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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX to Plain TeX
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:48:20 GMT
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grf@maadfa.ma.adfa.oz.au (Glenn Fulford) writes:

>Does anyone know if there are available any programs to convert
>LaTeX into PlainTex or LaTeX into AMS-TeX?

In fact LaTeX contains most of plain TeX. One solution to
your problem would be to start up plain TeX, and then
\input latex \input lfonts
That way you have loaded LaTeX on top of plain TeX.

O.k. I know this is silly, but the question is silly.
Plain TeX contains just about nothing. No references,
no sectioning, no table of contents, no verbatim.
How on earth would you expect to translate that, other
than just loading one on top of the other?

Victor.