It should be possible to take an existing TrueType font and change the
character mappings to do what you want.

There are some TrueType tools at
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/TrueType/

I haven't used them, though, so I don't know if they'll do what you need.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Ferenc Nagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 3:35 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Easily visible Cyrillic text


> Gentle list members:
> I have the following task:
> I want to print the original Russian certificate number on the
> nationalized
> certificate of a Russian radioactive source.
> When the operator types in the Russian characters, Russian font is
> unavailable. If I say her that she should learn the new standard coding of
> Cyrillic like K1251 or KOI-8R she'd shriek.
> If she could type fonetically then only few letters like ya, yu would mean
> problem.
> I have found an ancient coding standard at
>
> http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html
> named GOST-13052.
>
> I like this code page because ABCD are in their normal place, so everybody
> can read that I wanted to type CIRK or NATASA in Russian.
>
> That means typing does not need redefinition of keyboard,
> and its plain text version is readable and logical unlike the KOI-8
> standards and the new Windows code pages.
>
> Where can I find a modern True Type font according to a similar coding,
> using the ordinary Ascii Codes in the range 32-127 for Cyrillic letters?
>
>
>
>
>
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