Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!henry
From: henry@jtsv16.UUCP (Joe H. Pinski)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Russian Wordprocessing
Keywords: Russian, English, Cyrillic, Translation, Wordprocessing
Message-ID: <1053@jtsv16.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 89 14:53:44 GMT
Organization: JTS Computer Systems Ltd., ON, Canada
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The following posting is for Dimitri Vulis upon his request:

X-Original-To:  henry@jtsv16.uucp,hk@simulina.se.uucp, DLV

I've been very happy with the following setup for Russian word processing:

* An MS-DOS computer with VGA (also works with EGA and MCGA)
* My GOSTCII code page (1)
* TeX (SB TeX, Beebe's drivers) (2)
* American Math Society's Cyrillic fonts for TeX (Canon engine, 300 dpi) (3)
* Hewlett-Packard LaserJet (tested and worked with Apple Laserwriter too).

(1) is in the public domain and is available from SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in
PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN>CYRILIC2.ARC. If you can't FTP, you can get it from one of
the mail servers.

(2) is public domain/shareware and can be FTP'd from various places.

(3) is available from AMS, P.O.Box 1571, Annex station, Providence, RI
02901-1571 for about $40 for s/h.

I see Russian letters on screen (as well as Latin), and can switch the keyboard
to standard Russian layout, and I get pretty good output in a variety of sizes.

I've been told that AMS will soon start distributing an updated version of the
fonts, compatible, in particular, with my Russian TeX hyphenation patterns.

Dimitri Vulis
Department of Mathematics
CUNY GC