Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Aug-07 00:12:43, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > Ted: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:00:10PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm trying to overcome an eqn "phenomenon" -- in some ways a >> "feature", in others a "bug". >> [...] >> It seems that eqn uses the glyph-width o

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-18 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Ted: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:00:10PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm trying to overcome an eqn "phenomenon" -- in some ways a > "feature", in others a "bug". > > What I'm referring to can be seen if you set the following > in Times, using a fairly large point size (say 15) (I'm

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-03 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 03 August 2007 06:38, Clarke Echols wrote: > I use Cygwin on a PC running Windows 98.  It has groff version > 1.18.1. > > Does anyone have a clue about when Cygwin will update > to the 1.19 version? No, but it's easy enough to grab the source tarball and build it yourself. I've been ru

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > This has been fixed 4½ years ago (starting with 1.19). The > > incorrect metric files (this is, adding negative left and right > > italic correction values for non-italic fonts) have been > > erroneously introduced in 1.18.1. > > Thanks! So it's just a question of installing correct font fil

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-03 Thread Ted Harding
On 03-Aug-07 05:12:07, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> I'm trying to overcome an eqn "phenomenon" -- in some ways a >> "feature", in others a "bug". > > It's a bug. However... > >> You will see that the "=" signs do not line up. > > This has been fixed 4½ years ago (starting with 1.19). The incorrect

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-02 Thread Clarke Echols
I use Cygwin on a PC running Windows 98. It has groff version 1.18.1. Does anyone have a clue about when Cygwin will update to the 1.19 version? Clarke Werner LEMBERG wrote: This has been fixed 4½ years ago (starting with 1.19). The incorrect metric files (this is, adding negative left and

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm trying to overcome an eqn "phenomenon" -- in some ways a > "feature", in others a "bug". It's a bug. However... > You will see that the "=" signs do not line up. This has been fixed 4½ years ago (starting with 1.19). The incorrect metric files (this is, adding negative left and right ita

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Aug-07 08:26:39, Ted Harding wrote: > On 01-Aug-07 22:35:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> [...] >> Hmm, don't know about that. I did however have a look at eqn's >> output and I think it's the \, that's causing the effect. >> >> $ cat ted.tr >> .nr DD 0 >> .EQ I >> 21 ~~=~~ 3 ti

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 01-Aug-07 22:35:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Ted, > >> What I'm referring to can be seen if you set the following in Times, >> using a fairly large point size (say 15) (I'm using ms macros here): >> >> .nr DD 0 >> .EQ I >> 21 ~~=~~ 3 times 7 >> .EN >> .EQ I >> 22 ~~=~~ 2 times 11 >> .EN >

Re: [Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ted, > What I'm referring to can be seen if you set the following in Times, > using a fairly large point size (say 15) (I'm using ms macros here): > > .nr DD 0 > .EQ I > 21 ~~=~~ 3 times 7 > .EN > .EQ I > 22 ~~=~~ 2 times 11 > .EN > > You wil see that the "=" signs do not line up. I can re-

[Groff] digits in eqn

2007-08-01 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, I'm trying to overcome an eqn "phenomenon" -- in some ways a "feature", in others a "bug". What I'm referring to can be seen if you set the following in Times, using a fairly large point size (say 15) (I'm using ms macros here): .nr DD 0 .EQ I 21 ~~=~~ 3 times 7 .EN .EQ I 22 ~~=~~ 2 ti