Japanese and Cyrillic text side by side

Question

I want to write a document in Latex containing Japanese and Cyrillic characters. I have tried many example documents, but so far all have either failed to compile, or have compiled without the Japanese and Cyrillic text appearing.

Any of the sample documents here, for example, will not compile properly: Japanese and Russian Characters in the same Document

Should TeXworks be able to compile these immediately after installation, or is there something else necessary that I am missing?

Answer 1

Here is a full example using XeLaTeX:

% !TEX program = XeLaTeX
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8
\documentclass{article}

% Setting up Latin and Cyrillic fonts
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\setsansfont{CMU Sans Serif}
\setmonofont{CMU Typewriter Text}

% Setting up Japanese fonts
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{ipam.ttf}
\setCJKsansfont{ipag.ttf}

% Side by side
\usepackage{paracol}

\begin{document}

\title{日本語 and Русский side by side}
\author{Leo Liu}
\maketitle

% I know nothing about Russian and Japanese, these are meaningless sentences.
\begin{paracol}{2}
私は16の時、バイクの乗り方を習いました。
\switchcolumn
Я научился кататься на велосипеде, когда мне было шесть лет.
\switchcolumn*
僕は彼女無しに生きる術を学んだ。
\switchcolumn
Я научился жить без неё.
\end{paracol}

\end{document}