pred@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Predrag S. Bundalo) (03/22/90)
I'm looking for font files for Serbian/Yugoslavian characters (you know, the ones that look like the cryptic soviet characters) for SBTeX. I was wondering if someone has already written/created them and could possibly point me to them. If not, then can someone point me to the documentation that would explain how I would go about the task of creating them myself? Your help is/will be much appreciated. -Pred -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Predrag S. Bundalo BITNET: SysPredrag@IITVax.iit.edu.BITNET Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Computing Center UseNet: pred@iitmax.iit.EDU VAX/VMS and Unix Systems Staff Chicago, Illinois
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (---) (03/22/90)
In article <3512@iitmax.IIT.EDU> pred@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Predrag S. Bundalo) writes: > I'm looking for font files for Serbian/Yugoslavian > characters (you know, the ones that look like the > cryptic soviet characters) for SBTeX. I was wondering > if someone has already written/created them and could > possibly point me to them. > If not, then can someone point me to the documentation > that would explain how I would go about the task > of creating them myself? First some generaly comments for the uneducated masses who don't know better: Serbian is written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a few "extra" letters used (and possibly also omits some of the Russian letters). With this knowledge, the next step is to get a suitable Cyrillic for TeX. There are in fact two: One, is the old AMS Cyrillic typeface. This is the most common typeface for TeX, however it doesn't blend well with CM and is not available in MF format (it was created to work well with AM and made with the old MF). If you have it fine, but don't search it out because: The other is the new AMS Cyrillic typeface, also known as the University of Washington typeface. I believe this is what the AMS is selling now. Or, if you can generate the fonts yourself, the MF code is available from ymir.claremont.edu in [tex.babel.russian.fonts-uwash] (yes, I know the naming is horribly chauvinistic, but that's life. The software in the Hebrew directory can be used for Aramaic too.) Input with both character sets is the same; one types in transliteration. I believe there are a few oddities scattered about, but for the most part, it's a logical system. I typed up some sample Serbian a couple years ago and didn't have any great difficulties after the first paragraph or so. -dh -- Important note: The Anti-Social Committee will not be meeting this week. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
horne-scott@CS.YALE.EDU (Scott Horne) (03/22/90)
In article <3512@iitmax.IIT.EDU> pred@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Predrag S. Bundalo) writes: > > I'm looking for font files for Serbian/Yugoslavian > characters (you know, the ones that look like the > cryptic soviet characters) ^^^^^^ I take objection to this. The language is called "Russian". It was written with those "cryptic" characters long before the Soviets. --Scott Scott Horne ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne horne@cs.Yale.edu SnailMail: Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 203 436-1739 Residence: Rm 1739 Silliman College, Yale Univ Dare I speak for the amorphous gallimaufry of intellectual thought called Yale?