Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Church Slavonic

[thedoctor818]

Hullo. I am trying to begin to compile a Church Slavonic Dictionary to aid me in working on a prayerbook I've been working on for several years. I found one pdf file that lists things for use with T2D encoding such as: ''80/''A0 and then lists what character that produces. Then it has a table for those letters which are near enough the Russian letters - with columns that are marked progressively (left to right) with x0/x8 x1/x9, etc and from top to bottom it has: Cx Dx etc. The website is: http://www.christopherculver.com/en/com ... texocs.php

I just do not know enough about fonts to know what to do. Are there commands in say concert with the ams packages that would work here: say like \theta for the greek letter 'theta'? I am a bit lost here. Any help would be appreciated.

-Michael D

[phi]

Without having any deeper knowledge, I'd say it would be easier to switch to the XeTeX engine, which allows you to use Unicode input and arbitrary fonts installed in the system. Here is a simple example:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\setmainfont{DejaVu Sans}

\begin{document}

From \url{http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ocslavonic.htm}

\section{Sample text in Old Church Slavonic}

\begin{enumerate}
\item въ оно врѣмѧ изідє заповѣдь отъ кєсарѣ авгоста напісаті в҄сѫ вьсєлєнѫѭ |
\item сє напісаніє пръвоє бъістъ владѫщѹ сѹрієѭ и кѵрінієѭ |
\item и идѣахѫ вьсі напісатъ сѧ кьждо въ свои градъ |
\item вьзідє жє иосіфь отъ галілєѧ и града назарєтьска вь июдєѭ вь градъ давъідовъ іжє наріцаєтъ сѧ віѳлєємь занє бѣашє отъ домѹ и отьчьствіѣ давъідова |
\end{enumerate}

\section{Translation}

\begin{enumerate}
\item And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
\item (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
\item And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
\item And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
\end{enumerate}

Luke 2: 1-4

\end{document}

Here I did nothing more than copying the text from the webpage and inserting a few LaTeX commands.

[thedoctor818]

Thanks -phi.