From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:05:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8FA5B43-12F0-453A-BACC-85CA4A69BAD4@corpus-callosum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinzH2n+RFsWn6+uK19zVpwvHDK0FxnmF5zXOYiN@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 11, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
> That sounds about right, unfortunately.
> You might be better off just using TeX.
> It's better at math, it runs on Plan 9,
> and your colleagues who don't use
> Plan 9 will still be able to collaborate
> on documents with you.
Has anyone experimented with using TeX to generate equations, store them as .eps, and then insert them into troff in some way that makes:
.BP eqn1.eps
.EP
look like
.EQ (1)
sqrt{ {x sup 2 + x + 1} over {x - 1}}
.EN
Only without the broken font/line drawing when converted from postscript to pdf?
Convoluted I know, but it sure would make $\sqrt{ {{x^2 + x + 1}\over {x-1}} }$ look more acceptable in a PDF generated on Plan 9 from troff source.
-jas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 12:14 Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-11 19:18 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-11 22:18 ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12 9:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-12 18:25 ` Akshat
2010-09-12 19:38 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-12 20:49 ` Akshat
2010-09-13 14:05 ` Jeff Sickel [this message]
2010-09-13 14:28 ` ron minnich
2010-09-13 14:30 ` erik quanstrom
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