Dear Colleagues,

     Below is a sample of a trial version of ASCII-Cyrillic for
Ukrainian. Since comfortable reading and typing are of paramount
importance, it deviates slightly from the Russian version.

For example, I am using  y  for Ukrainian \cyryi (shape \"\i); if one
encounters a Russian \cyrery (say in a bibliography item, it will be
rendered not as  y  but as '{ery} a representation that will remain
valid for every Cyrilic language.  Similarly for all non-Ukrainian
Cyrillic letters.

     Eight bit fonts include quite a few diacritic characters.
The sample includes:

      '[<<]  for \leftguillemets
      '[>>]  for \rightguillemets
      '[--] for \nskip
      '[---] for \mskip

     The Ukrainian hard sign is an apostrophe (=\rightsinglquote)
and is being rendered by '* as in obov'*'azki below.  If
the hard sign is the ASCII right quote rather then the 8-bit character
(which is occarionally not present), one gets obov'''azki in
Ukrainian ASCII-Cyrillic.

     Bear in mind that ASCII-Cyrillic is designed to be a 100% faithful
representation.  And also to be usable beyond TeX and independant
of TeX.

Comments welcome!

       Best regards,

              Laurent Siebenmann



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 38 '[<<]Vi culi, 'wo skazano: '[<<]Oko za oko, zub za
zub'[>>]?
 39 Ta ka'zu 'A vam: '[<<]Ne cin'ith op'ir zlomu
colov'ikov'i'[>>]. 'Ak'wo xto vdarith tebe po prav'ij
'wo't'i, to p'idstav 'i l'ivu.
 40 'Ak'wo xto sxoce suditis'a z tobo'u j zabere
tvo'u sorocku, to v'iddaj jomu j pla'w.
 41 'Ak'wo xto siluvatime projti z nim verstu,
jdi z nim dv'i.
 42 Xto v tebe prosith, to daj jomu, a xto xoce
poziciti '[---] ne v'idmovl'aj'[>>]. L'ub'ith 'i vorog'iv
svoyx
 43 '[<<]Vi culi, 'wo skazano: '[<<]L'ubi bli'znho go
svogo 'i nenavidh voroga'[>>]?
 44'[--]45 Ta ka'zu 'A vam: '[<<]L'ub'ith vorog'iv svoyx,
mol'iths'a za tix, xto peresl'idu'e vas, 'wob vi
mogli stati d'ithmi vawogo Ot't'a Nebesnogo. V'in
primuwu'e son'te sxoditi dl'a zlix 'i dobrix 'i
posila'e do'w na pravednix 'i nepravednix.
 46 Bo 'ak'wo vi l'ubite liwe tix, xto l'ubith vas,
to 'aku vinagorodu vi matimete? Ci ne tak cin'ath
mitniki?
 47 'Ak'wo vi v'ita'ete liwe brat'iv svoyx, to 'wo
osoblivogo v 'thomu? Ci ne tak cin'ath pogani?
 48 Tomu budhte doskonalimi takimi, 'ak Ote'th
vaw Nebesnij'[>>]. Pro milostin'u

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 '[<<]Oster'igajtes'a vikonuvati rel'ig'ijn'i obov'*'azki
na l'ud'ax, 'wob voni bacili vas, bo ne matimete
vinagorodi v'id Ot't'a vawogo Nebesnogo. 2 Oto'z
koli poda'ew 'zebrakov'i, ne surmi pered us'ima, 'ak
'te robl'ath li'tem'iri v sina'go'gax ta na vuli't'ax,
'wob xvalili yx l'udi. 'Istinno ka'zu vam: voni v'ze
vpovn'i ma'uth vinagorodu.
 3'[--]4 Ta koli ti poda'ew 'zebraku milostin'u, nexaj
l'iva ruka tvo'a ne zna'e, 'wo robith prava, 'wob
ta'emne bulo tvo'e poda'ann'a. Tod'i Ote'th tv'ij, 'wo
bacith zroblene ta'emno, v'idd'acith tob'i'[>>].

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