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