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-$Id: README 51 2020-07-04 21:01:29Z karl $
+$Id: README 60 2022-10-05 22:42:54Z karl $
(This file is public domain.)
This file describes the Eplain (expanded or extended plain, take your
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see the file headers for specifics. It is entirely free software.
Eplain was originally developed for the book TeX for the Impatient,
-published by Addison-Wesley in 1990. That book is now freely available,
-from http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient, along with several
-translations.
+published by Addison-Wesley in 1990. That book is now freely available,
+from https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient, along with several translations.
+
+Mailing list: https://lists.tug.org/tex-eplain (tex-eplain@tug.org)
+The Eplain home page is https://tug.org/eplain.
+
+P.S. Alternatives to Eplain:
+1) If you just want to load the LaTeX color or graphics package,
+the LaTeX team's miniltx.tex suffices:
+ \input miniltx.tex
+ \input graphicx.tex
+
+2) If you're interested in a fully-fledged format that shares much of
+Eplain's (and plain.tex's) philosophy, check out OpTeX:
+ https://ctan.org/pkg/optex
-Mailing list: http://lists.tug.org/tex-eplain (tex-eplain@tug.org)
-The Eplain home page is http://tug.org/eplain.