Easy way to start working with cyrillic?
Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install additional fonts? The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither. Thanks, Klaus Gena
On Nov 8, 2007 8:28 AM, Klaus Gena
Hi,
I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals.
I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install additional fonts?
The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.
I think it's possible (at least I've already typeset some russian text from XML utf-8 encoded) Do you have a comprensive and short example ? -- luigi
Hi Klaus,
try this:
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% engine=xetex
\definetypeface[MyFace][rm][Xserif][TeX Gyre Pagella]
\setupbodyfont[MyFace,10pt]
\starttext
\midaligned{\tfb\bf Arkadi und Boris Strugazki}
\blank
\midaligned{\tfb\bf Аркадий и Борис Стругацкие}
\blank[7*big]
\midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang}
\blank
\midaligned{\tfc\bf За миллиард лет до конца света}
\blank[5*big]
\midaligned{\tfa\bf Eine unter seltsamen Umständen aufgefundene Handschrift}
\stoptext
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if this doesn't work, you can mail me directly.
Greetings
Lutz
2007/11/8, Klaus Gena
Hi,
I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals.
I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install additional fonts?
The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.
Thanks,
Klaus Gena
Klaus Gena wrote:
Hi,
I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals.
I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install additional fonts?
The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither.
just use context with xetex or luatex Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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