From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10143 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Huggett Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: chinese font setup Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:41:15 +0900 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200212162341.15781.mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021215154332.02aabd88@remote-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040049753 2218 80.91.224.249 (16 Dec 2002 14:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NwS0-0000Zc-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:42:32 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B29E10AEC; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:42:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from smtp3.att.ne.jp (smtp3.att.ne.jp [165.76.15.139]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C3D10AE7 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:41:26 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (218.231.149.195.eo.eaccess.ne.jp [218.231.149.195]) by smtp3.att.ne.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B41515683 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:41:20 +0900 (JST) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20021215154332.02aabd88@remote-1> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10143 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10143 On Sunday 15 December 2002 23:46, Hans Hagen wrote: > >A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding > > utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postin= gs > > provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the fil= e > > there > >(gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. If an= yone > >with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd appreciate= it. > > i suggest that you contact: > > Cho, Jin-Hwan < chofchof@ktug.or.kr> > Lei Wang > > they probably can help you out; the best way to solve these problems is= to > make sure that on the next tex-live the right resources / tools (font > splitters and so) are distributed as well. > Well I got a chinese pdf easily enough with help from Michael Na Li and L= ei=20 Wang. It seems that a few people have had trouble with the tools referen= ced=20 in mchinese.pdf , so would it help if I put together a short howto, at le= ast=20 for the simplified chinese true type fonts that I'm using? I think for=20 novice users this might be helpful, as I would not have found the easy ro= ute=20 that I did without pointers from Michael Na Li. Matt