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Re: Mixed scripts, typesetting

From:<tk1@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 16:43
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, -- GPG:f75949318a026c5707ff188b438cca87faf73a82 http://angelfire.com/folk/sm0p/ GCS/MU d- s: a- C++() UL P++(+++) L++(+++) E- W++ N(+) o K? w--- O? M? V? PS(+) PE Y+ PGP+ t? 5? X- R- tv-() b+ DI(+) D+ G e++ h-- !r>+++ !y