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

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi all,

I've discovered the following: if I issue a \setmainfont command prior to \begin{document}, the files gloss-japanese.ldf and gloss-nihongo.ldf work. I.e. the following works as expected:

\documentclass[a4paper,draft,oneside,article]{memoir}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newfontfamily\cjkfont{Kozuka Mincho Pr6N}

\setdefaultlanguage{nihongo}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}

\begin{document}

\cjkfont

English, Nederlands, 日本語. But in a table:

\begin{table}[ht]
  \begin{center}
  \caption[]{The caption}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    English & Nederlands & 日本語 \\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
\end{table}

\end{document}

**NOTICE** the other question I asked on the list about the \newfontfamily. With the present example, the 日本語 _does show up_ in the table. I don't know why. Is it absolutely imperative to issue at least one \setmainfont in a document, even if it is a bogus font one does not wish to use?

Cheers,
Wilfred


--- On Sat, 21/11/09, François Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net> wrote:

> From: François Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] xelatex + babel and / or polyglossia for Japanese
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Saturday, 21 November, 2009, 3:32 AM
> Forgot to react to this:
> > 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...).
> >
> >   
> 
> I will have a look, but in the meanwhile you may want to
> try again with
> polyglossia v1.1.0 (it should be on CTAN by now).
> 
> FC
> 


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