eplain: Expanded plain tex

SYNOPSIS

eplain [ first-line ]

DESCRIPTION

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

•: 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 \*(BX

FILES

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

RELATED TO eplain…

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, \*(OX for the Impatient, http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient.