All mails to mule@etl.go.jp are also sent to mule-jp@etl.go.jp. We ask everyone who gets Mule to join one of these mailing-list. Please send requests of subscribing/unsubscribing to: mule-request@etl.go.jp saying which mailing list you want to join. Note that you can use other languages than 'main' on both lists. You can read/write any languages by Mule. At last, we are deeply grateful to the current members of mailing lists for their cooperation. --- Ken'ichi HANDA Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN. <handa@etl.go.jp> Satoru TOMURA Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN. <tomura@etl.go.jp> Mikiko NISIKIMI Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN. <nisikimi@etl.go.jp> |