Re: troff italic greek

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From: Vidiot
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1989 02:44

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In article <678@agsm.unsw.oz> bobm@agsm.unsw.oz (Robert Marks) writes:
<In article <16009@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
<>I wish that Adobe
<>would produce another math-symbol font with a Greek alphabet specifically
<>designed slanted.
<
<Well, Adobe needn't jump --
<It's already possible, using the \S troff function.  For instance,
<here at the Australian Journal of Management, we use \S, \H and the
<define function of eqn to automatically get oblique, synthetic Greek
<letters in equations.  For instance, to get oblique beta, we define:
<
<define beta	% "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*b\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.2n'" %

Sorry, but \S and \H do not exist in the generic 4.3BSD troff.  Maybe you have
ditroff, or someone's enhanced troff, but otherwise it does not exist.

Reference 4.3BSD USD manual, page 24-6.
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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: troff italic greek
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Date: 5 Sep 89 02:44:14 GMT
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