Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 09:50:21 -0500
From: Young U Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas DOT edu>
Subject: Re: TEX
To: Simon Chamlian tlf 340-1590 <simon AT tesla DOT ee DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



On Wed, 11 May 1994, Simon Chamlian tlf 340-1590 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I received a lot of answers for my question on how to TEX the manual
> of DJGPP. Thanks for all. 
> Some of you claimed that I should use TEX instead of LATEX. I thought
> LATEX is built over TEX. It is just some macros, so any TEX file
> can be processed by LATEX but the other way around won't work.

Nope! You should distinguish TeX (in general) from Plain TeX.
Plain TeX is a macro package built over TeX.
LaTeX is built over TeX, not Plain TeX. (Notice lplain.tex
is a modified version of plain.tex.)
LaTeX supports *most* features of Plain TeX, not *all*. Further,
LaTeX requires some structure, at least
\documentstyle ... \begin{document} ... \end{document}.
Thus, generally speaking, you may not run vanila Plain TeX files
by LaTeX.

For further discussion of TeX, refer to comp.text.tex.

(This is for DJGPP, right?)

> 
> I think what I am missing is the file: texinfo.tex
> This file does not come with the document as you can see from the
> manifest file of the document.
> 
> So, where can I find the file texinfo.tex?

Check CTAN hosts, such as:

	ftp.shsu.edu: /tex-archive

Get INDEX to get list of files in that archive.

> 
> -Simon

Young