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<entry id="manju" 
       datestamp="2001/03/31" 
       modifier="Graham.Williams@acm.org">
  <about>
    <name>manju</name>
    <caption>Manju language support.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Oliver Corff</name>
      <email>corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl"/>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      ManjuTeX provides Manju for the TeX/LaTeX community.  Manju is a
      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.  ManjuTeX, developed on the basis
      of <xref refid="montex">MonTeX</xref>, provides all necessary
      characters for writing standard Manju as well as transliterated
      Tibetan texts, for which purpose a number of additional
      characters was created. The retransliteration (from Latin input
      to Manju output) is completely realized in TeX/Metafont so that
      no external preprocessor is required. ManjuTeX can hence be used
      with both TeX and LaTeX2e though there are a few more functions
      (notably vertical text) available for the latter.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>language/manju/manjutex</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
