文档介绍：Getting Started with Plain TEX
D. R. Wilkins
April 18, 1994
Contents
1 Introduction to Plain TEX2
What is Plain TEX? ........................ 2
A Typical Plain TEX Input File ................. 3
Characters and Control Sequences ................ 4
2 Producing Simple Documents using Plain TEX6
Producing Ordinary Text using Plain TEX ........... 6
Blank Spaces and Carriage Returns in the Input File ..... 7
Quotation Marks ......................... 8
Section Headings in Plain TEX .................. 9
Dashes ............................... 10
Changing Fonts .......................... 10
Accents and other Symbols used in Text ............ 11
Special Characters ........................ 11
3 MathematicalFormulaeusingPlainTEX12
Mathematics Mode ........................ 12
Characters in Mathematics Mode ................ 13
Subscripts and Superscripts ................... 14
Greek Letters ........................... 14
Mathematical Symbols ...................... 15
Changing Fonts in Mathematics Mode ............. 15
Standard Functions and Embedded Text ............ 16
Fractions,Roots and Ellipsis ................... 17
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Accents in Mathematics Mode .................. 18
Brackets and Norms ....................... 19
Multiline Formulae in Plain TEX ................. 20
Matrices and other arrays in Plain TEX ............. 22
Derivatives, Limits, Sums and Integrals ............. 24
4 Further Features of Plain TEX28
Producing Blank Space in Plain TEX .............. 28
Blank Spaces: Fine Tuning .................... 30
Defining your own Control Sequences in Plain TEX ...... 31
A Control Sequences used in Text (Plain TEX) 33
B Control Sequences used in Mathematics (Plain TEX) 34
Font Changes, Accents and Standard Functions ........ 34
Control Sequences for Mathematical Symbols ......... 36
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