Re: [tlug] XeLaTeX and Japanese (Was: Broken PDF printers and Closed fon spots)

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 10 September 2011 01:08, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:

>  > About five years ago I discovered the joy of Xe(La)Tex which solved all my
>  > font problems and is wonderfully Unicode-happy as well. However, it is
>  > apparently not very good at typesetting Japanese,
>
> Oh?  I use it for all my Japanese stuff.  Nothing book-length, but I
> can't say I'm at all dissatisfied.

I changed to xelatex last year when an Ubuntu upgrade (sic) blew
away my previous workaround (platex). It's working OK (sort-of)
but I have to flag every Japanese string (e.g. \jp{日本語}) which is
a pain the arse at times.

It's OK if you are doing document entirely in Japanese, but for a
paper, etc. that is mostly in English, it seems there is no alternative.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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