About Mongolian written horizontally

[Werner LEMBERG]

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.

[Rich Felker]

Post by Werner LEMBERG
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]

Post by Rich Felker

Post by Werner LEMBERG
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?

Hehe. If short snippets are used, they are rotated into the other
direction!

Have a look at the three attached images; the left/upper word in the
two small images show `munggul', which you can also find in the bigger
image in the third line as the first word from the right.


Werner

[Werner LEMBERG]

the left/upper word in the two small images show `munggul',

Obviously, this should read `the left word'.


Werner