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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eplain.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eplain.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..de3f766ac42 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eplain.html @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +<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 “generic typesetting +capabilities”, as do 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 “appropriate” way, as +LaTeX’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’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. +<p/>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 authors of Eplain are not aware of +any generally available macro packages that do not force their +typographic style on an author, and yet provide 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 “loader” 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’s +also a mailing list — 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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/eplain.zip">macros/eplain</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/eplain.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/eplain/">browse</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> +</body> |