plain
environment, in which a Plain TeX
document may be processed:
The package is known to fail, for example, with documents that use AMSTeX; no doubt it would also fail if asked to load Eplain. All these things can be overcome (although it’s not often easy), but the environment saves a lot of work on many occasions.\begin{plain} \input{plain-doc} \end{plain}
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