tlug: Re: Japanese quotations in LaTeX (fwd from Simon)

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

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James Kilfiger (comp.text.tex):
>Simon Cozens wrote:
>>>	I'd like to know if it's possible to include quotations in
>>>japanese 
>>The easiest way to do it is to grab the cjk and cjk-fonts packages from
>>CTAN.
>
>Certainly, but if you are still interested in an omega solution then you 
>should look at http://www.havenrock.com/docproc/nihongo/omega-j/
>But you will need your own ttf fonts, and plenty of patience.  It is a
>developmental version.

Ooh, excellent, someone's actually going for it! That would be much
appreciated, and I'd be more than happy to help out with developing it,
but I Don't Do TTF and I expect it'll be a number of years before I get
around to METAFONTing the whole kanji set. 

Some people from the Tokyo LUG mailing list were asking about Omega and
Japanese a while back so I'll forward this there; maybe someone would be
interested in using or helping out with this. I'll pass it over.

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