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

       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