On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Gregory Pavelcak
<g.pavel...@comcast.net> wrote:
> If you write the eqn-word for a greek letter, "GAMMA" for
> example; eqn passes the unicode character (the output of
> Alt-*G) to troff. If, on the other hand, you type Alt-*G in eqn,
> it passes `"\f2Γ\fP' to troff, thus producing, by my lights anyway,
> a nicer looking character. I was just wondering if this was
> intended as a way to give people both a roman-greek letter
> and an italic one, or if it was intended to discourage the use
> of eqn's letter names in favor of unicode, or if it just sorta
> happened. Perhaps none of the above. Anyone know?

Eqn should not generate different output for GAMMA vs Γ.
Feel free to fix it.

Russ

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