On Wednesday 17 October 2007 07:51:51 Adam C Powell IV wrote: > 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. I haven't used it myself, but xetex is supposedly very good/popular for typesetting any sort of unicode scripts. I know of people using it for Unicode PUA scripts, etc. I believe it handles CJK very well. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex It's also in Debian as texlive-xetex. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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