[posted] Posted (#67451, Manen) !

ajhaines ajhaines at shaw.ca
Sun Feb 20 10:42:44 PST 2022


Minor Tibetan Texts, by Johan van Manen                                67451
  [Subtitle: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain]
  [Author: Johan van Manen]
  [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/6/7/4/5/67451]
  [Files: 67451-0.txt; 67451-h.htm]

Thanks to Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from
images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian
Libraries)

Info from submitter:

This book includes Tibetan script in Unicode, which is not yet fully
supported in text editors and browsers. This may result in display issues
for some. Often letters will be displayed far too small, or not at all.
Letter stacks (essential in Tibetan) are incorrectly displayed in some
browsers. Line-breaking in Tibetan is also problematic for most computers.
In the HTML, I've provided <wbr> (word break) tags to help with this. This
is supported in modern browsers, but not yet accepted by the validator. For
proper Tibetan line-breaking, this tag is required. Removing it will result
in some extremely long unbreakable lines. You can replace the tag with a
Unicode zero width space, but this will make copy-paste for look-up in
dictionaries or other reuse of content far more complicated. In the UTF-8
text version, lines are pre-broken, but since Tibetan fonts are not
mono-spaced, alignment in tables does suffer.


Regards,
Al




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