Re: Typesetting Japanese
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:47 +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> 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 re-downloaded japanese_template.cjk and got the same output as
above. :-(
> 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.
Hmm, tried this, but it won't even display Japanese characters in
japanese_template.cjk or japanese_template.tex :-(
Thanks,
-Adam
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