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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-10-03 17:13:21 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-10-03 17:13:21 +0000
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--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/info/eplain.info
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/info/eplain.info
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-This is eplain.info, produced by texi2any version 4.13.96+dev from
+This is eplain.info, produced by texi2any version 5.2+dev from
eplain.texi.
-This manual documents the Eplain macros, version 3.5, February 2013.
+This manual documents the Eplain macros, version 3.6, September 2013.
Eplain provides functionality for plain TeX that is intended to be
useful regardless of how your document is actually formatted.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ File: eplain.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir)
Eplain
******
-This manual documents the Eplain macros, version 3.5, February 2013.
+This manual documents the Eplain macros, version 3.6, September 2013.
Eplain provides functionality for plain TeX that is intended to be
useful regardless of how your document is actually formatted.
@@ -245,19 +245,20 @@ or a macro writer, might like to use. It doesn't discuss the
implementation; see comments in the source code ('xeplain.tex') for
that.
- Eplain is not intended to provide "generic" typesetting capabilities,
-as do LaTeX (written by Leslie Lamport) or Texinfo (written by Richard
-Stallman and others). Instead, it provides definitions that are
+ Eplain is not intended to provide typesetting capabilities, as does
+LaTeX (originally written by Leslie Lamport) and Texinfo (Originally
+written by Richard Stallman). Instead, it provides definitions that are
intended to be useful regardless of the high-level commands that you use
when you actually prepare your manuscript.
- For example, Eplain does not have a command '\section', which would
-format section headings in an "appropriate" way, such as LaTeX's
-'\section'. 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.
+ For example, Eplain does not have a command '\section' to format
+section headings in an "appropriate" way, such as LaTeX's '\section'.
+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 have to put in extra work to override the
+defaults.
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
@@ -288,7 +289,7 @@ refer to it.
subscribe YOU@YOUR.PREFERRED.ADDRESS
-or visit <http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-eplain>.
+or visit <http://lists.tug.org/tex-eplain>.
David Walden had reported his experience with Eplain as a new user.
The article is available online at
@@ -5123,7 +5124,7 @@ Formatting equation references::) is '\identity'.)
You may also want to read an optional argument. The established
convention is that optional arguments are put in square brackets, so
that is the syntax Eplain recognizes. Eplain ignores space tokens before
-an optional argument, via '\futurenonspacelet'.
+and after optional arguments, via '\futurenonspacelet'.
You test for an optional argument by using '\@getoptionalarg'. It
takes one argument, a control sequence to expand after reading the
@@ -5448,9 +5449,9 @@ File: eplain.info, Node: \futurenonspacelet, Prev: \ifinteger and \isinteger,
--------------------------
The '\futurelet' primitive allows you to look at the next token from the
-input. Sometimes, though, you want to look ahead ignoring any spaces.
-This is what '\futurenonspacelet' does. It is otherwise the same as
-'\futurelet': you give it two control sequences as arguments, and it
+input. Sometimes, though, you want to look ahead while ignoring any
+spaces. This is what '\futurenonspacelet' does. It is otherwise the same
+as '\futurelet': you give it two control sequences as arguments, and it
assigns the next nonspace token to the first, and then expands the
second. For example:
@@ -5900,6 +5901,7 @@ Macro index
* Menu:
+* @getoptionalarg: Macro arguments. (line 39)
* @hllabel: Destination types for hypertex.
(line 14)
* @hllabel <1>: Link types for hypertex.
@@ -6185,7 +6187,7 @@ Macro index
(line 31)
* flushleft: Justification. (line 7)
* flushright: Justification. (line 7)
-* fmtversion: Introduction. (line 50)
+* fmtversion: Introduction. (line 51)
* footnote (hyperlinks): Footnote hyperlinks. (line 7)
* footnotemarkseparation: Footnotes. (line 25)
* footnoteruleheight: Footnotes. (line 44)
@@ -6901,7 +6903,7 @@ Concept index
* backslash character: Category codes. (line 15)
* balancing of columns with '\singlecolumn': Multiple columns.
(line 11)
-* Berry, Karl: Introduction. (line 30)
+* Berry, Karl: Introduction. (line 31)
* beveled hyperlink border: Link options for pdftex and dvipdfm.
(line 25)
* bibliographies: Citations. (line 6)
@@ -7972,7 +7974,7 @@ Concept index
* triple column output: Multiple columns. (line 6)
* Tu, Loring W.: Construction of commutative diagrams.
(line 13)
-* TUGboat: Introduction. (line 64)
+* TUGboat: Introduction. (line 65)
* type, link and destination: Introduction to hyperlinks.
(line 88)
* types, destination, 'dvipdfm': Destination types for pdftex and dvipdfm.
@@ -8029,8 +8031,8 @@ Concept index
(line 40)
* verbatim text, in table of contents: Writing the .toc file.
(line 49)
-* version number: Introduction. (line 50)
-* Walden, David: Introduction. (line 61)
+* version number: Introduction. (line 51)
+* Walden, David: Introduction. (line 62)
* Warner, Frank W.: Construction of commutative diagrams.
(line 25)
* whatsits made by hyperlinks: Hyperlink driver nolinks.
@@ -8059,129 +8061,129 @@ Concept index

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