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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: Re: [9fans] ugly eqn/troff result
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:09:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00908261509mafa273apa08712d51d54c918@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00908130559y1087dba5qac788d6a3b898101@mail.gmail.com>

One more trial...
Really nobody uses 'eqn' these days?...
Thanks
Ruda

2009/8/13 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone
>
> Why do I get an ugly result when trying to typeset (in file 'a')
>
> .EQ
> a + left ( A + B right )
> .EN
>
> with
> eqn a | troff | dpost -f > a.ps?
>
> I am getting an equation in which the 'A+B' is significantly shifted
> downwards inside the (), so that the two pluses just don't line up...
>
> Thanks
> Ruda
>
> P.S.: what I actually wanted to typeset is 'something + ((A+B) sup
> -1)', but the same happens...
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13 12:59 Rudolf Sykora
2009-08-26 22:09 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2009-08-26 22:30   ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-27  9:03     ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-08-26 22:50   ` Steve Simon
2009-08-26 22:56   ` Russ Cox
2009-09-03 12:33   ` Harri Haataja
2009-08-27 15:30 ` Russ Cox

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