Re: Does ConTeXt really support russian language?

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 25.12.2008 um 16:49 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

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

cm-super: type1
cm-unicode: opentype

Their main purpose is to create free good quality fonts for use
in X applications supporting many languages. (cm unicode [1])

> 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 outdated and MikTeX dropped support for ConTeXt for some unpredictable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?


I can make a package and put it on CTAN but the question is, do you
want them in the minimals, do we need type1 files and if yes for which
encodings, only t2a or more.

[1] http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/%7Epanov/cm-unicode/

Wolfgang

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