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Church Slavonic Typography
This page serves as a clearing house for information related to Church Slavonic typography within the auspices of the Unicode Standard.
Why Unicode?
Unicode is a universal computing standard for the encoding, representation and handling of texts. Our goal is to further the implementation of Church Slavonic within the Unicode standard and to further Church Slavonic typography by developping a set of standards for Unicode-compliant Slavonic fonts. The end goal is to ensure that both modern and historical texts can be successfully digitized within the Unicode framework. Digitization of CS texts (both liturgical and non-liturgical) needs to, as a minimum:
- be as faithful as possible to the original manuscript or edition
- present materials as text, not PDF or graphics
- have a versatile, platform-, OS- and software-independent representation
- allow for the inclusion of both CS and non-CS materials in the same document
What is supported so far
Unicode-compliant fonts
The Hirmos Ponomar font is a pre-release (BETA VERSION) Unicode-compliant font. As the font is still in development, please check back frequently for updates. The current version of Hirmos Ponomar is BETA 9.0 Revision A
Hirmos Ponomar is based on Hirmos UCS by Vlad Dorosh and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. WARNING: Hirmos Ponomar is BETA-STAGE software and so we presently are not ready to release the source files.
Download: TrueType format | OpenType format
Fonts for Medieaval East-Slavic (Kievan or Square) Music Notation
The Metasuprasl family of fonts is a set of Unicode-compliant fonts for typsetting square notes. The glyphs are based on those found in the chantbooks of the Synodal Publishing House circa 1900. For codepoints, see the Proposal, below. WARNING: the characters of Kievan Notation have been proposed for inclusion in the Unicode standard; as such, the codepoints are not final. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Download: Metasuprasl Regular version 1.0.1 (a font for typesetting Kievan Notation in-line):
OpenType format | FontForge source
Metasuprasl Notational version 1.0.1 (a font for music notation software):
METAFONT source
In a related project, Kievan Notation will soon be supported in the free music package LilyPond.
We have developed a Unicode-compliant keyboard layout.
- View Keyboard Layout Documentation and Instructions
- Download: Installer for Microsoft Windows | Instructions for Linux
HIP to Unicode converter Web interface | Standalone Perl script (supported natively in Linux; on Windows, install Strawberry Perl)
UCS to Unicode converter Web interface | Standalone Perl script (supported natively in Linux; on Windows, install Strawberry Perl) | Extension for LibreOffice 3 (for converting DOC, DOCX and ODT files) UPDATED! Latest version 1.0.1
These files are in PDF format
- Y. Shardt and A. Andreev. Proposal to Encode the Typikon Symbols in Unicode [Accepted]
- Y. Shardt, N. Simmons and A. Andreev. Proposal to Encode the Typikon Symbols in Unicode Part 2: Old-Rite Symbols [Accepted]
- Y. Shardt, N. Simmons and A. Andreev. Proposal to Encode Some Outsanding Early Cyrillic Characters in Unicode [Accepted]
- A. Andreev, Y. Shardt, and N. Simmons. Proposal to Encode the Mark's Chapter Glyph in Unicode [Accepted]
- A. Andreev, Y. Shardt, and N. Simmons. Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Music Notation in Unicode [Submitted]
- A. Andreev, Y. Shardt, and N. Simmons. Proposal to Standardize Cyrillic Variation Sequences in Unicode [DRAFT DOCUMENT]