Zapf Chancery Cyrillic through external truetype font

Question

I would like to make use of the Cyrillic characters in this Zapf Chancery font http://allfont.net/download/zapfchanceryctt/ in plain latex/pdflatex

I have installed the font, creating an afm file first with t2a-mod1.enc and then creating the tfm file. Through this, I have been able to use the font with usual Latin characters but not Cyrillic ones. I am already including

\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Could anyone point out what am I missing?

On a side note, in that link, under the option "Full list of characters (beta)" a table is created. I know there is a latex command to achieve the same but have struggled to remember it for some time now, would appreciate if anyone can identify it.

Answer 1

Here's a bit hacky way to make this particular font available to pdfLaTeX:

First, copy the font to the current directory. Let its name be ZapfChanceryCTT.ttf for the reference.

Second, create the TTF file using otftotfm and q-t2a-uni encoding:

otftotfm -eq-t2a-uni ZapfChanceryCTT.ttf >ZapfChanceryCTT.map

Finally, the following TeX file includes the locally created map and shows a few characters from the font:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\pdfmapfile{+ZapfChanceryCTT.map}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}

\DeclareFontFamily{T2A}{ZapfChanceryCTT}{}
\DeclareFontShape{T2A}{ZapfChanceryCTT}{m}{n}{<-> ZapfChanceryCTT--q-t2a-uni}{}

\begin{document}
\fontfamily{ZapfChanceryCTT}\selectfont
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\end{document}

If you need this font regularly, you'd probably want to install the map, the metrics and the font itself somewhere inside your ~/texmf tree. Or, you could switch to LuaLaTeX and deal with the font file only.