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Article #2855Re: Ukrainian font(s)
From: Thomas Ridgeway
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:09
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:09
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In article <VGL02XC@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen) writes: >From: knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen) >Subject: Re: Macintosh, Ukrainian font(s) >Keywords: wncyr >Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:06:48 GMT >The wncyr font from TeX has all ukrainian letters except the ge with upturn. >It is available from many servers as METAFONT source and/or readily computed >metrics and bitmaps. > >The addition of the missing g' is planned, but not yet done. > >--JK > An undocumented `feature' of the current WNCY is the presence of an endinput statement in the source-file serb.mf.[1] If this endinput statement is edited/commented out, a couple of extra characters (YUSs and Ukrainian G) will appear somewhere up in the 128 to 255 range. These were omitted for purposes of allowing archaic old 128-character-only dvi-drivers to continue to work, and because these characters were only halfway supported anyhow. (e.g. no italic forms). Still, maybe half a loaf . . . -------------------- [1] Called serb.mf for reasons known only to one of a) the author, b) God. cheers, Tom Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing, U. Washington Seattle, WA, 98195 USA ridgeway@u.washington.edu phone:(206)-543-4218
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!u.washington.edu!RIDGEWAY From: RIDGEWAY@u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Ukrainian font(s) Date: 8 Jan 1993 20:09:25 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 29 Message-ID: <RIDGEWAY.5.0@u.washington.edu> References: <1993Jan7.155517.12772@shearson.com> <VGL02XC@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.95.200.45 Summary: some hidden characters exist Keywords: wncyr