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+%% LaTeX2e file `t.tex'
+%%
+\hsize 3in
+\baselineskip 13pt
+\pdfoutput=1 % we will produce PDF instead of DVI
+\pdfannottext
+ open % optional specification if the text annotation is implicitly opened
+ {The text annotation} % the text itself
+\def\BL{\pdfannotlink
+ depth 3pt height 8pt % optional specification for link size
+ 1 % key of destination
+ border 0 0 1 % optional specification for link border
+}
+\def\EL{\pdfendlink}
+\pdfoutline
+ 1 % key of destination
+ 0 % number of sub-entries of this item
+ {The outline entry} % Text of this item
+\pdfdestxyz
+ 1 % key of this destination
+ zoom 2 % optional zoom factor
+%\pdfdestfit 1 or %\pdfdestfith 1 or %\pdfdestfitv 1
+%\pdfdestfitr 1 ... \pdfendfitr
+
+This is \TeX, a document compiler intended to produce typesetting of
+high quality. The PASCAL program that follows is the definition of
+\TeX82, a standard version of \TeX\ that is designed to be highly
+portable so that identical output will be obtainable on a great
+variety of computers.
+
+The main purpose of the following program is to explain the algorithms
+of \TeX\ as clearly as possible. \BL As a result, the program will not
+necessarily be very efficient when a particular PASCAL compiler has
+translated it into a particular machine language.\EL\ However, the
+program has been written so that it can be tuned to run efficiently in
+a wide variety of operating environments by making comparatively few
+changes. Such flexibility is possible because the documentation that
+follows is written in the WEB language, which is at a higher level
+than PASCAL; the preprocessing step that converts WEB to PASCAL is
+able to introduce most of the necessary refinements. Semi-automatic
+translation to other languages is also feasible, because the program
+below does not make extensive use of features that are peculiar to
+PASCAL.
+
+A large piece of software like \TeX\ has inherent complexity that cannot
+be reduced below a certain level of difficulty, although each individual
+part is fairly simple by itself. The WEB language is intended to make
+the algorithms as readable as possible, by reflecting the way the
+individual program pieces fit together and by providing the
+cross-references that connect different parts. Detailed comments about
+what is going on, and about why things were done in certain ways, have
+been liberally sprinkled throughout the program. These comments explain
+features of the implementation, but they rarely attempt to explain the
+\TeX\ language itself, since the reader is supposed to be familiar with
+{\sl The \TeX book}.
+\bye \ No newline at end of file