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Hello Tom, David, Daisy,

I'm also working on Operations Manual translation with Tomoyuki (Kato-san).

BTW, this issue would be almost universal for any language translation teams.
I'm wondering if other teams have the same problem.
Daisy, what about Chinese translation case? 



From: Tom Fifield <fifieldt at unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] [ops-guide] PDF font-family specification
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 16:09:57 +1200

> On 02/05/13 15:09, David Cramer wrote:
> > On 05/01/2013 10:04 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
> >> @David, are you able to help Kato san choose a different font for the
> >> operations guide that supports Japanese?
> > 
> > What we really need is a Japanese font that also contains English
> > characters. The reason for this is that Apache FOP doesn't yet support

As for English characters, you can assume they are available in almost any
Japanese fonts, I think.

> > the character-by-character font selection strategy. That means it can't
> > switch between different fonts in one para. So the idea would be to have
> > a single font that works for the Japanese content and also can render
> > the untranslated English bits (code samples etc).
> > 
> > Given a .ttf, I can add it to the clouddocs-maven-plugin and have it be
> > used if the xml:lang="ja_JP"
> 
> Thanks David,
> 
> I just had a look at the standard places for free fonts and found it
> difficult to determine which supported both. Will keep searching!

One popular 'free' Japanese font is 'Takao Font'. (*1)

  https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts

Here, Takao Font is one of derivatives of the IPA font:
  　http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/index.html#en
and IPA stands for 'Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan',
one of govermental organizations which promote Open Source Software
related activities in Japan.

Now, Takao Font looks like being the default Japanese font 
in L10N version of Ubuntu after Ubuntu 10.04.

> Kato san, is there perhaps a preferred "free" Japanese font that you
> might be aware of and could find a TTF file for?

In this sense, unfortunatelly there is no concensus on
'preferred' free Japanese font in Japan there, but anyway we can proceed
the process, I think.

One more thing is that usually Takao Font is installed on Windows/Mac, but
in my understanding some alternate fonts should be used in the case, and
embedding is another solution (although it makes the file size bigger...).


I hope the above makes sense.

Regards,
Masaonri

> Regards,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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