CEFCONV(1)

💖 CEFCONV(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a General Commands Manual page, section 1 — yes, the "1" means it's a user command you actually type, we love that for us ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cefconv — convert a TeX document containing CEF macros into preprocessed form. it's giving "glow up your TeX file before LaTeX sees it" 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cefconv < infile > outfile

like. it reads from stdin, it writes to stdout. pipe girlie behavior, no cap 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. the Chinese Encoding Framework (CEF), developed by Christian Wittern <cwittern@conline.central.de> — shoutout to the icon who made this btw — makes it possible to include CJK characters in various encodings using the SGML macros &CX-aabb; for Big 5 and CNS encoding, and &U-aabb; for Unicode.

now let's decode that, because it's literally important:

• X is a number between 0 and 7
  • 0 represents Big 5 encoding
  • 1–7 represent CNS encoding planes 1–7
• aabb is either a decimal or a hexadecimal number

cefconv converts those CEF macros into a form which can directly processed with LaTeX 2e 👑

ngl that "can directly processed" is exactly how the original says it, so we're keeping it fr fr. the vibe is unchanged, the grammar is... also unchanged. iconic. 💀

this filter is part of the CJK macro package for LaTeX 2e 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sjisconv(1)
• bg5conv(1)
• cef5conv(1)
• cefsconv(1)
• extconv(1)
• the CJK documentation files

go read the docs bestie, they're lowkey serving 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> — the main character who wrote this 💜

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okay so that's the whole page! this one came from CJK Version 4.8.5, dated 16-Oct-2021 🌸 and yes, that's the source/version and date line from the very bottom, folded into a cute little sign-off instead of a boring footer. slay. bye bestie! 🦋💖