On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:46:45 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

[...]

>> Then perhaps, instead of repeatedly chastising everyone who asks a
>> question to read all of your works, you should read the works you're
>> commenting on before questioning them.

> You gonna donate me a copy?

Afaik, almost(?) all of the Unicode Standard 4.x is essentially
up-to-date, if not completely so, on-line, in Adobe PDF format.
Go to <www.unicode.org>

While the Adobe Reader is rather unpleasant to use for reading
"portrait-format" pages, nevertheless Unicode.org has (imho) generously
made the Standard available to everyone who can download PDFs and read
them; doing so doesn't require a Windows//Intel/AMD ("x86") machine, nor
even a really-modern one.

(As to reading PDF with the Adobe Reader, PgUp and PgDn will take you to
top and bottom of the page on view, and left and right arrows will "turn
pages" for you. As well, the latest version is cluttered with many
functions which I suspect many people won't use. If your present version
works, don't be in a hurry to upgrade. However, I don't know whether
upgrading improves rendering (and even working with) other scripts; that's
quite possible.)

Just in case: A typical book page, being taller than it is wide, fits the
term "portrait" format, a term used to specify which way you want a
printer to create your material. The other format is "landscape", wider
than its height. Any good text editor or word processing program will
determine which format is chosen before trying to print, and adjust its
margins (and, implicitly, text boundaries) accordingly.
Because all modern printers are (I'm essentially certain) effectively
printing one bit-map image per page, not a sequence of characters,
rotating a quarter turn is relatively trivial. (I'm reminded of Urdu
newspapers, printed as images of handwritten manscripts...)

HTH,

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