eplain
expanded plain TeX
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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