Comments on: Japanese LaTeX

By: Chun

Chun — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:33:00 +0000

your noodles is making me hungry… VERY HUNGRY

By: sin

sin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:00:40 +0000

I see. I'll try it, thanks. sin´s last blog post..Job Hunting (就職活動): Being Prayed (祈られた)

By: blip

blip — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:00:44 +0000

Tried genzi.sty and got errors since I didn’t have the specified Kozuka font, but just make sure to change that in genzi.sty to whatever Japanese fonts you have installed and it seems to work! In my case the installed Kozuka fonts on my system were simply named differently than what the .sty specifies.

By: blip

blip — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:42:35 +0000

Hmm found this. Will try it and see.

http://kuniyoshi.fastmail.fm/xetex/

By: blip

blip — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:39:32 +0000

While XeTex does the rendering of kana/kanji together with the fontspec package with no problems, the formatting looks a bit funky in my eyes. Are there any formatting packages to resolve that? I’ve searched for solutions and the only thing I found is

\XeTeXlinebreaklocale “ja” \XeTeXlinebreakskip=0em plus 0.1em minus 0.01em \XeTeXlinebreakpenalty=0

which I include before any Japanese text, since otherwise the formatting craps out on me. The problem is, for a block of text the formatting is still pretty bad and uneven. Tategaki seems nigh impossible.

Does anyone know of any watertight packages for Japanese? For short examples the above works ok but anything more than that, like a couple of lines, and things start to look bad. Linebreaks look random and the spacing is off etc.

I tried to typeset Rashomon off of Gutenberg and while it’s readable it doesn’t follow Japanese formatting standard such as “one character block” for indents in new paragraphs etc

By: k

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:41:25 +0000

yeah. use .eps figures when working with pTeX. something about bounding boxes.

By: sin

sin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:02:54 +0000

Hm, I installed ptex and texshop and everything seems to be working. But I got a problem with loading images. It asks for “picture.xbb”, while on Windows, the all the pics are loaded just fine.

Do you know how to handle this in mac ? Or maybe the way to load pictures is different ? This is the source code.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3in]{used_joints.png}
\caption{Used Joints}
\label{fig_used_joints}
\end{figure}

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By: sin

sin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:57:53 +0000

Will try this soon.

@niels: I am just curious about this Xetex though since most of the paper templates that are provided by conference committees in my field, computer graphics, seem to work only for latex.
Any idea if it’ll also work for Xetex ?

By: k

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:52:31 +0000

That's ok too. I think skiriki did mention somewhere in his site too. I've yet to try it with XeTeX. Will schedule to try it out soon!

By: Niels K.

Niels K. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Sorry, not everyone is using Mac OS X — so just use XeTeX, nowadays it’s afaik available for all platforms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xetex
It just makes live so much easier