Building Riichi Book

[dainachiba]

Building Riichi Book

[phoe]

I have found the makepk.sh file from elsewhere, its contents are:

#!/bin/sh
progname='basename "$0"'
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
echo "usage: $progname mode_name"
echo "example: $progname CanonCX"
exit 1
fi
MODE=$1
MAGS='.5 .6 .7 .8 .9 1 magstep.5 magstep1 magstep2 magstep3 magstep4 magstep5'
for mag in $MAGS
do
mf "\mode=$MODE; mag=$mag; nonstopmode; input tsipa10"
done
MAGS='.5 .6 .7 .8 .9 magstep1 magstep3'
for mag in $MAGS
do
mf "\mode=$MODE; mag=$mag; nonstopmode;input cmr10"
done
for file in *gf
do
gftopk $file
done

I have built the files with it and added the folder into the ~/texmf directory; however, now building the book fails:

┌─[phoe][±][master U:2 ?:1 ✗][~/Projects/RiichiBooks]
└─▪ pdflatex RiichiBook1.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./RiichiBook1.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/02/01>
Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 4 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
Writing index file RiichiBook1.idx
(/home/emiherd/texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/macros/pie2e.sty

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.68 \let\yisuo\��
                  ��\let\ersuo\����\let\sansuo\����\let\sisuo\�ͺ�

It seems that the pie2e.sty file has some broken characters. Are they Japanese in some weird encoding? Do I need to reencode these files in UTF-8 to make them work?

[phoe]

It seems that LaTeX on my machine refuses to properly understand lines like the following:

\let\ersuo\二索

It seems to split the UTF-8 character into pieces, which results in garbage:

l.68 \let\ersuo\��
                  �索

[dainachiba]

Hi, yes, the encoding for pie2e.sty included in the piemf package is EUC. Please try following the procedures explained here:

http://yasuda.homeip.net/insomnia/2011/05/latex-mahjong-fonts-package-pi.html

Although this page is in Japanese, I'm hoping you could parse out the commands (in pink background). Let me know how it goes.

[phoe]

I am slowwwwwwwwly getting this to build with XeTeX since it assumes UTF-8 on everything and therefore is capable of swallowing pie2e.sty, but this causes some new issues.

I will be figuring this out in my spare time.

[phoe]

On which environment has the Riichi Book been built so far? Do you have any VM or container images that has the environment set up for buildling the book?

[dainachiba]

I have typeset the book using pTeX. It seems that pLaTeX also works. However, I'm afraid XeTeX won't work.

(When I was beginning to write a first draft of the book, I tried XeTeX and pTeX and decided on the latter for some reason.)

[phoe]

I have built the book using pLaTeX. I am currently struggling to generate the pie fonts and have them recognized by pTeX from the project directory (without installing them system-wide).

[phoe]

#7 should fix this.

If anyone has a Linux machine, please test it - clone the repository and attempt to build it by issuing the commands found in #7. It should build properly if texlive-full ptex2tex ptex-base ptex-jtex packages are installed on your machine; it's possible that a setup that doesn't include a full TeX installation will work, too.

[dainachiba]

Thank you very much for your work on this!

I don't have a Linux machine, but I happen to have access to a Mac machine on which I have never compiled any Japanese documents before. I downloaded the pie2e.sty, Upie.fd, pie.mf, and piemacro.mf and tried building the book. It works perfectly on my end.