Re: Regarding groff and eqn

[Riza Dindir]

Oh oh. Tooo many mistakes. What was i thinking. Will try these. Thanks.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 13:17 G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> At 2022-08-16T12:56:30+0300, Riza Dindir wrote:
> > I am using groff 1.22.4 on FreBSD 13.1. Wanted to write inline
> > equations (in a document that uses ms macros), and it does not give me
> > any inline equations. I must be missing something or doing something
> > wrong.
> >
> > Here is my simple document.
> >
> > .TH
> > Inline math
>
> Not related to your issue, but I think you mean "TL", the "title" macro,
> not "TH", which is useful only inside tables ("TS"/"TE").
>
> > .NH
> > Start
> > .LP
> > .EQ
> > delim $$
> > .EN
> > .LP
> > This is some paragraph with inline math: $sum from 1 to 10 = 5 + x$.
> >
> > I do process this with
> >
> > pic inline-math.ms | groff -ms > main.ps
> >
> > But all I get in the document is a centered line with delim $$
> > following with the paragraph that is given as the last line in the
> > document.
> >
> > How could I do inline math expressions in paragraphs?
>
> The equation preprocessor is eqn, not pic.
>
> Try this.
>
> eqn inline-math.ms | groff -ms > main.ps
>
> You can also do this.
>
> groff -e -ms > main.ps
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>