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NAME

6       eplain - extended plain TeX
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SYNOPSIS

9       eplain [ first-line ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documen‐
13       tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or  manual
14       Web2C: A TeX implementation.
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16       eplain is an extension of plain TeX described in the book TeX for nroff
17       for the Impatient.  It adds these features (among others) to plain TeX:
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FILES

38       eplain/doc/eplain.texi
39              TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
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41       eplain.info*
42              Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.
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44       The complete eplain distribution is available via anonymous ftp to  the
45       Internet  host  ftp.cs.umb.edu from the file pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z which
46       is linked to another file containing the most  recent  version  of  the
47       package.  Major TeX archive sites should also have it.
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SEE ALSO

50       emacs(1), info(1), initex(1), tex(1), xinfo(1).
51       Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990.
52       Paul  W.  Abrahams  with  Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves, TeX for
53       nroff for the Impatient, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7.
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