[comp.fonts] RUSSIAN FONTS

bush@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Anthony Bush) (06/05/90)

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get a hold
of a font that prints Russian characters or is used in a
russian program. thanks

----bush@uhccux

KRW1@Lehigh (06/06/90)

The EXP technical wordprocessor (Wadsworth) has an HP Cyrillic font,
but I'm not sure if it's available separately.  WordPerfect has a
Russian version in the works also.

DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (06/06/90)

Anthony Bush said:

>I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get a hold
>of a font that prints Russian characters or is used in a
>russian program. thanks

Some time ago I wrote a hack for patching a Cyrillic code page into
MS-DOS. The resulting MS-DOS has an additional code page 880 (as well as
the usual 437, 850, etc) which contains Russian characters placed in
accordance with Soviet GOST. You can edit Russian text WYSIWYGly in
almost any editor you like.

The hack can be obtained, among other places, from SIMTEL20 as
PD:<MSDOS.SCREEN>CYRILIC2.ARC.

I am the administrator of the RusTeX-L mailing list. If you are
interested in something more complicated than just russian letters on
screen + keyboard (such as Russian TeX (fonts+hyphenation patterns), or
Russian add-ons to WordPerfect, or HP-format soft Cyrillic fonts), take
a look at its archives on LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU, where those
things have been discussed. Also I'll be happy to add you to the mailing
list if you're interested.

Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET