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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:25:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220113162521.GC7175@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yd+b0hIkTePXBzfF@mit.edu>

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:26:10PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Speaking of typesetting equations, how would people compare eqn versus
> LaTeX?  I used nroff for man pages, but I never did learn how to use
> eqn for nroff.

I love the tbl|eqn|pic|grap (though that is in theory, I wrote my own)
preprocessors.  I've done a ton of tbl & pic, there are some historical
bugs that I'd like to get fixed, but for the most part they work great.
eqn I've used and made pretty math stuff but I haven't used the LaTex
version.  Somewhere I heard someone grabbed the eqn source and massaged
it for LaTex but I have no idea if that was true.

I'm especially fond of pic, you can write pic and "see" the picture
in your head if you do it right.  I'm pretty sure I know why it works
like that, I bet it was slow and expensive to get a print out so the
more you could get it to be correct in your head, the better.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13  2:04 josh
2022-01-13  2:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13  3:24 ` Win Treese
2022-01-13 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 15:08     ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-13 16:06       ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:24         ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:39         ` Harald Arnesen
2022-01-13 18:00         ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 15:35     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:02       ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:20         ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:32           ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:42           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-01-13 16:52             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 16:54               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 17:06               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 18:16         ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 20:00           ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 20:26           ` Chet Ramey
2022-01-13 16:13       ` Charles H Sauer
2022-01-13 22:53     ` David Arnold
2022-01-14  1:53       ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13  3:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 16:25   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-01-13 16:33   ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 22:19     ` David Arnold
2022-01-13 13:54 ` Adam Sampson
2022-01-13 16:37   ` Lars Brinkhoff

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