[COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix

[Dan Cross]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:32 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso at 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.
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