Re: [Groff] computer modern fonts in EQN with Tps?

[Robert Goulding]

One other point.  From man grodvi:

       Special fonts are MI (cmmi10), S (cmsy10), EX  (cmex10),  SC  (cmtex10,
       only  for  CW),  and,  perhaps surprisingly, TR, TI, and CW, due to the
       different font encodings of text fonts.  For italic fonts, CWI is  used
       instead of CW.

       Finally,  the  symbol  fonts  of  the American Mathematical Society are
       available as special fonts SA (msam10)  and  SB  (msbm10).   These  two
       fonts are not mounted by default.

A *lot* of mathematical characters are made available in the dvi
backend; you should be able to typeset equations just as rich and
complex as those in TeX.  (You'll need to define eqn directives for
them, of course, and play around with spacing etc.)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Robert Goulding <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the past, I've played with the dvi backend, which doesn't seem to
>  be very actively supported but works nonetheless.  Try compiling your
>  file with -Tdvi, and then use dvipdfm to produce the pdf.  Everything
>  will be in CM, and the mathematics looks better than -Tps (perhaps a
>  subjective impression, since I am used to seeing CM mathematics).
>
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> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Tadziu Hoffmann
>  <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >
>  >  > So can you provide an eqn definition for constructing the
>  >  > display-int?
>  >
>  >  It makes use of eqn's "special" feature.  Not sure if this
>  >  is the most elegant way of doing it, but at least it allows
>  >  adjusting the subscript kern (for the lower bound of the
>  >  integral) and what eqn believes to be the height and depth
>  >  (I tried to make the math axis of sub- and superscript
>  >  correspond to approximately the center of the "bulbs"):
>  >
>  >   .de IS
>  >   .ds 0s \fS\Z'\v'.15m'\b'\N'243'\N'245''\v'-.15m''\h'0.9m'\fP
>  >   .nr 0w 0.9m
>  >   .nr 0h 1.27m
>  >   .nr 0d .79m
>  >   .nr 0skern .3m
>  >   ..
>  >   .EQ
>  >   define int %{ special IS "" }%
>  >   .EN
>  >
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>  >  >
>  >  > >And then there's also Elsevier's freely available ESSTIX font
>  >  > >package, which is very nice and contains a large number of
>  >  > >mathematical symbols.  (I haven't experimented with this yet,
>  >  > >though.)
>  >  > I have -- I needed some bold symbols to match the bold font I
>  >  > was using in PDFs used as overheads in my lectures.  See:
>  >  > http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/teaching/SGTM/lect07pr-3.pdf
>  >  > Actually, this raises another issue: I use Helvetica Bold for
>  >  > gfont but Goudy Sans for grfont,
>  >
>  >  Hmmm, I think it would have been better to use the same font
>  >  family for math as for body text (like on page 28, "u = u(x)").
>  >
>  >
>  >  > but Helvetica is perhaps 10% larger than other fonts of the
>  >  > same point size.  In TeX there is a scaling adjustment that
>  >  > can be used to match the sizes.  Is there an equivalent in
>  >  > groff?
>  >
>  >  I think fzoom does this:
>  >   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2006-07/msg00032.html
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>  Robert Goulding
>  Program in History and Philosophy of Science
>  University of Notre Dame
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Robert Goulding
Program in History and Philosophy of Science
University of Notre Dame