xetex
is the state-of-art way for dealing with Chinese type setting. You can installxetex
on Debian series of Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.) using the following command.
wajig install texlive-xetex
You can use command xelatex
to compile.
The utf-8 format is preferred.
There are 2 good ways for writing Chinese doc using LaTeX (TeX Live) in Linux.
You can use either the ctex
or xeCJK
package.
ctex
is based on xeCJK
and is more convenient,
however xeCJK
is more customizable.
The following are minimum example using ctex
and xeCJK
respectively.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctex}
\begin{document}
中文 English
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\begin{document}
中文 English
\end{document}
Both template uses the Fandole fonts coming with Tex Live by default (without manually specification of fonts to use).
With Tex Live 2015 and above,
the configuration is done automatically and no hassle of manual configuration.
Both ctex
and xeCJK
need xelatex
(see below) to compile.
xelatex test.tex
Required packages (texlive
, xelatex
, ctex
, xeCJK
, etc.) can be installed
on Debian sereis of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.)
using the following command.
wajig install texlive texlive-xetex texlive-lang-cjk
The following command installs all LaTeX components that I personally use frequently.
wajig install texlive latex-beamer wiki2beamer dvipng texlive-xetex texlive-lang-cjk texstudio