14 Jan
2022
14 Jan
'22
4:19 a.m.
On 14 Jan 2022, at 03:33, Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:32 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu
<mailto:tytso@mit.edu>> wrote:
Speaking of typesetting equations, how would people compare eqn versus
LaTeX? I used nroff for man pages, but I never did learn how to use
eqn for nroff.
I hate to be the one who says this, but when it comes to typesetting non-trivial
mathematics, there is no competition: LaTeX beats eqn hands down. eqn is fine up to a
point (and the neqn thing is kinda nifty for simple things on the terminal; you can kinda
sorta get a rendered sigma for a summation, for example) but it breaks down pretty
quickly.
Both FrameMaker and Word have GUI equation editors. They’re pretty capable, but are a
separate “world” from the text: they open a new window for editing the equation that
floats over the document.
I much preferred (I don’t do a lot of equations these days) the inline nature of LaTeX
(and (n)eqn)).
d