Re: Mixed scripts, typesetting

On Wed, 21 May 2003 tk1@DESPAMMED.COM wrote:

> In a fit of boredom, I came up with a mixed script (a la Japanese) for
> Lojban (I know, it's not as great a feat as many of the conlanging
> experiments mentioned on this list). It currently looks like this:
>
>         http://angelfire.com/folk/sm0p/jorge-haiku.gif
Oh, that's very cool! Is that Manchu/Mongolian acting as furigana on
Chinese characters? I suppose that must be *very* difficult to typeset
indeed, inasmuch as only Japanese uses furigana to a large degree, and
software that supports that kind of thing, is probably hardwired to use
*only* kana and kanji.

I would have researched LaTeX and its macro packages, though. It is very
flexible, and supports many different scripts, but I think making it
output vertical writing might be the biggest challenge.

What does the example say, by the way?

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
Clientside scripting has its place.  Its place happens to be somewhere in
the lower circles of Hell, but it has it.
                                                          --heard on IRC

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