[OS X TeX] LaTeX with Chinese Characters

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

> From: Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/10/19 Wed AM 07:55:11 EDT
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LaTeX with Chinese Characters
> 
> On 10/18/05, Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill <j.m.figueroa at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Jung-Tsung> I was trying to compile a document containing chinese
> > Jung-Tsung> characters...
> >
> > You may want to install XeTeX from Jonathan's Kew directory in the
> > i-Installer.  There's been a recent thread at the XeTeX mailing list
> > (xetex at tug.org) about vertical and right-to-left typesetting of
> > Chinese texts.  I've been using XeTeX with Japanese characters
> > (embedded in a mostly romaji document) and it works like a charm.
> >
> > Cheers, José
> 
>   José,
> 
> Thanks very much for the information. To accommodate Chinese
> characters in the document seems to be more involved than I originally
> expected -- I was thinking this achieved by invoking a package or sort
> alike.
> I don't need either the vertical, or the right-to-left typesetting,
> just the ability to compile Chinese characters ... :-|
> 
> JT
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I think you should take a much closer look at XeTeX --- the process of using Chinese characters is incredibly simple, far simpler than I could have ever imagined. What sort of project are you working on? Perhaps there is some complication of which I am unaware.

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