Thu, 15 Jun 2006
Electric Tibetan
I've been looking at the issue of producing Tibetan texts on the Macintosh. I've been using Xenotype's Tibetan font along with Apple's Pages word processor. That worked well enough for my Tibetan lessons, but I've been looking for better solutions. Nisus Writer Express is the only other word processor on the Macintosh that I know supports Tibetan text. Earlier versions were buggy, but it's now on version 2.7 and hopefully the bugs are worked out. It looks like it's got better foreign language support than Pages. Another possibility is XeTeX, a version of the TeX layout system that's been updated to work with the Mac.
