[XeTeX] Mongolian

[Danyll Wills]

Жаргал-аа, Саин байна үү? Or should I say 'Привет'? :-)

Are you familiar with Montex? I have been working with it for many years. I made some very minor changes and it works on my Mac. Recently, however, I have had a problem. In the past, I was able to get the latest TeXShop and redo Montex. The last time I tried, it all seemed to work and I could compile files in TeXShop and I would get the vertical Uighur script. Now, however, I follow all the instructions, the code is fine, the file is fine, but when I look at it outside of TeXShop, the fonts are gone! I have not yet worked out why.

If you would like to play around with it, download it from here:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/MLS/montex.html

I might be able to remember what I did to make it work. I think I changed one or two files. I could send them to you if you want them.

Good luck with it!

Danyll (In Hong Kong)








On 6 Jun 2011, at 2:06 , Жаргал Бадагаров wrote:

> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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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