From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.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 15:56:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0908261556pba98581n167cfdd1e432fc6b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00908261509mafa273apa08712d51d54c918@mail.gmail.com>
eqn has never been good at the precise layout
of large equations. it's great that they look as
good as they do.
> Really nobody uses 'eqn' these days?...
more precisely, nobody uses eqn these days
who is picky enough about where the + goes
to take the time to fix it.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 22:56 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
2009-08-26 22:50 ` Steve Simon
2009-08-26 22:56 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-09-03 12:33 ` Harri Haataja
2009-08-27 15:30 ` Russ Cox
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