I started to learn plain-TeX 2 weeks ago and have faced problem with russian language. Is there less painful way to include cyrilic support if I use pdfTex? I've searched through the site and haven't found expanded answer for pdfTex case, (is this possible at all or should I use something else?).
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Do you have a specific reason to use plain TeX? It would certainly be easier to use XeLaTeX, for example. – Marijn Jul 26 '17 at 07:58
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It's certainly possible, but non-trivial, but as already commented using a Unicode engine would make life a lot easier. Is there a specific reason to use pdfTeX here for presumably new documents? – Joseph Wright Jul 26 '17 at 08:00
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@JosephWright, I have some reason, due to my teacher's task – M.Mass Jul 26 '17 at 08:20
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@M.Mass Do you mean you've been set this as an assignment? – Joseph Wright Jul 26 '17 at 08:21
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@JosephWright, yes – M.Mass Jul 26 '17 at 08:25
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There are some support files in cyrplain (part of t1): https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/t2/cyrplain. But be aware that the files are from the begin of the century. Why does your teacher gave you this assignment? – Ulrike Fischer Jul 26 '17 at 09:23
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have you seen this thread? – jarnosc Jul 28 '17 at 19:17
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Are you sure that you've understood the assignment correctly? You are allowed to use neither a different format (LaTeX or ConTeXt) or a modern engine (XeTeX or LuaTeX)? – cfr Jul 29 '17 at 03:40
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To make sure what is the best advice, do you mind telling us what is your OS and your text's encoding for this task? – jarnosc Aug 01 '17 at 21:42
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@erreka, that's linux – M.Mass Aug 02 '17 at 13:55
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But what is your code page/encoding? – jarnosc Aug 03 '17 at 03:40
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@erreka, utf8 globally – M.Mass Aug 03 '17 at 12:31
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this is definitely a duplicate of how to install cyrtex – jarnosc Aug 03 '17 at 20:06
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If you don't need pure TeX, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/249151/70900 – Igor Liferenko May 29 '20 at 02:58