Re: CJK in (auctex)I18n

From: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CJK in (auctex)I18n
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:25:54 +0100 (CET)

> > How does Chinese use TeX?  Is there TeX specialized for Chinese?
> 
> There are special Chinese macro packages especially for LaTeX (zwtex
> is an example, IIRC).

Thank you.

>  Since the documentation is primarily in Chinese
> -- and my Chinese is rudimentary only -- I haven't further
> investigated how to use it.

I've found cTeX and ChinaTeX just a few hours ago, but their
documentation are also written in Chinese.

> > I installed and tried CJK-LaTeX yesterday.  I think that the week
> > point is lack of information to CJK-LaTeX.
> 
> What exactly do you mean?  You might try the development version from
> cjk.ffii.org which will eventually become version 4.5.3 soon, I hope.
 
Sorry!  I tried CJK-LaTeX 4.5.2.  I wanted to say that Japanese
document is too few.  So It is a charange for Japanese TeX
users, who use pTeX or jTeX, to install and use CJK-LaTeX.

(I changed appearance order, sorry)
> > The point is, at the present point, CJK-LaTeX can not substitute
> > pTeX and jTeX.
> 
> This was never the intention.  CJK-LaTeX is primarily a means to write
> documents in a western language (or any other script like Cyrillic
> which is supported `natively' within LaTeX) which contains CJK snippets.

I understand.  And, CJK-LaTeX has a advantage for Japanese when
they use Chinese or Korean chars in Japanese text ;)

I wanted to save pTeX and jTeX from regarding as an unnecessary
tool because there exists CJK-LaTeX.


> > It works with Japanese, but I couldn't find how to change font
> > family.
> 
> Have a look at the JIS.tex example file:
> 
>   \begin{CJK*}[dnp]{JIS}{min}
> 
> This is JIS input encoding for fonts with DNP font encoding, using
> font family `min' (this uses the c42min.fd font definition file).
> 
> If you want to use the cjk-enc.el file, look at the CJKbabel.tex
> example file:
> 
>   \CJKfontenc{JIS}{dnp}
>   \CJKencfamily[dnp]{JIS}{min}
> 
> The first command sets DNP font encoding as the default for Japanese,
> and the second command selects the `min' font as the default font for
> Japanese in DNP font encoding.

Thank you.  But I installed `Bitstream Cyberbit' font
  ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP
in order to display Japanese chars, so that I can't try your
solution, at once.  I will try later.

regards,
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email: [email protected]
Name:: Masayuki Ataka // (Japan)