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From: iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ivan Derzhanski)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: installing Script Manager in Mac System 6.0.7
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.220215.10132@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 22:02:15 GMT
References: <4161@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept
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In article <4161@idunno.Princeton.EDU> js@Princeton.EDU writes:
>A visiting scholar here has a grant to figure out how to do Mongolian
>on the Mac.  He's been implementing this on a Mac SE running Arabic
>System 6.0.3 (or, I think, a composite of the Arabic and U.S.
>systems---it's bilingual).  This system has Script Manager installed,
>and he is able to use Script Manager with his Mongolian fonts.
>
[...]
>
>Any help will be appreciated.  This is your chance to help bring the
>joys of WYSIWIG computing to Mongolia.

Excuse me, but what kind of Mongolian fonts is the whole matter about?
Mongolian (i.e. the language spoken and written in Mongolia) uses the 
Cyrillic alphabet, more precisely, Russian with two extra letters. There
are many Russian fonts for the MacIntosh, and adding those two letters
couldn't be called a problem.

Or maybe you mean the medieval Mongolian writing system that used to be
used for the Buddhist scripture? That would be more challenging, although
I wonder how many people in Mongolia know it nowadays... anyway, it has
nothing to do with the joys of WYSIWYG computing.




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