I use Red Hat 5.2, and I don't guarantee that these instructions are valid for other Linux distributions.
A lot of work has been done on the NET.
Stanislav
Tzolovski's page is a good source of information. You can download
some of his files from this page too (only thos that I have tried):
From Stanislav Tzolovski:
My notes:
You should also take a look at www.freetype.org.
Based on their work a True-Type font
server was developed. The latter allows you to use directly the True-Type
fonts from MS Windows. If you want to increase the amount of cyrillic fonts
you could use the True Type Font to Post Script type1 converter from http://www.netspace.net.au/~mheath/ttf2pt1/.
More information can be found at :
http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/koi8.html
(Devoted primarily to KOI8-R)
http://www.dtcc.edu/~berlin/fonts.html
(Fonts resource)
http://ftp.kiae.su/pub/
(Russian ftp archive with a search engine)
You can
take a look at :
http://ftp.kiae.su/pub/cyrillic/
http://people.bulgaria.com/lug-bg/
(Bulgarian Linux User Group)
http://www.math.bas.bg/~nkirov/tex.html (Bulgarian LaTeX for EmTeX (DOS and Windows))
To setup the Cyrillic stuff, one should do the following things:
I. Installation
1.Download the package - cp-1251
and koi-8 (482 KB)
2.Unzip and untar the package:
gzcat cp1251+koi8.tar.gz
| tar xvf -
or if you do
not have gzcat:
gunzip cp1251+koi8.tar.gz
tar -xvf cp1251+koi8.tar
Directory xcyr
will be automatically created.
3.Set up file permissions
cd xcyr
chmod go+rx .../xcyr/
chmod go+r *
1.Run in xcyr directory:
xset fp+ `pwd`
2.Test fonts by doing
xlsfonts -fn
"*cyr*"
or
xterm -font cyr
&
And in the new
xterm window type:
more Bulgarian.alphabet
3.If fonts look OK, you can
add the line
xset fp+ [path]/xcyr
to your ..xinitrc
file, so that the cyrillic fonts will be automatically loaded every time
you start X
Windows.
4.The switching between the
different input translations is set up by the xmodmap program. You should
run the
command:
for X Version 11 Release 5:
xmodmap CapsLockCyr.xmm
and then use the key CapsLock to change layouts us/bg;
for X Version 11 Release 6.3:
xkbcomp bg.xkb -o $DISPLAY
and then press the keys Ctrl + Alt + Space to change the layouts us/bg.
- Version 3.0 select Options.GeneralPreference.Fonts
- Version 4.0 or later select Edit.Preferences.Fonts
In the new window:
1.Set the Encoding: Western
(iso-8859-1)
2.Set the Proportional Font:
Times(Adobecyr)
3.Set the Fixed Font: Courier(Adobecyr)
I. KDE
KDE
versions 1.1 and 1.1.1 has a built-in multi-language support. The name
of the application is "International keyboard". and can be found in the
sub-menu "system". After you start it, add a new keyboard layout "bulgarian
charset cp1251". It is based on the above mentioned package cp-1251
and koi-8. The supplied layout is a "PHOENETIC" layout. Unfortunately
I have a Danish keyboard and I cannot make a BDS layout. The file to be
changed resided in /opt/kde/share/apps/kikbd. The name of the file is bg.kimap.
If someone makes such a layout, please send it to me, to include it in
this page.
NOTE : You must first
install the Cyrillic Type 1 fonts in your X-Windows and
then set them up in Star Office.
In case you have cyrillic fonts :
1. Start "SPAdmin" (/usr/local/Office51/bin/spadmin).
2. Press "Add fonts"
3. Press "Initialize
Font Paths".
A
list with the currently available font paths
(with
fonts.dir inside it) will appear. In the text box
specify
the screen number (usually 0.0)
4. Select the cyrillic fonts.
In case you don't have cyrillic fonts, here are some fonts you can use for the purpose - Helvdl (Helvetica like), Journal, Journal - serif . To install them
1.
Download cyr_fonts00.tar.gz,
cyr_fonts01.tar.gz,
cyr_fonts02.tar.gz,
cyr_fonts03.tar.gz,
cyr_fonts04.tar.gz
) .
Put them in one directory.
These files are parts
of one archive, so you have to
download all of them.
