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Miscellanea in the T2 bundle

The T2 bundle at `CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2` contains some other useful files, including support for Plain TEX-based macro packages, support for BibTEX and MakeIndex (see also the xindy program and package--highly recommended for making indices with Cyrillic), support for the fontinst package, mapping tables relating these Cyrillic font encodings (and input encodings) to the Unicode character names and slots (these are in the subdirectory `enc-maps`), and more!

To produce documented source listings of the T2 package, run LATEX on the `*.dtx` and `*.fdd` files therein.

When typesetting Cyrillic texts, there is a tradition of using Cyrillic letters (in some situations) within math formulæ, in exactly the same way as most of the world uses Latin letters. By default this does not work, because symbols declared with `\DeclareTextSymbol` may not be used in math.

If you need within math to `transparently' typeset glyphs declared in font encoding definition files, then you could try using the experimental mathtext package, which is also in the T2 bundle. Note that this package uses up at least one additional math alphabet per font encoding. For this and other reasons, The LATEX3 Project Team considers that this experimental extension to LATEX's glyph-handling mechanisms should be used with caution; but please try it out and send us your opinions and ideas. Note that it is not included in the core of LATEX because both the coding and the interfaces are likely to change at some point in the future.

Finally, here are some pointers to further information:

> `http://www.cemi.rssi.ru/cyrtug`
> `http://xtalk.price.ru/tex`

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