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
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TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
- eplain.info*
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Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.
SEE ALSO
https://tug.org/eplain/
https://ctan.org/pkg/graphics-pln
https://ctan.org/pkg/optex
texinfo(5), tex(1),
Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-4/tb30resources.pdf
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, TeX for nroff for the Impatient, https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient