Ingo,
Interestingly your comment is the first I have
received that is not of the form "you can jigger
this or that to get the desired effect". And indeed
I had over the years used every one of those tricks plus
one more: assemble the parts with tbl rather than
with an eqn matrix. I thought all o
Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Tue, May 01, 2018 at 11:40:50PM -0400:
> Ingo suggested a way to write two equations aligned
> on equals signs, to look rather like this
>shortid = expression1
> longidentifier = expression2
>
> Here's the code
> .EQ
> set column_sep 35
> matrix {
>
Indeed, you can tweak things pretty closely (but not exactly)
with , but it fails to express logical intent. Thus it
is brittle. If you want to change anything left of the = sign,
you have to do more twiddling (pun intended) to restore the
alignnment. Ditto if you change the document font.
See in-line at []
On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 14:49 +1000, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>
> > I agree it lines things up right horizontally. What I complained
> > about is that (at least in -ms) a separate EQ-EN pair for each
> > line introduces extra vertical sp
