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- This file describes the Eplain (expanded or extended plain, take your
- pick) distribution. The current version number is at the beginning and
- end of `eplain.tex', the beginning of `ChangeLog', and the beginning of
- `Makefile' (among other places).
-
- See `INSTALL' for installation and basic usage hints.
-
- `eplain.tex' is the macros. This file is generated (by the Unix shell
- script `merge') from `xeplain.tex' and `btxmac.tex'. Unless you are
- hacking the macros, you should have no need to regenerate the file; just
- use the one that's there. If you do regenerate it, you will need a
- `date' program which understands the %B format (GNU date does).
-
- `doc/eplain.texinfo' (`eplain.txi' in the DOS distribution) describes
- the features currently provided. If you think of additional features
- that would be useful, or extensions to existing ones, let me know. I am
- interested in providing macros that support formatting, not ones which
- do the formatting. (Which is to say, Eplain is not another LaTeX; I
- will not include, say, a macro to produce a chapter heading.)
-
- `doc/eplain.info*' are the Info files resulting from eplain.texinfo,
- which GNU Emacs and GNU Info can read (they don't exist in the DOS
- distribution). Emacs 18's texinfo-format-buffer doesn't understand all
- the new Texinfo commands. The makeinfo program, distributed in the
- Emacs Lisp reference manual distribution and texinfo2 distribution, and
- the Emacs Lisp code in the texinfo2 distribution, does. You can get
- these from any GNU archive. Or you can just use the provided files.
-
- Here is the line I added to the file `dir', in the top-level Emacs info
- directory:
- * Eplain: (eplain). Expansions to plain TeX.
- See the Texinfo manual for more information about Info.
-
- The files in the `test' subdirectory (not present in the DOS
- distribution) are what I use for testing. They also provide examples of
- how I intended the macros to be used.
-
- Eplain was written mostly by Karl Berry. Some ideas were suggested by
- Paul Abrahams, who also wrote a few of the macros. Other macros are
- based on ones in The TeXbook. Steven Smith wrote the commutative
- diagram macros. Oren Patashnik has worked tirelessly on improving the
- BibTeX macros. Philip Taylor wrote the \path macro, starting from an
- initial macro by Nelson Beebe. Nelson also collected the ``TeX names''
- which Eplain incorporates.
-
- I have put these macros in the public domain. Eplain was developed as
- part of a book published by Addison-Wesley in early summer, 1990. The
- rest of the macros used for the book are also available electronically
- (from ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/impatient), although the book itself is not
- (sigh).
-
-
- Internet: karl@cs.umb.edu karl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- UUCP: ...!harvard!umb!karl
-
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