On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > > Myself, I have a number of song books with lyrics in several > different alphabets. It would be useful if I could spell things right > in all of the languages. There are some fun combinations. One book of > old Jewish songs has lyrics in Russian, Yiddish, Romanian, plus an > English translation (which is usually not very poetic). Sometimes > you'll see all of these languages in the same song. I also have some > Chinese songs that I'd like to show with the character (trad and > simplified ;-) and the pinyin spellings. I don't know how to handle > this on any system. But at least those all go left-right. Lyrics with > both left-right and right-left alphabets are lots of fun.
That's an intriguing thought. How does Arabic song-transcription work ? is the music written right-to-left ? And then ... is it a Mongolian alphabet, that goes down one line and then up the next ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
