[tlug] Re: Pretty Japanese font for latex-cjk beamer presentation

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

John Fremlin writes:

 > It seems I managed to install the IPA fonts via some Ubuntu package, but
 > they were not liked by anybody. Perhaps I was using the monospace
 > variants.

All Japanese fonts are monospace, for all practical purposes.  When
mixed with non-Asian text, there may be some kerning involved, but
native Japanese text is always a brick. ;-)

 > At the presentation I tried showing versions with two IPA
 > fonts (goth and maru?) and met with audience disdain.

I'm curious, what did they say specifically?