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[Groff] japanese kana fonts
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Erich Hoffmann |
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[Groff] japanese kana fonts |
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Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:41:57 +0100 |
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Hello all.
I started learning japanese and it could be of great help if I had
a japanese kana (and perhaps kanji) typesetting method. Is that
possible in groff?
Here is how I tried to do it on my own:
(1) I googled on groff and japanese. There seems to be a "ja-groff"
or "jgroff" with the proper extensions, but trying to find it
became a kafkaesque adventure. I found diff.gz files at BSD ports
(this is a slackware 10.0), and description files, and then ".tbz"
files which I can't manage. There was a ja-groff.[version].tgz at
a bsd port, but after some kilobyte the downloading process was
canceled. Tried it several times. It was a bit strange, chasing
after hints and links to ja-groff and then finding nothing...
Then I saw mentioned a collection of /dev/nippon device files for
groff. But I didn't find them.
It will be my fault, I'm not good at googleing, and the telefone line
here to this small valley often breaks down. --- Does somebody know
where a kana-capable groff version exists?
(2) Some time ago I made a good experience installing cyrillic fonts,
using the "wncyr" fonts of the latex distribution and converting
them with "tfmtodit". Worked with no problems at all. So I
thought this could be done with kana as well, and there is the
CJK-Latex package. Werner Lemberg says in the README there that
installing from source isn't trivial, so I preferred a binary
version, the tex live CD from tug.org.
OK. I didn't find my way through all those afm, tfm, pk, ttf, pfb
&c. files. There is "japaneseAFM.tgz", but I couldn't manage those
fonts. The "afm2tfm" program complains that these are no adobe fonts,
and "afmtodit" generates an empty file.
Now I have to decide. If there is no groff package :
Should I learn TeX & friends (Latex, CJK, Omega - ?) properly and go
on in this direction - perhaps with the perspective of porting the
fonts to groff? (Eventually migrating from slackware to debian or suse
for this purpose, because there is a CJK package in the distribution?)
Or go a more easy way, using (X)html with unicode?
Or postpone the project and learn the basics of font installing on a
Linux system first? (If anyone could give me a hint where to begin, I'd
be grateful.)
Any comments welcome. Perhaps the project is too big for me.
erich
- [Groff] japanese kana fonts,
Erich Hoffmann <=