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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label LaTeXtoPlain</title>
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<h3>Translating LaTeX to Plain TeX</h3>
<p/>Unfortunately, no &ldquo;general&rdquo;, simple, automatic process is likely to
succeed at this task.  See 
&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-LaTeXandPlain.html">How does LaTeX relate to Plain TeX</a>&rdquo;
for further details.
<p/>Translating a document designed to work with LaTeX into one
designed to work with Plain TeX is likely to amount to carefully
including (or otherwise re-implementing) all those parts of LaTeX,
beyond the provisions of Plain TeX, which the document uses.
<p/>Some of this work is has (in a sense) been done, in the port of the
LaTeX graphics package to Plain TeX.  However, while
<i>graphics</i> is available, other complicated packages (notably
<i>hyperref</i>) are not.  The aspiring translator may find the
<a href="FAQ-eplain.html">Eplain</a> system a useful source of code.  (In fact,
a light-weight system such as Eplain might reasonably be adopted as
an alternative target of translation, though it undoubtedly gives the
user more than the &ldquo;bare minimum&rdquo; that Plain TeX is designed to
offer.)
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<dt><tt><i>\latexhtml{\textrm{The}}{The} eplain system</i></tt><dd>
  <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/eplain.zip">macros/eplain</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/eplain/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>\latexhtml{\textrm{&lsquo;Plain TeX&rsquo;}}{Plain TeX} graphics</i></tt><dd>
  <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/graphics.zip">macros/plain/graphics</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/graphics/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeXtoPlain">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeXtoPlain</a>
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