From: Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>, TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] eqn
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 21:25:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47c43a48-b980-5e6e-1e0d-6876e3f9a308@esse.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004042034.GS13997@mcvoy.com>
On 10/4/19 6:20 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> So my kid is using LaTex and I'd like to show him what troff can do.
> For the record, back when he was born, 20 years ago, I was program
> chair for Linux Expo (which sounds like a big deal but all it meant
> was I had the job of formatting the proceedings). LaTex was a big
> deal but I pushed people towards troff and the few people that took
> the push came back and said "holy crap is this easy".
>
> My kid is a math guy, does anyone have some eqn input and output
> that they can share?
I've got no such thing that I still have available to myself,
but perhaps "A System for Typesetting Mathematics" in the 7th Edition
manual volume 2A would be something of relevance?
It's both an introduction to eqn(1) and shows off what it can do.
https://tex.loria.fr/divers/unix-eqn1.ps.gz
http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps
^ seemingly updated version, found dvia Schaffter's mom macro documentation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 4:20 Larry McVoy
2019-10-04 4:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 5:12 ` George Michaelson
2019-10-04 13:43 ` Nemo
2019-10-04 14:57 ` aksr
2019-10-04 15:52 ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2019-10-04 16:12 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-04 17:24 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-04 18:55 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-04 17:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-06 8:03 ` arnold
2019-10-04 19:02 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-07 17:26 ` Seth J. Morabito
2019-10-07 19:14 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-08 21:11 ` Seth Morabito
2019-10-04 19:25 ` Fabio Scotoni [this message]
2019-10-05 1:59 Doug McIlroy
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