Typesetting Khmer
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چکیده
Because of the complexity of Khmer script, up to now there has been neither a typesetting system nor standard encoding for the Khmer language. Presented in this paper are: (a) a complete typesetting system for Khmer based on TEX, METAFONT and an ANSI C preprocessor, as well as (b) a proposal for an 8-bit encoding table for Khmer information interchange. Problems of phonic input, subscript and superscript positioning, collating order, spelling reforms and hyphenation are solved, and their solutions described. Finally an alternative solution using 16-bit output font tables is briefly sketched.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Electronic Publishing
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994