The Linux Cyrillic HOWTO

Alexander L. Belikoff, (belikoff@netvision.net.il)

1. General notes

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Availability and feedback
• 1.3 Acknowledgments and copyrights

2. Characters and codesets

3. Text mode setup

• 3.1 Linux Console
• 3.2 FreeBSD Console

4. The X Window System

• 4.1 The X fonts.
• 4.2 The input translation

5. Cyrillic support in TeX and LaTeX

• 5.1 Using the Washington Cyrillic
• 5.2 KOI-8 package for teTeX
• 5.3 Using the cmcyralt package for LaTeX
• 5.4 Using the CyrTUG package

6. Cyrillic in PostScript

• 6.1 Adding Cyrillic fonts to Ghostscript

7. Print setup

• 7.1 Printing only raw text
• 7.2 Printing with different fonts
• 7.3 Converting text to TeX
• 7.4 Text to PostScript converters

8. Miscellaneous utilities setup

• 8.1 bash
• 8.2 csh/tcsh
• 8.3 emacs
• 8.4 ispell

9. joe

• 9.1 ksh
• 9.2 less
• 9.3 lynx
• 9.4 mc (The Midnight Commander)
• 9.5 Netscape navigator
• 9.6 rlogin
• 9.7 sendmail (aka "The Doom of a Sysadmin")
• 9.8 zsh

10. Useful Tools

• 10.1 Conversion Utilities
• 10.2 Programmer's tools

11. Summary of the various useful resources