From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: minimal example for Cyrillic
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:05:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DFFB6B32-6A96-4DAC-9906-D46304D44F64@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mynesb2u.fsf@nitai.hr>
Am 2008-04-28 um 09:16 schrieb Gour:
> I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS
> distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered
> that
> he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian)
> does not work, i.e.
>
> \enableregime[utf]
> \useencoding[cyr]
>
> \definetypeface [russian]
> [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a]
>
> \setupbodyfont[russian]
> \starttext
> Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters
> \stoptext
>
> does transliterate Russian characters.
>
> I do not have any experience working with Cyrillic, so if anyone can
> provide minimal working example it would be very nice?
>
> I persistently claimed that "it must work!" :-)
Since I just adapted a ConTeXt based business card generator to work
with cyrillic type, I can assure that it's possible - with XeTeX or
LuaTeX.
There you just need to encode your sources in UTF-8 and use OpenType
fonts that contain cyrillic glyphs, like TeX Gyre.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 7:16 Gour
2008-04-28 19:05 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2008-04-29 6:23 ` Gour
2008-04-29 7:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-29 8:12 ` Gour
2008-04-29 9:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-29 10:22 ` Gour
2008-04-29 10:30 ` Mikael Persson
2008-05-05 16:10 ` Gour
2008-04-29 10:25 ` Gour
2008-04-30 16:38 ` Oleg Kolosov
2008-10-14 12:01 ` Radhelorn
2008-10-14 13:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-31 10:22 Minimal " Aleksandr Sinicyn
2011-03-31 13:34 ` Mojca Miklavec
[not found] ` <1301636838.6125.1436238169@webmail.messagingengine.com>
2011-04-01 10:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-31 14:44 ` mathew
2011-03-31 22:14 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-03-31 23:14 ` mathew
2011-04-01 10:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
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