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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/language/mongolian/MNT/README b/language/mongolian/MNT/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc3d3570e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/language/mongolian/MNT/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ + MnTTeX + Tools for Typesetting + the + Secret History of the Mongols + Version: 0.3 + + +Author: Oliver Corff, oliver.corff@email.de +Date: December 26, 2004 + +The Secret History of the Mongols (Monggol-un niguca tobciyan -> MNT) is +the oldest work of Mongolian literature surviving today. Though the +language of the text is Middle Mongolian, the text was written entirely +in Chinese characters which were used to render Mongolian phonetically. + +Modern tools for typing, editing and typesetting Chinese do not easily +lend themselves for preparing research documentation due to pecularities +of the historical source. + +The MNTTeX package assists the scholar typesetting the complex Chinese +material by accessing all characters either by number or pronounciation +as well as offering convenient access to small or combined characters. + +The MNTTeX package relies on an existing environment for processing +Chinese characters and assumes that the package CJK is installed. +Furthermore it is required to use the font zysong.ttf or a similar font +in Song style. Since not all characters used in the MNT are provided by +modern fonts they had to be made for this package. Being closely +modelled according to Song style, these especially made characters would +stand out in stark contrast from e.g. Kaiti style character sets. +Limited in number, these individual characters were coded as scalable +vector images, rather than as font. No difference between these +characters and ordinary characters can be perceived in print even though +the on-screen display may not appear as pleasing as the printed result. + + +Oliver Corff, Ulaanbaatar, 2004-12-26 |