Can one type Old Cyrillic letters using LaTeX?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet
Perhaps there is a package.
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Can one type Old Cyrillic letters using LaTeX?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet
Perhaps there is a package.
Best Answer
Some OpenType fonts support also old Cyrillic letters; compile the following with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX:
I know no way to get the most ancient characters with standard LaTeX fonts. Only the characters dropped in 1917 are part of available encodings: yat, fita, izhitsa, and “decimal i” are available in the X2 encoding, and also yus. See the table of the X2 encoding, where the preference has been given to characters actually used in extensions of the modern Cyrillic alphabet.
If the font is not installed as a system font, but is included in your TeX distribution, you can load it as
The TeX Live and MiKTeX distributions include the fonts; if you don't have a full install, add them with the appropriate methods: for TeX Live it is
If your TeX Live is provided by the GNU/Linux flavor package manager (say on Debian or ArchLinux or whatever), the package to install should be
(check the package list, the name might differ slightly).
For MiKTeX use its package manager.