Re: (Xe)ConTeXt and CJK support

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 9-9-2010 10:21, S Barmeier wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt users,
>
> I am trying to write a document (grammar notes) in English and Japanese
> and so far have used XeTeX (for Unicode support) with tikZ (for
> graphics) quite successfully. However, I wish to convert to (Xe)ConTeXt
> in order to have more control over the page design.
>
> At the moment I am stuck at trying to define English and Japanese fonts.
> In XeTeX I used
>
> \usepackage[BoldFont]{xeCJK}
> \setCJKmainfont{IPAMincho}
> \setCJKsansfont{IPAGothic}
> \setCJKmonofont{KanjiStrokeOrders}
>
> in order to set the three different Japanese fonts I am using.
>
> I haven't found any documentation on how to implement something
> equivalent in ConTeXt and would be most grateful if someone could
> outline how I would best go about converting my XeTeX document to ConTeXt.
>
> Many thanks.
> Kind regards,
> Severin
>
> P.S.: If you think I'm crazy for trying to mix XeTeX, ConTeXt and tikZ,
> please tell me now... =) Also, it feels like ConTeXt MkIV with LuaTeX
> would be the best choice (if the project were just already beyond the
> beta stage), but I don't really know an awful lot about that either. Any
> thoughts on how successfully I might be able to implement the above in
> LuaTeX would also be much appreciated.

There will be no further efforts to support fonts, languages or scripts 
in context mkii/xetex (apart from bug fixes) so using mkiv is a better 
option

I use mkiv myself and it's quite useable. Actually, I've not been using 
mkii for years apart from format generation and an occasional test run.

Mkiv will be beta for a while simply because successively code is been 
rewritten / upgraded and because it goes in sync with luatex development.



Hans



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