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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label plaintex</title>
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+<h3>What&#8217;s &#8220;writing in TeX&#8221;?</h3>
+<p/>TeX is a macro processor, and offers its users a powerful
+programming capability. To produce a document, you write macros and
+text interleaved with each other. The macros define an environment in
+which the text is to be typeset.
+<p/>However, the basic TeX engine is pretty
+basic, and is a pretty difficult beast to deal with. Recognising this
+(and not wanting to write the same things at the start of every
+document, himself) Knuth provided a package of macros for use with
+TeX, called Plain TeX; Plain TeX is a useful minimum set of
+macros that can be used with TeX, together with some demonstration
+versions of higher-level commands. When people say they&#8217;re &#8220;writing
+(or programming) in TeX&#8221;, they usually mean they&#8217;re programming in
+Plain TeX.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=plaintex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=plaintex</a>
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