Re: [Groff] EQN documentation

[Ted Harding]

Cedric,
I am sure that your proposal (to complete the GNU eqn man-page by
incorporating the UNIX eqn material as well) would be very useful
in its own right. It would in any case not "compete" with what I
plan to do (which would be more of an expository account, on similar
lines to the Kernighan and Cherry document). So the two would
complement each other (just as the UNIX eqn man-page and the K&C
document did in the first place).

Thanks for the thought!
Ted.

On 17-Jan-11 19:58:59, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> Hi, can I still contribute through a complete manpage? Meaning I take
> the current Groff EQN manpage and add (with my own words) what is
> missing as for the traditional Roff EQN commands and the shortcuts such
> as del/grad. I'd really dislike to see you doing this all on your own
> without having contributed anything.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:55:43PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
>> That being said, I'd like to let it be known that I have been
>> contemplating for a long time putting together a connected account
>> (like an extended version of the Kernighan & Cherry "Typesetting
>> Mathematics -- User's Guide" that Ralph pointed to previously).
>> This would include not only the entirety of the basics of using
>> GNU eqn, but also how to tweak the details, and how to extend it
>> using macros, etc., based on the many "tips & tricks" I have built
>> up over some 25 years of using UNIX and GNU eqn.
>> 
>> So it's probably time I started! This would be in PS and PDF format,
>> along with troff source, and would of course be freely available
>> (and possibly appropriate for bundling with groff).
>> 
>> So stand by.
>> Ted.
>> 
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