[XeTeX] xelatex + babel and / or polyglossia for Japanese

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

As a follow up to my own post, I found two files:

gloss-japanese.ldf

and

gloss-nihongo.ldf

I put these into my working directory and use

\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{japanese}

The file gloss-japanese.ldf is found and loaded, there is a message from polylossia about missing hyphenation patterns, and then for some reason METAFONT is called to make a font named '', which fails. 

I think it has something to do with the \japanesefont setting in gloss-japanese.ldf but I would appreciate advise from an expert on how to solve this. I am getting a bit confused with all the settings in all the files (xetex setting, fontspec settings, polyglossia settings...).

BTW the gloss files for polyglossia are at:

http://www2.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/user/index.php?iwase%2Fitoniki0

and they look rather bona fide to me.

Cheers,
Wilfred

--- On Fri, 20/11/09, Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [XeTeX] xelatex + babel and / or polyglossia for Japanese
> To: "XeTeX mailing list" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Friday, 20 November, 2009, 10:18 AM
> Hi all,
> 
> I am compiling some documents, and I would like to use
> babel and/or polyglossia in Japanese, so that chapter
> headings, figure caption etc are automatically set to
> Japanese.
> 
> I have read the polyglossia manual but it seems that there
> is no support for Japanese. Does anybody know of a Japanese
> package for polyglossia? If I cannot use polyglossia, then I
> could try to use babel, but when I do
> 
> \usepackage[japanese]{babel}
> 
> that does not seem to work. I am using texlive 2009 on
> gentoo linux. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Wilfred
> 
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