Re: (Xe)ConTeXt and CJK support

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 14.09.2010 um 02:28 schrieb S Barmeier:

> Thank you all for your detailed answers. Wolfgang's suggestion does
> not produce any errors and seems like the perfect solution except that
> I have trouble loading any of my installed CJK fonts. I have tried to
> play with \definefontsynonym for ConTeXt to find the font files. I
> have
> - OpenType fonts IPAMincho and IPAGothic as ipam.ttf and ipag.ttf
> - TrueType font KanjiStrokeOrders as KanjiStrokeOrders_v2.014.ttf
> - a bunch of *.tfm, *.vf, and *.pfb files for a font family called
> Wadalab, of which half of them seem to be only suited for JIS
> encoding, whilst the other half is suited for Unicode.
> 
> I hope you don't find it too basic a question, but the font system is
> not very transparent and I'd be most grateful if someone could outline
> how I would write the preamble in order to set up the CJK in a way I
> can use them for the \setcjk....font commands and (as an exercise)
> redefine the Latin font to Palatino.
> 
> I envision something like
> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \definefontsynonym[Palatino][uplr8t]
> \setupbodyfont[Palatino,11pt]				% See 1.
> \definefontsynonym[WadalabMincho][???]	% See 2.
> \setcjkmainfont[WadalabMincho]
> \setcjksansfont[IPAGothic]				% See 3.
> \setcjkmonofont[KanjiStrokeOrders]		% See 4.
> \starttext
> Hello! 今日は!
> \stoptext


For a Palantino font you can use “TeX Gyre Pagella”, to use it as roman
font you have to load it with \setmainfont.

\usemodule[simplefonts]

\setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]

\setcjkmainfont[IPAMincho]
\setcjksansfont[IPAGothic]
\setcjkmonofont[KanjiStrokeOrders]

\starttext
text 本 {\ss text 本} {\tt text 本}
\stoptext

Loading the Sazanami fonts isn’t a problem for me, the following code
use them in the output instead of the IPA fonts.

\usemodule[simplefonts]

\setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]

\setcjkmainfont[Sazanami Mincho]
\setcjksansfont[Sazanami Gothic]
\setcjkmonofont[KanjiStrokeOrders]

\starttext
text 本 {\ss text 本} {\tt text 本}
\stoptext

but you can try “Sazanami Mincho Regular” because this is the real name
of the fonts.

Wolfgang

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