[XeTeX] polyglossia + russian + texttt + Courier New error

[Alexey Kryukov]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 13:30:01 +0600
Igor Kotelnikov wrote:

> ! Package polyglossia Error:
> The current roman font does not contain the Cyrillic script!
> Please define \cyrillicfont with \newfontfamily.

This problem has been discussed once: see for example
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2009-March/012365.html

If I understand correctly, the workaround is to explicitly
define \newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Courier New} .

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Regards,
Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>

Moscow State University
Historical Faculty