man eplain (Commandes) - extended plain TeX

NAME

eplain - extended plain TeX

SYNOPSIS

eplain [ first-line ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

eplain is an extension of plain described in the book for the Impatient. It adds these features (among others) to plain :

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left-justified displays
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double-column output
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tables of contents
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\hrule and \vrule with a different default than 0.4pt
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time of day
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verbatim file listing
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generalized footnotes
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blank and black boxes
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citations using

FILES

eplain/doc/eplain.texi
able documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
eplain.info*
Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.

The complete eplain distribution is available via anonymous ftp to the Internet host ftp.cs.umb.edu from the file pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z which is linked to another file containing the most recent version of the package. Major archive sites should also have it.

SEE ALSO

emacs(1), info(1), initex(1), tex(1), xinfo(1).

Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990.

Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, for the Impatient, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7.