Re: Russia (cyrillic letters)

[Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:47:57 +0100, h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Mikael Persson wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for a way of writing some home exercises in my Russian
> > course in ConTeXt. However, so far I have not succeed with it. Should
> > it work out of the box without installing any new fonts (I am having
> > the fonts from a full install of TeXLive2003 now)? I have looked a bit
> > in the source files for context, but with no luck.
> 
> well, i just took a look in the latest tex tree, and i cannot find a trace of
> the russian fonts that are defined in abundance in context's type-enc.tex; one
> problem with russian is that nobody seems to be responsible to get all the right
> stuff on tex live;
> 
> Based on the definitions, the following should work (and is reported to work):
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \definetypeface [latin]
>    [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
> 
> \definetypeface [russian]
>    [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=cyr] % t2a
> 
> \latin   \dostepwiserecurse{`a}{`z}{1}{\char\recurselevel} \endgraf
> \russian \dostepwiserecurse{`a}{`z}{1}{\char\recurselevel} \endgraf
> 
> \stoptext

Hello, and thank you for your answer. However this small test file
does not work here. Not in TeXLive2003 or with a fresh install of
TeXLive2004. If I run it as it is, I get the bluesky cmr12 and cmr10.
If cyr is changed to t2a, then it does not run anymore. It complains
about larm1000 not found. I guess this is the cm-super files. In
type-enc.tex there is a line
  \definefontsynonym [cmr10]    [larm1000]   [encoding=t2a]
and I have the cm-super fonts installed, however no file called
larm1000.tfm. In cm-super-t2a.map I see:

larm1000 SFRM1000 "T2AEncoding ReEncodeFont" <cm-super-t2a.enc <sfrm1000.pfb

and I got sfrm1000.pfb and cm-super-t2a.enc files... So, in order to
have the cm-super fonts working, do I have to generate some files or
do something more?

> In order to get it working i suggest those using russian to do the following:
> 
> - determine what encodings are *really* in use

This, I shall ask one russian guy I know.

> - collect the tfm/vf/pfb files that are needed to get that done
> - build me the right map files
> 
> (i probably involves some fonts from cmsuper; so ... what is the reasonable
> subset that we need; if needed we can stick to a few reasonable sized (as we do
> with greek); it's mostly the math that is sensitive to design sizes)
> 
> we can then make a proper subset for (1) tex live and (2) the minimal context
> distribution; even better would be to have those glyohs needed to be added to
> the latin modern fonts [i can look into that later]

That sounds great!

> > I guess there are different ways to achieve this, however, since I
> > also want some swedish text in the same documents, the best would
> > probably be if one of the following options worked:
> 
> the simpliest is to switch font and language at the same time (but i cannot test
> anything if i have no fonts running on my sytstem]
> 
> > 1) Typing everything in utf8, and get the different languages
> > automatically when compiling.
> 
> currently the utf handler does not change fonts, but since language switches are
> to be given anyway, it can be hooked into the language handler if needed
> 
> > 2) Typing everything with western letters, having some kind of
> > \startrussia Boris \stoprussia and get Boris typeset with Cyrillic
> > letters.
> 
> Just language+font switches using the typeface macros.
> 
> Hans
> 

OK, thank you for clarifying this.

Best Regards, Micke P