Thanks a lot for your help ! I managed to get xetex talking with the help of the Texlive DVD and Lutz's tips. I'm a happy ConText user now. Klaus

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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

Klaus Gena wrote: there

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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

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Message: 7 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:18:33 +0100 From: "Lutz Haseloff" Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic? To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi Klaus,

try this: --------------- % engine=xetex \definetypeface[MyFace][rm][Xserif][TeX Gyre Pagella] \setupbodyfont[MyFace,10pt] \starttext \midaligned{\tfb\bf Arkadi und Boris Strugazki} \blank \midaligned{\tfb\bf ??????? ? ????? ??????????} \blank[7*big] \midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang} \blank \midaligned{\tfc\bf ?? ???????? ??? ?? ????? ?????} \blank[5*big] \midaligned{\tfa\bf Eine unter seltsamen Umst?nden aufgefundene Handschrift} \stoptext ---------------

if this doesn't work, you can mail me directly.

Greetings

Lutz