Project : Development of Metafont and TEX Systems for Non-Latin Scripts

Dr. Berhanu Beyene, former doctorand
Prof. Dr. Kudlek, professor
Dr. Olaf Kummer, former research assistant
Jochen Metzinger
Karim Senoucci
Jens Vogler

Duration: since 1994

Keywords: Metafont, TeX, writing systems

Objectives:

By adhering to scientific transcription methods, we design systems that allow the use of Metafont and TeX with non-latin scripts. The Ethiopian script is realized as a LaTeX package. The cyrillic script is used for as much as 40 different languages. It will be usable for all those languages within a consistent framework. The Chinese script is handled by applying database techniques to unify the existing encodings.

Publications:

1. Berhanu Beyene, Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer, Jochen Metzinger
   Ethiopian Language Support for the Babel Package
   (FBI-Bericht FBI-HH-B-197/97, 33 p., III 1997)
2. Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer, Karim Senoucci, Jens Vogler
   KirilTeX - A Cyrillic Package for LaTeX. A first report
   (Proc. of International Summer School Information Technologies in Social Sciences and Humanities, Burgas, June 25-29, 1997, pp. 25-34, 1997)
3. Berhanu Beyene, Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer
   A Note on Encoding Ethiopic for LaTeX
   (Aethiopica 3, pp. 132-152, 2000)
4. Berhanu Beyene, Manfred Kudlek
   Calendars in Ethiopia
   (FBI-Bericht 286/09, 13 p, II-2009)