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Position margin notes relative to left margin in plain TeX
I want to add margin notes in the Tufte style to my Plain TeX document. (I'm using eplain, if that matters.) I know that if I were using LaTeX I could just use tufte-latex, but as a thorough ...
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A center environment for plain TeX
In TeX, one can center a single line of text with \centerline. How would one implement a center justification environment for a single long line of text in plain TeX without the addition of any ...
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how can I break the rows of an halign nicely across pages?
I'm trying to print large tables for my own consumption (I'm using Plain TeX and eplain). They are tables of publications and I just want to be able to look at them. Each table will have a variable ...
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Controlling text overflow when using \hfill to left- and right-align parts of title
I’m creating a template in plain (Xe)TeX which must have, in the first line, a location and reference number. The location is left-aligned and the reference number is right-aligned. (See example 1, ...
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Execute token after \halign
I like to create a macro which processes a following brace group as "argument" using \halign. After it has been processed a token (a macro) should be executed. With an \hbox I can use ...
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Wrapping \obeylines with \halign into a macro
In the TeXbook, Knuth gives an example:
Are you tired of typing \cr? You can get plain TEX to insert an automatic \cr at the end of each input line in the following way:
\begingroup \let\par=\cr ...
