Just a few comments/questions to a few of the things:

Vladimir wrote:
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> >> some choices for cyrillic type 1 fonts are:
> >>
> >> 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 instead then?

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> >> - 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 another for Latin. But this is not a problem as much as I can see. It is simply 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 everything, except built in UTF8...)

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leif