[XeTeX] XeTeX and Classical Mongolian

[Thomas T. Pedersen]

On 4/10-2004, at 17.13, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> With XeTeX (if we had Mongolian shaping) you could wrap an entire page 
> (or other "chunk") of text with
> 	\special{x:gsave}
> 	\special{x:rotate -90}
> 	....
> 	\special{x:grestore}
> so as to orient it properly on the page.
>
> I'll keep Mongolian in mind but can't promise that I'll have time to 
> work on the necessary shaping support any time soon; I'd love to 
> support it but "real work" has to get done sometimes!

Just to show how this text sample would actually display if Mongolian 
shaping was supported, I manually tracked the shaping of the Mongolian 
glyphs and rotated the text using the command above (thank you for that 
one, Jonathan). This will of course not do in a real-world situation 
and my coding could probably be done more elegant.

With Code2000 installed you can typeset the attached file and actually 
display the Mongolian text using XeTeX :-)

Best regards
Thomas T. Pedersen
http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/

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