Making LaTex support CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Characters is always a pain process. When I used Ubuntu, I used CJK LaTex package. It needs to compile and install fonts(e.g. cyberbit) which is not a straightforward task. When I migrate to Mac OS X, I found a lot people recommend XeTex to deal with CJK documents.
Here is a summary logging how I made XeTex worked on Snow Leopard (precisely I used XeLaTex)and hope it can help who visit this page.
- Install XeTex.
XeTex is part of TexLive which is included in MacTex. A full installation of MacTex will have XeTex also installed.
Since MacTex is very big, some time the installation may failed and you do not know. I encountered a problem telling me that ifpdf.sty could not found. I googled and found it belongs to oberdiek package. In the Tex Live Utility(Under Application->Tex folder) it shows oberdiek is installed but in detail info there is no files. By reinstalling the whole MacTex, I solved the problem. - Write yourself a small micro package to