Hi Hraban,

Your are right indeed ! I didn’t imagine that it was so easy to set up a document to write in Japanese…
Actually I followed the example by Emanuel Han which is essentially what you suggest (although he gave me also the hint to add the furagana).

Best regards: Otared

> On 26 Feb 2024, at 21:16, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> 
> Am 26.02.24 um 21:08 schrieb Otared Kavian:
>> Does anyone have a simple setup of fonts to write a small Japanese document (possibly with furagana) ? I am using MacOS and I have several Japanese fonts on the system.
>> I have some old examples which do not typeset correctly now, maybe because they use the old module simplefonts and  commands such as \setcjkmainfont and friends.
> 
> Try to replace the simplefonts calls with something like
> 
> \definefontfamily[myfonts][rm][SomeFont]
> \definefontfamily[myfonts][ss][SomeOtherFont]
> 
> \setupbodyfont[myfonts,rm,12pt]
> 
> With Latin fonts, it usually works.
> 
> Hraban
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