Russian fonts

[Alec McAllister]

>Date:          Tue, 23 May 1995 08:22:36 -0800
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>               Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
 <SEELANGS%CUNYVM.EARN at ib.rl.ac.uk>
>From:          Martha Sherwood <msherw at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Subject:       Russian fonts
>To:            Multiple recipients of list SEELANGS
 <SEELANGS%CUNYVM.EARN at ib.rl.ac.uk>

>Does anyone have a recommendation for the University of Oregon Slavic
>acquisitions librarian, Mieczeslaw Buczkowski, for cyrillic fonts for
>IBM-compatible computers (I work with a Mac so I don't know what works best
>of the many packages available for IBM compatibles).  He can be reached at
><meb at oregon.uoregon.edu>
>
>Martha Sherwood
>University of Oregon Russian Department
>

All being well (I am waiting for last-minute reports from
beta-testers), in the next two or three days, I will be uploading to
FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU and mirror-sites a package called LeedsCyr.

This is the Cyrillic equivalent of my existing LeedsBit package, and
consists of 5 TrueType Koi-8 fonts containing (I hope!) all the
characters needed to write all the Cyrillic languages, not just the
Slavonic ones. The package also contains macros for Word For Windows
which make it very easy to type the characters.

Like LeedsBit, which covers almost all the Latin-alphabet languages,
LeedsCyr is shareware but payment is voluntary and in any case
nominal. (Proceeds go to my university, not to me.)

The fonts are based on the public-domain font Bitstream Charter,
which looks very like Times New Roman but does not have the copyright
complications of Times.

I hope that this package will be useful to scholars, and would
welcome advice and suggestions.

Alec McAllister.

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Alec McAllister
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