Return-Path: Received: from [213.93.248.84] (HELO russisk.no) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b7) with SMTP id 4096525 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:55:10 +0300 Received: from 192.168.0.2 ([192.168.0.2] verified) by russisk.no (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b8) with SMTP id S.0000570942 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:55:09 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:55:05 +0100 From: leif halvard silli Subject: Re: CyrTeX with Macintosh To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru Message-ID: <3087287705.Leif_Halvard_Silli0003@192.168.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Magellan 2.0.1.141 (Macintosh) Just a few comments/questions to a few of the things: Vladimir wrote: =2E....... > >> some choices for cyrillic type 1 fonts are: > >>=20 > >> CM-Super fonts: CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/ these Type 1= fonts > >> are a drop-in replacement for EC/TC and LH fonts > > lhs> Is this the same as 'CM-Super font package v0.2.0' which you > lhs> announced earlier? > >yes. current version is 0.3.1 already, and is available from CTAN. You sent me LH fonts, but since this is a replacement I may use these in= stead then? =2E... > >> - enter both norwegian text and russian text in different 8-bit > >> encodings. your editor must be able to do so (it is very tricky). > > lhs> This would of course be the most interesting thing... > >but you should use some screen font (in your editor) which will >display both cyrillic and norwegian characters... best approach is >to use UTF-8 capable editor. I will have to use two different screen fonts: one for cyrillic and anot= her for Latin. But this is not a problem as much as I can see. It is sim= ply the (old style) macintosh multilingual method. The swiching between = fonts is automatical, follows the keyboard layout I use. I will use the = editor I know best, which is Nisus Writer (it has grep/regex and everyth= ing, except built in UTF8...) --=20 leif