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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-plaintex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-plaintex.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0020238c01c --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-plaintex.html @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label plaintex</title> +</head><body> +<h3>What’s “writing in TeX”?</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’re “writing +(or programming) in TeX”, they usually mean they’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> +</body> |