These may include grammars, dictionaries, teaching materials, examination papers, etc. 2B. Transliterated texts are written from left to right. That is perfectly normal for Latin transliteration. Some Latin transliteration characters are not generally available. Please be more specific.
Scholars prefer photographs to fonts.
See 2A above. One must recognize that there are indeed other users of the Universal Character Set other than academic users. The UCS has to take into consideration many different user requirements. Whether these latter can be served without compromising the academics is something we have to take into account. There is, however, no urgency to encode any immature proposal without the blessing of the academics.