NAME
          etex - extended plain TeX

     SYNOPSIS
          etex [ first line ]

     DESCRIPTION
          etex is an extension of plain TeX described in the book TeX
          for the Impatient.  It adds these features (among others) to
          plain TeX:

               o  left-justified displays

               o  double-column output

               o  tables of contents

               o  \hrule and \vrule with a different default than
                  0.4pt

               o  time of day

               o  verbatim file listing

               o  generalized footnotes

               o  blank and black boxes

               o  citations using BibTeX

     FILES
          eplain/doc/eplain.texi  TeXable documentation of etex macros
                                  in texinfo format.

          /usr/local/info/eplain.info*
                                  Online GNU Emacs info(1) files
                                  produced from eplain.texi.

          The complete eplain distribution is available via anonymous
          ftp to the Internet host ftp.cs.umb.edu from the file
          pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z which is linked to another file
          containing the most recent version of the package.  Major
          TeX archive sites should also have it.

     SEE ALSO
          emacs(1), info(1), initex(1), tex(1), xinfo(1).
          Karl Berry, eplain, TUGboat 11(4), 571--572, 1990.
          Paul W. Abrahams with Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves,
          TeX for the Impatient, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-
          51375-7.