Accented Russian Fonts

Thu Jul 29 19:44:31 UTC 1999

ER UniversTR Cyrillic Fonts

There are indeed web-compatible, cross-browser, cross-platform
Cyrillic fonts with accented vowels available for free on the Russnet
website.  Just go to:  "http://www.russnet.org/online.html" and
proceed to "Peers".  On the main "Peers" page, you will find a link
to the fonts.

There is one serious drawback to the fonts though-- there are no
numbers.  The accented vowels sit upon the number keyspaces.  A
complete keyboard layout can be found if you download any of the
modules.  While you're at the site, check out "Business Russian",
"Ivan the Terrible" and the other Russian modules that we offer!

If anyone wants to use these fonts for Web design, read on...

When you use these fonts on a web page, you must make the fonts (both
Mac and PC) available for your end-users.  Download each version (you
can get the PC version by going to the sight on a PC, and the Mac by
going on a Mac-- the page determines which font to deliver --see
script below).
One you have both versions of the fonts, upload them both
("erfonts.exe" (PC)  and  "fonts.sea.hqx" (Mac)) and refer to them
using the following script:

FONT DOWNLOAD PAGE
**********Start copying below this line*****************
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Download Area</TITLE>
<Script Language = "Javascript">
//set the function which picks the right font and the appropriate set
of directions
function setPlat(){
//checks if user is using a Mac
        if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Macintosh") != -1){
                pform="fonts.sea.hqx"
        }
//checks if user is using a PC
else if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("95") != -1){
                 pform="erfonts.exe"
         }
// give them the appropriate font
document.location.href=pform
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<AHREF=javascript:setPlat()>Click here to download the fonts</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>

**********End copying above this line*****************

Feel free to use, modify, distribute, etc. this script in any way you
like!!

When you design your page, all you have to do is put font tags in to
refer to the ER UniversTR fonts-- that's all!  They are Western
encoded, so you don't even have to think about encodings or
keyboards.  Just make sure that your font tags look like this on your
page:

*************<FONT TAGS>*******************

<FONT FACE="ER UniversTR">Some Russian text here</FONT>

hint:  If you want to use numbers, just use an English font like
Times New Roman:

<FONT FACE="Times New Roman">1234</FONT><FONT FACE="ER
UniversTR">More Russian text here</FONT>

*************</FONT TAGS>*******************
Any questions, contact:

Ken Petersen
kpeter at actr.org

Cheers,

Ken