Re: Typesetting Japanese
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:51:51AM -0400, 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.
>
I didn't try cjk latex for at least a decade (just joking but at least
since woody) so I can't help you there
> In OpenOffice, I can't figure out how to get a Japanese input method to
> work. I installed openoffice.org-l10n-ja. But how do I specify that I
this package will not work, it just enables japanese drop down in OOo
if your locale is set accordingly.
> want to input Japanese? I set my Asian input language to Japanese, but
> can't get to it. And View | Input Method Status does not do anything
> noticeable. It seems that in Ubuntu, the iiimgcf package is required
> for OOo Japanese input, but there's only iiimecf in Debian, ref:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/44626
>
Try this:
http://dspnet.fr/~lonewolf/LinuxJapan/
I updated theses pages with a testing etch but it should work, or at
least gives you some clues. If it didn't work out of the box, please let
me know to update the pages.
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