15/01/2003 Hans Hagen wrote to Pavel Stupin about 'Typesetting Russian': PS>> I installed the files, and now I can typeset russian. PS>> That's great. HH> Without any changes? Good, so it can go into the distribution? Russification of ConTeXt has been discussed in the russian TeX newsgroup fido7.ru.tex. Here are results. 1. Alexander Bokovoy (15/01/2003) said that russification by Olga Briginets (http://trash1.hotmail.ru) -- this is a russification discussed in NTG-ConTeXt -- is slightly obsolete. He modified it, and now it conforms 'teTeX-2.0 pretest-20030107'. Modified version is available at: http://people.altlinux.ru/~ab/tex/context-russian.tar.bz2 2. Vladimir Volovich (one of the authors of the cyrillic support in LaTeX) noticed that kerning in 8-bit fonts has been lost: "in Context the support of 8-bit encodings turned out to be so bad, that kerning is completely disappeared there. LaTeX is still not so bad, this thing is implemented much more neatly there." I installed the modified russification on MiKTeX 2.2 without any problem. But the kerning between russian letters is indeed lost. :-( In the same font, kerning between latin letters is retained. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the installation instructions by Alexander Bokovoy (for teTeX 2.0 pretest (20030107)): 1. Expand russification archive to $TEXMF tree 2. texhash 3. Edit fmtutil.cnf to add 'cont-ru' and 'cont-ua' formats, similar to 'cont-en' 4. Rebuild formats. Making the pdf for the sample file: cd $TEXMF/doc/context/sample-cyrillic texexec --language=ru --pdf --format=cont-ru sample Presence of CM-Super is highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------- My installation instructions for MiKTeX: 1. Expand russification archive to $TEXMF tree 2. Edit formats.ini (%TEXMF%\miktex\config\formats.ini) to add 'cont-ru' and 'cont-ua' formats, similar to 'cont-en' 3. (Optionally) In %TEXMF%\miktex\bin directory copy cont-en.exe cont-ru.exe copy cont-en.exe cont-ua.exe 4. Using "MikTeX Options" program, refresh the name database and rebuild formats. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor Figurnov
At 11:17 AM 1/24/2003 +0300, Victor Figurnov wrote:
15/01/2003 Hans Hagen wrote to Pavel Stupin about 'Typesetting Russian':
PS>> I installed the files, and now I can typeset russian. PS>> That's great.
HH> Without any changes? Good, so it can go into the distribution?
Russification of ConTeXt has been discussed in the russian TeX newsgroup fido7.ru.tex. Here are results.
1. Alexander Bokovoy (15/01/2003) said that russification by Olga Briginets (http://trash1.hotmail.ru) -- this is a russification discussed in NTG-ConTeXt -- is slightly obsolete. He modified it, and now it conforms 'teTeX-2.0 pretest-20030107'. Modified version is available at: http://people.altlinux.ru/~ab/tex/context-russian.tar.bz2
2. Vladimir Volovich (one of the authors of the cyrillic support in LaTeX) noticed that kerning in 8-bit fonts has been lost:
"in Context the support of 8-bit encodings turned out to be so bad, that kerning is completely disappeared there. LaTeX is still not so bad, this thing is implemented much more neatly there."
i wonder if this is related to context, since kerning is mostly a font issue, unless one automatically inserts {} between chars; i need to check the tarball for this; Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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