A powerfully extended version of the plain format, adding support for bibliographies, tables of contents, enumerated lists, verbatim input of files, numbered equations, tables, two-column output, footnotes, hyperlinks in PDF output and commutative diagrams.

Eplain can also load some of the more useful LaTeX packages, notably , , , (a package instance of the LaTeX picture code), , and .

The authors are Oleg Katsitadze, Dorai Sitaram and Karl Berry.