Mathematical Typesetting in Russian with ТеХ

[aciel.livejournal.com]

This post is only going to be of interest to a very small number of people. =P Sorry.

I was wondering if any of you scientist types in this community could tell me something about scientific and mathematical typesetting in Russian. For English, we use ТеХ, but it only works on 7-bit ASCII files and as far as I knew, most Russian characters are stored in the eighth bit (to which ТеХ doesn't pay attention).

Comments

[aciel.livejournal.com]

So that works with LaТеХ, but does it work with regular ТеХ? I'm required to work with the latter--don't ask why. =/

Спасибо!

[ex-dmitri83798.livejournal.com]

What LaTeX does, as far as I understand, is that it converts 8-bit koi8-encoded cyrillic symbols into TeX commands like \cyrp, \cyra etc.

If you use plain tex, I guess you have to do something like this with your own macros.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

That's sort of scary. I just tried to read “cyrp” and “cyra” as Cyrillic. I was wondering what сугр and суга were ...