Japanese PDFs part 2: XeTeX

(Last month’s article: Using LaTeX to make PDF documents with Japanese characters) I’ve found a better TeX tool for making Japanese PDFs: XeTeX. Below are first the technical advantages, and then an analysis of community and sustainability. XeTeX is a version of Tex that has been modified to use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding internally. It is Read more »

Using LaTeX to make PDF documents with Japanese characters

Even if you know nothing about LaTeX, you can make your first Japanese PDF document by taking a copy of this example file JIS.tex, going to a shell command line and typing "pdflatex JIS.tex". That should produce this output: JIS.pdf. If that doesn’t work for you, then you need to install some LaTeX software or Read more »