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+ 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