I'm writing in english though, and i don't want to use babel. What editors/ides are available for easing the process of writing tex/latex documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building.
Looked at in either way, tex gives you the basics. Logical and character in tex (⋀) ask question asked 14 years, 5 months ago modified 6 years, 8 months ago I also know that there is a \\date command to specify the date of my work.
Plain tex is the set of macros (developed by knuth) which. The correct link seems to keep changing, but if you have a complete tex live installation, the command texdoc symbols. To find the definition of \maketitle, you could either execute \show\maketitle from an interactive tex run, or you could look it up in the package file (with extension.cls for a class, and.sty for. However, if i omit \\date, \\maketitle.
I have the following hack but i'd like a better way:. It knows just primitive commands, no macros. I need the characters «» in my latex document. The smallest possible tex is what knuth called virgin tex (texbook, p.342):
I'm using the \\author and \\title commands to produce a title with \\maketitle.