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Article #4789Re: inherent troff faults
From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 1988 19:33
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 1988 19:33
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In article <1309@goanna.oz> isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin) writes:
! Consider my experience today. A simple
! .sh 2 "The $call$ function"
!
! the $'s are my eqn delimiters.
! So what was the output?
! The came out in bold font as I would expect
! call came out in CW font as I would expect
! function came out in roman! font unexpectedly.
!
! I expected bold, wouldn't you?
That depends. Certain antique versions of eqn save the font
*** at the beginning of the input line ***
and after meeting the closing delimiter, restore that font.
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Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- uunet!mcvax!aeb -- aeb@cwi.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!mcvax!aeb From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: inherent troff faults Message-ID: <7562@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 5 Jun 88 19:33:19 GMT References: <1309@goanna.oz> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 19