I was trying to install an environment to write latex documents in Japanese yesterday, and I was shocked when I found out that we have to download several files and install them manually as written on this page by Ohishi Masaru-san. I heard before that the Japanese Latex environment Japanese people use was different from my current Miktex installation, but gosh, isn't there one simple software that can download all the files and install them automatically ?
Then I found a page by Jan Poland who used the CJK package from the standard Miktex distribution. But I realized soon enough that it needs a few additional steps rather than just installing the package, for example we need to download the Japanese fonts.
Luckily, my colleague came just at the right time, and when I asked him, he said that he used a software called kakuto. I tried it, and it worked, all automatically, but I still needed to install a latex editor, since I prefer using a different latex editor for my Japanese latex installation. In my case, I have installed Easytex which can be found on Jin Nakagawa-san's page. After setting the paths to the Japanese latex environment in Easytex, I finally succeeded in making my first Japanese PDF.
I find it strange though that this page about kakuto only appears when you search "kakuto latex" on Google Japan, not Google International. And even that, I don't know if it will appear if you search "latex" only on Google Japan.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Japanese for Latex Using Kakuto in Windows
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it's easy for the mac ^^
I never tried that, but I heard that it was easy. Still, I need to be able do it on Windows.
excuse me, did you try this in English windows or Japanese windows, because I doesn't work for me..
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Ugh, you got me there. It was Japanese windows. Not sure if you can make it out with English Windows. And it's strange that I don't even use English windows anymore :)
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