<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<div>Is there a simple example of how to use everyshi or atbegshi </div><div>to typeset vertical right to left Chinese text (the thread:</div><div><a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-January/008341.html">http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-January/008341.html</a><br><div><div>does not provide an example, and the package at</div><div>ctug did not have an example that would serve as a guide</div><div>for this issue). </div><div>On a separate, but related note, the packages gezhu and zhspacing</div><div>give the following error when run on a simple document:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>....<br>(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))kpathsea: Running mktextfm SimHei/ICU<br>/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation I for ICU.<br>/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?<br>mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ICU<br>This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)<br><br>kpathsea: Running mktexmf ICU<br>! I can't find file `ICU'.<br><*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ICU<br><br>Please type another input file name<br>! Emergency stop.<br><*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ICU<br><br>Transcript written on mfput.log.<br>grep: ICU.log: No such file or directory<br>mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ICU' failed to make ICU.tfm.<br>kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.<br><br>! Font \@tempfontb=SimHei/ICU at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or inst<br>alled font not found.<br>\\zf@make@font@shapes ...f@suffix " at \f@size pt<br> \edef \@tempb {\fontname \...<br>l.568 ...family\zhfont[BoldFont=SimHei]{SimSun}}{}<br><br>.....<br><br></div><div>and here is the TeX source:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>....</div><div><div>\documentclass{article}</div><div>\usepackage{zhspacing}</div><div>\zhspacing</div><div>\usepackage{zhulem}</div><div>\usepackage{gezhu}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{document}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{withgezhu}</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>世祖光武皇帝讳秀，字文叔，|{礼“{祖有功而宗有德}”，光武中兴，故庙称世祖。</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>\end{withgezhu}</div><div><br></div><div>\end{document}</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>Now, I was able to get the package to work on the example: testgezhu-xelatex.tex,<br>but only by replacing SimSun by BauiKai in the \zhfont selection. Then I was able<br>to typeset the document, but only with characters that were NOT vertically rotated </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Is there not a simpler way to typeset Chinese text vertically using the basic XeLaTeX</div><div>compilation without having to use these additional packages and using the </div><div>\setromanfont[Scale=2.5,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{LiSong Pro}</div><div>option?</div><div>Thank you for any input,</div><div>David</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>PS if these questions are too basic for this forum, could you suggest where I should</div><div>turn for more remedial help on typesetting Chinese text with complex layout?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:00 AM, <a href="mailto:xetex-request@tug.org">xetex-request@tug.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">everyshi or atbegshi</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>