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Subject: Re: Rendering of math symbols in ASCII mode
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze () usta ! de>
Date: 2017-06-20 16:44:25
Message-ID: 20170620164425.GF64805 () athene ! usta ! de
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Hi Anthony,
Anthony J. Bentley wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:27:00PM -0600:
> Ingo Schwarze writes:
>> Anthony Bentley wrote:
>>> .EQ
>>> roman erf ( x ) = 2 over {sqrt pi} int sub 0 sup x e sup {- t sup 2} dt
>>> .EN
>> Why roman? Aren't function names usually set italic in mathematic
>> papers?
> My impression is that single-letter functions are italic but words
> are roman.
I stand corrected. Actually, blowing the dust off my own diploma
thesis, i found several instances of arctan, exp, ln, log - all
roman. Apparently, it has been too long since i looked at such
typesetting...
> Nitpick: \(sr is not the right way to do square roots in eqn(7).
> The sqrt keyword will wrap in parentheses.
I fully agree with that.
> (But I get your point.)
Once i came to the intermediate conclusion that we better work on
the level of character escape sequences than on the level of egn(7)
syntax, i considered all escapes, no matter whether they are needed
in the context of eqn(7).
>> For some character escape sequences that render to nothing in
>> groff -Tascii, i decided to use descriptive renderings
>> enclosed in angle brackets in the past:
>>
>> \(sc <sec> SECTION SIGN
>> \(de <deg> DEGREE SIGN
>> \(ps <par> PILCROW SIGN
>> \(CS <lub> BLACK CLUB SUIT
>>
>> Do you consider that desirable for cases like the above, too?
> Indeed, I think this is a sensible and readable way to go for -Tascii,
> particularly for characters likely to be used in eqn(7).
Following that, my inquiry on <groff@gnu.org> already elicited
positive feedback from Werner Lemberg. So i'm quite hopeful
that we can get this done and make eqn(7) useful for your
intended purpose.
Yours,
Ingo
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