eplain(1)
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 TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
eplain is an extension of plain TeX 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.
- 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 TeX archive sites should also have it.