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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
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.
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 {
>
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
