eplain - Man Page

eplain [ first-line ]

eplain is an extension of plain T E X originally described in the book TEX for troff for the Impatient. It adds these features (among others) to plain T E X:

• 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 BIBT E X

eplain/doc/eplain.texi

T E Xable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.

eplain.info*

Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.

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 troff for the Impatient, https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient