eplain (1)

NAME

eplain - expanded plain TeX

SYNOPSIS

eplain [ first-line ]

DESCRIPTION

eplain is an extension of plain TeX originally described in the book TeX for nroff for the Impatient. It adds these features (among others) to plain TeX:

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left-justified displays

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double-column output

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tables of contents

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\hrule and \vrule with a different default than 0.4pt

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time of day

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verbatim file listing

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generalized footnotes

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blank and black boxes

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citations using BibTeX

FILES

eplain/doc/eplain.texi

TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.

eplain.info*

Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.

SEE ALSO

texinfo(5), tex(1),
Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990, tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-4/tb30resources.pdf
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, TeX for nroff for the Impatient, www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient