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Line 1: {{language\|plainTeX}} Donald Knuth's techne (from the greek τέχνη, which he abbreviated to [[TeX\|{{TeX}}]]) is a set of primitive tokens which are complex to use on their own. Knuth wrote composite operations of these primitive tokens himself, called macros, to make document creation easier. ~~plainTeX is the name used to refer to the default set of ''macros'' which are always present on all [[TeX]] systems~~ (and it is the default preloaded format for <tt>tex</tt> executable). They were written by Knuth himself, and provide the basic to start using [[TeX]] (since "raw" [[TeX]] is not ready-to-use for documents creation). Often when one says simply "TeX document", s/he means s/he is using the plainTeX macros, even though nowadays the success of the complex feature-full [[LaTeX]] macros package creates a little bit of confusion and a lot of people, ignoring that LaTeX is just one of possible macro packages for TeX, think that LaTeX is TeX and viceversa. The base techne and a set of macros together are called a format of techne. [[plainTeX\|{{PlainTeX}}]] is the simplest format. ~~Extension to the plainTeX exists, like eplain(TeX).~~ Often when referencing [[TeX\|{{TeX}}]], it is implied that [[plainTeX\|{{PlainTeX}}]] is used. ~~Even though [[LaTeX]] is nowadays almost a typesetting "standard" when using a [[TeX]] system, plainTeX is still usable and used.~~ Extensions to the [[plainTeX\|{{PlainTeX}}]] format exist, such as eplain([[TeX\|{{TeX}}]]) or [[LaTeX\|{{LaTeX}}]].