.htf for Chinese utf8 fonts other than unisong*

Question

In continue with this question: Producing html for Chinese documents with Tex4Ht

Tex4Ht requires .htf fonts for converting Chinese documents. I've managed to make all the unisong*.htf fonts work thanks to the answer to the previous question, but the default TexLive 2011 installation doesn't seem to contain htf fonts for simhei, simkai, and all other Chinese fonts. Is there a place where I can download them, or how do I generate them if I can?

Answer 1

I just found the alias htf files, which makes the business of reusing the utf8song*.htf files (contributed by CTeX forumers, now shipped with tex4ht) easier.

After an initial (unsuccessful) run of tex4ht, you'd notice the errors messages like

--- warning --- Couldn't find font 'unihei7a.htf' (char codes: 0--255)

So you know you will need to map unihei*.htf files to use utf8song*.htf instead.

For each utf8song*.htf file in %TEX4HT%/ht-fonts/unicode/cjk/utf8/, create a file unihei*.htf that contains the single line .utf8song* .

The following Bash script will generate new alias unihei*.htf files from utf8song*.htf:

for file in *.htf; do alias_name=${file/utf8song/unihei}; sudo echo .${file%.htf} > $alias_name; done;

You can leave the new files in %TEX4HT%/ht-fonts/unicode/cjk/utf8/, or move them to %TEX4HT%/ht-fonts/alias/cjk/utf8/ for tidier housekeeping.

(Again, remember to check that tex4ht.dir in %TEX4HT%/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env is replaced with the correct actual path.)

Then run

htlatex test.tex "xhtml,charset=utf-8,NoFonts,fonts" " -cunihtf -utf8"

(The NoFonts directive eliminates the verbose <span>s around each CJK character. The fonts directive would put a <span> for things like \textbf, \emph with the appropriate classes, so that you can style them with CSS as you may wish.)

Answer 2

To produce .htf files for Chinese UTF-8 fonts, you can use the script described in CTeX forum.

BTW, why not search or ask the question in Chinese forums?