EPLAIN

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 December 1993
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NAME

eplain - extended plain TeX

SYNOPSIS

eplain [ first line ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

eplain is an extension of plain TeX described in the book TeX 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.

The complete eplain distribution is available via anonymous ftp to the Internet host ftp.cs.umb.edu from the file pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z which is linked to another file containing the most recent version of the package. Major TeX archive sites should also have it.