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: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:03:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00908270203j5396cc48hb9dd4d487436e247@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f8c44fa7f7c22fa9054103b1a511de6@quanstro.net>
> i do see that the +s don't line up, but only by 1 pixel.
> why do you think they should? i would think that the
> centerline of the left ( right ) business should line up
> with the centerline of a +. but that's an uneducated
> guess. can you point to a reference that says eqn
> behaves as you expect?
>
> - erik
I don't think I can...
The eqn behaviour just stuck my eyes (for me it seems to be more than
a 1-pixel shift). I have used TeX for my work all my life, which just
typesets it well. On the other hand I like the succint eqn notation
much more...
Thanks
Ruda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 9:03 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
2009-08-26 22:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-27 9:03 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
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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