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eplain - expanded plain TeX

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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:

left-justified displays

double-column output

tables of contents

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

time of day

verbatim file listing

generalized footnotes

blank and black boxes

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

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


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