[OS X TeX] LaTeX with Chinese Characters

[Claus Gerhardt]

Typesetting with the cjk package is really slow even on fast Mac. I  
would strongly discourage anyone to use it, recommending xelatex or  
xetex instead, which offer typesetting speeds similar to that of an  
ordinary tex document.

Claus


On Oct 19, 2005, at 16:06, William F. Adams wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:
>
>
>> Hi, I understand this is not a "Mac OS X TeX" question in essence,  
>> but
>> a general LaTeX one. I would appreciate if someone can tell me to
>> which approriate forum I should turn for the following question. [I
>> only know this TeX mailing list.]
>>
>> I was trying to compile a document containing chinese characters, and
>> of course it didn't come out right. I googled a little bit, and found
>> out it appeared to be fairly complicated. For example, here's one of
>> the googled results:
>>
>> http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/cs/cjk.html
>>
>> Is this really what I should do? I am using i-installer TeX +  
>> TeXShop.
>>
>
> If you're not working with others on other platforms, using XeTeX  
> is probably the best option.
>
> If not, the cjk package can be made to work --- instructions for  
> using it have been posted to this list in the past, should be  
> findable in the archives and they work fine. Used them to do the  
> CCS paper in TUG2003:
>
> http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-1/yiu.pdf
>
> William
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