URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67796>
Summary: The "top" of a large square root isn't as neat as
they could be
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Wed 10 Dec 2025 01:05:02 PM UTC
Category: Preprocessor eqn
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Rendering/Cosmetics
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Wed 10 Dec 2025 01:05:02 PM UTC By: Anonymous
A square root like
.EQ (1)
sqrt { 1 - x over K }
.EN
does not look as nice as it could. First, the expression inside the root sign
is larger than the root sign.
Second, the "top" of the square root comes too close to the expression
vertically.
Thirdly, the lines of the square root sign are much thicker than the line in x
over K.
See also
https://github.com/siglun/logic-and-groff/blob/main/eqn-cosmetics.pdf
Yours
sigfrid at sigfrid-lundberg.se
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