Dear Barbara,

> 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):

the following references point to LH cyrillic fonts (available in
teTeX, TeXLive). in particular, the reference like: "0x82/0xA2 in
lati1200" means that you could type "tex testfont", create a table for
the font lati1200, and look at slots 0x82 and 0xA2 (hex numbers).

>   0402/0452 -- dje

0x82/0xA2 in lati1200

>   0453 -- gje (g with acute accent)

seems it should look like g (0433) with acute accent. :)
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>   0454 -- ukrainian ie

0xB9 in lati1200

>   0409/0459 -- lje

0x87/0xA7 in lati1200

>   040A/045A -- nje

0x9B/0xBB in lati1000

>   040B/045B -- tshe

0x83/0xA3 in lati1000

>   040F/045F -- dzhe

0x96/0xB6 in lati1000

>   0462/0463 -- yat

0x58/0x78 in rxti1200 (also present in AMS wncyi10: 0x23/0x2B)

>   046A/046B -- big yus

0x59/0x79 in rxti1200

>   0472/0473 -- fita

approx. 0x90/0xB0 in rxti1200 (also wncyi10: 0x15/0x1D)

>   0474/0475 -- izhitsa

0x5A/0x7A in rxti1200 (also wncyi10: 0x14/0x1C)

>   0490/0491 -- ghe with upturn (ukrainian hard g)

0x80/0xA0 in lati1200

> any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Best,
v.