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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters
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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