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How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

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How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

#1 Post by bentHnau »

I'm already using the printed Cyrillic font in Anki, but I want to display text in the cursive Cyrillic font: https://www.lingualift.com/blog/russian ... ice-sheet/

I'm not sure what to install/configure. I've installed xfonts-cyrillic, but I don't see any additional Cyrillic fonts in Anki's list of font options.

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Re: How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

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bentHnau wrote:I'm already using the printed Cyrillic font in Anki, but I want to display text in the cursive Cyrillic font: https://www.lingualift.com/blog/russian ... ice-sheet/
i don't understand. those are images of handwritten letters, not fonts.
but obviously, if you find a font that supports this particular type of lettering, that's what you should install.
I've installed xfonts-cyrillic, but I don't see any additional Cyrillic fonts in Anki's list of font options.
what's anki? does it use the old xfonts format, or rather the new & current format (freetype iirc)?

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Re: How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

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debiman wrote:
bentHnau wrote:I'm already using the printed Cyrillic font in Anki, but I want to display text in the cursive Cyrillic font: https://www.lingualift.com/blog/russian ... ice-sheet/
i don't understand. those are images of handwritten letters, not fonts.
but obviously, if you find a font that supports this particular type of lettering, that's what you should install.
The link just shows what the letters look like so people know what I'm looking for. The problem is that I don't know what to install to get that font.
what's anki? does it use the old xfonts format, or rather the new & current format (freetype iirc)?
Anki is just software for learning things; the important point is that it allows you to display information in whatever fonts are available on the machine: if the font isn't available on the machine, it won't be available in Anki's options. That's how I know that the font I want isn't available.

I'm not sure whether font formats are relevant or how I'd find out what font format Anki uses.

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Re: How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

#4 Post by peter_irich »

Such fonts are needed in searching and installing, there are not in the repositories. For example, ttf are in
http://allfont.ru/handwritten/
if you already read in Russian. I don't know what is anki.

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Re: How to install/use Cyrillic fonts?

#5 Post by debiman »

bentHnau wrote:The problem is that I don't know what to install to get that font.
neither do i.
have you searched?
https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=cursive%20cyrillic%20font
looks slim, and i don't remember having ever seen cursive (as in handwritten) cyrillic on the www.
That's how I know that the font I want isn't available.
launch

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xfontsel
and try to find your cyrillic xfonts.

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