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The issue has been reported upstream and the author has been working on the integration of as many languages as possible, referring to the whole Latex/Babel language set. See:

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/songwrite?view=rev&revision=296

The very first trials made showed that Russian texts are correctly displayed in the interface and in PDF scores, under the staffs. Unfortunately there are still issues for lyrics in the PDF output.

The error message while compiling the (Russian) PDF score is the following:

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)
*geometry auto-detecting driver*
*geometry detected driver: dvips*
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/aer/m/n' undefined
(Font)              using `T2A/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 11.

Investigations on the Internet showed that this is a problem of font declaration. The solution is to edit /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd then add the following lines:

\DeclareFontFamily{T2A}{aer}{}
\EC@family{T2A}{aer}{m}{n}{larm}

Just before the declaration of the font “cmr” for example.

We need to report this issue and its solution to Debian!

The upstream author has patched his code:

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/songwrite/trunk/songwrite2/plugins/ps_native/ps_latex.py?r1=315&r2=314&pathrev=315

However the problem is now that lmodern is a very huge package (17 MB) and we just need one font in it. Moreover, lmodern may not fit non-Latin and non-Cyrillic languages. It would then be better to add a fix that allows for specifying which font to use for a given language. For example the package texlive-lang-cyrillic provides Cyrillic fonts and only weights less than 5 MB. Its font lcy has been successfully used to produce Russian PDF scores with lyrics.