Accented Russian Fonts

[Charles E. Gribble]

I'm not sure what you mean by non-portable, but indeed the system WP uses
to denote non-ASCII characters is specific to WP.  On the other hand, it
works very well.  I have a completely customized Cyrillic keyboard in WP 7
(same principle to make one for 8 or 9) which has all the letters exactly
where I want them (e.g., asdf for the left hand, i kratkoe kl; for the
right in home row), plus all the vowels with both acute and grave accents,
plus all the characters for Macedonian, Serbian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and
OCS, including jat', jus malyj, jus bol'shoj, jotated letters, etc.  I can
also produce any other Slavic or Baltic letter, plus phonetics, etc. by the
press of a couple of keys.  WordPerfect is great for doing multilingual
text, especially linguistics.  It works on any Windows printer for all the
characters.  It does not, however, export the special characters to the
Web, any more than other word processors do.


At 11:27 AM 7/29/1999 +0900, you wrote:
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>Poster:       Yoshimasa Tsuji <yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
>Subject:      Re: Accented Russian Fonts
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>Robert Orr said,
>  The WordPerfect charcater sets include Cyrillic vowels with both acute and
>  grave accents, and if your printer supports them, you should have no
trouble
>  (although the instructions for setting up a keyboard are slightly
>  obscurantist!)
>
>WordPerfect was notoriously non-portable (at least five years ago
>when it needed a Cyrillic module). I don't know how it works
>under Corel, which I assume its present name.
>

Charles E. Gribble    gribble.3 at osu.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages
The Ohio State University
Columbus OH 43210