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From: morgan@ics.uci.edu (Tim Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Eplain version 1.6 released
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Date: 17 Dec 90 17:00:47 GMT
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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I have released Eplain version 1.6.  You can get it by anonymous ftp from
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1], in the directory TeX/eplain, and from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.4], in the directory pub/tex/eplain.

The distribution is available as a compressed tar file, eplain1.6.tarZ,
or as separate text files, the most important of which are btxmac.tex,
eplain.tex, and eplain.texinfo.  (The umpteen other files are the test
cases I have written.)

Besides bug fixes, there are a few new features:

* I wrote a macro to read an optional argument (enclosed in square
  brackets, LaTeX style), from the input.

* I included the \futurenonspacelet macro from Appendix D of The
  TeXbook.

* I define a control sequence \eplain, so that it is easy to tell if the
  format has been preloaded.

* You can set a new token register \displayhook to do stuff at
  \everydisplay time.

* The amount of space produced by blank lines after \obeywhitespace is
  adjustable.


The BibTeX-reading macros (now maintained by Oren Patashnik) have two
new minor features:

* You can completely control the hanging indentation when the
  bibliography is printed (before you always got at least 1em
  indentation).

* They make provision for a caps-and-small-caps font, in case your
  bibliography style wants to use such a thing.


Let me know if you encounter problems.

karl@cs.umb.edu    karl@ai.mit.edu   ...!harvard!umb!karl
--
Tim Morgan