Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I have been looking for about 6 months for a way to obtain
>> half-width katakana in LaTeX while using the package CJKutf8.  I've
>> read through the CJK documentation files on CTAN, and some TUGBoat
>> articles on the structure of the CJK package.
>
> There are two cases.
>
>   . You have a font which you can access in SJIS encoding (for a

OK, I checked, it works in SJIS just fine.

>   . Unicode fonts for Japanese normally have half-width katakana in
>     the range U+FF65 to U+FF9F, as defined in the Unicode standard.
>     Then proceed as usual!  Again, this works only if you actually
>     have the proper glyphs in the font.

All right, this is what I actually want (not SJIS, since I want to mix
more languages).

>     Note, however, that the CJK package has no mechanism to
>     automatically map full-width katakana to the half-width forms
>     (except for SJIS encoding).  With a good Japanese OpenType font,
>     this can be done by activating thee `hwid' GSUB feature for the
>     `kana' script.  My CJK macros can't do that, for obvious reasons;
>     If you really need this you might try XeTeX which has native
>     support for OpenType features.

I'll check out the XeTeX way, and do more reading/experimentation.
-- 
BOFH excuse #189:

SCSI's too wide.


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