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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label inclplain</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Including Plain TeX files in LaTeX</h3>
+<p/>LaTeX, though originally <a href="FAQ-LaTeXandPlain.html">based on Plain TeX</a>, does not
+contain all of Plain TeX&rsquo;s commands. Worse, some Plain TeX
+command names appear in LaTeX, with different semantics. As a
+result, special measures need to be taken to allow general Plain TeX
+documents (or parts of documents) to be typeset within LaTeX.
+<p/>The truly reliable way is to translate the Plain TeX commands, to
+produce an equivalent of the original&rsquo;s semantics. However, this is
+not practical in many circumstances, and for those occasions, the
+<i>plain</i> package will often come to your aid. The package
+defines a <code>plain</code> environment, in which a Plain TeX
+document may be processed:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\begin{plain}
+ \input{plain-doc}
+\end{plain}
+</pre>
+</blockquote><p>
+The package is known to fail, for example, with documents that use
+AMSTeX; no doubt it would also fail if asked to load Eplain.
+All these things can be overcome (although it&rsquo;s not often easy), but
+the environment saves a lot of work on many occasions.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>plain.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.zip">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inclplain">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inclplain</a>
+</body>