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Re: About Mongolian written horizontally

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:25:16AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> 
> I've now received an answer from Dr. Oliver Korff, an expert for
> Mongolian who has written MonTeX.  Here a rough translation; see below
> for the German version.
> 
>   Classical Mongolian _can_ be written horizontally if you have some
>   words or a phrase embedded in Latin or Cyrillic script.  Since
>   Mongolian is like Arabic but rotated by 90 degrees, the line endings
>   would be wrong if complete sentences were written horizontally
>   without starting them at the right side.

I'm very confused by this. If the order is left-to-right when written
horizontally, how can left-alignment be incorrect?

Rich


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