Extra RE: [Fwd: Seeking Cyrillic font advice]

["Mammoth Elk Support Team" <dmi.tat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again, Stuart.

Result of more profound discussion of your Q with our 
partners from Russia:

Lucida Bright font is own of Bigelow and Holmes, Inc 
foundry. 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=186&FNAME=Lucida+Bright&FVER=1.50

There are EF (from Elsner+Flake) localised family versions 
of Lucida Bright for CE and Turkish characters (EF Lucida 
Bright CE and T).
It seems, the Cyrillic version of Lucida Bright font 
family didn't ever exist yet.


You can either choose Lucida Sans/Lucida Console instead 
of the Lucida Bright (if you prefer not to use Lucida 
fonts from Windows, you can buy the whole family in 
different format/encoding from here, U$24 for each 
style/encoding/platform format - 
http://www.paratype.com/ustore/fonts/Lucida_Sans.htm),
or select another Cyrillic enable font with about the same 
visual text effect. 

For selection of a visual analogue of Lucida Bright with 
right available encoding (Cyrillic in your case) you can 
use free font vendors' utility called FontOrder 
http://www.fontstock.com/softdl/fo_eng.exe

Take a look at Baltica, Bell Gothic, ITC Charter e.g.

Verdana font is own of Microsoft Foundry, so we didn't 
hear about commercial Non-Unicode localised PS version of 
Verdana, only TrueType 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=1&FNAME=Verdana
So you have no variants to use or not to use Verdana Cyr 
family by the way we posted in last message.

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Hi, Stuart.

You could use the same copy of Verdana/Lucida standard 
fonts you have used for English version of your manual.

All required Cyrillic characters live inside the same 
copies of Verdana/Lucida TrueType/OpenType fonts.

========cut here========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
"Verdana CYR,204"="Verdana,204"
"Lucida Sans Unicode CYR,204"="Lucida Sans Unicode,204"
"Lucida Console CYR,204"="Lucida Console,204"

"Verdana Cyr,0"="Verdana,204"
"Lucida Sans Unicode Cyr,0"="Lucida Sans Unicode,204"
"Lucida Console Cyr,0"="Lucida Console,204"
========cut here========

Copy / paste this text to Notepad. Save it as text file 
with Unicode encoding and *.reg extension. Double click on 
this file.
The Alarm "Are you sure you want to add ...to the 
registry?" will appear. Select "Yes". Reboot. Take a look 
on the list of available fonts in FrameMaker.

We hope this helps.
PS. Have in view TrueType at this time is also a part of 
PostScript so there are not serious reasons to prefer Type 
1 against TrueType.

Regards,
Support Team, Mammoth Elk Translation
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-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-framers-142576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bounce-framers-142576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:26 PM
To: Framers List
Subject: [Fwd: Seeking Cyrillic font advice]

Got no response to the original post, so thought I'd try 
again here. 
(Esp. since the topic has come up again with someone 
else...  :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Seeking Cyrillic font advice
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:38:48 -0500
From: Stuart Rogers <srogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: framers@xxxxxxxxx, inframe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I write my manuals in English in FM 7.0 (WinXP) and they 
are translated to Russian in-house and given back to me as 
MS Word docs. I've been able to import the text into FM 
and apply my template by first saving the .doc as .rtf and 
then opening the file from FM.

However, the fonts I've used for my English versions do 
not work for Cyrillic, and I've had to change my tags to 
use Times Roman CYR instead of Lucida Bright for headings, 
and Arial CYR instead of Verdana for the body. I don't 
much care for the look of either of these fonts, and 
wonder if anyone has advice on alternatives that would 
have the same visual impact as Lucida/Verdana. Or better, 
advice on typical fonts or font characteristics (i.e., 
serif, non-serif, weight, angle, etc.) for headings and 
body that Russian readers would expect.

Any help appreciated,

--
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
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