STG worked with the Department of Slavic Languages to convert all course materials written using MS Word, and a variety of different Cyrillic comuter fonts with different character mappings, to a single character set mapping. The department had been using Macintosh computers since 1984, but had not standardized on any one Mac font for Cyrillic characters. STG developed a simple font converter to map from the original character sets to a single standard character set, and convert the Cyrillic parts of an MS Word document. It also handled the conversion of the Word binary to RTF invisibly.
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), a cross-departmental group in the Brown University Library, supports digital scholarship for the Brown community and beyond by supporting scholarly and academic activities that are conducted or enhanced through the use of digital technology …
