Re: Typesetting Japanese

[LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@polyu.edu.hk>]

Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to print something in Japanese, but am having trouble with
> both LaTeX and OpenOffice.
>
> In LaTeX, I downloaded the packages specified at
> http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/tex/japanese_latex.html including
> cjk-latex, hbf-kanji48, latex-cjk-japanese and
> latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab.  And I included the same \usepackage
> commands, and even used the provided templates.  And running "latex" or
> "pdflatex" with a JIS or Shift-JIS file showed the same output as on
> that page.  But latex ignored the Japanese, just treating it as a few
> broken Roman characters to lay out, e.g. throwing errors when it
> encountered an _ character.

Perhaps you can try "sjislatex yourfile.tex" on the SJIS tex source 
file. You can also take a look at the examples directory in the cjk 
installation.

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> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam

BTW, are the Adam Powell who maintains petsc in debian?

Hope this helps,
ST
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