zag@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Gianluigi Zanetti) (12/09/89)
Do cyrillic fonts (for TeX) exist ? And if it is true where can I get them ? Best regards, Gianluigi Zanetti (zag@acm.princeton.edu) ((609) 258-5375) ACM, Princeton University, Fine Hall Rm-207, Washington Road, Princeton NJ 08544
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek) (12/09/89)
The following is from the RUSTEX-L list: >From: Dimitri Vulis <DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET> Subject: Cyrillic fonts for TeX: unexpected problems I received several queries about Cyrillic fonts for TeX that could be used in conjunction with the hyphenation patterns. It's a bit of a problems. I will try to describe the situation as I see it; I apologize if I make any mistakes of offend someone inadvertently. Note: now that we have this list, why not use it for such queries? 0. OCLC was rumored to have a Cyrillic font, which I've never seen, and which one can't get now anyway. 1. There are the AMS Cyrillic fonts, that are 'widely' available and only come in regular and bold. You can get the PK files for them, and a number of other good fonts, from AMS for some small fee (US$40?). I guess they're also on various servers. You can also get the MF79 source to these fonts; I once got it from SCORE.STANFORD.EDU. You won't be able to compile them with MF84, of course. You can use these fonts with Russian TeX. Problems: a. You have to change rmacro.sty's definition of \ui (just comment out the 2 lines where it says uwash and uncomment the ones where it says AMS). TeX won't fully hyphenate words that contain \ui, resulting in many overfull boxes. Note: I wonder if TeX 3.0 or MLTeX has/will have some way of handling accented letters in hyphenation patterns. b. You have to use PLTOTF/TFTOPL to delete all the ligatures, except ' and - ones, from the TFM file. Use the control sequences defined in RMACRO.STY instead of ligatures. Don't use \cydot. Unfortunately, this (very elegant) idea cannot coexist with hyphenation. c. Without italics, small caps (kapitel'), typewriter, and other varieties, you can't do much fancy typesetting. 2. A set of Cyrillic fonts was developed at the The Institute for High Energy Physics in Serpukhov (IFV\'E). 3. Ditto, Humanities and Arts Computing Center, University of Washington, Seattle. (2) and (3) are of about the same quality. (2) has a typewriter (monospace) variants, making it more useful for computer program listings, etc, which (3) lacks. (2) lacks 'kapitel'' for words like 'lemma' and 'teorema', which (3) has. Both have italics (kursiv) and sans-serif (bez zasechek) variants. Both have some letters that could stand improvement. (3) also had Serbian, Ukrainian, etc, letters (as does (1)), and the 3 `pre-revolutionary' letters. I guess both are to be considered beta-testable. I heard that IFV\'E will ask the Polygraphic Institute in Moscow to look at their (2) MF code, which would probably greatly improve it. I heard that AMS will 'soon' start distributing (3) instead of (1) as 'AMS Cyrillic'; they were supposed to do it as of Sept. 1, but were delayed (perhaps by a few months). The contact for (2) is Alexander Samarin samarin@vxcern.decnet.cern.ch, from IFV\'E, visiting CERN. He is very knowledgeable about Russian TeX. The contact for (3) is Thomas Ridgeway, ridgeway@blake.acs.washington.edu, the director of the computing center. Both of these people are fairly busy, and I feel a little uneasy about posting their addresses. It's probably not a good idea to bother them (or anyone) with requests for 'more information'. Wishful thought 1: it would be nice to have ONE good Cyrillic font that everyone agrees on and that can use CM drivers. (2) is probably better in this respect. Wishful thought 2: it would be nice to have SOME set of Cyrillic PKs available, with the understanding that they'll be phased out when the fonts are complete (sort of like we used AM until we got CM). Comments, replies, corrections to the list, please. Dimitri Vulis Department of Mathematics CUNY GC ------------------------------------End included message-------------------- I suggest that if you have any questions, you address them to the RUSTEX-L list. 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(I will place these files online as soon as I figure out just how :) We will no longer have to try desperately to remember what to cc: to whom or to use 50-line distribution files, like the one above. Instead, one can send mail to RUSTEX-L@UBVM (or UBVM.BITNET) and it will be automatically distributed to all the subscribers to this list. To continue receiving my TeX-related postings (I'm done with distribution files!), please send the following command to LISTSERV@UBVM: SUB RUSTEX-L Your name. To unsubscribe, send UNSUB RUSTEX-L to LISTSERV@UBVM. Please don't send commands to RUSTEX-L, only to LISTSERV! If you have any questions/problems/comments, please don't hesitate to contact me at DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET. I'm the 'list owner' and will do my best to help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -dh -- "Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior" -Catullus D.A. Hosek. 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