Amaharic (Ethiopic) in Latex,
Hi, Can any one help me on how to write an Amaharic (Ethiopic) single word in Latex, Emacs, Suse. I have already installed the ifntethi package released from Suse for my version (i.e. Ethiopic (Unicode): ethio16f-uni.bdf and ethio24f-uni.bdf). I could also display the fonts using Emacs for HELLO file which can be viewed (M-x view-hello-file RET). 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?? Thank you in advance. Cordially,
Tesfaye Ayalew
Can any one help me on how to write an Amaharic (Ethiopic) single word in Latex, Emacs, Suse.
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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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Mike FABIAN
Mike FABIAN
I just tried that and it worked. My small test file UTF8-amharic-german.tex is attached.
Apparently the attachment was stripped by the mailing list software,
I'll try again with the attachment type text/plain:
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Mike FABIAN
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