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From: kraig@biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Typing in Russian
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Date: 17 Dec 90 22:16:24 GMT
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A friend of mine would like to lay out his keyboard as a standard Russian 
keyboard.  Apparently the makers of the various Cyrillic fonts have 
arranged the letters phonetically or something, so a Russian can't 
touch-type.  I need to do this with both PostScript and screen fonts.

I assume I could use Fontographer or something to rearrange a font, so 
that when the user types "A", the Cyrillic character from the 
corresponding position on a Russian keyboard is associated with ASCII 65.  
Has anyone done this sort of thing?  Will it work with PS fonts?  Am I 
doing it the hard way?  Any help is most appreciated.

Please mail replies to kraig@biostr.washington.edu.  Thanks

Kraig Eno, kraig@biostr.washington.edu
"Problems generate new knowledge" - M. Usui