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