.TH EPLAIN 1 "14 December 1993" "Web2C @VERSION@"
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.SH NAME
eplain \- extended plain TeX
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B eplain
[ first line ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete
documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
or manual
.IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
.PP
.B eplain
is an extension of plain \*(TX described in the book
.IR "\*(OX for the Impatient" .
It adds these features (among others) to plain \*(TX:
.RS
.TP \w'\(bu'u+2n
\(bu
left-justified displays
.TP
\(bu
double-column output
.TP
\(bu
tables of contents
.TP
\(bu
.I \ehrule
and
.I \evrule
with a different default than 0.4pt
.TP
\(bu
time of day
.TP
\(bu
verbatim file listing
.TP
\(bu
generalized footnotes
.TP
\(bu
blank and black boxes
.TP
\(bu
citations using \*(BX
.RE
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.SH FILES
.TP
.I eplain/doc/eplain.texi
\*(TXable documentation of
.B etex
macros in
.B texinfo
format.
.TP
.I eplain.info*
Online GNU Emacs
.BR info (1)
files produced from
.IR eplain.texi .
.PP
The complete
.I eplain
distribution is available via anonymous ftp to the Internet host
.I ftp.cs.umb.edu
from the file
.I pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z
which is linked to another file containing the most recent version of
the package.  Major \*(TX archive sites should also have it.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR emacs (1),
.BR info (1),
.BR initex (1),
.BR tex (1),
.BR xinfo (1).
.br
Karl Berry,
.IR eplain ,
TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990.
.br
Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves,
.IR "\*(OX for the Impatient" ,
Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7.