[TriLUG] Anyone using, or would like to use, Plain TeX?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

My 12 year love affair with LyX may be coming to an end, and I'm
thinking of switching to Plain TeX to write my books from now on. Plain
TeX is a few macros added by Knuth to Knuth's document production
language, TeX.

LyX is a front end to LaTeX, which is a macro-expansion of TeX. The
reason I'm interested in TeX is it's a simple language where you don't
need to find a package to do every single thing you need to do. I'd put
it this way:

TeX is to C as LaTeX is to Java.

I'm more of a C guy myself. I like to know that with the language and
the language manual, I can do ANYTHING myself.

Is anyone else using TeX? Is anyone interested in TeX?

Thanks,

SteveT

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