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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

TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
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

16 April 2024 Eplain 3.14