Wow, thank you so much! John MacFarlane schrieb am Freitag, 10. März 2023 um 23:20:35 UTC+1: > I’ve updated pandoc with both the changes you suggested. chinese is now > used with babel, and the template now includes babelfonts. With the new > code you should be able to make this work without a filter. > > On Mar 10, 2023, at 12:32 PM, 'Frederik Elwert' via pandoc-discuss < > pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Thanks for the kind reply! > > If I see it correctly, modern babel works fine with Chinese the same way > as other languages. I wrote a small lua filter that inserts raw > `\foreignlanguage`/`\begin{otherlanguage}` commands for chinese in the same > way as pandoc by default does for other languages, and it works just fine. > So maybe the best solution would be to simply add chinese to Lang.hs? > > Also, I modified the template a little bit to support a `babelfonts` > metadata structure. That allows to specify custom fonts for other scripts. > Would something like this be acceptable for the default template? > > You can see my solution in this gist: > https://gist.github.com/frederik-elwert/fb1ab57bf88fa2c6dbd7253958b64014 > > An example patch for the template is attached. > > If someone sees any issues with this approach, I’m glad if they could > point them out. I don’t write Chinese myself, so I don’t know if there are > subtle issues that I’m not aware of. > > > > > > John MacFarlane schrieb am Freitag, 10. März 2023 um 19:17:56 UTC+1: > >> Obviously, it is important to support this kind of thing. Can someone >> else who uses pandoc with multiple scripts comment on how you handle this? >> >> >> One solution I see at >> >> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165197/russian-and-chinese-in-the-same-document >> >> is >> >> \usepackage[encapsulated]{CJK} >> >> and then >> >> \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn} >> 你好 >> \end{CJK} >> >> Perhaps you could use a Lua filter to convert [你好]{lang=zh} to this form? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Mar 10, 2023, at 2:35 AM, 'Frederik Elwert' via pandoc-discuss < >> pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hi! >> > >> > >> > We are typesetting a lot of academic texts which are mainly in English, >> but contain words in other languages/scripts. At the moment, I need to >> produce an article that contains individual words in traditional Chinese. >> >> > >> > With pandoc, I currently face two issues: >> > >> > First, chinese is not defined in Writers/LaTeX/Lang.hs. This means >> that, in contrast to other scripts, I cannot use `[言]{lang="zh-Hant"}`. For >> other languages that are defined, the LaTeX writer produces >> `\foreignlanguage{}{}` commands, but in this case it produces only `{言}`. >> Thus, the only possibility is to resort to `CJKmainfont`. The issue is that >> this switches on xeCJK for the whole document, which has undesirable side >> effects (mainly concerning spacing around punctuation characters). Thus, I >> have to introduce manual `\makexeCJKactive`/`\makexeCJKinactive` commands >> in my markdown source. For short passages of Chinese, it is actually >> desirable not to use xeCJK, but simply babel, as with other scripts. >> > >> > Second, I do not see a way to define fonts for other scripts. The >> default LaTeX template calls `\babelprovide` for used fonts, but does not >> allow to define corresponding `\babelfont`s. With the old polyglossia >> system, IIRC, it was possible to use the `fontfamilies` metadata entry to >> define `\chinesefont` etc. for additional scripts. But this does no longer >> work with babel (if I’m not missing something). >> > >> > So basically my question is twofold: First, how do I define additional >> fonts for foreign scripts with the new babel system, and second, would it >> be possible to support chinese script in the LaTeX writer in the same way >> it supports other scripts? >> > Thanks, >> > Frederik >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/cadd3e14-3167-447f-9f64-8158a6613cb6n%40googlegroups.com >> . >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/a66a708e-6599-4cab-88a5-a89f592e8b8en%40googlegroups.com > > . > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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