Hello I recently made a bilingual (English and Japanese) newsletter (see http://euij.hit-u.ac.jp/pub/newsletter_and_reports.html) using CJK-LaTeX. First I tried the Sazanami Gothic Fonts (also Wadalab Gothic), but got a lot of complaints from my Japanese colleagues as well as from the printing company about readability, style and quality of the font. Then I used msgothic (which was easy to install thanks to Mike's precautions) and everybody was satisfied. So far so good. Now I'm experimenting with platex, which is said to be better for Japanese text. I'm not sure whether it is worth the trouble, though. The basic things seem to work, but I failed to find out how I can use both gothic and gothic bold (which is possible with CJK-LaTeX, at least through a poor man's bold modus, if I remember well). I tried the following: \documentclass{jsarticle} \usepackage{morisawa} \begin{document} 日本語 {\gtfamily 日本語} {\gtfamily\bfseries 日本語} \end{document} Using pdvips the first two lines show up correctly (with msmincho and msgothic). The third line produces only garbage. I guess that the problem is simply that no gothic-bold font is installed. I experimented around, also using MS HGRSGU.TTC, but I didn't find out how to connect it to FutoGoB101-Bold-J.tfm (which is - as far as I understood - the tfm file wich is used by the morisawa package for the \gtfamily\bfseries combination). Actually I'm quite confused at the moment. Perhaps someone can give me some hints how to proceed methodically. Also I would appreciate some hints regarding good (and perhaps cheap) Japanese fonts for LaTeX. By the way I also tried to install the otf package but basically ended with the same results as with the morisawa package. The otf package could be a good candidate for a future SuSE package, perhaps also dvipdfmx. I came across these two repeatedly while googling around. One more "by the way": xgdvi failed to display the above example with messages such as: "mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for futogo-b", FutoGoB101-Bold-J, and gtbbb-m. Maybe I messed up some configration files in the meantime. Best wishes Gerhard Schuck