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<8>>. The philosophy of Eplain is that some people will always need or want to go beyond the macro designer's idea of ``appropriate''. Such canned macros are fine—as long as you are willing to accept the resulting output. If you don't like the results, or if you are trying to match a different format, you are out of luck.

On the other hand, almost everyone would like capabilities such as cross-referencing by labels, so that you don't have to put actual page numbers in the manuscript. The author of Eplain @cindex Berry, Karl is not aware of any generally available macro packages that @w(1) do not force their typographic style on an author, and yet @w(2) provide such capabilities.

Besides such generic macros as cross-referencing, Eplain contains another set of definitions: ones that change the conventions of plain @TeX's output. For example, math displays in @TeX are, by default, centered. If you want your displays to come out left-justified, you have to plow through @citeThe @TeXbook to find some way to do it, and then adapt the code to your own needs. Eplain tries to take care of the messy details of such things, while still leaving the detailed appearance of the output up to you.

Finally, numerous definitions turned out to be useful as Eplain was developed. They are also documented in this manual, on the chance that people writing other macros will be able to use them.

You can send bug reports or suggestions to @ttex-eplain@@cs.umb.edu. The current version number of Eplain is defined as the macro @code @cindex version number @findex fmtversion at the end of the source file @fileeplain.tex. When corresponding, please refer to it.

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