Re: [Groff] how to use amsmath symbols in groff

[Denis M. Wilson]

I'll be very interested to see how you do this, as I would like to
use some extended maths fonts I have available.
Denis 

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:24:20 +0530
Shiv Shankar Dayal <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > I have initial success in doing this and I hope to complete this
> > > soon.  However, I would love to understand how mathematical
> > > capabilities of groff can be made as good as that of latex.
> >
> > Can you be more explicit?  What are you missing, what would you like
> > to see?  In general, while groff's eqn preprocessor has implemented
> > a lot of TeX's mathematical capabilities, you will never have the
> > same level of automatic positioning as with TeX.
> >
> >
> Let us say at least all the symbols available in TeX. Is it not
> possible to enhance eqn to match TeX. The obstacle will be human than
> technical in my opinion.
> 
> Also, I will send the map and font files along with sample pdf for
> verification
> to list in three four days for AMSMath fonts.
> 
> 
> > > Also, how can I do syntax highlighting?  Should I write custom
> > > scripts to format my piece of code?
> >
> > Syntax highlighting on the input or the output side?
> >
> >
> >     Werner
> >
> 
> On the output side. I guess I can write a Python script which can be
> invoked along with Pygments to output code to produce colorized
> output in PS/DVI.
> 


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