[tlug] Re: Printing Japanese

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> さんは書きました:

> Other possibilities would be CJK-latex (probably available as a .deb,
> or straight from CTAN), and latex-utf8 (or something like that, but I
> don't know that it can handle Japanese).

It's called latex-ucs. It doesn't handle Japanese but you can use it
together with CJK-LaTeX if you want to write for example German *and*
Japanese in the same file and don't write the German umlauts with
TeX-macros like \"o but write them in UTF-8 directly.

> I've only used cjk-latex for about 8 characters, it worked but it
> was inconvenient to set up,

Yes, it is quite difficult to set up. I made packages for SuSE which
already contain the font-setup for the most common free CJK fonts,
i.e. with the SuSE package it works out of the box.

When I last checked, the Debian packages were only setup for the
Chinese Arphic fonts, for Japanese one had to do the setup manually
which is really a pain.

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@example.com>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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