From nrd@REDWOOD.CRAY.COM Mon Nov 4 09:42:16 1991 From: nrd@REDWOOD.CRAY.COM (Neal Dalton) Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet Subject: Re: Cyrllic X/W, S/V fonts via FTP Date: 2 Nov 91 01:00:18 GMT Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" > A set of KOI-7 and KOI-8 fonts (and some related utilities) for X > windows and SunView are available via anonymous ftp from > moxie.oswego.edu (129.3.20.3) in the directory/file > "COUP/TL/Xkoi-8.7.tar". My thanks to David Alan Bozak for making this > service available. There is also the Xcyr package from vak@kiae.su - Serge Vakulenko. I have used it and like it. It has several key-mapping. This is accomplished using xmodmap so you can choose the keyboard lay-out you like and still type in KOI-8. (I have modified it to ALT and GOSTCII/ISO, too) It uses the Caps_Lock to switch languages. > I'm interested in any feedback if anyone is able to use these. It may > still need some work, but I've been using it for corresponding in mixed > English/Russian with mixed Latin/Cyrillic letters with good results. I'll let you know. > I'm *still* looking for a ready way to print Cyrillic. Right now I'm > using a utility that takes a snapshot of an X window and prints it as > graphics ... neither the prettiest nor most efficient way by a long > shot. What I am doing is using TeX (actually LaTeX) print my docs. I am making a filter that will take mixed English and Russian and create a LaTeX document I can print. Also I am just finishing a PD Russain spellchecker. If your interested in it, ispell from ftp.cs.ucla.edu, built with NO8BIT commented out and send me a note. I have over 40,000 words, but they are not spell checked. -- Neal /\ / _ / \|||/ Neal Dalton / \ / _ _\ / / \ Cray Research, inc / \/_ A.Shafarenko@ee.surrey.ac.uk (A Shafarenko) writes: >Guys, > >I would appreciate any info on Cyrillic fonts for Sun workstations (Sun-4 >in particular). Is there any editor producing Cyrillic text in any encoding >whatsoever? Are there any Cyrillic Postscript fonts except CyrillicGothic >that I have? > >I was told there was someone on the list last month posting something on this >matter. I posted some info on SunView & X fonts that I made available at an FTP site. Let me warn everyone, though, that I've gotten some complaints (and fixes) about the rendering of the space character in some versions of the fonts. I plan on making the fixed versions available when I get a chance to put it all together again. I'll post more information here when it's available. Also, let me reaquaint interested parties with the mailing list dedicated to Russian printing using TeX and LaTeX. Send a message containing "HELP" (or is it "SEND HELP" or "GET HELP"??) to listserv@ubvm.buffalo.edu (internet) or listserv@ubvm (Bitnet). I've subscribed and downloaded a few files, but have not really gotten things going well for me with TeX yet. -- Ken Hardy uunet!racerx!ken racerx!ken@relay1.uu.net