Return-Path: Received: from [130.44.1.6] (HELO ams.org) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3786883 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:52:23 +0400 Received: from localhost (bnb@localhost) by ams.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f86IqFx01552; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:52:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara Beeton To: Subject: looking for samples of italic cyrillic letterforms Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) i find myself in the position of having to critique some cyrillic fonts, and need help finding models for reference. i can cope well enough with upright cyrillic, any languages, and with the russian "italic" letters. however, i'm out of my depth when it comes to the italic forms of non-russian letters, in particular the following (citing them by unicode id's): 0402/0452 -- dje 0453 -- gje (g with acute accent) 0454 -- ukrainian ie 0409/0459 -- lje 040A/045A -- nje 040B/045B -- tshe 040F/045F -- dzhe 0462/0463 -- yat 046A/046B -- big yus 0472/0473 -- fita 0474/0475 -- izhitsa 0490/0491 -- ghe with upturn (ukrainian hard g) any pointers will be greatly appreciated. -- barbara beeton