> On 14 Jan 2022, at 03:33, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:32 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu <mailto:tytso@mit.edu>> 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 hate to be the one who says this, but when it comes to typesetting non-trivial mathematics, there is no competition: LaTeX beats eqn hands down. eqn is fine up to a point (and the neqn thing is kinda nifty for simple things on the terminal; you can kinda sorta get a rendered sigma for a summation, for example) but it breaks down pretty quickly.

Both FrameMaker and Word have GUI equation editors.  They’re pretty capable, but are a separate “world” from the text: they open a new window for editing the equation that floats over the document.

I much preferred (I don’t do a lot of equations these days) the inline nature of LaTeX (and (n)eqn)).




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