[Tex/LaTex] Chinese (ctex) TeX Live 2015 on Ubuntu

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After update from TeX Live 2013 to TeX Live 2015 on Ubuntu Linux I am getting following error message:

CTeX fontset 'fandol' is unavailable in current mode.

When trying to use:

pdflatex --shell-escape --synctex=1 document.tex

on Chinese document, starting with:

\documentclass[UTF8,a4paper, 11pt]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
第一项
\end{document}

TeX Live 2013 was using simhei.ttf fonts, but I could live with fandol if necessary… How could I make it work again?

Any help will be highly appreciated (I have spent 6 hours on this with no luck at all…)

Best Answer

Disclaimer: I can't read the documentation, I looked in the code and tried to guess what it is meant to do.

You can change the "fontset" loaded by ctexart with an option:

\documentclass[fontset=ubuntu,UTF8,a4paper, 11pt]{ctexart}

There is a ctexopts.cfg which looks as if it is meant for local configurations. You could make a copy in a local tree and then add a line like 

 \keys_set:nn { ctex / option } { fontset = ubuntu}.

But imho there is an error either in the fandol fontset (the code shows that it is currently not meant for to be used in pdf-mode) or in the code which choose the default fontset, so a bug report should be made.

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