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modulus

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Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 14

Chinese in Texlive

Please can someone with experience creating docs in Texlive that contain simplified Chinese characters give an outline of how its done? Things like:
*what texlive packages you have installed
*the preamble to your .tex document
*commands you use to begin the environment containing the Chinese text

Any helpful urls much appreciated too.

Thanks in advance!

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: Chinese in Texlive

I definitely remember that TexLive does support Chinese, even 2 yrs ago. But can't remember how it was done.

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Chinese in Texlive

I've never used it, but the you need

texlive-langcjk
texlive-langcjk-doc

The doc package probably contains more than enough help.

semdornus

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 47

Re: Chinese in Texlive

As an alternative look into XeTeX, it's included in texlive. As I don't use Arch at the moment I don't know how this is set up in there, but should be useable by default(?)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont{SimHei}
\begin{document}
你好
\end{document}

struq

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From: Guangzhou

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 16

Re: Chinese in Texlive

I think the most stable way is LaTeX+CJK
In arch, use TeXLive 2007 and generate fonts by yourself
Here's a guide: http://mailboxpublic.googlepages.com/te … inesehowto

modulus

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Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 14

Re: Chinese in Texlive

thanks, struq, Latex+CJK now up and running

I used the cyberbit fonts package from AUR.  I also found this mail archive to contain a useful howto:
http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/cjk/200 … 01346.html
Still, the guide you suggested has the advantage that font installation is all in the user's home directory.  No tinkering around as root in the texlive installation, which I think is a good thing.
只要我学会中文我就可以多写论文现在！

Last edited by modulus (2008-03-12 12:37:48)