The Linux Cyrillic HOWTO
Alexander L. Belikoff, (
abel@bfr.co.il
), Berger Financial Research Ltd.
v4.0, 23 January 1998
This document describes how to set up your Linux box to typeset, view and print the documents in the Russian language.
1.
Administrativia
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Availability and feedback
1.3 Acknowledgments and copyrights
2.
Theoretical background
2.1 Characters and codesets
3.
Preparing your environment
3.1 Text mode setup
3.2 The X Window System
3.3 First steps - Cyrillic in shells
3.4 bash
3.5 csh/tcsh
3.6 ksh
3.7 less
3.8 mc (The Midnight Commander)
3.9 rlogin
3.10 zsh
4.
Editing text
4.1 Emacs and XEmacs
4.2 Using vi
4.3 Editing text with joe
4.4 Spell-checking Russian
5.
Using Cyrillic with mail and news
5.1 Setting up Mail User Agents
5.2 Configuring your MTA
6.
Browsing the Cyrillic Web
6.1 lynx
6.2 Netscape navigator
7.
Cyrillic wordprocessing
7.1 TeX-based environments
7.2 The StarOffice suite
8.
Printing and PostScript
8.1 Text to PostScript conversion
8.2 Text to TeX conversion
9.
Cyrillic in PostScript
9.1 Adding Cyrillic fonts to Ghostscript
10.
Print setup
10.1 Pre-loading Cyrillic fonts into a non-PostScript printer
10.2 Printing with different fonts
11.
Localization and Internationalization
11.1 Locale
11.2 Internationalization
12.
Staying compatible
12.1 MIME-based data compatibility
12.2 Explicit character set conversion
12.3 Cyrillic in the DOS emulator
13.
Bibliography
14.
Summary of the various useful resources