Re: Typesetting Japanese

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

Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Hello and thanks for the reply,
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 15:30 +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Okay, I tried cjk-write-file and sjislatex, with the examples and with
> my own files, and it always stops with something like:
>
> % sjislatex japanese_template.tex
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> entering extended mode
> (./japanese_template.cjk
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/ruby.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/CJK.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/mule/MULEenc.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/CJK.enc))) (./japanese_template.aux)
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \mule@� ...ber `�\endcsname {#1}\CJK@ignorespaces
>
> l.17 ^^?�^^?177^^?
>                   ^^?�^^?234^^?^^?�^^?205^^? ^^?�^^?250^^?^^?�^^?123^^?^^?�^...
>
> ?
>
> I've tried a lot of variations of templates, load options, ways to
> indicate that a file is sjis, etc. and nothing seems to work.
>
> This is very frustrating. :-(

Yes, indeed.

I guess it's because japanese_template.tex is written in sjis using 
emacs which has its own Japanese input method. Therefore, it has to be 
converted *inside* emacs. I downloaded the (converted) 
japanese_template.cjk from the web page and "latex 
japanese_template.cjk" and "pdflatex japanese_template.cjk" produced the 
right output. I'm ignorant about emacs, unfortunately. I don't use it.

I don't write Japanese very often but when I have to, I use gedit with 
LC_CTYPE set to ja_JP.eucjp. (My default locale is en_US.utf8). I have this
	alias eucgedit="LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucjp gedit"
in my .bashrc to call gedit. I can then simply use latex or pdflatex to 
compile the latex source. I use scim + anthy as input method. All 
packages are installed via apt-get.

AFAIK, ja_JP.sjis is not provided out of the box in debian.

Regards,
ST
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