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Gibson Nichols <[log in to unmask]>
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Gibson Nichols <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:31:58 -0500
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I've seen some web sites which will take your handwritten characters
and create fonts.  Perhaps one of these sites will help.

"Ken Hirsch" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:ae2e43010rb@enews1.newsguy.com...
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                                         Regards
> >                                                Ferenc Nagy
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