[XeTeX] can you advise me about Chinese fonts and xelatex?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.01.2009 um 04:05 schrieb Paul Johnson:

> http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/xetex-3.pdf


Using the xltxtra package you can use \XeTeX and \XeLaTeX commands  
(and also \TeX and \LaTeX variants). I think they all need a final {}  
or \␣ ...

Fonts are Unicode encoded (or use some other font encoding, from  
Adobe, Big5, or a GB encoding, mostly meant for on-screen or printer  
use, which are not that easily usable in XeTeX) while a text can be  
saved in an UTF-8 (or -7 or -16 or -32) text encoding, which a font  
does not have.

X11 can easily use Unicode encoded fonts, you just need to install  
them, and either the X server or the fontconfig clients or both can  
use this font in a handful of different encodings for screen use,  
i.e., inside your text editor. XeTeX uses on Linux systems  
libfontconfig to access font names and font files. The commands fc- 
cache, fc-list, fc-match are related to this. A file (or set of)  
fonts.conf (files) configures this latter scheme, system-wide or user- 
specific.


Interesting CJK fonts are also Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB. The latter uses  
Unicode planes beyond the BMP. http://www.alanwood.net/downloads/ 
index.html, http://okuc.net/software/UniFonts.exe.

http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ points to http://www.study-area.org/ 
apt/firefly-font/ (AR PL New Sung).

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   Pete

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