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3 years ago All the small letters are used at least once, but capital letters were not, which complicates matters.
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3 years ago All the small letters are used at least once, but capital letters were not, which complicates matters.
The background for this is that in the 1980's, academic works often were typewritten, and the typewritten pages were simply photocopied to produce the published book.
I was not able to find any use of a Light Italic lookalike in Russian, Ukrainian, etc., nor any catalog of the letterforms, so I came up with my own Cyrillic italic.
However, I've found a canonical IBM Selectric Light Italic (or a look-alike) Cyrillic character set. It was used in the book «Сопоставительная модель фонологической системы славянских диалектов» (1981) by Л. Э. Калнынь (L. E. Kalnynʼ).
I wasn't looking for this at all when I found it. So, I don't know when I'll update TT2020 Italic. It's also not guaranteed I'll completely change my letters to match, but I'll consider this document as providing "recommended forms" and update ones if I think mine is uglier.
Furthermore, although this text contains a lot of long passages in Light Italic, I am unsure if all the letters of the Russian alphabet were printed, so it's possible that some of my letters will have to remain. However, perhaps I can try to find other publications by this same author in that case.