karl@CS.UMB.EDU (Karl Berry) (03/15/91)
Archive-name: tex/formats/eplain/1991-03-14 Archive-directory: ics.uci.edu:/TeX/eplain/ [128.195.1.1] Original-posting-by: karl@CS.UMB.EDU (Karl Berry) Original-subject: eplain 1.8 released Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) I have released Eplain version 1.8. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23] in pub/tex/eplain/eplain.tar.Z or the contents of pub/tex/eplain (eplain.tex and eplain.texinfo are the most important files), or from ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] in the directory TeX/eplain (same file setup). Aside from bug fixes, there are a few new (minor) features: * Line numbers are given in undefined label messages (if you are using a TeX that understand \inputlineno). * A new macro \fullmonthname expands to the unabbreviated name of the current month (in English). * \testfileexistence can test for the existence of any file, not just files whose root is \jobname. * A new macro \sanitize turns a token list into characters (from Ron Whitney); the table of contents macros use this, so that a toc line like 'Chapter on $\sin$ and $\cos$' gets written exactly as that, instead of \sin and \cos expanded. For those (no doubt large number) of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu karl@ai.mit.edu ..!harvard!umb!karl