kenleewrites in 日本

Every once in a while, I get asked about Japanese LaTeX typesetting on a Mac. I solved that problem a while back when I was trying to evangelize LaTeX in my research lab. I was pretty successful. Many jumped on the LaTeX bandwagon. ^^.

I was so successful that I even got a junior to make an instruction sheet for me, in English no less. ^^. So, without further ado, here we are.

¥documentclass{article}
¥begin{document}

¥section{LaTeX Installation Instruction}
¥subsection{pLaTeX package}
1. Access http://math.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/~kiriki/ptex/ .
2. Click “pTex package ダウンロード.”
3. Download “2005年度版.”
3. Open the package.
4. Run the software and install pLaTeX.

**note(1) skiriki in his はじめに post said that he found himself only using English LaTeX when writing papers. So he gave up on maintaining the pTeX package. However, he left the distribution of pTeX to his good friend 小川弘和. Get pTeX from his site. Direct link to download here. I haven’t tried using that package just yet, since I’ve got my setup nice and tight already. If you can try it and let me know how it went, that would be really cool. I will do my best to try if you couldn’t resolve it on your own after 25 hours of trying. ^^.

¥subsection{“a match in her pocket”}
1. Access http://www.teatimelogic.com/ .
2. Click “a match in her pocket.”
3. Click “Download” button and download it.
4. Open the folder.
5. Run “a match in her pocket.”
6. Click “configuration only” and follow directions.

¥subsection{TeXShop}
1. Access http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html .
2. Click “obtain” tub and download latest TeXShop.
3. Open TeXShop folder and move “TeXShop” application to your desktop.
4. Run “TeXShop”

¥subsection{TeXShop Setting}
1. Choose “Preferences…” from “TeXShop” in the upper menu.
2. Choose “Set Default Values” – “pTeX(sjis)” or “pTeX(euc).”
3. Click “OK.”

Now you finished installing LaTeX for MacOS.
¥end{document}

If LaTeX is your thing, consider downloading my free LaTeX Help app. Did I mention it was free? ^^. You can find a link to it on the top right of this page (look for alpha and omega). Thanks for the support.

ps. If you get font problems trying to view the TeX documents on Windoze PCs, try adding the command

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Resulting pdf looks crap in Mac, but surprising, no more font problems in Windoze.

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