CTEX and Chinese language

CTEX Installation if not already

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sudo tlmgr install -repository http://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet ctex

texdoc ctex #for more info

Windows Fonts for Chinese

LaTeX 随笔漫谈（1）- LaTeX 下的中文支持总结 – 若为自由故路径：~/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/mychinesefont.sty~ English: Top 10 LaTeX Fonts

Copy fonts from one of your Windows System

cp Windows font to /usr/share/fonts/mschinese The following is the list of my windows fonts:

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AdobeFangsongStd-Regular.otf

AdobeFanHeitiStd-Bold.otf

AdobeHeitiStd-Regular.otf

AdobeKaitiStd-Regular.otf

AdobeMingStd-Light.otf

AdobeSongStd-Light.otf

Dengb.ttf

Dengl.ttf

Deng.ttf

fonts.dir

fonts.scale

mingliub.ttc

msjhbd.ttc

msjhl.ttc

msjh.ttc

msyhbd.ttc

msyhl.ttc

msyh.ttc

simfang.ttf

simhei.ttf

simkai.ttf

simli.ttf

simplex_.ttf

simsunb.ttf

simsun.ttc

simyou.ttf

Note:

隶书和幼圆这两种字体Windows系统里没有，而在安装微软Office时会安装。 If you do not have it you can download the 6 fonts from here.
About Windows old and new

Adapted from here.

在字体定义文件 ctex-xecjk-winfonts.def 中，楷体和仿宋不是使用字体全名，而是使用字体文件名表示的。如楷书是： \setCJKfamilyfont{zhkai}{[simkai.ttf]} 之所以这样是因为在 Windows XP 中楷书和仿宋是 GB₂₃₁₃ 字符集的，只有 6000 多个汉字，楷体字体全名是 KaiTi_GB2312；而在 Windows Vista 以后和版本则是 GBK 大字库的，有 20000 多个汉字，字体全名是 KaiTi。为了避免为微软的不同操作系统版本写不同的配置文件（这样更麻烦，而且 Windows 用户是大多数），就把它直接用没有变化过的字体文件名表示。

字体族名

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fc-list -f "%{family}\n" :lang=zh

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Times New Roman:style=Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,

Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,

thường,Arrunta

宋体,SimSun:style=Regular

黑体,SimHei:style=Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,

Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta

在 fontspec 或 xeCJK 中使用的字体族名是上面列表中冒号前的部分。例如可以使用

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\setmainfont{Times New Roman}

\setCJKmainfont{SimSun} % 或者 \setCJKmainfont{宋体}

fontspec 和 xeCJK 也可以使用字体的文件名访问字体。例如 Windows 下的宋体也可以使用命令：

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Prep the Chinese fonts for Tex

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chmod 644 *

mkfontscale

mkfontdir

fc-cache -fsv

mktexlsr

texhash

fc-list :lang-zh |grep kai

Share Tex font for system-wide use

Assuming you have suitable privileges, proceed as follows. Copy the texlive-fontconfig.conf file to /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf.

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sudo cp TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf

fc-cache -fsv.

Generate Chinese documents with template ElegantPaper – Life Savior

ElegantLaTeX/ElegantPaper: Elegant LaTeX Template for Working Papers

使用LATEX工作室提供的方正字体 (https://pan.baidu.com/s/1BgbQM7LoinY7m8yeP25Y7Q)，提取码为：njy9进行安装。

copy cls file to file:///home/tan/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/elegantpaper.cls. Verify fine the tex file can produce pdf.

Incorporate into a org-mode as a org-latex classes Export Org-mode in Chinese to PDF with custom latex class.

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(with-eval-after-load 'ox-latex

;; http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#using-xelatex-for-pdf-export

;; latexmk runs pdflatex/xelatex (whatever is specified) multiple times

;; automatically to resolve the cross-references.

(setq org-latex-pdf-process '("latexmk -xelatex -quiet -shell-escape -f %f"))

(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes

'("elegantpaper"

"\\documentclass[lang=cn]{elegantpaper}

[NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]

[PACKAGES]

[EXTRA]"

("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")

("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")

("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")

("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")

("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))

(setq org-latex-listings 'minted)

(add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "minted")))

change options in org-mode:

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#+LATEX_CLASS: elegantpaper

#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [lang=cn,chinesefont=founder]

#+LATEX_COMPILER: xelatex

#+OPTIONS: prop:;TODO:

#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [lang=cn,chinesefont=founder]

In my case, it works with chinesefont=founder, or no setting. It does NOT work with modified nofont setting 字体设置 · ElegantLaTeX/ElegantPaper Wiki.

Cross your finger and pray hard

In my case, the windowsnew and ubuntu config file is working without any modification needed; but I have no luck with adobe and fandol fonts.

Test it out

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\documentclass[fontset = none]{ctexart}

\ctexset{fontset = windowsnew}

\begin{document}

\huge

在文档类选项中声明 \verb|fontset = none|，随后在导言区用 \verb|\ctexset|

指定字体。

\end{document}

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