Re: [NTG-context] TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic
Dear Mojca
Did you read the message about TeX Gyre?
Ohhhh! I overlooked it. This will not affect me much since I use standard Windows fonts and sometimes Adobe. But the poor thing is that ConTeXt will not work with Cyrillic "out of the box" anymore. However, since we count Cyrillic users using fingers of one hand :), I think you can drop old Gyre fonts and don't bother yourself with it. Anyone will seek another solution, and Gyre fonts never was of top quality, IMHO. Thank you for caring about us! Vyatcheslav
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2010/1/8 Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Dear Mojca
Did you read the message about TeX Gyre?
Ohhhh! I overlooked it.
This will not affect me much since I use standard Windows fonts and sometimes Adobe. But the poor thing is that ConTeXt will not work with Cyrillic "out of the box" anymore. Nevertheless, as I already mentioned, wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian shows examples with TeX Gyre fonts and it is worth to update them (I'm now working on that).
However, since we count Cyrillic users using fingers of one hand :), I think you can drop old Gyre fonts and don't bother yourself with it. Anyone will seek another solution, and Gyre fonts never was of top quality, IMHO. I doubt that quality appears with beginning of a font.
Don't forget about many another users which what to use Cyrillic script but doesn't have MS or Adobe fonts (like me, I don't have any product from MS so don't have they fonts or Adobe ones, Yes I took MS fonts from machines with MS OS installed but this is illegal, Yes I could download Adobe fonts from internet using P2P but this is illegal too). I prefer fonts what were used in my country (Russia) to print science books in 70-80 yy of XX cent. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov
Am 08.01.2010 um 04:40 schrieb Vladimir Lomov:
Nevertheless, as I already mentioned, wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian shows examples with TeX Gyre fonts and it is worth to update them (I'm now working on that).
You can also add a list a free fonts with cyrillic chars, e.g. DejaVu, Computer Modern Unicode, Linux Libertine etc.
However, since we count Cyrillic users using fingers of one hand :), I think you can drop old Gyre fonts and don't bother yourself with it. Anyone will seek another solution, and Gyre fonts never was of top quality, IMHO. I doubt that quality appears with beginning of a font.
Don't forget about many another users which what to use Cyrillic script but doesn't have MS or Adobe fonts (like me, I don't have any product from MS so don't have they fonts or Adobe ones, Yes I took MS fonts from machines with MS OS installed but this is illegal, Yes I could download Adobe fonts from internet using P2P but this is illegal too).
Microsofts core fonts (Times New Roman, Arial) are available on the net [1] and Adobe provides Minion and Myriad as packages for the Adobe Reader [2]. I don't how the legal situation with Microsofts fonts is but Adobes fonts shouldn't be a problem when you have also the Adobe Reader. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/ [2] http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix Wolfgang
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