Re: Russia (cyrillic letters)

[Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:24:04 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Mikael Persson wrote:
> 
> > http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/russian/
> 
> it looks like russian indeed
> 
> are all those fonts in the cmsuper path useful?

Hm, I don't think so. But that is a question for everyone to consider.
However, if you ask me I would be happy to have (snipped from the
README file):

  rm:  Computer Modern Roman
  sl:  Computer Modern Slanted
  ti:  Computer Modern Italic
  cc:  Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps
  ui:  Computer Modern Unslanted Italic
  sc:  Computer Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  ci:  Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic
  bx:  Computer Modern Bold Extended
  bl:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted
  bi:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Italic
  xc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps
  oc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  rb:  Computer Modern Roman Bold
  bm:  Computer Modern Roman Bold Variant
  ss:  Computer Modern Sans Serif
  si:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Slanted
  sx:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended
  so:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted
  tt:  Computer Modern Typewriter
  st:  Computer Modern Typewriter Slanted
  it:  Computer Modern Typewriter Italic
  tc:  Computer Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps
  vt:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter
  vi:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic

"Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or
11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt)."

I don't think all sizes are necessary.

and moreover it would be nice to have

  sform5 .. sform10:  Computer Modern Concrete Roman
  sfosl5 .. sfosl10:  Computer Modern Concrete Slanted
  sfoti10:            Computer Modern Concrete Italic
  sfocc10:            Computer Modern Concrete Caps and Small Caps

(maybe not all sizes here either)
and

  sfbmr{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Roman
  sfbmo{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Oblique
  sfbsr{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Semibold
  sfbso{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Semibold Oblique
  sfbbx10:           Computer Modern Bright Bold Extended
  sfbtl10:           Computer Modern Typewriter Light
  sfbto10:           Computer Modern Typewriter Light Oblique

Hm, well, this is all but ~18 (times 13 or 14 sizes)... so maybe it is
worth to have them all? What do one loose? speed? work? If work, then
I am ready to write what shall be written if you only show me for one
font.

About the encodings: According to my russian friend koi8-r is the most
common now, but utf is coming more and more. This is what one person
said, so if someone else think it is different, they may very well be
right (my friend is mostly TeX:ing on UNIX systems, and from what I
read from search results, the koi8r and koi8-r (which seems to be the
same?) are mostly used on UNIX and www. So maybe the windows 1521
encoding is still used by Windows users?)

However, I can't get it working with koi8-r. It works in LaTeX (tried
with the russian "Not so short introduction to LaTeX" document, and it
seemed to use t2a and koi8-r). Under ConTeXt, the document I try (the
rexample.tex saved in koi8-r instead of windows 1521) compiles, I get
russian letters, but the letters are at wrong places. I am using
\enableregime[koi8-r], and saving the document in koi8-r encoding. Is
there anything else I should do?

I also thought more about the utf. Is there anyway, now, to use utf8
encoding of the file, and somehow (from enco-uc.tex or how it would
work) get the russian letters (that is for example \uchar4{"11} to be
\cyrillicB, as it is written in enco-uc.tex and then from that get the
right letter)?

Micke P