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> > The main problem seems trivial but for certain applications simply can't be
> > ignored: ditroff screws up square roots (as produced using the preprocessor
> > deqn).  Specifically, the horizontal bar which should appear over the
> > expression to be sqrted is too low and is dashed rather than solid.  It
> > appears that the "root extender" character \(rn is somehow at fault.  I've
> > used rst2ch to browse around in the likely raster files, but I can't even
> > find the \(rn character to check it.  Any ideas where \(rn should be or how
> > I could fix the problem?
> 
> Apparently I'm not alone in having trouble with ditroff.  Steve Hubert
> (...ihnp4!uw-beaver!entropy!hubert) reports a similar problem, but with one
> intriguing difference: his square roots are fine but the horizontal lines in
> fractions (produced by deqn "over") are dashed!  Does this suggest anything
> to anyone?
> 
> --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
> --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle

could it be that the width table has an incorrect value for the
width of these glyphs? try changing it to be somewhat smaller.