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
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.
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.
SEE ALSO¶
emacs(1),
info(1),
initex(1),
tex(1),
xinfo(1).
Karl Berry,
eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990.
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves,
TeX for nroff for
the Impatient, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7.