I reported my problem to typeset a bilingual (bulgarian/german) document
in LaTeX using Times as the font for both german and bulgarian text to
the comp.text.tex newsgroup, where I got told to file this bug. The
discussion is accessible via:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/eb34d41ce4fbf182/7acea2ccf25b419b#7acea2ccf25b419b

To summarize the problem, both the german sharp s and the polish l with
a stroke display as a black box in the final document when using
cyrtimes. This means that the T1 encoding of this font is at least
partially broken (I did not run exhaustive tests).

Regards,
Matthias Noe

Hi,

I get wrong glyps with packages from the "scalable cyrfonts" bundle (a
black box instead the German eszett (ß) letter).

This is already reported (also for the Polish ł), however a broken font
is a bug, not a wishlist item.

Minimal example:

\documentclass{minimal}

% \usepackage{newcent}    % works fine
\usepackage{cyrnewcent}
% \usepackage{cyrbookman}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
Stra\ss e
\end{document}

While in this example there is an easy workaround (use the standard
package "newcent" from PSNFSS), the bug becomes a problem in a mixed
German/Russian document.

Simple fix:

* Remove T1 and OT1 encoded fonts from "scalable-cyrfonts-tex" if there
  is a corresponding PSNFSS font.

* add substitution definitions to use the free cyrfonts for the
  corresponding PSNFSS fonts in T2A, T2B, T2C, and X2 encoding.

E.g.

t2afbk.fd --> t2apbk.fd

- \DeclareFontFamily{T2A}{fbk}{}
+ \DeclareFontFamily{T2A}{pbk}{}

- \DeclareFontShape{T2A}{fbk}{m}{n}{   <-> fbkr6a }{}
+ \DeclareFontShape{T2A}{pbk}{m}{n}{   <-> fbkr6a }{}

...


Günter

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
scalable-cyrfonts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 470387@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated scalable-cyrfonts package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:00:55 +0200
Source: scalable-cyrfonts
Architecture: source
Version: 4.21
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 329069 470387 694493 1105611
Changes:
 scalable-cyrfonts (4.21) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Drop package scalable-cyrfonts-tex, closes: #329069, #470387, #1105611.
   * d/copyright: Convert to machine-readable format.
   * Specify LANG=C for building the fonts, closes: #694493.
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