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More particularly, can this latex document be converted to plain tex?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[main=british,polutonikogreek]{babel}
\begin{document}
{\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek}
οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει,}
he said
\end{document}
Toothrot
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  • yes of course it just depends how much latex code you want to include, this answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/91042/is-there-any-software-that-converts-latex-file-to-tex-file/91050#91050 shows how you can add 6 lines to any latex file to allow it to be processed by plain tex, but if you do that it's simpler to use latex really. – David Carlisle Mar 30 '17 at 15:47
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    The babel documentation has a section about support for plain. – Alan Munn Mar 30 '17 at 15:48
  • bplain is a format that allows users to load babel in Plain (it loads babel's hyphenation switching code); inputenc, on the other hand, requires more LaTeX kernel code. So the answer is perhaps no. – jarnosc Mar 30 '17 at 19:36

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If you don't mind using LuaTeX (which obsoletes inputenc) and don't use anything that is really babel specific, then probably the following example will do (it's very minimal, defines only one font shape, the rest can be done similarly):

% Font loading package
\input luaotfload.sty
% Computer Modern Unicode (for Greek)
\font\tenrm={name:CMU Serif Roman:+tlig} at 10pt

% Define new language \polutonikogreek and load its hyphenation patterns
\newlanguage\polutonikogreek
\language\polutonikogreek
\input hyph-el-polyton.tex

% Switch to language 0 (English) as default
\language0
\tenrm

{\language\polutonikogreek
οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει,}
he said

\bye
Sergei Golovan
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