From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] eqn
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:35:13 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1910041430260.40775@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004042034.GS13997@mcvoy.com>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 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".
:-)
I've always liked software where the user is in charge, not whoever wrote
the tool. A boss of mine was into LaTeX, and I hated it.
> My kid is a math guy, does anyone have some eqn input and output that
> they can share?
I've only ever used "neqn" and that was yonks ago, so I'd be interested in
seeing some examples.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 4:35 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 [this message]
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
2019-10-05 1:59 Doug McIlroy
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