A Chinese Information Processing System

The Chinese information processing system(CIPS)introduced in this paper can producegraphs,tables,flowcharts,mathematical equations,forms and also provides typesettingfacilities.The system can process not only Chinese text but also English text or a mixture ofthem.It is written in C language and runs on VAX Ⅱ/780 under Unix operating system.TheCIPS system is very easy to use and provides user-defined macro which allows abbreviationsof commonly used Chinese phrases and reduce the complexity of Chinese characters coding.