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. -- Guillaume "LoneWolf" Estival Powered by Debian GNU/Linux /* Use free software */ http://dspnet.fr.eu.org/~lonewolf/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
