> I have been looking for about 6 months for a way to obtain
> half-width katakana in LaTeX while using the package CJKutf8. I've
> read through the CJK documentation files on CTAN, and some TUGBoat
> articles on the structure of the CJK package.
There are two cases.
. You have a font which you can access in SJIS encoding (for a
TrueType font, this means it contains a cmap with platform ID 3
and encoding ID 2; however, this is deprecated). Then you use
\CJKhwkatakana to activate CJK's `C49' encoding which is used for
half-width katakana. Of course, you have to have a proper font
definition file for your font, and the glyphs must be there.
. Unicode fonts for Japanese normally have half-width katakana in
the range U+FF65 to U+FF9F, as defined in the Unicode standard.
Then proceed as usual! Again, this works only if you actually
have the proper glyphs in the font.
Note, however, that the CJK package has no mechanism to
automatically map full-width katakana to the half-width forms
(except for SJIS encoding). With a good Japanese OpenType font,
this can be done by activating thee `hwid' GSUB feature for the
`kana' script. My CJK macros can't do that, for obvious reasons;
If you really need this you might try XeTeX which has native
support for OpenType features.
> Unfortunately, previously even when I had a font supporting this in
> my Emacs (with UTF8 encoding), the characters were not output by
> LaTeX, and I have not managed to discover what possibly different
> font and encoding I should use instead of the usual (taken from the
> example CJKutf8.tex) settings.
I think that your font doesn't contain half-width representation
forms...
In case you still have problems please provide an example.
Werner
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