Re: Easy way to start working with cyrillic? (Hans Hagen)

Re: Easy way to start working with cyrillic? (Hans Hagen)

[Klaus Gena]

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Thanks a lot for your help !

I managed to get xetex talking with the help of the Texlive DVD and Lutz's
tips. I'm a happy ConText user now.

Klaus

>
>
> 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:18:33 +0100
> From: "Lutz Haseloff" <lutz.haseloff@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?
> To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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> 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 ??????? ? ????? ??????????}
> \blank[7*big]
> \midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang}
> \blank
> \midaligned{\tfc\bf ?? ???????? ??? ?? ????? ?????}
> \blank[5*big]
> \midaligned{\tfa\bf Eine unter seltsamen Umst?nden aufgefundene
> Handschrift}
> \stoptext
> ---------------
>
> if this doesn't work, you can mail me directly.
>
> Greetings
>
> Lutz
>
>

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