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From: ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Using TeX in LaTeX
Summary: Tex-Latex compatibility question
Message-ID: <2380@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 17:05:09 GMT
References: <Jan.10.02.29.09.1990.1907@busboys.rutgers.edu> <3719@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <3719@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek) writes:
> Well, part of the problem is that \newcommand is quite limited in what
> it can do. To do any fancy macro stuff, I fear, you have to descend to 
> the level of (gasp) plain TeX.

The process of using plain tex commands in latex seems, unfortunately,
to be the aspect of latex that is least well documented. Having learned
plain first, I used to try using plain usages in my latex, and often
received error messages which I found very difficult to debug.

Has anyone done a serious study of which tex commands may be used in latex?
Would it be possible to share this with the general community?

Thanks.

--Mark