Really!. That's really a disadvantage of Latex!  I thought Knuth's primitives plus macro's were together 'plain tex' and thus untouched in both Context and Latex.

Thanks for your help.

The reason to write a booklet in Latex instead of in context was that I wanted to use some amstex macro's. Is it possible to use amstex in context as well?
 

Liesbeth
 

2007/8/27, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>:

> In latex it doesn't work. Latex says that \settabs is undefined. Does anyone
> know why?

Yes, that's because \settabs is not a TeX primitive and is defined
in plain.tex (line 602, \def\settabs{\setbox\tabs\null \futurelet\next\sett@b}).
In LaTeX I guess you want to look into the tabbing environment, or the
more high-level tabular sort of things.

ConTeXt takes over most of the Plain TeX macros; that's why it's
defined here and not in LaTeX.

       Arthur
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