13 Jan
2022
13 Jan
'22
10:33 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:32 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)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.
- Dan C.