Re: How do I use cyrillic fonts?
Hi,
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> somebody here wants to use cyrillic fonts under X11
> (Emacs 20, really). I have installed the xfntcyr package, but
> Emacs doesn't "see" the fonts. It lists iso-8859-5 as the font
> for cyrillic instead of koi8-r. The option on the menu that says
> koi8-r (display faces, or something like that) doesn't show the
> characters, but blocks.
>
> I know emacs can "read" cyrillic, and display that on screen, but
> *I* don't know how.
Did you actually have koi8 fonts?
If no, ask me, i'll send you a bunch...
About emacs - i have no experience with emacs 20,
but in emacs 19 i just set standard-display-european
to true and it works just fine.
In order to enter russian text i'm using
russian.el in emacs - ask and i'll forward you a copy...
> I'm sure he'll ask me eventually how to use TeX (or LaTeX) with
> cyrillic fonts... any pointers?
all information about teTeX russification along with
bunch of free Type 1 russian fonts is here
http://xtalk.price.ru/tex/
again, works for me just fine...
check also Cyrillic HOWTO - i got russian ispell
info from this document.
> As a side note, can GNUS use the cyrillic fonts?
i don't use GNUS, but if you can type russian
in emacs and GNUS is 8bit clean - why not?
> I'll compile the answers, and try do put them together for
> inclusion on the faq.
>
> Any help will be much welcomed.
feel free to ask...
regards
OK
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