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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:51:10 +0100
From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ps2pdf and sqrts and tables
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Myself wrote (sic):
 
> The long row is shifted away from the leading unicode 0x221A symbol.

% echo '$sqrt{2}$' | eqn -d'$$' | troff | lp -dstdout | ps2pdf | page -w

should reproduce the problem on plan 9 systems. It seems to be only a
problem of ghostscripts 'pdfwrite' device. The 'jpeg' device, for
example gives proper output.