Install and Use Chinese in Latex

#notes #Latex #Fonts #Chinese

The purpose of this post is to note the methods of installing Chinese fonts on the Unix system and their use in Latex. This post has mainly referred xiaoquinNUDT’s blog and Overleaf’s online document.

 

Install Chinese Fonts

First you can check what fonts are available in your system with

    fc-list
    fc-list :lang=zh

Linux user can simply open LibreOffice, all available fonts are listed in the font option drop down menu. Use

    fc-match -v "AR PL UKai CN"

can furter view details info of this font.

Basic steps

    # copy fonts to ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts on linux
    export DEST=~/.fonts
    cd $DEST
    cp /path/to/fonts/*.tt[c,f] .
    # generate fonts.scale
    mkfontscale
    # generate fonts.dir
    mkfontdir
    # set up fonts cache
    fc-cache -fsv

    # to delete fonts, just rm the ttf or ttc files, and then re-run
    fc-cache -fsv

 

Using Chinese Fonts with xeCJK

We can first create a sty file to save all fonts related setting, here is an example

    # file myCJKfonts.sty
    \setCJKmainfont[ItalicFont={AR PL UKai CN}]{AR PL UMing CN}  %设置中文默认字体
    %\setCJKmainfont{Noto Serif CJK SC Light}
    \setCJKsansfont{AR PL UKai CN}                               %设置中文无衬线字体
    %\setCJKsansfont{Ma Shan Zheng} 
    \setCJKmonofont{Noto Sans Mono CJK SC}                       %设置中文打字机(等宽)字体
    %\setCJKmonofont{Noto Sans Mono CJK SC} 

    \setCJKfamilyfont{Ma Shan Zheng}{Ma Shan Zheng}
    \newcommand*{\makai}{\CJKfamily{Ma Shan Zheng}}
    
    % correct line break for chinese
    \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "zh"
    \XeTeXlinebreakskip = 0pt plus 1pt
    \endinput

Place this file locally in your current tex folder, and it can be used simply as

    \documentclass[a4paper,skipsamekey,11pt,british]{curve}
    
    \usepackage{settings_cn}
    
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{ebgaramond} % the 16th century fonts
    \usepackage[type1]{cabin} % A humanist Sans Serif font
    \usepackage{csquotes} % provides advanced facilities for inline and display quotations
    
    \usepackage{fontspec}
    \usepackage[slantfont, boldfont]{xeCJK}
    \usepackage{myCJKfonts}

    % set english font
    \setmainfont{Times New Roman}
    % \setsansfont{Times New Roman}
    % \setmonofont{Times New Roman}
    
    \title{Curriculum Vitae}
    \begin{document}
    \makeheaders[c]
    
    \makerubric{employment_cn}
    \makerubric{education_cn}

    正常中文字体！
    {\makai 测试马楷！}
    
    \end{document}

 

一种中文字体同时兼容Linux和Mac

具体参见此处，MWE如下

    % !TEX program = XeLaTeX
    % !TEX encoding = UTF-8
    \documentclass[UTF8,nofonts]{ctexart}
    \setCJKmainfont[BoldFont=FandolSong-Bold.otf,ItalicFont=FandolKai-Regular.otf]{FandolSong-Regular.otf}
    \setCJKsansfont[BoldFont=FandolHei-Bold.otf]{FandolHei-Regular.otf}
    \setCJKmonofont{FandolFang-Regular.otf}
    
    \begin{document}
    
    \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
    \hline
     & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Series/Shape} \\ \cline{2-4}
    Family & \verb=\mdseries= & \verb=\bfseries= & \verb=\mdseries\itshape= \\ \hline
    \verb=\rmfamily= & 宋体 & \textbf{粗宋体} & \textit{楷体} \\
    \verb=\sffamily= & \textsf{黑体} & \textsf{\textbf{粗黑体}} & \\
    \verb=\ttfamily= & \texttt{仿宋体} &&\\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
    
    \end{document}

在Linux下(texlive 2018)，fandol字体位于/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol。

fc-cache后，fc-list无法找到

Linux下，fandol位于public文件家下，fc-cache -fsv后，fc-list无法查询到，解决方法如下

Add the following file

    <?xml version='1.0'?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
    <fontconfig>
    <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public</dir>
    </fontconfig>

named 09-texlive.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.d. Of course 09 can be substituted by any number from 00 to 08.