On Wed, 17 May 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
First of all, I predictably forgot my attachment of the retypeset AT&T
eqn user's guide. So let me fix that.
I noticed. But I had my own copy so no problems.
The documentation says that *_space are only for automatic spacing.
...but automa
Doug, Branden,
On Tue, 16 May 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote (but in not the same order)
Apparently thin_space serves double duty--to control automatic spacing
and to set the width of ^.
This coupling of function strikes me as a bug. One thinks of ^ and ~
as groff keywords, not characters. An
Hi Doug,
At 2023-05-16T23:15:42-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> man eqn says
> set thin_space n
> causes n/100 em space to be "automatically inserted after punctuation
> characters", which are vaguely defined as "characters such as ',' "
On a minor point, I have some mitigating news. The
man eqn says
set thin_space n
causes n/100 em space to be "automatically inserted after punctuation
characters", which are vaguely defined as "characters such as ',' "
I used thin_space 0 to take away automatic space after . in formulas.
To my surprise it also took away intentional spaces
