[tex-live] russian.sty requires cmcyr.sty

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Mon Nov 23 09:00:26 CET 2009


Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     the file russian.sty from current texlive-2009
>       texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmcyralt/russian.sty
>     requires cmcyr via
>       \RequirePackage{cmcyr}
>     but cmcyr.(sty|cls) is not included in texlive-2009.
> 
> The only cmcyr.sty I see is on CTAN in
> macros/latex209/contrib/cmcyralt/cmcyr.sty.  Does it actually work with
> the cmcyralt from macros/latex/contrib (which is what is installed in TL)?

i think the latex209 one is nfss1 (the missing .sty is what latex 2e
conventionally calls a .fd).  i wouldn't expect it to work...

> If it does, I suppose we can install both the 2.09 and 2e cmcyralt,
> though it all seems less than ideal.  Are Harin and Zhytnikov
> (cmcyralt-ltx authors according to the Catalogue) around?

the package has been around for ages; presumably no-one has actually
tested it under 2e.  or something.

robin


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