I <3 TeX (was Re: real books)

[Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com>]

I know this horse is glue, now ... but in the spirit of "I hate being 
wrong on the Internet" [c.f. http://xkcd.com/386/ ...] I wanted to work 
out a working TeX example instead of the throw-away mock snippet I 
posted earlier, which doesn't actually "work" ...

So, here's the Plain TeX document, in its entirety, including comments:

    \font\big=cmsy10 scaled \magstep4\textfont2=\big % use big font for 
math
    \def\heart{\lower 6pt \hbox{$\heartsuit$}\kern .3em} % our heart 
definition
    I \heart \TeX % yes, I do
    \bye

And, here's what that snippet above actually renders:

http://dossy.org/uploads/2011/09/i-heart-tex.png

I remembered that if I wanted to use Unicode U+2665 for the heart, it'd 
require LaTeX and I wanted something that would work in Plain TeX.  
(N.B. when most people refer to "TeX" they actually mean LaTeX, not 
Plain TeX.)

There are some real neat benefits of authoring a document in an 
environment that blends content with a robust programming language.


On 9/7/11 11:35 AM, Peter Neilson wrote: