ETEX(1)                                                             ETEX(1)
                              14 December 1993






 NAME
      etex - extended plain TeX


 SYNOPSIS
      etex [ first line ]


 DESCRIPTION
      etex is an extension of plain TeX described in the book TeX for the
      Impatient.  It adds these features (among others) to plain TeX:


           +  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 BibTeX


 FILES
      eplain/doc/eplain.texi        TeXable documentation of etex macros in
                                    texinfo format.


      /usr/local/info/eplain.info*  Online GNU Emacs info(1) files produced
                                    from eplain.texi.


      The complete eplain distribution is available via anonymous ftp to the
      Internet host ftp.cs.umb.edu from the file pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z which
      is linked to another file containing the most recent version of the
      package.  Major TeX archive sites should also have it.


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


















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