Japanese flashcards

Question

I wanted to make some flashcards for learning japanese. I've found the flashcard class and some japanese output package (ucs, CJK). But they don't seem to work together. I've coded the following as an example:

\PassOptionsToPackage{a4paper}{geometry}
\documentclass[avery5371,frame]{flashcards}

\usepackage[encapsulated]{CJK}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,german,brazilian]{babel}
\newcommand{\cjktext}[1]{\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{cyberbit}#1\end{CJK}}


%\cardbackstyle[\small\selectlanguage{english}]{empty}
%\cardfrontstyle[\selectlanguage{german}\Large]{headings}
\cardfrontfoot{\cjktext{日本語}}

\begin{document}


\begin{flashcard}{\cjktext{がくせい}}
1) student
\end{flashcard}
\end{document}

The *.pdf file was build without any errors by pdflatex, but the *.pdf itself doesn't contain any of the japanese character.

Does anyone know how I could fix this, or does perhaps anyone know packages or classes which are more adequate here?

Answer 1

If you're using XeLaTeX, you should be using the xeCJK package instead of CJK. The code is then much simpler:

\PassOptionsToPackage{a4paper}{geometry}
\documentclass[avery5371,frame]{flashcards}

\usepackage[english,german,brazilian]{babel}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro}
\setmainfont{Myriad Pro}      % set your favorite Latin-based font here

\cardbackstyle[\small\selectlanguage{english}]{empty}
\cardfrontstyle[\selectlanguage{german}\Large]{headings}
\cardfrontfoot{日本語}

\begin{document}

\begin{flashcard}{がくせい}
1) student
\end{flashcard}
\end{document}

Answer 2

Your example works for me, so I suspect the issue is with the cyberbit font rather than ucs or CJK. Have you set up the cyberbit font for use with LaTeX? Instructions for doing so can be found here.

Alternatively, get the wadalab fonts, and use maru, min or goth instead of cyberbit.