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Plain TeX is Knuth's original default format for TeX documents.
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Figures inserted in plain TeX via \special{psfile=...} not showing up
I'm trying to typeset some old plain TeX documents, created decades ago with the now-obsolete Mac implementation TeXtures, which incorporate eps illustrations via the TeXtures instruction \special{...
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In \tt, why do \char92 and \char'134 output the backlash '\', while \char"5c outputs 'Πc'?
\tt
\char`\\ \char92 \char'134 \char "5c
\bye
outputs
\\\Πc
Why does it change using hexadecimal notation? Thanks in advance.
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Why \magstep0 break \ifcase structure in the definition of itself?
This is in LuaTeX, Version 1.22.0 (TeX Live 2026/dev/Arch Linux)
This is happened in a macro with \afterassignment
and then assign \magstep0 to a count register.
A shortest description:
\newcount\...
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Package clash fontspec,mathastext,amssymb,amsfonts,plain,showframe
I'm using xeLaTeX, but display equations I need in plain TeX format, for this, trying with:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}%
\usepackage[italic]{mathastext}
\usepackage{amssymb,...
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What's the purpose of \pdfsetmatrix?
I've been reading the pdfTeX manual recently, and I came across the primitive \pdfsetmatrix. At first I thought that its purpose is to solve a problem similar to the one \pdfcolorstack solves.
That is,...
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Understanding \pdfstartlink options
I am going through the pdfTeX manual and after unravelling the usage of \pdfstartlink, I see that the following is a possible usage:
\pdfstartlink goto named <general text> <general text>
(...
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Adobe Acrobat not displaying inline image
I've been playing around with pdfTeX primitives lately, and I'm trying to insert an inline image (of a smiley).
I have the following code:
\pdfcompresslevel=0
\catcode`@=11
\nopagenumbers
\...
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Multiple delimiters for a macro
I would like to write a macro which (essentially) picks up a word (a maximal contiguous string of letters).
For example,
\long\def\Word #1.{#1.\write1{#1}}
writes #1 to a file numbered 1, but leaves ...
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Source code of books written in Plain TeX
In the book 'A Beginner's Book to TeX' by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy
it is mentioned that it was typeset using TeX, so I searched for its source code, but I couldn't find it.
Are there any books ...
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Plain TeX changing catcodes to make a verbatim environment
I am using plain TeX (LuaTeX) to make a series of macros which will let me write inline code segments. These macros would handle special characters and allow for them to be displayed as they are ...
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Restore \baselineskip preceding a formatted paragraph between a TeX group
I would like to create a \quote command in Plain TeX that starts a paragraph, writes the text, and finally ends the paragraph. For example:
\def\lip{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing ...
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Plain TeX line break box issues with tikz
I am trying to create a macro that will be used for a code snippet. Ideally this macro would place the text in a box centered horizontally on a page and the text would be left aligned with a gray ...
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Plain loops with counters
Major update
The following code has some weird behaviour:
%&pdftex
\input tugboat.sty
\enablemetacode % comment me!
\everyverbatim{\enablemetacode}
\input protcode.tex
\setprotcode\tenrm
\...
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How to prevent incorrect numeric values
Please, I really do not want whys and woes.
This example does not work!
How may I implement in this example a routine which prevents the user to insert incorrect values?
A day may not have a value ...
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What's the best TeX system for font magic?
Long time lurker, first time poster.
After a roughly twenty-year hiatus, I've returned to TeX to write a fiction book. The TeX landscape has changed considerably over that time.
Plain TeX suits most ...
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