[XeTeX] Mongolian

[Жаргал Бадагаров]

Hi Gareth!

Thank you so much! I will take closer look at this tomorrow. Apparently the Code2000 font has many drawbacks. 


Best regards,
Jargal

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> On 05/06/11 09:53, Жаргал Бадагаров wrote:
> > Hello members,
> > 
> > 
> > My name is Jargal. I am interested in the Mongolian Vertical Script Support in MacOS. I have found a 2005 presentation of XETEX made in Uhan, where it is said that Mongolian had not yet obtained a full support of all its features.
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> > Do you know if it has been being developed so far? Any advancements for the Mongolian Script Support? Any information would be highly appreciated as I am quite a newbee in the field of unix/linux and macos,
> > 
> > Thank you and have a good day!
> > 
> > Jargal Badagarov
> > 
> 
> Dear Jargal,
> 
> Welcome! I know absolutely no Mongolian, but I made decorative use of
> the vertical script in a poster for a seminar I gave on a couple of
> 13th-century ?ng?t monks. The PDF can be seen at
> http://www.garzo.co.uk/documents/poster.pdf. I've attached the source
> file. As you can see, I've used Code2000, which is not a specialist
> Mongolian font, but does the trick (I hope!). The XeTeX manual has
> instructions for writing vertical Chinese, which can be followed. As you
> can see \rotatebox{-90} is used to turn the text to vertical. I hope
> that helps a little. Maybe someday I shall learn some beautiful Mongolian!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Gareth.
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