CEF5CONV(1)
π CEF5CONV(1) β the vibe-y manual π
cef5conv β converting a TeX document that's in Big 5 encoding and full of CEF macros into its preprocessed form. π
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
cef5conv < infile > outfile
That's it bestie. In goes the file, out comes the file. π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
okay so first, the lore. π
The Chinese Encoding Framework (CEF for short, iykyk) was developed by Christian Wittern <cwittern@conline.central.de>, and what it does is make it possible to include CJK characters in various encodings using SGML macros. Specifically:
&CX-aabb;β for Big 5 and CNS encoding&U-aabb;β for Unicode
And the X in there? It's a number between 0 and 7. So:
0= Big 5 encoding1β7= CNS encoding planes1β7
And aabb is either a decimal or hexadecimal number, so pick your fighter. π
Now the main character moment: cef5conv takes the CEF macros of a Big 5 encoded document together with the Big5 encoding itself and converts the whole thing into a form that can directly be processed with LaTeX 2e. π₯
It is literally, exactly identical to running:
bg5conv < infile | cefconv > outfile
Same energy. Same result. No cap. β¨
This filter is part of the CJK macro package for LaTeX 2e, so it's out here doing its lil job for the team. π«Ά
π SEE ALSO π
sjisconv(1)bg5conv(1)cefconv(1)cefsconv(1)extconv(1)- the CJK documentation files π
Go read the docs bestie, they ate. π
π AUTHOR π
Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> β iconic, legendary, we stan. π
CJK Version 4.8.5 β dated 16-Oct-2021. That's the version and the date, mwah, and that's the whole page. Bye bestie, go convert something gorgeous. πβ¨π¦πΈ
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