bobm@agsm.unsw.oz (Robert Marks) (08/29/89)
In article <16009@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: >I wish that Adobe >would produce another math-symbol font with a Greek alphabet specifically >designed slanted. Well, Adobe needn't jump -- It's already possible, using the \S troff function. For instance, here at the Australian Journal of Management, we use \S, \H and the define function of eqn to automatically get oblique, synthetic Greek letters in equations. For instance, to get oblique beta, we define: define beta % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*b\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.2n'" % Then beta inside .EQ/.EN or eqn delimiters will be printed with a 15 degree slant, so it's really oblique rather than italic, but the change in the aspect ratio I suggest above improves the appearance, I believe. I can post all our eqn definitions if there's a demand. [Posted again in case the first item didn't escape.] Robert MARKS, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia. Phone: +61 2 662-0271 Fax: +61 2 662-2451 Internet: bobm%agsm.unsw.oz.au JANET: agsm.unsw.oz.au!bobm@ukc BITNET: bobm%agsm.unsw.oz%uunet.uu.net@WISCVM BITNET: bobm%agsm.unsw.oz%uunet.uu.net@HARVUNXT CompuServe: >internet:bobm@agsm.unsw.oz.au UUCP: {uunet,ukc,mcvax,ubc-cs,nttlab}!munnari!agsm.unsw.oz!bobm
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (09/05/89)
In article <678@agsm.unsw.oz> bobm@agsm.unsw.oz (Robert Marks) writes: <In article <16009@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: <>I wish that Adobe <>would produce another math-symbol font with a Greek alphabet specifically <>designed slanted. < <Well, Adobe needn't jump -- <It's already possible, using the \S troff function. For instance, <here at the Australian Journal of Management, we use \S, \H and the <define function of eqn to automatically get oblique, synthetic Greek <letters in equations. For instance, to get oblique beta, we define: < <define beta % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*b\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.2n'" % Sorry, but \S and \H do not exist in the generic 4.3BSD troff. Maybe you have ditroff, or someone's enhanced troff, but otherwise it does not exist. Reference 4.3BSD USD manual, page 24-6. -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) (09/05/89)
In article <678@agsm.unsw.oz> bobm@agsm.unsw.oz (Robert Marks) writes: > [...] >Well, Adobe needn't jump -- >It's already possible, using the \S troff function. For instance, >here at the Australian Journal of Management, we use \S, \H and the > [...] >I can post all our eqn definitions if there's a demand. Yes, please! The eqn definitions as they are in DWB 2.0 are unusable with PostScript postprocessors and printers even generally: a lot of special characters become bad or unrecognisable. Well, that is not the only problem with DWB 2.0 - I wonder when AT&T plans to distribute an up-to-date, production-quality release. (DWB = Documenter's Workbench (tm), includes device-independent Troff, preprocessors and some associated stuff.) Markku Sakkinen Department of Computer Science University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts) Seminaarinkatu 15 SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again) Finland