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Using cyrillic with ConTeXt MkIV
Note: The examples in this section were tested on recent (2008-10) ConTeXt minimals. If something does not work as written feel free to change them.
After installing the latest and greatest ConTeXt distribution and especially while trying to use MkiV you may notice that your old typescript definitions does not work anymore. For guidance about adjusting typescripts see upcoming ConTeXt manual (especially chapters about fonts and typography). Here are examples for writing cyrillic using only fonts that comes with ConTeXt. For quick start try:
\usetypescript[postscript] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \starttext Немного русского текста для пробы. \stoptext
Please note that in ConTeXt MkIV UTF-8 input encoding is the default, so writing \enableregime[utf]
is no longer necessary (an least works for me).
Nowadays the ConTeXt minimals distribution includes TeX Gyre fonts. Most of them contain cyrillic characters and all low-level mappings are already predefined (see type-otf.tex), so to use TeX Gyre fonts a few simple typeface definitions would suffice.
\starttypescript[gyre] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [rm] [serif] [pagella] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [ss] [sans] [heros] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [tt] [mono] [courier] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [mm] [math] [palatino] \definetypeface [gyre-book] [rm] [serif] [bonum] \definetypeface [gyre-book] [ss] [sans] [adventor] \definetypeface [gyre-book] [tt] [mono] [courier] \definetypeface [gyre-book] [mm] [math] [palatino] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [gyre-schol] [rm] [serif] [schola] \definetypeface [gyre-schol] [ss] [sans] [adventor] \definetypeface [gyre-schol] [tt] [mono] [courier] \definetypeface [gyre-schol] [mm] [math] [palatino] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [gyre-termes] [rm] [serif] [termes] \definetypeface [gyre-termes] [ss] [sans] [adventor] \definetypeface [gyre-termes] [tt] [mono] [courier] \definetypeface [gyre-termes] [mm] [math] [palatino] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [rm] [serif] [pagella] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [ss] [sans] [heros] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [tt] [mono] [courier] \definetypeface [gyre-pala] [mm] [math] [palatino] \stoptypescript
If someone tell me why small-caps doesn't work with these definitions, this would be perfect!
Put these in type-loc.tex
file, place it somewhere luatex can find it (texml-local tree is a good candidate), regenerate filename cache (luatools --generate
), and use as:
\usetypescript[gyre] \setupbodyfont[gyre-pala] % can be gyre-termes, gyre-book, etc. \startext Ещё немного кириллицы. \stoptext
Note that I don't use cursor font here as it seem to not have cyrillic characters. If you don't like these combinations modify the definitions as you see fit.
For complete russian language typesetting a few adjustments to config files are needed:
- Uncomment
\installlanguage [\s!ru] [\c!state=\v!start]
in cont-usr.tex (can be found in tex/texmf-context/tex/context/config in minimals. - Add
\input lang-cyr
somewhere in cont-usr.tex (for russian month names, translated labels like "table of contents", etc.; found in tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user in minimals). - Don't forget to change your language in documents (
\mainlanguage[ru]
for mainly russian documents).
Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and UTF
It is now possible (from ConTeXt version 2005.01.26 or 2005-01-31) to type Russian (cyrillic) letters directly in your .tex file using UTF-8 encoding. I have only tested this on TeXLive 2004, but I guess it would work on any distribution as long as you have the cm-super fonts installed (On TeXLive you had to generate the tfm files needed using the afm2tfm application (see furhter down on this page for a small python script that enables you to create all tfm files), or by using the fonts in LaTeX). Here is a minimal(?) working file.
\enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters \stoptext
Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and Windows 1251
The following example should work if you save your file in the Windows 1251 encoding:
\definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \definetypeface [swedish] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Some russian text: Там можно встретить медведей. Some swedish text: {\switchtobodyfont[swedish]D\"ar kan man m\"ota bj\"ornar.} \stoptext
At least it works here with TeXLive 2004.
Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and koi8-r (koi8r)
For koi8-r input encoding try this:
\useregime[cyr] % loads input regimes \enableregime[koi8-r] \starttext Тест кои8-р текста. \stoptext
For this example to work you need some cyrillic fonts, which is not included in default ConTeXt distribution. AFAIK cm-super is one of the most comprehensive cyrillic font packages. It can replace most fonts in cont-lmt. There is also small type1 font package pscyr.
If you have one of these, you need to add this before \starttext:
For cm-super try:
\usetypescript[modern-base][t2a] % switch default typescipt \setupbodyfont[modern]
or for pscyr:
\usetypescript[pscyr][t2a] \setupbodyfont[pscyr]
But you need to make sure that all typescript definitions are in place.
Example typescript for PSCyr can be downloaded from http://radhelorn.freeownhost.com/files/type-pscyr.tex. Place it in the same dir as your tex file or in ConTeXt user directory and add this command before setting typescripts:
\usetypescriptfile[type-pscyr]
If all files is on their places this should work "out of the box".
The python script
Ok, I am not a programmer, so this could probably be done in a cleaner way. However, it works for me. (A bit enhanced/modernized now...)
#!/usr/bin/python import os # Set these paths to what they should be in your case mapfile="/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.map" encfile="cm-super-t2a.enc" tfmoutdir="/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm-super/" f=file(mapfile, 'rU') # First read a line that is a comment. a=f.readline() print a # Loop over the rest of the lines rest=f.readlines() for currentline in rest: splitspace= currentline.split(" ") tfmname=splitspace[0] afmname=splitspace[1].lower() commandtorun= "afm2tfm %s.afm -T %s %s%s.tfm" % (afmname, encfile, tfmoutdir, tfmname) print "Running: " + commandtorun os.popen(commandtorun) f.close()
External Links
- Russian Transliteration - Russian translit free online transliteration service for Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer