ptex1
Japanese "publishing tex"
Usage
ptex [options]
[&format]
[{file | \commands}]
Overview
pTeX (ptex) is a TeX engine with extensions for Japanese typesetting, including features related to line breaking rules, inter-character spacing and vertical writing. It was first developed by ASCII Corporation, in the aim of providing a Japanese TeX which can be used for commercial publishing. For pTeX, the character set available is limited to JIS X 0208, namely JIS level-1 and level-2.
upTeX (uptex) is a Unicode-enabled pTeX with extensions for better handling of CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) multilingual documents. It has been developed by Takuji Tanaka since 2007.
e-pTeX (eptex) is a merge of e-TeX and pTeX.
e-upTeX (euptex) is a merge of e-TeX and upTeX.
In the following sections, we refer to these engines as (e-)(u)pTeX.
(e-)(u)pTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of the other TeX programs in the web2c implementation.
Options
Here we list only additions/deletions of command line options which are specific to (e-)(u)pTeX. For (u)pTeX, other options are similar to TeX. For e-(u)pTeX, other options are similar to e-TeX.
- Additions (supported by ptexenc library):
-kanjistring-
Sets the input Japanese Kanji code. The string can be either euc (EUC-JP), jis (ISO-2022-JP), sjis (Shift_JIS), and utf8 (UTF-8). For (e-)upTeX, uptex is also allowed.
-kanji-internalstring-
Sets the internal Kanji code. The string can be either euc, and sjis. For (e-)upTeX, uptex is also allowed.
- Deletions:
-
-enc -
In this version of (e-)(u)pTeX, encTeX extensions are not available.
Releases
10 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 6 times.
-enc since Debian 10 (Buster).
-fmt until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-help until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-ini until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-progname until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-shell-escape until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-verbose until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-version until Debian 4.0 (Etch).