Re: [tlug] Re: Pretty Japanese font for latex-cjk beamer presentation

[Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo@example.com>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen@example.com> wrote:
> John Fremlin writes:
>
>  > It seems I managed to install the IPA fonts via some Ubuntu package, but

Hi John, glad you got that to work OK.  Like Stephen, I'm curious what
the audience did not like. After all, these are fonts designed by
Japanese themselves. Do they have any positive likes? Sadly, many
researchers in the scientific sphere seem to like brush-stroke-style
(gyou-shotai) bold characters for presentations. Headache in 10
seconds....

>  > they were not liked by anybody. Perhaps I was using the monospace
>  > variants.
>
> All Japanese fonts are monospace, for all practical purposes.

pTeX apparently stretches space but I know little about that (from
memory of a presentation I attended on the algorithm to do that).

>  > At the presentation I tried showing versions with two IPA
>  > fonts (goth and maru?) and met with audience disdain.

At the risk of sounding silly: could you try using the same fonts in
MS Word and seeing if there is any difference---or perhaps you managed
to think that you used the fonts without actually using them! (I.e,
maru and gothic were again the default fonts... Wadalab). The reason I
mention this is that unless you use xelatex you have some work to do
before latex can understand the IPA fonts (or so I believe).

Regards, Gernot
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