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Serbian cyrillic package for Babel

Filip Brcic <brcha@users.sourceforge.net>

1. HOW TO INSTALL

Download the Babel source package from CTAN <http://www.ctan.org> and unpack it to directory <texmfbase>/tex/generic/babel.

Copy the serbianc.patch file into that directory.

Patch the Babel distribution using command # cd <texmfbase>/tex/generic/babel
# patch < serbianc.patch

Build the Babel package using instructions from the Babel distribution. 1) edit language.dat to fit it for your purposes 2) # latex babel.ins
3) # initex bplain.tex (at the end type \dump when you get the * prompt) 4) # texhash
To build Babel documentation
5) # latex babel.drv
6) # makeindex -s bbind.ist babel
7) # makeindex -s bbind.ist -o babel.gls babel.glo 8) # latex babel.drv

2. HOW TO USE

When you use serbianc package, you must enable OT2 fontencoding. To type cyrillic letters, you must use the command \cyr or \textcyr{ ... }. To type roman (latin) letters, you must use the command \rom or \textrom{ ... }.

Cyrillic azbuka is encoded like this:
a A b B v V g G d D dj Dj e E zh Zh z Z i I j J k K l L lj Lj m M n N nj Nj o O p P r R s S t T \'c \'C u U f F h H c C ch Ch \dzh \Dzh sh Sh

Another way to write \'c and \'C is ts and Ts. If you whish to write letters that are joined in one divided, you must use the command \cydot between them (example: sh and s\cydot h).

Take a look at the sample cyrillic document that is included in this package.