(Oh gosh. This is one post I should have written a loooong time ago.)
Najmi has previous posted about
Jawi support on LaTeX. Well then, what about CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters?
(The process may be simpler using
XƎLaTeX, but I personally use
LaTeX more, so this post won’t touch on
XƎLaTeX.)
Short snippets
If you need only short CJK snippets, use the
CJK package. (While you’re at it, you may as well grab
cjk-fonts and
wadalab for the fonts.) On Debian-based systems, just grab
latex-cjk-all and you should be good. Or if you don’t want the whole package (it’s huge), grab whatever you need for
latex-cjk-chinese,
latex-cjk-japanese or
latex-cjk-korean (and whatever relevant font packages).
Here’s a basic example for Chinese:
\usepackage{CJK}
...
%% if your file is saved as GB simplified encoding
... as we say in Chinese,
\begin{CJK}{GB}{gbsn}子曰：有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？\end{CJK}
%% if you file is saved as Big5 traditional encoding
... as we say in Chinese,
\begin{CJK}{Bg5}{bsmi}子曰：有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？\end{CJK}
But if you're saving as UTF-8 then you need
CJKutf8.sty (included in CJK package):
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
...
as we say in Chinese,
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}子曰：有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？\end{CJK}
or \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi}子曰：有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？\end{CJK}
You have a few font choices (make sure you get the
latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-* files!)
- gbsn (简体宋体, simplified Chinese)
- gkai (简体楷体, simplified Chinese )
- bsmi (繁体细上海宋体, traditional Chinese)
- bkai (繁体标楷体, traditional Chinese)
Japanese and Korean text are typeset much the same way. If you save everything as UTF-8, then it’s just a matter of knowing what fonts to invoke:
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
...
%% Japanese
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
露の世は 露の世ながら さりながら
\end{CJK}
%% Korean
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{mj}
편편황조 자웅상의 염아지독 수기여귀
\end{CJK}
The Japanese fonts are from the wadalab packages (
latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab-*):
- min (明朝 Mincho)
- goth (ゴシック Gothic)
- maru (丸ゴシック Maru Gothic)
As for Korean, well I’ve only been able to get mj (明朝体 MyongJu) working so far.
Entire Document in Chinese
On the other hand, if your
entire document is going to be in Chinese, you might be better off using the
ctexart document class (in the
ctex package):
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
\section{论语}
子曰：有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？
\end{document}
There is a caveat, though. You’ll need to copy some Windows Chinese font files to your
$localtexmf/fonts/truetype/... directory (don’t forget to run
texhash!) to use
ctex properly (font name in
CJK/ctexart in brackets). These are all for simplified Chinese characters:
- simsun.ttc 宋体 (song, default)
- simfant.ttf 仿宋 (fs)
- simkai.ttf 楷书 (kai)
- simhei.ttf 黑体 (hei)
- simli.ttf 隶书 (li)
- simyou.ttf 幼圆 (you)
In any case, for more help on the
ctex package and
ctexart.cls, you’d best ask for help at the
CTEX forum. (Language there is predominantly Mandarin Chinese.) I’m not aware of similar classes for Japanese nor Korean, though.
Pinyin and Ruby
Younger children learning Chinese characters (Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja) would often have the pronunciations annotated alongside/above/beneath the characters. For Chinese pinyin pronunciations, you would invoke
\usepackage{pinyin}
...\dian4 \deng1
to get
diàn dēng
.
To cite Martin Duerst:
Ruby are small characters used for annotations of a text, at the right side for vertical text, and atop for horizontal text, to indicate the reading (pronounciation) of ideographic characters.
And you can produce them with the
ruby package:
\usepackage{CJKutf8,pinyin}
\usepackage[overlap,CJK]{ruby}
...
%% By convention, the pinyin would be *under* the Hanzi
%% so change the \rubysep to move it under
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}
\renewcommand\rubysep{-1.4em}
\ruby{电}{\dian4}\ruby{灯}{\deng1}
\end{CJK}
%% I find the default \rubysep (-0.5ex) too tight, so
%% let's enlarge it a little.
\renewcommand\rubysep{-0.2ex}
%% Shonen manga readers would get the written as
%% rival
, pronounced as friend
reference
%% (CORRECTED June 22)
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
\ruby{素敵}{ともだち}
\end{CJK}
%% Disclaimer: I'm actually unsure where the
ruby should be placed for Korean Hanja
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{mj}
\ruby{南}{남}\ruby{宮}{궁}
\end{CJK}
The output of which looks something like this:
\documentclass{article}
