From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] native lbl, long text in troff, bold italics in eqn
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:50:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <230639D3-5B09-4BEE-A272-4D5C55792703@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPkkF6o_UkQSG49AjAGWyBxQEi81971h+0an9s@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> 3) Although eqn produces worse result than TeX, I like the way
> formulae are input, and thus have used it. Sometimes I need bold
> italics, which I achieve by overstriking. This isn't ideal, maybe
> using a special bold italics font would be better. Has anyone thought
> about this?
You should be able to embed troff directives in eqn:
f( "\f(BIx\fP" ) = 4 sin "\f(BIy\fP"
worked for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 15:16 Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-03 15:38 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-09-03 15:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-09-03 15:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-09-03 22:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2010-09-16 11:51 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-16 13:00 ` jake
2010-09-16 15:54 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-16 16:41 ` Gregory Pavelcak
2010-09-16 16:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-09-27 16:31 ` Peter A. Cejchan
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