.TH EPLAIN 1 "2 October 2022" "Eplain 3.13"
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.SH NAME
eplain \- expanded plain TeX
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B eplain
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B eplain
is an extension of plain \*(TX originally described in the book
.IR "\*(OX for the Impatient" .
It adds these features (among others) to plain \*(TX:
.TP \w'\(bu'u+2n
\(bu
left-justified displays
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\(bu
double-column output
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\(bu
tables of contents
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\(bu
.I \ehrule
and
.I \evrule
with a different default than 0.4pt
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\(bu
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 \*(BX
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.SH FILES
.TP
.I eplain/doc/eplain.texi
\*(TXable documentation of
.B etex
macros in
.B texinfo
format.
.TP
.I eplain.info*
Online GNU Emacs
.BR info (1)
files produced from
.IR eplain.texi .
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
https://tug.org/eplain/
.br
https://ctan.org/pkg/graphics-pln
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https://ctan.org/pkg/optex
.PP
.BR texinfo (5),
.BR tex (1),
.br
Karl Berry,
.IR eplain ,
TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990,
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-4/tb30resources.pdf
.br
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves,
.IR "\*(OX for the Impatient" ,
https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient