Re: Does ConTeXt really support russian language?

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 25.12.2008 um 14:52 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
>
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think it's better to use Computer Modern Unicode before you add
>>>> the cm-super fonts to the minimals, I wrote typescripts for MkIV
>>>> and also one for MKII with t2a encoding. I can send you the files
>>>> if you need them, the font files can be downloaded from
>>>> http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/ (you need the otf files).
>>>
>>> I didn't plan to add cm-super. Is cm-unicode the same as cm-super, but
>>> without opticals and in other format?
>>
>> Be warned that adding otfs doesn't help mkii at all.
>
> I made also tfm files for t2a encoding and pfb files to reduce
> the file size of the document. If one of you want the files I can
> send you them.

I'm still curious: what's the difference between cm-super and
cm-unicode (apart from size and different format)?

One thing that I would like to see preserved within minimals is "full
compatibility" in the sense that what works in minimals should also
work on TeX Live and MikTeX. Maybe not today because TeX Live is
outdated and MikTeX dropped support for ConTeXt for some unpredictable
amount of time, but a year later or if someone updates ConTeXt in TeX
Live.)

In the old ConTeXt distribution there were lots of files that were not
present anywhere else, so what worked in the ConTeXt distribution did
not work in TeX Live or Minimals which is a pity. Such
incompatibilities should be solved in other ways.

So I would prefer to add packages that are on CTAN (or are planned to
go there) and have some potential to become part of MikTeX and TeX
Live. Is anyone working on cm-unicode being added to CTAN (preferrably
in TDS-compliant way)? Does that make sense?

Mojca
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