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EPLAIN(1) General Commands Manual EPLAIN(1)

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

texinfo(5), tex(1),
 
Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990, http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-4/tb30resources.pdf.
 
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, TeX for nroff for the Impatient, http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient.
30 September 2013 Eplain 3.6