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Werner LEMBERG

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Aug 18, 2006, 12:25:16 AM8/18/06
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I've now received an answer from Dr. Oliver Korff, an expert for
Mongolian who has written MonTeX. Here a rough translation; see below
for the German version.

Classical Mongolian _can_ be written horizontally if you have some
words or a phrase embedded in Latin or Cyrillic script. Since
Mongolian is like Arabic but rotated by 90 degrees, the line endings
would be wrong if complete sentences were written horizontally
without starting them at the right side.

He further recommends to have a look into the documentation of MonTeX
which contains some typographical examples.


Werner


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> Klassisches Mongolisch _kann_ horizontal geschrieben werden, wenn
> kleinere Mengen Text in Lateinisch oder Kyrillisch eingebettet
> werden, allerdings geht das wirklich nur für Worte und Phrasen,
> nicht für ganze Absätze. Mongolisch ist wie Arabisch, nur gegen den
> Uhrzeiger gedreht um 90 Grad. Daher würde der Zeilenvorschub nicht
> mehr stimmen, wenn man Mongolisch über mehrere Zeilen horizontal
> schreibt, ohne diese Zeilen rechts anfangen zu lassen.
>
> Am besten drückst Du einfach dem ursprünglichen Fragesteller die
> Anleitung von MonTeX in die Hand, dort gibt es nämlich eine Reihe
> von typographischen Beispielen.

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Rich Felker

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Aug 18, 2006, 4:36:22 AM8/18/06
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:25:16AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>
> I've now received an answer from Dr. Oliver Korff, an expert for
> Mongolian who has written MonTeX. Here a rough translation; see below
> for the German version.
>
> Classical Mongolian _can_ be written horizontally if you have some
> words or a phrase embedded in Latin or Cyrillic script. Since
> Mongolian is like Arabic but rotated by 90 degrees, the line endings
> would be wrong if complete sentences were written horizontally
> without starting them at the right side.

I'm very confused by this. If the order is left-to-right when written
horizontally, how can left-alignment be incorrect?

Rich

Werner LEMBERG

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Aug 18, 2006, 3:34:42 PM8/18/06
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> the left/upper word in the two small images show `munggul',

Obviously, this should read `the left word'.


Werner

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