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NAME

6       eplain - expanded plain TeX
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SYNOPSIS

9       eplain [ first-line ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       eplain  is  an  extension of plain TeX originally described in the book
13       TeX for nroff for the Impatient.  It adds these features (among others)
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FILES

35       eplain/doc/eplain.texi
36              TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
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38       eplain.info*
39              Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.
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SEE ALSO

42       texinfo(5), tex(1),
43       Karl  Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990, http://tug.org/TUG‐
44       boat/tb11-4/tb30resources.pdf.
45       Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn  A.  Hargreaves,  TeX  for
46       nroff for the Impatient, http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient.
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