Re: Documentation (was Re: [OS X TeX] Kanbun (漢文) and French...)

[Jean-Claude DE SOZA]

Jean-Christophe,

Le 3 janv. 09 à 09:41, Jean-Christophe Helary a écrit :

> I just tried \setmainfont{Lucida Grande} and it happens that the  
> character got displayed correctly, but of course, not the Japanese  
> characters I had put there for testing purposes... I have 2 nice  
> white squares instead. Indeed, when I set the font to "Hiragino Kaku  
> Gothic Pro" (after checking the Character Palette to see if all the  
> characters I needed were there) I was able to display the French,  
> the Vietnamese and the Japanese without (for now, knock on wood...)  
> any visible issue.

It's normal, Lucida Grande doesn't have the Japanese ideograms. Open  
the Font Book (Livre de polices) and choose
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro and you'll see all the ideograms plus the  
Roman characters.

Jean-Claude DE SOZA