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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] native lbl, long text in troff, bold italics in eqn
Date: Fri,  3 Sep 2010 17:16:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPkkF6o_UkQSG49AjAGWyBxQEi81971h+0an9s@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I have basically 3 questions:

1) is there a native lbl (for symbolic labels in text documents), or
do I have to grab the unix tarball and somehow compile that? (How?
Using APE? Never tried that before...)

2) I heard and read that the 'ms' troff macros are not suitable for
longer documents (I want to write my PhD thesis), as opposed
supposedly to the 'me' macros (which, however are not in plan9, I
believe). Can anybody give me their opinion?

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?

Thanks
Ruda



             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-03 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03 15:16 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
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
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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