I have broken them into parts
of approximately 220
KB each. They contain pfb, pfa, and t1a files.
2. In theory it is a
StarOffice utility producing
the
metrics files. In case they are wrong, there is a mismatch
between
what you see on the screen and what is printed.
You
can get the correct ones from
here.
This file must be downloaded
in
the same directory as the files from item 1.
3. Unzip them
> gunzip *
> tar -x -v -M -f cyr_fonts00.tar
-f cyr_fonts01.tar -f cyr_fonts02.tar -f
cyr_fonts03.tar
-f cyr_fonts04.tar
If you have downloaded
the metrics file :
> tar -xvf afm.tar.gz
A new directory "fromttf1" will appear.
3. Set the proper read/write
rights.
To
enable the X Server to view them add the path to the
list
of the directories in you "/etc/X11/XF86Config" file.
FontPath
"/the_directory/fromttf1"
4. Restart your XWindows
system.
Here is a sample result from StarOffice
in post script.
For more information
about fonts in AbiWord take a look at:
http://www.abisource.com/dev_unixfonts.phtml
By default AbiSuite
resides in :
/usr/local/AbiSuite/
To make it
1. Download the fonts,
described in the section Start Ofiice.
2. Download the fonts.dir
file from here (fonts.dir)
3. Install them in
your X windows.
4. If your download
directory is /download/ then execute :
>
cd /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts
>
cp fonts.dir fonts.dir.orig
>
cp /download/fromttf1/* .
>
cp /download/fonts.dir .
5. Run AbiWord. You
should be able to see the fonts and use them.
6. In case AbiWord complains about missing fonts, recover the old file.
NOTE: The "fonts.dir" file is for
version 0.7. If your version is different,
you
should edit the original fonts.dir file, by adding the fonts.
DISCLAIMER : I have tried this only
on a limited amount of computers.
They all run RedHat 5.2. I am not a LaTeX expert.
This package allows
you to type in cyrllic, and create the LaTeX
documents. The supported
encoding is cp1251. You can modify the
encoding table yourself,
since it is in an easy to read format.
1. Download new cyrillic fonts lhfnt.tar.gz(450 KB)
2. Download bulgarian
support to7bit-v0.1-i386.tar.gz(50KB).
Download
the bulgarian hyphenation table (bghyph.tex)
3. Become superuser.
4. Gunzip and untar
them
> gunzip lhfnt.tar.gz
> tar -xvf lhfnt.tar
> gunzip to7bit-v0.1-i386.tar.gz
> tar -xvf to7bit-v0.1-i386.tar.gz
Let the name of your
download directory be "/download/".
Two subdirectories
appear :
/download/lh
/download/to7bit-v0.1
5. Install the LH package
> cd lh
> ../ins-lh.sh
> cd /usr/bin
> cp mktexmf
mktexmf.orig
> patch
< /download/lh/mktexmf.dif
> cd /usr/share/texmf/web2c/
> cp mktexnam
mktexnam.orig
> patch
< /download/lh/mktexnam.dif
Up to here you have almost installed
the cyrillic
support. At least the fonts.
6. Copy the language
definition files to the Babel directory :
>
cp /download/to7bit-v0.1/bulgarian* /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/
>
cp /download/bghyph.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/
7. Edit the file :
"/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty"
by
adding after the british and before the catalan languages the following
line :
\DeclareOption{bulgarian}{\input{bulgarianb.ldf}}
8. In "/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat"
Inser
the line (line # 40)
bulgarian
bghyph.tex
remove
the comment in front of
"russian
ruhyph.tex"
This
is approximately line number 54 from
the
beginning of the file.
9. Run "texconfig".
It should be in the path.
This
is a utility with a nice user interface.
Select
the following two items :
9.1 renew the
hyphenation table.
9.2 rebuild the
ls-R database.
Baically
you only have to press <ENTER>.
10. The description
of the fonts is there.
However when you compile cyrillic documents some
of the fonts must be created by mktexmf, and usually you,
as a user don't have the permission to create teh necessary files.
There are 2 solutions:
In the beginning compile your documents as "root"
until you have created most of the fonts or just
allow the users to create them by :
chmod a+w -R /usr/share/texmf
You can test your latex
by creating this
document. The source code and the directions are included in to7bit-v0.1-i386.tar.gz.
Comments send to sn@it.dtu.dk