On Mac OS X 10.5.5 (with all latest patches applied)
eqn(1) seems to be broken!
$ groff -Tps -e -ms > ted.ps << EOT
)
.EN
EOT> .EQ
)
.EN
EOT> x = { Y + Z } over { A + B } times ( C + D )
> .EN
> EOT
eqn:<standard input>:2: syntax error
context is
>>> x <<<
$ uname -a
Darwin vax.local 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3
11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Am 29.09.2008 um 19:22 schrieb (Ted Harding):
As promised earlier, I have now visited my friend to see how
his Macs deal with it. On both machines, I first entered (in a
"terminal" window) the following:
$ eqn << EOT
.EQ
x = y + z
.EN
EOT
and got the usual slew of eqn output, and no error message.
Sorry for the bad news
Stefan
