Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

[Klaus Gena]

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Hi,

I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin
context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using
the manuals.

I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there
exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian
(and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install
additional fonts?

The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any
positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.

Thanks,

Klaus Gena

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Re: Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

[luigi scarso]

On Nov 8, 2007 8:28 AM, Klaus Gena <klausgena@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin
> context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using
> the manuals.
>
> I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there
> exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian
> (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install
> additional fonts?
>
> The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any
> positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.
>
I think it's possible (at least
I've already  typeset some russian text from XML utf-8 encoded)
Do you have a comprensive and short example ?
-- 
luigi
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Re: Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

[Lutz Haseloff]

Hi Klaus,

try this:
---------------
% engine=xetex
\definetypeface[MyFace][rm][Xserif][TeX Gyre Pagella]
\setupbodyfont[MyFace,10pt]
\starttext
\midaligned{\tfb\bf Arkadi und Boris Strugazki}
\blank
\midaligned{\tfb\bf Аркадий и Борис Стругацкие}
\blank[7*big]
\midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang}
\blank
\midaligned{\tfc\bf За миллиард лет до конца света}
\blank[5*big]
\midaligned{\tfa\bf Eine unter seltsamen Umständen aufgefundene Handschrift}
\stoptext
---------------

if this doesn't work, you can mail me directly.

Greetings

Lutz

2007/11/8, Klaus Gena <klausgena@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin
> context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using
> the manuals.
>
> I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there
> exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian
> (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install
> additional fonts?
>
> The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any
> positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Klaus Gena
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Re: Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

[Hans Hagen]

Klaus Gena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin
> context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using
> the manuals.
> 
> I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there
> exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian
> (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install
> additional fonts?
> 
> The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any
> positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.

just use context with xetex or luatex

Hans


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