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

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi,

The files gloss-japanese.ldf and gloss-nihongo.ldf are at:

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

Since Francois Parette is the man behind polyglossia, I guess it is up to him to decide whether or not to include the ldf-files in the polyglossia distribution. The author of the ldf-files has several other files for xetex on his website, but most seem to be very Mac-specific, because all the default fonts seem to be Mac-fonts.

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, 1:20 AM
> 
> Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> > As a follow up to my own post, I found two files:
> >
> > gloss-japanese.ldf
> >
> > and
> >
> > gloss-nihongo.ldf
> >
> >   
> Interesting. I was not aware of these. My policy until now
> was to leave
> CJK support out of polyglossia, as there already are
> specialized
> packages that do the job (e.g. xecjk), and also because I
> really know
> nothing about these languages. However since those two
> files exist, it
> might be nice to bundle them with polyglossia. Would you be
> willing
> contact the author(s) and ask them for their opinion on
> this?
> Alternatively, the author(s) could upload them to CTAN
> separately.
> 
> FC
> 


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