Dear Dalyoung,

Thank you very much for your insight. I downloaded the Noto Serif JP fonts and set up a fontfamily as you indicated, by adding
\setscript[nihongo]
which solves a problem I had with line breakings. And everything works smoothly!

So, for the mail archive, here is what I have and what works fine:

%%% Noto Fonts

\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][rm][Noto Serif JP]
  [   it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][ss][Noto Serif JP]
  [   it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][tt][Noto Serif JP]
  [   it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
      bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][math][Tex Gyre Termes Math]
%\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][math][Tex Gyre Pagella Math]
%\definefontfamily[JapaneseFont][math][Tex Gyre Aventor]

%%%%

\setupbodyfont[JapaneseFont,12pt]
\setupruby[location=top,voffset=-2ex]
\setupwhitespace[big]
\setscript[nihongo]

\starttext
\ruby{早}{はや}く。
いきましょう。
\stoptext

Best regards: Otared


On 27 Feb 2024, at 13:55, Jeong Dal via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

Dear Otared,

I am using Korean as main language.
I used use typescript file, but recently I use \definefontfamily.
Since using Japanese font is similar to use Korean font, I show my example  of using Noto fonts. It was made by the help of expert of this list long time ago.

You may change "Noto Serif CJK KR” to Japanese font.

I also use "\setscript[hangul]” when I use Korean as mainlanaguage.

I hope that you may enhance the following code.

Best regards,

Dalyoung


%%% Noto Fonts

\definefontfamily[notoFont][rm][Noto Serif CJK KR]
[ it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[notoFont][ss][Noto Sans CJK KR]
[ it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[notoFont][tt][Noto Sans Mono CJK KR]
[ it={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
sl={style:regular,features:{*,slanted}},
bi={style:bold,features:{*,slanted}},force=yes]

\definefontfamily[notoFont][math][Tex Gyre Termes Math]
%\definefontfamily[notoFonts][math][Tex Gyre Pagella Math]
%\definefontfamily[notoCJK][math][Tex Gyre Aventor]


2024. 2. 27. 오전 6:49, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> 작성:

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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