eplain(1)

eplain1

Expanded plain tex

Usage

eplain [first-line]

Overview

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.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8–11
  10. 12
  11. 13–Arch

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