Re: Cyrillic fonts for Lout 3.13

[Victor Sudakov]

Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> 
> > Could you please explain to me, where I should obtain the Cyrillic
> > fonts for Lout 3.13 and how I should install them.  The README file
> > gives the impression that they can be downloaded from
> > ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/jeff, but I could not find them there.
> 
> That's a false impression.  If one of README's gives it, it should be
> fixed.

This is the $LOUTLIB/font/00README file.

> 
> You can use any Type1/Type3 font with Lout.  Unfortunately, there're
> no widely available cyrillic body types, like those from Adobe's 14

So, in other words, there are no Cyrillic fonts in lout. Sad.

> standard fonts.  Fonts listed in the russian.fd turned out to be
> pirated and so AFM's for them are no longer distributed (and, BTW, the
> distributed russian.fd should probably be cut down to the header
> comment only to match this).

It definitely should, because it gives the idea (a false one, as I now see)
that it is quite good to use the Academy, Textbook etc. fonts. BTW who said
they are pirated? They have been available on ftp for ages.

> 
> If you don't want to engage in font piracy (which you surely don't)
> you still have some pretty viable options.
> 
> . ParaType has some free fonts on their web site (www.paratype.ru or

Thanks a lot for the comprehensive info on possible font sources. This looks
sad, however. Personally, what fonts do you use, if I may ask? All those
fonts you mention (Literaturnaya etc.), can they be used for lout without
any modifications? I use the koi8-r codepage, if that is important.

[dd]
> 
> Installing fonts, or rather making fonts known to Lout is easy.  Just
> look at the comment in fontdefs and write a line for the new font.

Is this all that is required? No uncommenting anything in any config file,
no running 'lout -x' ? No messing with map files and encodings?

Thanx a lot for your help.

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Victor Sudakov
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