Re: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

At 2023-05-18T19:25:57-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I've filed this as . I have implemented the requested feature. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

a bit more eqn documentation (was: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn)

Hi folks, At 2023-05-17T15:17:55+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > 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.

Re: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

I've filed this as . Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

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

Re: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

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

Re: thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

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

thin_space causes collateral damage in eqn

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