Accented Russian Fonts

[Henryk Baran]

Yes, WP works pretty well, but it's very much a minority file format; if you
want to share files with other people, especially Cyrillic, you have to go
to something that is Word compatible.
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles E. Gribble <gribble.3 at osu.edu>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Accented Russian Fonts


> 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
>