[OS X TeX] Cyrillic in Latex!

Jada Watson jada.watson at gmail.com
Sat May 21 22:08:25 CEST 2011


Ureka!  Thank you David and David!  It works, and looks fantastic! You have
both just saved me from pulling out my hair!

Jada

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jada Watson <jada.watson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David,
>
> This example is great for me to look at, thank you. I will fiddle for a
> while to see if I can get it to work properly for me, because it doesn't
> seem to work properly just yet.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jada
>
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 21, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Jada Watson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Sorry to bother everyone on a weekend, but I've stumbled on an issue
>> that I need some help with!
>> >
>> > I have searched online for inputting cyrillic text, and none of the
>> coding options I have found work for me - I don't know if I'm doing
>> something wrong, or not, but nothing works!
>> >
>> > To provide some context: the document is in French, but there are a few
>> spots where my boss has used cyrillic in brackets to show how a composer's
>> name is written in Russian. So it's not the entire document, just a few
>> words in the document.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how I can fix this??
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> > Jada
>>
>>
>> This works for me (apologies if it is too large a sample)
>>
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>> \usepackage[russian,english]{babel}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \selectlanguage{english}
>>
>> \textbf{Verbs of motion, continued}\\
>>
>> \hspace*{1.55in}\emph{uni} \hspace*{2.65in}\emph{multi}
>> \selectlanguage{russian}
>> \begin{center}
>> брест\textbf{и}, брод\textbf{и}ть
>> \selectlanguage{english}
>> to roam, wander (\emph{501 Russian Verbs}, p.\,15)
>> \selectlanguage{russian}
>> \end{center}
>> \vspace*{-0.25in}
>> \begin{tabbing}
>> \hspace*{1.2in}\=\hspace*{1in}\=\hspace{30ex}\=\hspace*{1in}\=\kill
>> \>бред\textbf{у}\>бред\textbf{ё}м \>брож\textbf{у} \>бр\textbf{о}дим \\
>> \>бред\textbf{ё}шь\>бред\textbf{ё}те \>бр\textbf{о}дишь \>бр\textbf{о}дите
>> \\
>> \>бред\textbf{ё}т\>бред\textbf{у}т \>бр\textbf{о}дит \>бр\textbf{о}дят \\
>> \end{tabbing}
>> \vspace*{-0.35in}
>> \hspace*{1.1in}бр\textbf{ё}л, брел\textbf{а}, $\sim$л\textbf{о},
>> $\sim$л\textbf{и} \hspace*{21ex}брод\textbf{и}л, $\sim$ла, $\sim$ло,
>> $\sim$ли
>> \end{document}
>>
>> I think it's important that the document be saved as UTF-8; and I also use
>> the Cyrillic keyboard to type the Cyrillic characters (from the Apple System
>> Preferences; Language and Text; and you can choose any of two or three
>> Cyrillic layouts.)
>>
>>
>> David Derbes
>> U of Chicago Laboratory Schools
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
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