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[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Tesfaye Ayalew <tesfaye.ayalew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

> Can any one help me on how to write an Amaharic (Ethiopic) single word
> in Latex, Emacs, Suse.

[...]

> I read the documentation of the latex-ucs package which mentions about
> Amharic, ucs.ps (Page 27), but was not clear at all.

> Would you please give me some tips on how can I insert a latex comand
> in side my english (German) manuscript using UTF-8 as input encoding
> or what ever?

> How and what package I should include and one example for any other
> language than Latin, preferably Amharic??

I just tried that and it worked. My small test file
UTF8-amharic-german.tex is attached.

I used the CODE2000 font for testing.

And I did the following preparations according to the instructions
from ucs.ps from the latex-ucs package:

    mfabian@magellan:~$ mkdir -p texmf/fonts/tfm
    mfabian@magellan:~$ mkdir -p texmf/fonts/truetype
    mfabian@magellan:~$ cd  texmf/fonts/truetype/
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf/fonts/truetype$ ls
    CODE2000.ttf@
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf/fonts/truetype$ ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/CODE2000.TTF ./CODE2000.ttf
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf/fonts/truetype$ 

Note that the .ttf file extension must be lowercase in the symlink, it
won't work with uppercase.

    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf/fonts/truetype$ cd ../..
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$ ttf2tfm fonts/truetype/CODE2000.ttf fonts/tfm/code2k@Unicode@    
    [... lots of output ...]
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$

Many .tfm files have been generated here:

    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$ ls fonts/tfm
    code2k00.tfm  code2k34.tfm  code2k5f.tfm  code2k8b.tfm  code2kc0.tfm
    [...]
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$ 

Now add the line

    code2k@Unicode@   CODE2000.ttf

to the end of /etc/ttf2pk/ttfonts.map.

Have a look into the file

    /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/contrib/letc2000.fd

to see why I used "code2k" as the latex file name.

Call "texhash":

    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$ texhash
    texhash: Updating /suse/mfabian/texmf/ls-R... 
    texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
    texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/db/ls-R... 
    texhash: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... 
    texhash: Done.
    mfabian@magellan:~/texmf$ 

After these preparations,

    latex UTF8-amharic-german.tex
    dvips UTF8-amharic-german.dvi
    gv UTF8-amharic-german.ps

worked for me.


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