lh fonts

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The lh fonts are in METAFONT present format font family to set Cyrillic characters with TeX and based thereon programs.

Since Soviet linguists, in contrast to their Western colleagues, invented new characters to write down previously unwritten languages ​​rather than changing existing ones with diacritical marks , the scope of the Cyrillic alphabet, including all special characters, is very large because not only the Russian language is written with Cyrillic characters . This requires four different input codes for the computer font, with which different languages ​​can be set: T2A, T2B, T2C and X2A.

  • The T2 * codings also contain the Latin characters in the first memory locations, so that mixed-writing texts can also be produced with them. They are only suitable for a selection of languages ​​at a time, as not all language-specific characters are included in every encoding. However, the Russian language can be set with any encoding.
  • The X2A coding, on the other hand, only contains the Cyrillic characters, so that all languages ​​that use the characters of the Cyrillic script can be set with its help. In return, however, this coding does not contain any Latin characters.

In addition, there are experimental codings such as the T2D coding, with the help of which Church Slavic texts and texts can be set in old Russian or old Bulgarian spelling, which is of particular interest to Slavists.

Web links

Instructions for typesetting Cyrillic characters. (PDF; 234 kB) Contains a list of the languages ​​that can be written with one of the T2 * encodings. ( english )