Re: [NTG-context] About vertical typesetting in ConTeXt

2020-08-04 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
Thank you a lot, Hans. Indeed, the second solution seems to correctly put text into a vertical flow. However, a serious issue with Mongolian script is the horizontal direction: unlike CJK vertical typesetting, the text columns go from left to right, and the following almost works (\definefont

Re: [NTG-context] About vertical typesetting in ConTeXt

2020-08-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/4/2020 10:32 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: http://www.mongolfont.com/en/font/mnglwhiteotf.html hm, only for testing, not for use I can rotate boxes in ConTeXt using other methods than those used in LaTeX. However, my main concern is about "translating" the Lua(La)TeX piece to be used in

Re: [NTG-context] About vertical typesetting in ConTeXt

2020-08-04 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
Hi, list. I've found a (sort of) way to do LTL typesetting in Lua(La)TeX based on "chickenize", a LuaTeX package. The font used is available here; http://www.mongolfont.com/en/font/mnglwhiteotf.html %Just for testing in LaTeX \documentclass{article} \usepackage{luacode} \usepackage{fontspec}

Re: [NTG-context] About vertical typesetting in ConTeXt

2020-06-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/10/2020 7:49 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: Hi list! I'm curious about vertical typesetting in ConTeXt. As far as I know, LuaTeX supports four text directions, but LTL is broken for Manchu script (letters are displayed unjoined in LTL mode) and LuaMetaTeX does not support vertical directions

[NTG-context] About vertical typesetting in ConTeXt

2020-06-09 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
Hi list! I'm curious about vertical typesetting in ConTeXt. As far as I know, LuaTeX supports four text directions, but LTL is broken for Manchu script (letters are displayed unjoined in LTL mode) and LuaMetaTeX does not support vertical directions anymore, at least as primitives. I found the