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.