[XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

David Perry hospes.primus at verizon.net
Fri Jul 23 18:10:28 CEST 2010


See Mike's answer to me.  I had been reading the fontspec docs recently 
and wasn't sure if you had looked at them.  But I know very little about 
CJK; as often, a little knowledge turns out to be a dangerous thing.

David

Gerrit wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> great, thank you for the answer. I checked the documentation, but did 
> not completely understand the ruby option.
> 
> For good typesetting with ruby it is necessary that the ruby characters 
> appear thicker. They should not just be half the size of the base 
> character. As far as I know, that is what the ruby option type feature 
> is for: select other glyphs which are thicker.
> 
> But does fontspec actually support to put the ruby character as inline 
> annotations?
> 
> It should look like this:
> 
> http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/64/0000065864/02/img293703f7zikazj.png 
> 
> 
> if you look at the second line of the main text, you see that there are 
> some characters between the line.
> 
> Does fontspec do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Gerrit
> 
> Am 23.07.2010 23:44, schrieb David Perry:
>> Hi Gerritt,
>>
>> Ruby is already enabled (if you are using a font that supports it). See
>> the fontspec package documentation. Fontspec also allows you to select a
>> number of other options relevant to CJK typesetting -- take a look. (It
>> doesn't address all the issues you raise, though.)
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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