CEFSCONV(1)

💖 NAME 💖

cefsconv — the lil filter that takes a TeX document in SJIS encoding stuffed full of CEF macros and turns it into its “preprocessed” form. slay ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cefsconv < infile > outfile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, story time. The Chinese Encoding Framework (CEF for short, we love an acronym) was made by Christian Wittern <cwittern@conline.central.de> and what it does is let you drop CJK characters in alllll kinds of encodings into your doc using these SGML macros: &CX-aabb; for Big 5 and CNS encoding, and &U-aabb; for Unicode. 🌈

so like, about that X — it's a number from 0 to 7, and here's the tea: 0 means Big 5 encoding, and 1-7 mean CNS encoding planes 1-7. and aabb? that's either a decimal or a hexadecimal number. your choice, main character. 💅

cefsconv takes the CEF macros in a SJIS encoded document together with the SJIS encoding itself and converts the whole thing into a form that can be directly processed with LaTeX 2e. iconic behavior fr fr.

and ngl, it's literally identical to running this:

sjisconv < infile | cefconv > outfile

same energy, just one command instead of two. 💖

oh and also? this filter is part of the CJK macro package for LaTeX 2e. so you know it's got good genes. 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

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

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> — the actual legend behind this 💜

no cap, go read the friends listed above if you wanna fully understand the pipeline. iykyk. 💀✨

okay that's the whole page!! this was CJK Version 4.8.5, dated 16-Oct-2021 — and yes, cefsconv(1) is the manual we've been vibing in this whole time 🎀🦋 bye bestie, go convert something gorgeous 💅💖