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Re: Constructed vertical writing systems?

From:<tk1@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 8:06
Hello all,

Thanks to everyone who replied!

[Tristan McLeay:]

> Get MonTeX <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/MLS/montex.html>. > Typeset beautifully in Mongolian to your heart's content. (Note the > spelling of its name, though... it's a La/TeX. Is there anything it > can't do, other than taking over the world?)
Thanks for the link! I have managed to install MonTeX, and also got it 99% working on the example input. (Except, when I viewed the generated PostScript, the Mongolian text came out upside down, so I changed the orientation, upon which the page number "1" became upside down -- argh!) [Muke Tever:]
> The script for my Henaudute is TTB LTR, though there's not much on the web > about > it yet (it's so illegitimate! *sob*) but there is a sample, here: > http://frath.net/images/lang/hena-curse.gif
Well, it certainly looks to me like a cross between Jurchen logographic writing and Enochian runes. :-) Thanks, -- 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