ptex(1) General Commands Manual ptex(1)
NAME
ptex, uptex, eptex, euptex - Japanese "Publishing TeX"
SYNOPSIS
ptex [options] [&format] [file|\commands]
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.
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):
-kanji string
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-internal string
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>
AUTHORS
This version of (e-)(u)pTeX is maintained by Japanese TeX Development
Community <https://texjp.org>. For bug reports, open an issue at
GitHub repository <https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build>, or send
an e-mail to <issue@texjp.org>.
This manual page was written by Hironobu Yamashita.
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