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jkbash.rme by Joerg Knappen 5. Dec. 1991
Bashkirian extra letters to use together with the cyrillic font wncyr.
Why Bashkirian extra letters in a Metafont?
The now available cyrillic fonts are heavily russian oriented, ignoring that
there are many languages (most of them in the USSR) written in cyrillic. So
it looks natural to design the special characters for many of these
languages. That my first attempt fell on Bashkirian happened by the chance
of finding a source for the typeshapes, including italics. (It was a
bashkirian to russian dictionary by ...). As far as I know, these letters
are also sufficent for the writing of mongolian in cyrillic.
Which files are there?
jkbashc.mf including shapes common to upper and lower case
jkbashl.mf lowercase shapes
jkbashu.mf uppercase shapes
jkbashi.mf lowercase italics
bashlig.mf an addendum to the ligtable
How to use the files?
As mentioned, the bashkirian extra letters are designed to go with the
wncyr washington cyrillic font. They are available from all good
TeX-servers.
I propose following way of use:
Copy the parameter file you want to use (e.g. wncyr10.mf) and rename it.
This is not to confuse it with the original one. Change the
generate cyrfont
into
generate bashfont
(cyrfont and bashfont are just examples). Then copy *cyrfont.mf* to
*bashfont.mf* and do the following changes:
Insert after the first block of input (ending with input cyrspl;)
input jkbashc;
input jkbashu;
input jkbashl;
Insert after the block {code_offset:=8;
input serb; }
input jkbashc;
And, at last, insert a line before the bye
input bashlig;
Things are only going well with TeX3... and Metafont2... because there are
more then 128 characters in the font. Things went (and go) even well with
the old TeX 2.xx and METAFONT 1.xxx since the new features are not really
used.
What's new in the bashkirian font?
I made the following seven letters (more or less stealing together what I
needed):
A crossed Ge (looking like an F), a K with a handle, an N with descender
like Shcha, an O-Umlaut (looking like Theta), an U-Umlaut (really looking
like Y, in fact, being one), a Ha (looking like h), and a variant E
(looking like an e rotated 180 degrees).
This characters are placed on the octal codes from 200 to 207, the
lowercase ones are placed on the octal codes from 210 to 217.
They can be accessed as ligatures as following:
"G,"K,"O,"U,"H,"E,"g,"k,"o,"u,"h,"e.
What's missing?
A Cedilla accent (sigh), which occurs in bashkirian on S and Z. One has to
use the latin one. This is quite a mess, e.g. {\rm\c{\cyr Z}} does the job.
The octal codes are arbitrarily choosen just not to get
in conflict to any other character. No coding is provided.
The kerning table is not polished. Maybe it will be usefull to change this.
Contact:
Joerg Knappen
Barbarossaring 43
D-6500 Mainz 1
R.F.A.
Internet: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de
Note, that I do not have a bitnet address any longer! The bitnet address in
the file headers does not work no more!
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