Experiments to use pandoc to create epub and pdf with Japanese inside. This does not yet work for me, on Fedora20 as well as 21alpha.
cat >japlinux2.txt<EOT $ cat japlinux2.txt * here to be kanji: 母父 * hiragana, katakana: ひらがな、かたかな EOT yum -y install pandoc fc-list |grep -i jp [..] [..]Source Han Sans JP,Source Han Sans JP Normal, [..] pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex japlinux2.txt -o japlinux2.pdf \ -V mainfont='Source Han Sans JP Normal' evince japlinux2.pdf # pdf has not the proper fonts.