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["chu-ching huang" <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:44:00 -0500, hu youjun wrote
> As is known to all, from version 1.0.6.1 on, TeXmacs comes with 
> support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The standard distributions 
> do not include the necessary fonts, which can be downloaded separately:
> 
>  * Tarball with Chinese fonts (6.8 Mb).
>  * Tarball with Japanese fonts (9.1 Mb).
>  * Tarball with Korean fonts (10.5 Mb).
> 
> After downloading, cd into the directory ~/.TeXmacs and unpack the 
> fonts using
> 
>  gunzip -c TeXmacs-language-fonts.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> 
> After doing these, I start Texmacs and choose:
> edit->preference->language->chinese
> Then the menubar of texmacs disapeared.
> Some output:
> TeXmacs] Loading corktounicode
> TeXmacs] Loading unicode-cork-oneway
> TeXmacs] Loading tmuniversaltounicode
> TeXmacs] Loading unicode-symbol-oneway
> TeXmacs] Font fireflysung 11pt at 300 dpi could not be loaded
> TeXmacs] Font fireflysung 10pt at 600 dpi could not be loaded
> 

fireflysung.ttf is the defaulted font file both for traditional and Simplified
Chinese. You can make a link as

> cd ~/.TeXmacs/fonts/truetype
> ln -s /somewhere/your_truetype_font.ttf fireflysung.ttf

or copy the font to above directory and rename it as "fireflysung.ttf"

That's it!

Best regards,

cch