Hi,
sjoerd siebinga wrote:
I have made a Ruby-script (for personal use loosely based on Adam's
xsl-files) which generates all the encoding- and symbolfiles from a
given cmapfile. If someone could send me the ttf-font, I can generate
all the necessary encodingfiles for you.
Nice! The recommended (by Xiao Jianfeng) TrueType fonts are given at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese
They are
ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/htfs.ttf
ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/hthei.ttf
ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/htkai.ttf
ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/htsong.ttf
Richard Gabriel wrote:
But yet another question: What about Japanese? I've made only small
research so far, but unlike Chinese, there's almost no information
about Japanese in TeX. How much of work would be to adjust the current
"chinese" ConTeXt module for Japanese? What would you need for it?
[Of course, meanwhile I'll investigate some other ways of typesetting
Japanese...]
(I don't know much about Japanese.)
In Japanese contrary to Chinese they mix different character sets:
- The Chinese characters ("Kanji"), which seem to make up most of the
(scientific) text (I'v seen);
in addition some pronouncation based characters are used:
- ("Kana":) Hiragana and Katagana; the former are rather round
characters in Japanese texts, most prominent should be "の" [means
something like "of" in English]. They are mostly used for
suffixes/prefixes where no Chinese equivalent exists. Whereas Katagana
is used to write words which have been taken from (mostly) European
languages.
For Kanji there should be no problem with the Chinese module, for Kana
you need additional support for these characters. Since they are
pronouncation based, they only consisted of < 50 Characters each.
Tobias
(Hmm, I never though I would end up such deep in linguistics duing my
PhD theses in physics. But having three Chinese in the group and doing
regularily some measurements at a research centre in Taiwan - I couldn't
help picking up something.)
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