eplain - expanded plain TeX
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Description
eplain is an extension of plain TeX originally described in the book TeXfornrofffortheImpatient. 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.
Name
eplain - expanded plain TeX
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, TeXfornrofffortheImpatient,
https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient
Eplain 3.14 16 April 2024 EPLAIN(1)
Synopsis
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