Hi Damian, On Mon Mar 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM CET, Damian McGuckin wrote: > In 30+ years of writing and reviewing reports in *roff/eqn/tbl which > often involve square roots of various sorts, I generally find a way > of writing an equation so I can avoid the need for the square root of > a complicated term where that term is under the square root, i.e. one > that needs to have a massive glyph. [...] > > My experience says that if the square sign looks ugly, the way that > the expression is being phrased needs to be changed to make it easier > to read. Not 100% of the time, but certainly 95% of the time. And in > that 5% of cases, we either raise it to the power of one-half or live > with it. [...]
All I can say is that the formula which Sigfrid sent[1] does not seem hard to read to me (except for the ugly square root). Cheers, onf [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2026-02/msg00059.html, see attachment
