2013/6/29 Wilfred van Rooijen <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
>> By default, LaTeX will set text in Computer Modern Roman. This is
>
>> clearly what Peng Yu means by LaTeX's English font. If he is now
>
> I thought Computer Modern Roman was superseded my Latin Modern but I may be
> wrong.
>
Yes, Latin Modern was developed as a superset of Computer Modern.
Thorough tests were carried out to make the output beautiful in all
European languages using the Latin script.
> If this user has a "Chinese" OS installation on his computer then several
> Chinese fonts should be available. Can you check MS Word on the computer (if
> installed). If MS Word has chinese fonts, then xelatex can also use those
> fonts.
>
> If the text is mostly English with small amounts of Greek and Chinese, then
> take a look at the manual of the fontspec package (look for "fontspec" in
> your latex installation). You can use the \newfont option to make a
> \greekfont and a \chinesefont and then you can do \greekfont{this is some
> material in greek letters}.
>
> Another trick is to use XeTeXinterchartoks to automatically switch. Check
> google for examples (simply seach for the word XeTeXinterchartoks).
>
This mechanism is used in the ucharclasses package, it is included in TeX Live.
> As a side note, the Code2000 font is quite old, and there are newer versions.
> The Code2000 font was developed originally as a "universal font" for
> Netscape, i.e. a font that could show all material that could be found on the
> internet. The font is very complete (it has glyphs for many languages and
> alphabets) but it is not very pretty. For any "real" published material, I'd
> recommend switching to other fonts, especially of you only 2 or 3 alphabets
> in one publication.
>
> Cheers,
> Wilfred
>
>
>
>> typesetting in Code2000, then of course the English characters will
>> no longer appear in Computer Modern Roman. It would therefore seem
>> to me (as a non-LaTeX-user) that he will need to take advantage of
>> either a LaTeX feature or a LaTeX package of which I am unaware that
>> will allow him to typeset Greek & Chinese in Code2000 whilst continuing
>> to typeset English in Computer Modern Roman. I am sure a LaTeX
>> aficionado can advise him how best to accomplish this.
>>
>> Philip Taylor
>>
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