Am 2008-04-28 um 09:16 schrieb Gour: > I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS > distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered > that > he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) > does not work, i.e. > > \enableregime[utf] > \useencoding[cyr] > > \definetypeface [russian] > [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] > > \setupbodyfont[russian] > \starttext > Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters > \stoptext > > does transliterate Russian characters. > > I do not have any experience working with Cyrillic, so if anyone can > provide minimal working example it would be very nice? > > I persistently claimed that "it must work!" :-)
Since I just adapted a ConTeXt based business card generator to work with cyrillic type, I can assure that it's possible - with XeTeX or LuaTeX. There you just need to encode your sources in UTF-8 and use OpenType fonts that contain cyrillic glyphs, like TeX Gyre. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________