Re: chinese font setup

[Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp>]

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

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Matthew Huggett
     Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken
    Japan
mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp