Michael, thanks very much for this. Your links are helpful as I wasn't able to download the files suggested in the mchinese.pdf because I couldn't log on to TurboLinux's ftp server.
On Monday 16 December 2002 03:03, Michael Na Li wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Matthew Huggett told this: > > A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding > > utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postings > > provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the file > > there (gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. > > If anyone with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd > > appreciate it. > > Have you got any Chinese fonts that work for ConTeXt? If not, you can try, > ftp.ctex.org to get some fonts. There is no need to use gbkfonts. > > For simplified chinese, you can, > > 1. Get the truetype fonts, htfs.ttf, hthei.ttf, htkai.ttf and htsong.ttf > from ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/. > > 2. Get corresponding tfm file, gbfs.zip, gbhei.zip, gbkai.zip and > gbsong.zip from ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/for_pdftex/tfm. > > 3. Get the enc file, Gbk.zip from > ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/for_pdftex/enc_map. > > 4. Get the map file, map.zip, from above location. > > Then read the mchinese.pdf, put those files in the right location and you > can then process Chinese in context (to produce pdf file). > > The above procedure works because those fonts have already been defined in > font-chi.tex. > > However, I have trouble installing new Chinese fonts. I got fzhcjw.ttf, > ran 'gbkfonts -name fzhc -prefix gbk fzhcjw.ttf fzhc' which resulted in > the tfm, enc and map files, as well as pfb for use with dvips. It also > generated a fd file for use with LaTeX. I can then use the font with > CJK-LaTeX. But I can't use it in ConTeXt. I tried, > > \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoRegular] [gbkfzhc] > [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoSlanted] > [gbkfzhcsl] [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym > [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoItalic] [gbkfzhcsl] [encoding=gbk] > \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBold] [gbkfzhc] > [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym > [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBoldSlanted][gbkfzhcsl][encoding=gbk ] > \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBoldItalic] > [gbkfzhcsl][encoding=gbk ] > \defineunicodefont [SimHangCao] [SimplifiedChineseHangCao] [chinese] > > Then when I tried to use \SimHangCao I was told that it is undefined > command. The other fonts in the font-chi file, such as \SimFangSong etc, do > work. > > Any suggestions? > > Michael -- -------------------------------------- Matthew Huggett Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
