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I am working with a writer, whose requirement is to typeset a book in Latex, in Caslon font. In the English version everything is hunky-dory:

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{memoir}
\usepackage{librecaslon}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

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But there is also a requirement to translate and typeset the text into Russian, and here there is a problem. The font is not even close to Caslon, and everything shifts even before the translation:

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{memoir}
\usepackage{librecaslon}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[main=russian]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

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I am using TexLive 2018 on a Fedora 26 machine. Can anyone please explain, how both versions can be rendered in the exact same font?

user181837
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    In LaTeX, this font is not supported in Russian language. That is the reason, and you can only use a different font, or provide a Russian version for the font. Read more here. –  Feb 18 '19 at 16:44
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    libre caslon doesn't have cyrilic glyphs. You will need another font. – Ulrike Fischer Feb 18 '19 at 17:39
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    You should tell Babel that you want to use both English and Russian and then indicate for different text fragments which language it is, i.e., \usepackage[english,russian]{babel} and then \begin{otherlanguage}{english}\lipsum[1]\end{otherlanguage} (see, e.g., https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20987/changing-babel-package-inside-a-single-chapter). – Marijn Feb 19 '19 at 11:55

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