I know Cyrillic is an alphabet. I was actually looking for something like TL 
Help Cyrillic, which is found in the font menu in MS Word and substitutes the 
closest Cyrillic letter equivalents as you type on your (Roman) keyboard. I'm 
not finding anything like that, but the Cyrillic characters do come up if one 
takes the steps you've suggested.

--- On Wed, 9/15/10, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Brian Barker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [users] Cyrillic script
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 4:26 PM


At 11:31 15/09/2010 -0700, Alan Cliffe wrote:
> How about making Cyrillic script available? Or am I missing something? It 
> doesn't appear in the drop-down font menu.

I think you are missing the point here.  Cyrillic is not a font but an alphabet 
- a set of characters that may or may not appear in any font.  Cyrillic 
characters appear in a number of fonts on my system, but I cannot say which, if 
any, came with OpenOffice.  In general, fonts do not need to come with 
applications: OpenOffice should inherit any fonts properly installed in your 
operating system.

o  Go to Insert | Special Character...  .
o  In the Subset drop-down menu, look for "Cyrillic".  If it appears, you will 
see Cyrillic characters; if not, try another font from the Font drop-down menu.

The next question you'll want to ask is how to get your system to allow you to 
type Cyrillic characters directly, as if you had a Russian (or whatever) 
keyboard.  I'll leave others to explain that.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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