       LaTeX 2e style for Russian fonts in alternative encoding.

The alternative encoding is de-facto standard on MS-DOS PC
computers in Russia. In this encoding first half of code
table (0-127) coincides with standard ASCII and cyrillic
characters are located in second part of the table (128-255).
Usually some simple screen and keyboard driver is used in order
to type cyrillic characters.

This directory includes:

readme - this file
cmcyr.sty - main style file
*.fd - font drivers files
lthyphen.cfg rhyphen.tex - support of Russian hyphenation
rusfonts.tex - simple test

In order to use cmcyr style you need Russian fonts in
alternative encoding. These fonts is available from CTAN in
/fonts/cmcyralt
Actually it is composite virtual fonts which reproduce
alternative encoding by mapping first half of ASCII table to
standard TeX's Computer Modern font and second part to cmcyr fonts.

The cmcyr style replaces basic LaTeX fonts by these virtual fonts.
Just place all *.sty and *.fd files into LaTeX input directory
and say

\usepackage{cmcyr}

in the preamble of your document. Now you can type any English
and Russian text (in alternative encoding) in any order.
No any special font switching commands is required.

Since alternative encoding uses codes higher than 127 for
Russian characters you need TeX which understand 8-bit input,
and drivers which understand virtual fonts.
The best choice for MS-DOS PC is emTeX and its dvidrv drivers
(/systems/msdos/emtex directory on CTAN).

If you want to have correct hyphenation for Russian you
need to regenerate LaTeX 2e format file. Put lthyphen.cfg
and rhyphen.tex in LaTeX input directory and call iniTeX.
In particular, for emTeX you have to say:

> tex /i /o /8 /mt65500 latex.ltx

This produces format with both English and Russian hyphenation
tables. Notice, that generated format must be invoked with the
same /mt65500 switch

> tex /mt65500 &latex yourdoc.tex

Uploaded by Vadim V. Zhytnikov (vvzhy@phy.ncu.edu.tw)
on the behalf of Alexander Harin (harin@lourie.und.ac.za)
