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Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and UTF

It is now possible (from ConTeXt version 2005.01.26 or 2005-01-31) to type Russian (cyrillic) letters directly in your .tex file using UTF-8 encoding. I have only tested this on TeXLive 2004, but I guess it would work on any distribution as long as you have the cm-super fonts installed (On TeXLive you had to generate the tfm files needed using the afm2tfm application (see furhter down on this page for a small python script that enables you to create all tfm files), or by using the fonts in LaTeX). Here is a minimal(?) working file.

\enableregime[utf]
\useencoding[cyr]

\definetypeface [russian]
  [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a]

\setupbodyfont[russian]
\starttext
Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters
\stoptext

Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and Windows 1251

The following example should work if you save your file in the Windows 1251 encoding:

\definetypeface [russian]
  [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a]

\definetypeface [swedish]
  [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[russian]

\starttext
Some russian text:
Там можно встретить медведей.

Some swedish text:
{\switchtobodyfont[swedish]D\"ar kan man m\"ota bj\"ornar.}

\stoptext

At least it works here with TeXLive 2004.

Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and koi8-r (koi8r)

For koi8-r input encoding try this:

\useregime[cyr] % loads input regimes
\enableregime[koi8-r]

\starttext
Тест кои8-р текста.
\stoptext

For this example to work you need some cyrillic fonts, which is not included in default ConTeXt distribution. AFAIK cm-super is one of the most comprehensive cyrillic font packages. It can replace most fonts in cont-lmt. There is also small type1 font package pscyr.

If you have one of these, you need to add this before \starttext:

For cm-super try:

\usetypescript[modern-base][t2a] % switch default typescipt
\setupbodyfont[modern]

or for pscyr:

\usetypescript[pscyr][t2a]
\setupbodyfont[pscyr]

But you need to make sure that all typescript definitions are in place.

Example typescript for PSCyr can be downloaded from http://radhelorn.freeownhost.com/files/type-pscyr.tex. Place it in the same dir as your tex file or in ConTeXt user directory and add this command before setting typescripts:

\usetypescriptfile[type-pscyr]

If all files is on their places this should work "out of the box".

The python script

Ok, I am not a programmer, so this could probably be done in a cleaner way. However, it works for me. (A bit enhanced/modernized now...)

#!/usr/bin/python
import os

# Set these paths to what they should be in your case
mapfile="/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.map"
encfile="cm-super-t2a.enc"
tfmoutdir="/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm-super/"

f=file(mapfile, 'rU')

# First read a line that is a comment.
a=f.readline()
print a

# Loop over the rest of the lines
rest=f.readlines()
for currentline in rest:
  splitspace= currentline.split(" ")
  tfmname=splitspace[0]
  afmname=splitspace[1].lower()
  commandtorun= "afm2tfm %s.afm -T %s %s%s.tfm" % (afmname, encfile, tfmoutdir, tfmname)
  print "Running: " + commandtorun
  os.popen(commandtorun)

f.close()

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