From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 04:00:13 EDT
--- Alistair Vining <alistair.vining@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
> >
> > We don't yet support vertical text. Mongolian is
> even harder than usual
> > vertical scripts, because AFAIK mongolian people
> should be able to mix
> > mongolian text with other scripts, that have
> different directions.
>
> Again, not for Achim's benefit, but for anybody else
> trying to help the other problem
> is the complex shaping behaviour involved. This is
> supposed to be solved in Unicode
> using the Mongolian Variant Selector characters, but
> as far as I know, they're still
> undocumented. [I take that back, see:
>
http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.2-Update/StandardizedVariants-3.2.0.html].
> From
> somewhere at
>
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex/doc/
yup. AFAIR Mongolian was basically undoable on
computers until a few years ago. Now it's basically a
solved problem (in theory) thanks to the latest
researchs in the field.
Again, this language is a (really) difficult one. The
only programs usable to do mongolian that I know of is
montex, and I think that there is a mongolian
especific WP that people use in mongolia.
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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