============================================================ Poor man's Cyrillic: Using OT2-encoded Times and Arial with LaTeX ============================================================ 2003-12-02 Walter Schmidt w.a.schmidt(at)gmx.net This bundle includes all files required to use the Cyrillic Times and Arial PostScript fonts from the free PSCyr collection with OT2 encoding, which is suitable to enter Cyrillic text from a "western" keyboard The below installation instructions assume a TDS-compliant TeX system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free. Yet they may not exactly fit your particular TeX system; please, consult its documentation, too! The directory name "texmf" refers to the root directory of a TDS directory tree. In case your TeX systems has more than one directory tree, its documentation should tell you where to install new files. Change log ---------- 2003-12-02 Font metrics and map files thoroughly revised; virtual fonts are no longer needed. 2003-12-01 Font family names changed: mnt -> ftm, ma1 -> fa1. Rationale: The Cyrillic Times font matches Times (tm) rather than Times NR (nt), and the PSCyr fonts were not really created by Monotype, so we have to use "f" as the vendor code, rather than "m". 2003-06-11 Missing encoding vector ot2.enc added to the ZIP archive. Removing obsolete files ----------------------- In case you have installed any previous release of this collection, please delete the following files and directories, which are obsolete now: * the directory texmf/fonts/vf/public pmcyr and all its contents * all files ma1*.tfm and mnt*.tfm from the directory texmf/fonts/tfm/public/pscyr/ * the files ot2ma1.fd and ot2mnt.fd from the directory tex/latex/pscyr/ Installing the Type1 font files ------------------------------- Unless your TeX systems includes the PSCyr font collection already, obtain the file and unpack in the directory "texmf" of your TeX system the Times and Arial fonts from it: texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/times.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/timesbd.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/timesbi.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/timesi.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/arial.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/arialbd.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/arialbi.pfb texmf/fonts/type1/public/pscyr/ariali.pfb texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/times.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/timesbd.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/timesbi.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/timesi.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/arial.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/arialbd.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/arialbi.afm texmf/fonts/afm/public/pscyr/ariali.afm Installing the TeX support files from the archive pmcyr.zip ----------------------------------------------------------- Unpack the ZIP archive pmcyr.zip in the directory "texmf" of your TeX system; thus, all files will be copied to the appropriate directories. Updating the filename database ------------------------------ Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename database" after adding of new files. Please, consult the documentation of your TeX system! Configuring your TeX system --------------------------- The present distribution comprises several font map files for the OT2-encoded Times and Arial fonts. You need to configure your TeX system so that these files are actually used. The required steps depend on the particular TeX system. Particular sets of instructions are provided below for the following systems: * teTeX * VTeX/Free With other TeX systems such as MikTeX, consult the related documentation how to install an additional font map file. The name of the map file to be used is "pmcyr"map". Two copies of this file reside in the directories texmf/dvips/config and texmf/fonts/map/dvips. Configuring teTeX ----------------- Additional font map files (here pmcyr.map) are installed using the shell script "updmap". With teTeX-2.0 and later (or teTeX-beta as of June 2002 and later) execute the following commands: texhash updmap --enable Map pmcyr.map | The font map file pmcyr.map has been changed with the | present release. When updating from any previous release | of this collection, you need to execute the command | updmap (without arguments!), in order to install the | changed map file. With earlier versions of teTeX, consult its documentation how to add new map files to the system. Configuring VTeX/Free --------------------- Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file pmcyr.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting a record for pmcyr.ali into each of the configuration files texmf/vtex/config/pdf.fm and texmf/vtex/config/ps.fm The name "pmcyr.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the above-mentioned files: TYPE1 { ... pmcyr.ali } In case you are still using VTeX/Free 7.x (as opposed to v8.x), copy the file pmcyr.ali from texmf/fonts/map/vtex to the directory texmf/vtex/config. | When updating from a previous release of this package, no | special action needs to be taken. Using the OT2-encoded Times and Arial fonts with LaTeX ------------------------------------------------------ See the file ot2fonts.txt, which resides in the directory texmf/doc/fonts/pscyr/ . Credits ------- ... to Plamen Tanovski, without whose help the present collection would not have come into existence. Legal notice ------------ The "Poor man's Cyrillic font pack" is made up from the files pmcyr.txt and pmcyr.zip. Copyright (c) 2003 Plamen Tanovski, Walter Schmidt It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later. This bundle has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". In case you are distributing the present bundle in installed (unpacked) form together with a LaTeX system, please provide suffcient information for the end-user, explaining which fonts are required and how they are to be installed; the present document may be modified for this purpose. Or, alternatively, install the required fonts, so that are ready to use. == finis