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

Hi Damian, I apologize: I get so used to using groff from Git HEAD that I sometimes forget to check 1.22.4 behavior. I also forgot about a bug fix I made over 2 years ago. At 2023-06-01T16:32:50+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > 1. An input to

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

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: I would encourage you to write your eqn user's guide against 1.23.0.rc4. I don't expect eqn's behavior to change at all between that RC and final release, whenever that is. Got it. Thanks Branden. When one uses -mm, using any RC is often risky

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

Hi Damian, At 2023-06-01T14:08:34+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-06-01T12:06:47+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > > > I am worried my new EQN documentation is not going to be relevant > > > to heirloom (Plan9's?) TROFF/EQN and NEATROFF/NEATE

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

At 2023-06-01T22:49:58+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I would encourage you to write your eqn user's guide against > > 1.23.0.rc4. I don't expect eqn's behavior to change at all between > > that RC and final release, whenever that is. > > Got

Disposition of groff 1.23.0.rc4 feedback issues as of June

Hi Bertrand, I hope this message finds you well. Here's an update to a similar message I sent back on 20 April.[1] I've pushed a new personal staging branch, branden-2023-06-01[11] to groff's Git repository. Since RC4 I have pushed many documentation corrections and improvements to the master b

Retypesetting Mathematics now on GitHub

Hi folks, In keeping with the recent focus on eqn on this mailing list, I thought I'd put my "Retypesetting Mathematics" undertaking of 11 months ago on more permanent footing. https://github.com/g-branden-robinson/retypesetting-mathematics I've kicked around the idea of providing "build artifac

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

Hi Branden, On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Something I've done that had no precedent was that I added regression tests to mm. I hope the over time this will increase your confidence in groff's implementation. I find the groff_mm implementation is very good. But I only produ