Re: Mixed scripts, typesetting

Hello all,

[Arnt Richard Johansen:]

> Oh, that's very cool! Is that Manchu/Mongolian acting as furigana on
Thanks!

>Chinese characters? I suppose that must be *very* difficult to typeset
Indeed, I used Manchu as furigana. I also used glyphs derived from Tibetan
numerals to represent frequently-used Lojban words such as "le".

>What does the example say, by the way?
It's one of Jorge's haiku on http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/pemcrxaiku:

 oisai le nicte
 le selgei ca'o kunti
 ije do darno

[Tristan McLeay:]

>I haven't looked, but I've never come across something that does rubies.
>I don't imagine it'd be very hard to hack something up though.
*ouch*...

>Depends on the direction it goes, actually. If it's left-to-right
>rotated clockwise ninety degrees (CJK), it's just a matter of a
>rotation. If it's right-to-left rotated clockwise ninety degrees, you
>had to have something like TeX--XeT installed so that you can do
>right-to-left typesetting and then rotate it (or at least, that's how
>MongTeX, which lets you typeset Mongolian, implements it). Rotation
>requires output (eventually) to PS or PDFs (and other formats besides,
>just not DVIs).
I'm intending my script to have lines going from left to right, following
Chinese order. Currently I have a working MonTeX setup running on teTeX
which has eLaTeX support, so I was able to generate pure Mongolian/Manchu
script documents and snippets in the proper orientation. For some strange
reason though, I haven't been able to typeset Chinese in LaTeX (in the first
place, the font "ntu_kai.ttf" apparently required by the various CJK/LaTeX
tools was giving me bogus characters when I used them under Netscape). Well,
in the meantime, I'll try to see what I can hack up...

Thanks all,
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