Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!jc
From: jc@sce.UUCP (John Coughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Yugoslavian fonts for the Mac
Message-ID: <374@sce.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 18:59:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: sce.374
Posted: Thu May  5 14:59:03 1988
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Reply-To: jc@sce.UUCP (John Coughlin)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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Well, I don't think you'll get many responses to your quest for a 
"Yugoslavian" font.  Perhaps you don't know this but there are two 
major alphabets in Yugoslavia, Latin and Cyrillic.  The Croats use
the Latin based version while the Serbs use the Cyrillic.  For this
same reason there is no "Yugoslavian" language and neither does a
Serbo-Croatian one exist.  I could go into a history lesson as to why
there is so much strife in Yugoslavia but it's just a waste of time.
The simplest way to explain it is that Croatia is Roman Catholic and thus
very western in outlook while Serbia is Orthodox and very eastern.  This
quite simply explains why the two alphabets *and* the two languages.

So, ask for Cyrillic for Serbian and you'll get that, otherwise just use
a modified Latin alphabet.  Note, I personally use TeX and I find it
has all of the necessary pieces to create the Croatian alphabet.

If you wonder how I know this it's because my parents are both from
Croatia and the only language, other than English and French (I'm 
Canadian, eh :-), that I speak is Croatian.  

						Hope this helped,
							Eugen Bacic
							using JC's acct
							with his permission :-)

ps: In TeX my last name is spelled:  Ba\v ci\'c