One more thing I forgot to mention:
"\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{MS PMincho}"
and "Always Babel" in "language package." I didn't test all of the
alternatives, but "default" definitely didn't work.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Richard Opheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Guenter Milde <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-07-08, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> > On 2015-07-08, Richard Opheim wrote:
>>
>> >> So what I want to do is to have one font that applies only to
>> >> English and another that applies only to Japanese.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >> "Times New Roman" is set in the Settings/Fonts/Roman dropdown box. I
>> have
>> >> of course checked non-TeX fonts.
>>
>>
>> >> ... I read somewhere about the following command which I inserted into
>> >> the preamble.
>>
>> >> \newfontfamily\CJKfont{MS PMincho}
>>
>> It would be interesting to find out where... maybe this works with Chinese
>> or Korean, if these languages are supported by polyglossia or some extra
>> package is required.
>>
>
>
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/203078/two-fonts-for-two-languages-using-lyx
> This information however didn't lead me to success.
>
>>
>> > The problem is, that polyglossia does not support Japanese! Therefore,
>> LyX
>> > selects babel instead of polyglossia as language package as soon as a
>> part
>> > of the document is in Japanese language.
>>
>> > What are the options then:
>>
>> * use the xeCJK package provided with XeTeX (in my Debian TeXLive
>> installation, at least).
>>
>> In the LaTeX preamble, write:
>>
>> \usepackage{xeCJK}
>> \setCJKmainfont{Droid Sans Japanese}
>>
>> and XeTeX will automatically use the "CJKmainfont" for Chinese,
>> Korean and
>> Japanese Unicode characters.
>>
>> + no special markup of Japanese words/text required, it just works!
>>
>
> Tried it out. This is the best method of all! Works like a charm and no
> text selection.
>
>
>> - package documentation is in Chinese.
>>
>
> Could be a problem for some non-Chinese speakers, but not for me, as I
> don't require any additional functionality.
>
>>
>> Source:
>> http://www.preining.info/blog/2014/12/writing-japanese-in-latex-part-3-simple-documents/
>
>
>> > * set the sans-serif or teletype(monospace) font to the Japanese font
>> and
>> > change the font family for Japanese text parts
>> > (works only, if you have a "spare" font family).
>>
>> To change text properties, select the text and go to Edit>Text
>> style>Custom (or similar, my LyX speaks German) and select from the
>> "Family" drop-down list.
>>
>> There is also a tool-bar button to re-apply the last text-features
>> setting to the selection.
>>
>
> OK, I tried it on my doc and it worked. This method is easier than the
> "dummy-language" method because you don't have to write any commands in the
> preamble. Other than that, they both involve selecting text, which could be
> time-consuming.
>
>>
>> > * use a "dummy" language that is supported by polyglossia.
>>
>> Polyglossia is the default language package used by LyX with "non-TeX
>> fonts".
>>
>> + It supports per-language and per-skript fonts defined with
>>
>> \newfontfamily\<language>font{<Font Name>}
>>
>> - it does not support Japanese.
>>
>> Source:
>> http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf
>>
>> > In the LaTeX preamble write, e.g.
>>
>> > \newfontfamily\telugufont{MS PMincho}
>>
>> > and in the document mark the Japanese text parts as beeing in the
>> > language "telugu".
>>
>>
>> The workaround with Babel is only advisable, if you have babel support for
>> Japanese installed and want the Japanese text parts with the correct
>> language setting.
>>
>
> This is the method I'm currently using. Though I had to set the language
> to "basque" instead of "japanese." Anyway, I'll switch to writing
> " \usepackage{xeCJK}
> \setCJKmainfont{MS PMincho}" in the preamble from now on, which will
> relieve me of having to select text.
>>
>>
>> (Problem: Although LyX knows which of the two language packages "babel"
>> and "polyglossia" support which languagages, it does not check which
>> language definition files are actually installed.)
>>
>> Günter
>>
>>
>
>
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