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What's New in ChText

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ChText is a versatile PinYin-file 
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Chinese-file interpreter. Its 
ideas are totally different from the ones seen in familiar traditional 
Chinese editors. Why should there be such differences? and what are these 
differences? Below, the author tries to explain these two points.

Till today, the known popular Chinese editors, regardless of the inputing
schemes (such as CCDOS WordStar, TianMa, FeiMa, WuBiZiXing), are nothing beyond
WYSWYG-type (what you see is what you get). These packages are good at
visibility while editing, and they are usually used on IBM compatible
and Macintosh personal computers, and normally requires special Chinese
operating systems to boot the machine. However, their shortcomings are
fatal, and un-overcomeable. These shortcomings include slowness in input,
and, especially, high brain and eye-movement intensity. Consider
the situation while you are typing English, your fingers are just flipping
mechanically, and your eyes and attention can be concentrated on the screen
on the article you are typing. This can guarantee you to type a good
article.
 On the other hand, while you are using
a Chinese WordStar, your attention of your eyes and brain are always
busy switching between typing, picking (from multiple HanZi) and
the logical of the article. If you keep doing this continuously for
2 hours, you will feel your back hurt, eyes sore and brain exhausted. There
is no any enjoyment to talk about, and when it comes
next time for you to type Chinese, you feel scared.
 This is the experience I got in the past three
years using Chinese software.

What does
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ChText
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do, then? First of all, ChText is not an editor; rather,
it is a PinYin 
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interpreter. That is, you can use any editor to
create your PinYin file once for all without interruption,
 just like typing English.
 Then, you will run ChText once for all to pick HanZi for
those PinYin who have multiple corresponding Chinese characters, since no one
can beat the fact that for a single pronunciation there are many
Chinese characters. So what's good about ChText? Actually ChText has employed
the idea of assembly-line that was created in industry revolution. That is,
at the first stop of the assembly-line, you do nothing but using
a general purpose editor
to create a PinYin file, keeping your logical thinking of the article 
flow continuously. At the second stop, you do nothing but picking a suitable
Chinese character for each PinYin. If attention is paid to combine
Chinese characters into phrases (Ci2Zu3) (such as wo3-men2 = we) and
append abbreviations of spelling of PianPang to PinYin, the speed of picking  
process can be greatly increased. This application of assembly-line
idea will doubtlessly lighten the intensity of typist's brain and eye
energy consumption.

Besides Chinese PinYin, there can also be English, Japanese, Greek, Russian
and Chinese-mode English letters in ChText manuscript file. These are
controlled by ChText mode switching commands.

ChText can't be called a perfect package yet, but the author expects to
bring the Chinese-inputting speed of ChText to that of an exiting  good 
Chinese editor on a terminal without graphics mode, and the speed should
be increased 3-4 times on a personal computer or WorkStation with graphics
capability.

The authors is already ready for reader's feedback.


JB Wang



