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manjutex | Manju language support.

ManjuTeX provides Manju for the TeX/LaTeX community. Manju is a language of North East Asia, belonging to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic languages. Though it is virtually not spoken anymore, it survives in written form as Manju was the native language of the rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644--1911) in China. Large quantities of documents of the Imperial Archives survive, as well as some of the finest dictionaries ever compiled in Asia, like the Pentaglot, a dictionary comprising Manju, Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur and Chinese. ManjuTeX, developed on the basis of MonTeX, provides all necessary characters for writing standard Manju as well as transliterated Tibetan texts, for which purpose a number of additional characters was created. The retransliteration (from Latin input to Manju output) is completely realized in TeX/Metafont so that no external preprocessor is required. ManjuTeX can hence be used with both TeX and LaTeX2e though there are a few more functions (notably vertical text) available for the latter. The author is Oliver Corff.

License: gpl Updated: 2001-03-31

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