On 06-May-06 Clarke Echols wrote: > I am playing around with a little project and decided to make a > drawing using groff accompanied by mathematical analysis text. > > I decided to use the \(~= sequence for the "approximately equal" > symbol in the math table, using the eroff manual I have from the > late 1980s as a reference. In that manual, the symbol is a > horizontal bar with a tilde bar above it, but in the groff package > I got with cygwin, the tilde is on the bottom. My PostScript > tutorial by Ross Smith indicates that the math font character is > actually a pair of tildes. > > What's going on? I've never seen a tilde on the bottom before. > Is this a take-off spoof like GNU's not Unix? :-) > > Clarke
Hmm, I'm not sure where you are getting this result from. Check out .../devps/S and you should find that both \(~= and \(~~ map to PostScript "approxequal" which is your "pair of tildes". Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-May-06 Time: 07:46:37 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
