Re: Asian Language Support

[KUROKI Yusuke <kuroky@users.sourceforge.jp>]

Hello, Henman,

What the timing you choose to post this message!
Several days ago, I, Japanese, firstly met Hans and had
a lecture about Japanese typography and typesetting.
Now it is the duration to prepare to think about Japanese
typesetting in ConTeXt.  It is note that hanzi option of
ConTeXt is ugly for Japanese typesetting, it must come from
some Chinese typesetting custom.

In TeX world, for well-customized Japanese typesetting,
we usually use p(La)TeX developed by ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc.
Since it has been already included TeX Live 2011 and now
Cygwin distribute texlive-collection packages officially,
you can use pTeX in Cygwin.

Another alternative is to use LuaTeX-ja package through LuaTeX.
The package is now distributed through CTAN and also upcoming
TeX Live.

Best,
-- Yusuke.


(2012/05/07 19:43), hwitloc@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I live in Japan and fequently have the need to create documents in Japanese.
> I would like to stop using WYSIWYG type word processing and switch over to TeX based systems.  I've been starting and am learning to use ConTeXt but I've still a long way to go.
>
> I want to ask if anyone has already gone through this and has a "How to publish a Japanese language document using  ConTeXt"  or something like that, unless it is incredibly easy to do.  I've not tried it yet, but will tomorrow.  I wanted to write to the
>   group first to see if this issue has already be solved or any other input.
>
> My current platform environment is not ideal, but using Cygwin on a Japanese XP Windows box.  I've not had any problems with English documents.
>
> Regards,
>     Henman  (hwitloc)
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黒木 裕介 (KUROKI Yusuke)
kuroky(at)users.sourceforge.jp
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