--- 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 2010/9/16 Alan Cliffe <[email protected]> > 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. > Alan, you seem to be using a Windows OS, in which case configuring your IME to support Russian should do the trick. On a Linux system, the same end can be attained by configuring SCIM.... Henri PS : On this list bottom-posting is the default procedure....
