These days, I’m trying to edit some Chinese text documents edit in LaTeX language. It’s not a problem in Windows since Chinese font support, and Windows OS is popular used in Chinese forum. For English supporting is not a problem in LaTeX, but Chinese edit problem I encounter under Mac OS. I’m trying to make the notes to remember the steps here in case of somebody needs it as well.

Step 1. Choose good editor and compiler package

As friend recommend, I used TeXstudio for my LaTeX document editing, this tool was quite good when I used under Windows, I suppose it will do great job under Mac OS as well. And Install the MacTeX the LaTeX compiling supporting.

Step 2. Change the PDFLaTeX command to XeLaTeX

The first problem I encounter is when I finish a sample document editing, and tried to compile it, TeXstudio will use the default command PDFLaTeX to compile it. It works under PC, but failed under Mac system. So the first thing you need to set the default command to XeLaTeX. In TeXstudio, you can change the option via “Preferences” -> “Build” -> “Default compiler”, select the value as XeLaTeX. Now if you compile this document, it works fine:

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\documentclass{article}
\title{Hello World}
\author{Mac}
\date{2015, July 4}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  This is my first sound.
\end{document}

and the result is like this:

Step 3. Support Chinese words editing

But if we change the English content to Chinese, it doesn’t work well, such like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\title{你好，世界}
\author{Mac}
\date{2015, July 4}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  这是我呐喊出来的第一句话。
\end{document}

Except the English words can be displayed well, everything is mass, unreadable. So we need use ctex package to support it. so add the \usepackage{ctex} after \documentclass{article}, the result is still bad. So I realize the problem might be caused by the fonts supporting. And then I inserted these lines before \begin{document}, the document like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctex}
\title{你好，世界}
\author{Mac}
\setCJKmainfont{Kaiti TC Regular}
\setCJKsansfont{Songti TC Regular}
\setCJKmonofont{Heiti TC Regular}
\date{2015, July 4}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  这是我呐喊出来的第一句话。
\end{document}

and change the encoding to UTF-8

then the final result likes this:

Step 4. How do I know the font’s name

As you see, I insert these line about the font supporting, but you may ask why I know the Chinese font name. Yes, it’s tricky, :p Firstly, I installed Microsoft Office, and I open the Microsoft Word, you can find the font name from the font dropbox, after you selected a font, the font text box will show its name. See, that’s why I know the font name exactly.

In the eend

Here I give an example of the Chinese words editing, hope it’s useful for your reference.

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\documentclass{ctexart}
%\usepackage{ctex}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{Kaiti TC Regular}
\setCJKsansfont{Songti TC Regular}
\setCJKmonofont{Heiti TC Regular}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\begin{abstract}
这是在文件的开头的介绍文字.本文的主要话题的简短说明.
\end{abstract}

\section{ 前言 }
在该第一部分中的一些额外的元素可以被添加。巴贝尔包将采取的翻译服务.

\section{关于数学部分}
在本节中的一些数学会使用数学模型含中文字符显示。

這是一個傳統的中國文字

\end{document}

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