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Cyrillic Fonts Now Available for the Mac

A licensing agreement now makes it possible for students of Russian to use Russian fonts in course work, electronic mail, basically anywhere a Mac user might use a specialized font.

The fonts are installed on all of the Macintoshs in Residential Education clusters, and in Meyer. For individual use, they may be downloaded if you are part of the Stanford community.

Using Cyrillic Fonts

To use Cyrillic fonts, you must first choose a Cyrillic keyboard.

1. Go to the Apple Menu, and open the "Control Panel" folder.
2. From the Control Panel folder (or menu), open the "Keyboard" control panel.
3. Scroll up in the "Keyboard Layout" portion of the control panel dialog box until you see the "C & G FWF" keyboard.
4. Select either the CapsLock Russian or Caps Lock Mnemonic keyboard.
5. Close the control panel to engage your selection.

The keyboard will now let you use the Russian fonts ("Svoboda" and "Vremya") by engaging the Caps Lock key. Without the Caps Lock engaged, the keyboard behaves just like a normal keyboard. With the Caps Lock engaged, the keyboard follows either a mnemonic mapping or maps directly to a Russian keyboard, depending on the keyboard you selected above.

• Keyboard Mapping 1
• Keyboard Mapping 2

Using Cyrillic Fonts on a Res Ed Mac or in the Meyer Cluster

Follow the same instructions as given above, but for the sake of your fellow students and colleagues, please remember to set the keyboard back to its "US" default when you are done.

This can be accomplished by following the same steps given above, but by choosing the "US" keyboard from the "Keyboard Layout" section.