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Re: Mathematics in Tables with Troff

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From: J.T. Conklin
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 04:30
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In article <315@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>Two things to watch out for.
>
>1.  Make sure you put it thru tbl first (before eqn).
>It worked fine on my system.
>
>2.  Make sure you use a symbol for the eqn delim that is not
>generated by tbl (as a funny register name, for example).

I had my pipeline set up "soelim doc.mm | eqn | tbl | eroff", as eqn
complained about "unquoted troff commands".  This should have tipped
me off, but I was too rushed to notice.

I've just checked my tbl output and it does use "%" in a register name.
Once I changed the %'s to $'s everything worked fine.  Now I wonder why
the eqn manual suggests using %'s as delimiters.

Thanks for your help,

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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From: jtc@tessera.uucp (J.T. Conklin)
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Subject: Re: Mathematics in Tables with Troff
Message-ID: <1989Aug31.043010.10120@tessera.uucp>
Date: 31 Aug 89 04:30:10 GMT
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