On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
3) Although eqn produces worse result than TeX, I like the way formulae are input, and thus have used it. Sometimes I need bold italics, which I achieve by overstriking. This isn't ideal, maybe using a special bold italics font would be better. Has anyone thought about this?
You should be able to embed troff directives in eqn:
f( "\f(BIx\fP" ) = 4 sin "\f(BIy\fP"
worked for me.