4 Oct
2019
4 Oct
'19
6:35 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
So my kid is using LaTex and I'd like to show him
what troff can do. For
the record, back when he was born, 20 years ago, I was program chair for
Linux Expo (which sounds like a big deal but all it meant was I had the
job of formatting the proceedings). LaTex was a big deal but I pushed
people towards troff and the few people that took the push came back and
said "holy crap is this easy".
:-)
I've always liked software where the user is in charge, not whoever wrote
the tool. A boss of mine was into LaTeX, and I hated it.
My kid is a math guy, does anyone have some eqn input
and output that
they can share?
I've only ever used "neqn" and that was yonks ago, so I'd be
interested in
seeing some examples.
-- Dave