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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Fri,  3 Sep 2010 18:50:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] native lbl, long text in troff, bold italics in eqn
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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.