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From: karl@CS.UMB.EDU (Karl Berry)
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Subject: eplain 1.8 released
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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:52:19 GMT
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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'.
 
 
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