cxterm >> related softwares

• celvis/cvi -- edit Chinese like vi in double-byte

  This program is composed by the original authors of cxterm: Man-Chi Pong and Yongguang Zhang. It's based on "elvis-1.3" (a vi/ex clone). No change since 1991. Download from here.

  After `make`, you'll get the executable as "celvis". Then you are suggested to alias celvis to cvi. It deletes/moves in double-byte.

  **On Mandriva 2007, in cxterm, ordinary vi/vim can now move/delete in double-byte.

• ccal -- display both solar and lunar calendar

  Usage: ccal month [4-digit-year]
  Acceptable date range: 2/1900 -- 12/2049

  I wrote this short Python script is because I often need check which day is a lunar holiday, so that I can send greetings to my family/friends on time. It is based on "lunar-2.1.tgz" (1992) of Fung F. Lee and Ricky Yeung. Python (2.0 or above) is required to run it. Recent ccal (version 0.3.1) is here.

  2 example outputs of `ccal` are as follows:
  

      
• For users' reference, the original "lunar" program is here: lunar-2.1.tgz (size: 10k). It can also calculate the mystical birthday 8-Character used by most Chinese fortune-tellers. A sample output of `lunar` is:
  

The following are some softwares I personally used a lot (if you feel interested, please search on internet for recent versions):

• stardic -- A GUI English-Chinese dictionary by Ma SuAn.

  Selecting an English word can pop up its Chinese meaning.

• stardict on sourceforge: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/

  Stardict contains more dictionaries, supports en-cn/cn-en 2-way translation also, and supports mouse-selection-on-screen.

  For stardict installation on Mandriva 2007, when I tried to install the rpms one by one, it always complained rpm dependency problem, until finally I tried to install them altogether:
  urpmi stardict-2.4.8-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm stardict-xdict-en-zh_CN-2.4.2-3mdk.noarch.rpm stardict-xdict-zh_CN-en-2.4.2-3mdk.noarch.rpm

  
• cdict -- command-line en-cn and cn-en dictionary.

  Rich explanations.

  I downloaded it from somewhere on internet, anyway, here is a copy: cdict-1.0-1.src.rpm.

• transtar -- GUI en-cn and cn-en paragraph translation software by Cosix Linux. The downloadable Cosix Linux version has it.

  Google, Yahoo now has online translation tools.

• miniChinput on sourceforge: http://minichinput.sourceforge.net/
• zhxwin -- an XIM method based on Chinput, by Gong Min.
• zhCon (a CJK virtual console, not under X-Windows) on sourceforge: http://zhcon.sourceforge.net/
• cjk-latex -- CJK-Latex printing system.

  If you want to print out decent reports, follow instructions on internet. OpenOffice can now print good TTF Chinese also.

• bg5ps/gbps -- Chinese TTF printing software, obtain from Mandrake Linux.

  For simple text printing, nice TTF fonts, much better than good-old-days' HBF fonts.

• zh-autoconverter -- Best Chinese converter between Big5 and GB that I found so far.

  Obtain from Mandrake Linux.

• Chinese-Howto -- More info about Chinese on Linux.

  See it at linux.org.

• LinuxForum.net -- More discussions about Chinese on Linux.
• Classification of all linux softwares:
  • Linux Software Encyclopedia ;
  • Linux Applications and Utilities Page ;
  • Scientific Applications on Linux

Last updated on Feb/25/2007 by Changsen Xu.