New Cyrillic TrueType Fonts

[Max Pyziur]

Greetings.

New and improved Cyrillic fonts; that's what it is.  In an effort
to outdo himself Gavin Helf, noted (on the Internet, at least)
C++programmer and Poli Sci PhD specializing in Russian Regional
politics (see his class act currently at Cornell), has done just
that.  His ER-series Cyrillic fonts have been improved in several ways.
1 - On screen viewing now is much sharper
2 - They now have true Bold, Italics (check out those lower-case
Ukrainian
    g's) and Bold Italics
3 - Efforts have been made to make them as complete as possible (read:
    ecumenical) so that they are useable across all modern Cyrillic-based
    Slavic languages
4 - They come in four codings: AV/Code Page 866, KOI8, Code Page 1251, and
    Apple Standard Cyrillic
5 - Pseudo-graphics (things such as bars and corners) have been added to
    facilitate the creation of boxes, etc.
5 - Some new fonts have been created:  Bukinist now replaces Third Roman
    as the Serif font; Univers replaces Arial.
6 - Did I forget something?  Gavin's descriptions are attached to this
    note.

Conditions of usage:
These fonts are freeware which means the author retains copyright, the
user is entitled to use the fonts in anyway he wishes at no charge (give
them to your dog to chew on; I bet that will make his bark strange) under
the provision that no money is exchanged in any further transference
or distribution -- hence freeware.

Location:
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/ukrainian/software/fonts
(old fonts have been put into:
/pub/central_eastern_europe/ukrainian/software/fonts/obsolete)

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/comp/fonts/erfonts
ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu and it's various mirrors such as ftp.wustl.edu

Btw to Macintosh Users:
Two of our boys are sitting in the lab migrating these items to
Macintosh environments.  As soon as they have some items ready and they
are uploaded we'll give you an APB (All Points Bulletin)

Max
pyz at panix.com


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ENGLISH-RUSSIAN Fonts
Version 4.00
(c) 1995, Gavin Helf

NOTICE: Although these fonts are called "English-Russian," they
        fully support other cyrillic slavic languages (Ukrainian,
        Belorussian, Serbian, Macedonian, etc).  "ER" has become
        something of a trademark name for my fonts, so I'll stick
        with it.  I take no responsibility if this software screws
        you over.
        ===USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!===

Installation: These files contain TrueType .TTF font files.  Pick the
              fonts you want, and use CONTROL PANEL | FONTS to install
              them.  The file ERFONTS.WRI will display all the fonts
              that you have installed.

Parsing the File Names:

[Character Sets]

??1251.ZIP   Code Page 1251 - used in the (f)USSR for Windows
??866.ZIP    Code Page 866  - used in the (f)USSR for DOS applications.
??KOI8.ZIP   KOI-8 Chr Set  - used in the (f)USSR for UNIX/Internet/Relcom.
??MAC.ZIP    Mac Cyrillic   - Adobe's "Macintosh Cyrillic Character Set"

[Font Faces]

CO*.ZIP      "Kurier"    -  fixed-width Courier-like font (true itl/bld).
BK*.ZIP      "Bukinist"  -  serif font (true itl/bld).
UN*.ZIP      "Univers"   -  sans-serif font (true itl/bld).
AR*.ZIP      "Architect" -  Well, a fab scribbly font like architects use.


About Keyboards: To use your Cyrillic characters, you need a
keyboard driver.  One option is the my WINKEY program, which will let
you switch in both DOS and Windows, as well as modify your system fonts
to display cyrillic.  Look for WINKEY.ZIP in the nearest future.

***NOTICE TO SYSOPS***
This series replaces the following obsolete versions:

3CYRTTF.ZIP
3KOI8TTF.ZIP
ER866.ZIP
ER1252.ZIP
ERKOI8.ZIP
ERAR201.ZIP
ERCO201.ZIP
ERAI201.ZIP
RELEASE.ZIP

Gavin Helf
Internet: ghelf at violet.berkeley.edu, gh22 at cornell.edu

10 March 1995

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AR1251.ZIP  32,443 03-10-95 4:00  ER Architect Code Page 1251 TrueType
AR866.ZIP   29,328 03-10-95 4:00  ER Architect Code Page 866 TrueType
ARKOI8.ZIP  28,855 03-10-95 4:00  ER Architect KOI-8 TrueType
ARMAC.ZIP   32,852 03-10-95 4:00  ER Architect Macintosh Set TrueType

BK1251.ZIP 134,860 03-10-95 4:00  ER Bukinist Code Page 1251 TrueType
BK866.ZIP  123,525 03-10-95 4:00  ER Bukinist Code Page 866 TrueType
BKKOI8.ZIP 120,289 03-10-95 4:00  ER Bukinist KOI-8 TrueType
BKMAC.ZIP  138,598 03-10-95 4:00  ER Bukinist Macintosh Set TrueType

CO1251.ZIP 154,927 03-10-95 4:00  ER Kurier Code Page 1251 TrueType
CO866.ZIP  131,112 03-10-95 4:00  ER Kurier Code Page 866 TrueType
COKOI8.ZIP 134,361 03-10-95 4:00  ER Kurier KOI-8 TrueType
COMAC.ZIP  154,878 03-10-95 4:00  ER Kurier Macintosh Set TrueType

UN1251.ZIP 114,199 03-10-95 4:00  ER Univers Code Page 1251 TrueType
UN866.ZIP  106,181 03-10-95 4:00  ER Univers Code Page 866 TrueType
UNKOI8.ZIP 105,138 03-10-95 4:00  ER Univers KOI-8 TrueType
UNMAC.ZIP  116,877 03-10-95 4:00  ER Univers Macintosh Set TrueType