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I am using pdftex (not XeTeX or LuaTeX) and I need to submit a camera-ready article in Times. My article is in English but needs to briefly quote Russian sources, some of which have inline italics. When I use the mathptmx package, however, none of the Cyrillic text is in italics.

For example, the following produces "Неприкосновенный запас", not "Неприкосновенный запас" as desired:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[russian,english]{babel}
\begin{document}
\foreignlanguage{russian}{\textit{Неприкосновенный} запас}
\end{document}

I suppose this is because the Times font doesn't provide italic Cyrillic glyphs. However, it's not a big deal if my Russian text is in a slightly different serif font. What's the easiest way to set up my document so that I can produce Cyrillic text in both upright and italic variants (in addition to the default Times for the Latin text)?

Psychonaut
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    There's no free Cyrillic Times available in TeX distributions. You need to use some substitute, I'm afraid. – egreg Apr 28 '15 at 20:19
  • Is a slanted font that doesn't linebreak a workable solution? If so, you could use \slantbox[.25]{} instead of \textit{}, as found in Bruno's answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63179/shear-transform-a-box/63188#63188 – Steven B. Segletes Apr 28 '15 at 20:22
  • ebgaramond has cyrillic glyphs in upshape and italic shpae (but purposely no bold version). It has a scaled= option that allows to match x-height with the height of another font. – Bernard Apr 28 '15 at 20:30

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There is no Cyrillic Times freely available in the current TeX distributions, so I suggest a different font:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc} % or OT1 instead of T1
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[russian,english]{babel}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\cyrins}[1]{%
  \begingroup\fontfamily{erewhon-TLF}%
  \foreignlanguage{russian}{#1}%
  \endgroup
}


\begin{document}
Some text in English,
\cyrins{\textit{Неприкосновенный} запас},
back in Latin script.
\end{document}

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Here Erewhon (based on Utopia) is used, which is not too distant from Times.

If the standard Computer Modern Cyrillic is acceptable as well, just change \fontfamily{erewhon-TLF} into \fontfamily{cmr}, but the result is definitely poorer.

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I'd suggest

\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}

instead of mathptmx.

Update

There is a free Times-like font supporting Cyrillic!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc} % or OT1 instead of T1
\usepackage[russian,english]{babel}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \DeclareFontFamilySubstitution{T2A}{\familydefault}{Tempora-TLF}%
}


\begin{document}


Some text in English,
\foreignlanguage{russian}{\textit{Неприкосновенный} запас},
back in Latin script.


\end{document}

enter image description here

egreg
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  • You can also use the substitutefont package. – Davislor Aug 19 '23 at 01:33
  • @Davislor I’m in the course of removing the package from my answers, because it has been withdrawn. – egreg Aug 19 '23 at 06:21
  • Thanks for telling me; I wasn’t aware. Do you know how come? – Davislor Aug 19 '23 at 09:39
  • The package was superseded by a kernel function, but I think it was a bad idea to withdraw it. – egreg Aug 19 '23 at 09:55
  • Shouldn’t there be one that calls the kernel function, just for backwards compatibility? That’ll break a lot of existing documents. – Davislor Aug 19 '23 at 10:47
  • Which raises a larger question: can anyone stop a maintainer from damaging the TeX ecosystem? Or do the licenses most projects use require CTAN to let them? – Davislor Aug 19 '23 at 10:49