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-Virtual font files for use with WNCY* fonts:
-
-These virtual font files are provided in response to requests from
-users in the TeX community. The encoding and ligatures included in the
-University of Washington Cyrillic (WNCY) fonts were designed to
-support the transliteration scheme used for keying Mathematical
-Reviews (MR). The ligatures prevent proper hyphenation when the fonts
-are used in cyrillic text, and the encoding is not compatible with
-other existing encodings for keying Russian text. The enclosed
-virtual font files eliminate the ligatures whose purpose was to enable
-MR transliteration, while retaining the kerning information, and also
-provide alternate encodings to allow direct keying of Russian text.
-
-One set of virtual fonts uses the name WLCY*. This set does not
-re-encode the characters in the fonts. It simply removes the ligatures
-which prevent correct hyphenation of Russian text.
-
-The other two sets of virtual fonts re-encode the characters to
-conform to the other existing Cyrillic encoding conventions. The two
-most common encodings are KOI-8 and Alternativnyj Variant (AV), and we
-have included files to generate virtual fonts remapping the WNCY fonts
-to each of these encodings. Both KOI-8 and AV encodings map the
-Cyrillic characters into the upper 128 character locations of the
-356-character font. In non-TeX environments, the Cyrillic characters
-are commonly accessed by turning on the eighth bit for input from the
-keyboard, thus allowing keying of Roman or Cyrillic characters from
-the same keyboard. In these virtual fonts, we have imitated this
-convention by mapping the standard CM characters to the lower 128
-locations and some of the WNCY characters to the upper 128 locations
-in the virtual fonts.
-
-The files for KOI-8 encoding are called WKCY*, and those for AV encoding
-are called WVCY*.
-
-These virtual font files are provided as is without any macro support,
-as the AMS does not use the alternative encodings in-house and does not
-have the expertise in-house to do an adequate job of providing such
-macro support. If volunteers in the user community can provide such
-macro support (e.g. a LaTeX package) and wish to contribute their work
-to the AMSFonts distribution we would of course be glad to incorporate
-it, to make it more easily available to other users.
-
-Similarly, support for (system-dependent) conveniences like keyboard
-remapping for typing Russian is beyond the resources of the AMS and must
-be obtained elsewhere.
-
-It is also assumed that the user understands about the use of virtual
-fonts in TeX. Those who wish to use these virtual fonts but are
-unfamiliar with the use of virtual fonts in TeX are referred to the
-documentation for their own local implementation of TeX. Any current
-implementation of TeX is capable of using virtual fonts, and includes
-documentation for their use. A complete description of virutal fonts by
-Donald Knuth is available in TUGBoat, the journal of the TeX Users Group,
-Volume 11, No. 1, pages 13-23.
-
-For this initial release, we provide only the 10-point virtual font
-for each font family. These will serve the needs of the majority of
-users, and we shall develop and release the remaining sizes in the
-near future.
-