Return-Path: Received: from relay2.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.17] verified) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b3) with ESMTP-TLS id 3787215 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 00:38:37 +0400 Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id 392C9E82A; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:38:37 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f86KepR02360; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:40:51 +0400 Sender: vvv@vvv.vsu.ru From: Vladimir Volovich To: (Cyrillic TeX Users Group) Subject: Re: looking for samples of italic cyrillic letterforms References: Date: 07 Sep 2001 00:40:51 +0400 In-Reply-To: Barbara Beeton's message of "Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:56:16 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Barbara, > one clarification: > > > 0453 -- gje (g with acute accent) > > seems it should look like g (0433) with acute accent. :) > \'\cyrg > > the new font that i'm looking at simply has the upright g obliqued, > with the accent; i have questioned that, but am looking for some > more expert knowledge than i have. from your description here, i > gather that the usual sinuous russian italic g should get the accent, > rather than the oblique upright form. that's an interesting question. when i first wrote, i did not pay attention to this. from the logical point of view, italic gje should look like italic g with acute, like any other accented cyrillic letters. but in e.g. timesi.ttf from microsoft, gje looks like an oblique g with acute. i think that any form will be readable and understandable. maybe someone could clarify which form is preferrable? Best, v.