From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-io0-f182.google.com (mail-io0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id c59b099f for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:56:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-io0-f182.google.com with SMTP id r36so65510305ioi.1 for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 20:56:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cathet-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=sender:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-id:date:message-id; bh=R/g43w8YmPqnQlPR8aGgXf1fxbnzSrYGdggrJS38QQY=; b=ASqk6eGOE2cgKY05Wmh+PV53GPytyTmG5T72t/uPMSbY08ImyzCvw1Se+i0XrFSuy3 IT/XUxYEjqZNHS6qiDbsC6U+X9UK/ZYMpY5n3mspRYGIbiiR4d9X1/JczkFzt8IVxOGg KQg1THqRbbPr0Z+FcV7EIlRqKLZRjblZw0rpVjOHD116XSK69cRo7xDPm80hU8XYRTpD tS0madk/wqB9H1KyFJsvt92SJljDhiD9MT1kJFtjzLJ2M6jRMWeGzzuWdnQ9Kfkzp+Ka M4Kg/6OsauTa7PbJFliVkRuRaU1/a9/FvtRHLNepypOorhhroVBB1Gpb0JycS+dqI/96 tSKw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-id :date:message-id; bh=R/g43w8YmPqnQlPR8aGgXf1fxbnzSrYGdggrJS38QQY=; b=ILReHB9ES/vi9VYJVMVDwPKq0DzIqhQv0D4+Tk1+PRKij+OYbGmTgQMNfUrNe/bgPL mdg8rjyWfZzPGx0myNS3huuH9qdMRQ5y3jsGzPFyQ2oGQMfWP8je4tfFGqnFObocMoRY C11O9SKAcMTq+Q9vc0To5uIhuDFeqL914txHPkUNNtpzV7SPbpqi99ahUb24XEK+Q8dC ScrgHKPJxm065XOciWVAUwgRWntsnc86N5rw+a6IPoB13dZ8yFPBasuQEzVWGrq3oqSc pfYhxuXgORuJf7oF+TXNgyii0aH3YFkWH/t1wdeXBfYJIDiLaL6TeRtMtJXgfc1GHOOM 8e4A== X-Gm-Message-State: AKS2vOwkvDmZgcHLMErTNyCAXqlMiV4csrwmxNBATxsetG0d8ONE9fq3 Ky4mIrKtM39Ufq1oVnY= X-Received: by 10.107.10.205 with SMTP id 74mr36776935iok.80.1499140569042; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 20:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cathet.us. (75-161-126-169.albq.qwest.net. [75.161.126.169]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 81sm4028785itm.30.2017.07.03.20.56.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Jul 2017 20:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "Anthony J. Bentley" Received: from cathet.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cathet.us. (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1148b0e1 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 21:56:07 -0600 (MDT) From: "Anthony J. Bentley" To: tech@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: eqn(7): Precedence of from/to/sub/sup X-Mailinglist: mandoc-tech Reply-To: tech@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <86608.1499140567.1@cathet.us> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 21:56:07 -0600 Message-ID: <14094.1499140567@cathet.us> Hi, Kernighan & Cherry's "Typesetting Mathematics: User's Guide" (2e) says: If you don't use braces, eqn(1) will do operations in the order shown in this list. dyad vec under bar tilde hat dot dotdot fwd back down up fat roman italic bold size sub sup sqrt over from to Now consider this example: .EQ int from a sub 1 to b sup 2 dx .EN groff treats this correctly, as "int from {a sub 1} to {b sup 2} dx". mandoc instead treats it as "int from {a sub {1 to {b sup 2}}} dx". -- Anthony J. Bentley -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv