MonTeX provides Mongolian and Manju for the TeX/LaTeX
community.
Mongolian is a language spoken in North East Asia, namely
Mongolia and the Inner Mongol Autonomous Region of China.
Today, it is written in an extended Cyrillic alphabet in
Mongolia whereas the Uighur writing continues to be in
use in Inner Mongolia, though it is also, legally speaking,
the official writing system of Mongolia.
Manju is another language of North East Asia, belonging
to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic languages. Though
it is virtually not spoken anymore, it survives in
written form as Manju was the native language of the
rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644--1911) in China. Large
quantities of documents of the Imperial Archives survive,
as well as some of the finest dictionaries ever compiled
in Asia, like the Pentaglot, a dictionary comprising
Manju, Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur and Chinese. MonTeX
provides all necessary characters for writing standard
Mongolian in Cyrillic and Classical (aka Traditional or
Uighur) writing, and Manju as well as transliterated
Tibetan texts, for which purpose a number of additional
characters was created.
In MonTeX, both Mongolian and Manju are entered in romanized
form. The retransliteration (from Latin input to Mongolian
and Manju output) is completely realized in TeX/Metafont so
that no external preprocessor is required.
Please note that most of the enhanced functions on MonTeX
require a working e-LaTeX environment. This is especially
true when compiling documents with Mongolian or Manju as
the main document language. It is recommended to choose
pdfelatex as the resulting PDF files are truly portable.
Vertical text generated by MonTeX is not supported in DVI.
This version of MonTeX makes all former versions of MonTeX
and ManjuTeX obsolete.
