Return-Path: Received: from [62.76.169.38] (HELO video) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3786954; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:34:37 +0400 To: (Cyrillic TeX Users Group) Cc: Barbara Beeton Subject: Re: looking for samples of italic cyrillic letterforms References: From: Vladimir Volovich Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:34:48 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Barbara Beeton's message of "Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: Lines: 68 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.103 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. :) \'\cyrg > 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.