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6 eplain - extended plain TeX
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9 eplain [ first-line ]
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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
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38 eplain/doc/eplain.texi
39 TeXable documentation of etex macros in texinfo format.
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42 Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced from eplain.texi.
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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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