ptex, uptex, eptex, euptex - Japanese "Publishing TeX"
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Description
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.
Name
ptex, uptex, eptex, euptex - Japanese "Publishing TeX"
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.
See Also
tex(1), etex(1). Reference manual: <https://github.com/texjporg/ptex-manual>
Synopsis
ptex [options] [&format] [file|\commands]
