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### Online introductions: Plain TeX

Michael Doob’s splendid ‘Gentle Introduction’ to Plain TeX (available on CTAN) has been stable for a very long time.

Another recommendable document is D. R. Wilkins ‘Getting started with TeX’, available on the web at http://www.ntg.nl/doc/wilkins/pllong.pdf

`Gentle Introduction`
  info/gentle/gentle.pdf

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