Return-Path: Received: from [130.44.1.6] (HELO ams.org) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.1) with ESMTP id 1846473 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:15:29 +0400 Received: from localhost (bnb@localhost) by ams.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06871 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:15:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:15:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara Beeton To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru Subject: Re: ASCII-Cyrillic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII some responses to larry's comments ... You write: << i was constrained to use the mathematical reviews transliteration, with two distinct outputs required... >> Being no longer constrained since TeX 3 of 1989 is the basic incentive to devise a more comfortable scheme. [...] i'm still constrained. math reviews still uses the cyrillic input scheme as designed. however, no one else should be constrained and i fully agree that other approaches are more suitable for uses other than the limited math reviews use. <<..there is an alternate input encoding for wncy*, with some letters consisting of a letter plus a digit...>> Interesting. Could we have a simplest example? i've attached a summary of the scheme. this was originally part of the ams distribution, but it was removed (i voted to keep it there, but was overruled). for a simplest example, e0 = yo, i0 = i kratkoe. by the way, the ams distribution does include alternate virtual cyrillic fonts; there are quite a few such .vpl files on our ftp server, with a readme file that says ams doesn't support them. i'm not sure whether these correspond to the .vf files that someone (larry?) in another message suggested that ams might consider including; this collection is also on ctan, in font/amsfonts/cyr-alt/ . if someone could check whether these are the same as the suggested collection, i'd appreciate it; if they're not, i am willing to recommend that the others also be included in the ams distribution, again without support. -- bb -------------------- CYRILLIC.LIGS This is a list of all the letter ligatures in the AMS cyrillic fonts. Please keep this file up to date. 29 Jun 84 LOWER CASE LIGATURES A. All-letter ligatures ch = `q dj = '016 kh = `h lj = '011 nj = '010 sh = `x; xc = `7 (shc); 7h = `w (shch) ts = `c ya = '037 yu = '030 zh = '031 B. Ligatures with keyed numerals c1 = '017 d1 = '016 (dj); d2 = '012 (dzh); d3 = '036 (dz) e0 = '033; e1 = '013; e2 = '015 i0 = '032; i1 = '014 j1 = '037 (ya); j2 = '030 (yu) l1 = '011 (lj) n1 = '010 (nj) p1 = '176; p2 = '177 z1 = '031 (zh) UPPER CASE LIGATURES A. All-letter ligatures CH, Ch = `Q KH, Kh = `H LJ, Lj = '001 NJ, Nj = '000 SH, Sh = `X; XH, Xh = `6 (SHC, SHc, Shc); 6H, 6h = `W (SHCH, SHCh, SHch, Shch) TS, Ts = `C YA, Ya = '027 YU, Yu = '020 ZH, Zh = '021 B. Ligatures with keyed numerals C1 = '007 D1 = '006 (DJ); D2 = '002 (DZH); D3 = '026 (DZ) E0 = '023; E1 = '003; E2 = '005 I0 = '022; I1 = '004 J1 = '027 (YA); J2 = '020 (YU) L1 = '001 (LJ) N0 = '175 (Number sign); N1 = '000 (NJ) P1 = '136; P2 = '137 Z1 = '021 (ZH) DEACTIVATED LIGATURES The following were the original way of building dzh and DZH ligs, but were not compatible with desired keyboarding schemes. dz = '036; '036(roman s)h = '012 (dzh) DZ = '026; '026(roman S)H = '002 (DZH)