LaTeX: Individual words in Chinese script

["'Frederik Elwert' via pandoc-discuss" <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>]

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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

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