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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eplain</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What is Eplain?</h3>
-<p/>The <a href="http://tug.org/eplain">Eplain</a>
-macro package expands on and extends the definitions in Plain TeX.
-Eplain is not intended to provide &#8220;generic typesetting
-capabilities&#8221;, as do ConTeXt, LaTeX or
-<a href="FAQ-texinfo.html">Texinfo</a>. Instead, it defines macro tools that
-should be useful whatever commands you choose to use when you prepare
-your manuscript.
-<p/>For example, Eplain does not have a command <code>\</code><code>section</code>,
-which would format section headings in an &#8220;appropriate&#8221; way, as
-LaTeX&#8217;s <code>\</code><code>section</code> does. The philosophy of Eplain is that
-some people will always need or want to go beyond the macro designer&#8217;s
-idea of &#8220;appropriate&#8221;. Such canned macros are fine &#8212; as long as you
-are willing to accept the resulting output. If you don&#8217;t like the
-results, or if you are trying to match a different format, you are out
-of luck.
-<p/>On the other hand, almost everyone would like capabilities such as
-cross-referencing by labels, so that you don&#8217;t have to put actual page
-numbers in the manuscript. The authors of Eplain believe it is the
-only generally available macro package that does not force its
-typographic style on an author, and yet provides these such capabilities.
-<p/>Another useful feature of Eplain is the ability to create PDF files
-with hyperlinks. The cross-referencing macros can implicitly generate
-hyperlinks for the cross-references, but you can also create explicit
-hyperlinks, both internal (pointing to a destination within the
-current document) and external (pointing to another local document or
-a URL).
-<p/>Several LaTeX packages provide capabilities which Plain TeX
-users are lacking, most notably text colouring and rotation provided by
-the <i>graphics</i> bundle (packages <i>color</i> and
-<i>graphics</i>). Although the <i>graphics</i> bundle provides
-a Plain TeX &#8220;loader&#8221; for some of the packages, it is not a
-trivial job to pass options to those packages under Plain TeX, and
-much of the functionality of the packages is accessed through package
-options. Eplain extends the loader so that options can be passed
-to the packages just as they are in LaTeX. The following packages are
-known to work with Eplain: <i>graphics</i>, <i>graphicx</i>,
-<i>color</i>, <i>autopict</i> (LaTeX picture environment),
-<i>psfrag</i>, and <i>url</i>.
-<p/><a href="http://tug.org/docs/html/eplain">Eplain documentation</a> is
-available online, and there&#8217;s
-also a mailing list &#8212; sign up, or browse the list archives, via
-<a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-eplain">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-eplain</a>
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>Eplain distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain.zip">macros/eplain</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eplain.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=eplain">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=eplain</a>
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