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Manual

EPLAIN

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO

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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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