Suggestions for plain

The following packages have something in common with the package plain. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.

• Package base: Definitive source of Plain TeX on CTAN
• Package context: The ConTeXt macro package
• Package latexrelease: LaTeX release emulation
• Package ptex-base: Plain TeX format for pTeX and e-pTeX
• Package uptex-base: Plain TeX formats and documents for upTeX
• Package cslatex: LaTeX support for Czech/Slovak typesetting
• Package csplain: Plain TeX multilanguage support
• Package eplain: Extended plain TeX macros
• Package lollipop: TeX made easy
• Package startex: An XML-inspired format for student use
• Package texsis: Plain TeX macros for Physicists
• Package optex: LuaTeX format based on Plain TeX and OPmac
• Package psizzl: A TeX format for physics papers
• Package latex-base: Base sources of LaTeX
• Package latex-base-dev: Development pre-release of the LaTeX kernel
• Package testfont: A testbed for font evaluation
• Package xmltex: Support for parsing XML documents
• Package phyzzx: A TeX format for physicists
• Package text1: TeX format from Washington State University
• Package ytex: Macro package developed at MIT
• Package lamstex: A merge of the best in AMS-TeX and LaTeX
• Package blue: A document preparation system
• Package inrstex: Extended Plain TeX for use with MLTeX
• Package physe: The PHYSE format
• Package classes: The source of LaTeX’s standard classes
• Package latex: A TeX macro package that defines LaTeX
• Package fotex: Process XSL-FO
• Package latex209: Old, unsupported, LaTeX
• Package mylatexformat: Build a format based on the preamble of a LaTeX file
• Package mylatex: Make a format containing a document’s preamble
• Package docstrip: Remove comments from file