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Cyrillic alphabet historical notes:
The Slavonic alphabet, created by the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, based on the Bulgarian spoken languages in the ninth century, is the greatest contribution Bulgaria has made to the World civilization. Bulgarian medieval writing is one of the most valuable aspects in the history of our culture, which presently provokes a great interest in Europe and the United States of America.
For creating normal conditions for the publication of editions with complicated typography such as combining of texts in Cyrillic, Roman and Greek alphabets or texts with incorporating the contemporary Cyrillic, Roman and Greek typefaces with the Old-Bulgarian Glagolic and Cyrillic alphabets there are necessary sets of typefaces, integrated in one graphic system. In the contemporary DTP systems the Cyrillic typefaces are practically nonprofessional versions of well-known Roman typefaces. The aesthetic problems arising have forced the Bulgarian specialists to aim at creating out new original projects.
Specific problems with the Bulgarian typesetting:
For the professional typographic design and typesetting in Bulgarian and Cyrillic we support different Code Pages. The Cyrillic Code Page supports 5 modern Slavonic languages and alphabets: Bulgarian, Russian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Serbian. In addition to these Slavonic languages, the Cyrillic alphabet is used by a large number of non-Slavonic newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The Bulgarian Code Page supports 2 languages and alphabets: Bulgarian and English. The Bulgarian Code Page includes all vowels with accents that are really necessary for the typesetting in Bulgarian language, and are not included in the Cyrillic Code Page:
Full Bulgarian Code Page for Macintosh and Windows you can see at links
| Windows Code Page/Bulgarian(BG) | and | Macintosh Code Page/Bulgarian(BG) |
Below is an example of two simple words with the absolutely same text that have different meanings. The use of graves show you how to say this word:
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the form (shape) as in the form of letter;
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the format as in the fonts are in PS and TT font formats;
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wool as in woolens sweaters;
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wave as in a tidal wave;
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