Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms (was: EQN - special words)

2023-06-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
Users of 'eqn' What characters do you use for in-line EQN delimiters, $ or # or something else. I have used $ symbols for decades and just turn then off when I need to use a real dollar sign within normal text, subsequently turning them back on again when I need to. But in trying to expl

EQNCHAR

2023-06-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
What is the best way to incorporate the DWB file of symbol definitions EQNCHAR These date from the 1970s. I realise that the copyright means it cannot be part of the release but it there a way to provide the file so that people download it separately with an an install script that u

Re: [TUHS] Re: end-S/long-S (was: Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms)

2023-06-16 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 16 Jun 2023, John Cowan wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:18 PM Paul Winalski wrote: German also has a ligature letter called eszet that is a fusion of a long s (the one that resembles the English letter f) and a short s. Not a short s, but a z, as the name indicates: es-zett, S-

Re: [TUHS] Re: end-S/long-S (was: Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms)

2023-06-16 Thread John Cowan
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:18 PM Paul Winalski wrote: > German also has a ligature letter called eszet that is a fusion of a > long s (the one that resembles the English letter f) and a short s. > Not a short s, but a z, as the name indicates: es-zett, S-Z. This reflects the use of z in Old a

Re: [TUHS] GNU eqn clarifications and reforms

2023-06-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-06-17T05:19:46+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > Getting back to groff, that final/terminating sigma, is it still > pronounced as sigma. > > It certainly has no EQN equivalent name and its groff short symbol > name is > > \(ts > > (terminal sigma) which is not like other greek letters

Re: [TUHS] Re: end-S/long-S (was: Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms)

2023-06-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
Getting back to groff, that final/terminating sigma, is it still pronounced as sigma. It certainly has no EQN equivalent name and its groff short symbol name is \(ts (terminal sigma) which is not like other greek letters. Just wondering whether it needs a sentence to mention its a

Re: [TUHS] Re: end-S/long-S (was: Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms)

2023-06-16 Thread Paul Winalski
On 6/16/23, markus schnalke wrote: > > [2023-06-16 07:07] "G. Branden Robinson" >> >> For inſtance, the United States uſed to employ a non-final lowercaſe S >> in the founding documents of its preſent government, where you can see >> exhibits of the "Congreſs of the United States". > > In old Ger

Re: [TUHS] Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms

2023-06-16 Thread Robert Goulding via
Many years ago,as a graduate student in the history of science, I read an early-modern medical text that dealt with the method of "ſucking on ſores," which caused me chortle out loud in the British Library Robert Goulding Sent from my phone On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 1:07 AM G. Branden Robinson <

Re: [TUHS] end-S/long-S (was: Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms)

2023-06-16 Thread markus schnalke
Hoi. [2023-06-16 07:07] "G. Branden Robinson" > > For inſtance, the United States uſed to employ a non-final lowercaſe S > in the founding documents of its preſent government, where you can see > exhibits of the "Congreſs of the United States". In old German, up to WWII, namely in Fraktur (the