[acme.dump bin/ devel/ doc/ guide lib/ sys/ text/ tmp/] Subject: eqn and unicode
I noticed that sometimes my troff-related questions don't generate much interest. I hope they aren't considered bad form, because I am curious about another thing. If you write the eqn-word for a greek letter, "GAMMA" for example; eqn passes the unicode character (the output of Alt-*G) to troff. If, on the other hand, you type Alt-*G in eqn, it passes `"\f2Γ\fP' to troff, thus producing, by my lights anyway, a nicer looking character. I was just wondering if this was intended as a way to give people both a roman-greek letter and an italic one, or if it was intended to discourage the use of eqn's letter names in favor of unicode, or if it just sorta happened. Perhaps none of the above. Anyone know? My problem is that I developed the habit of using eqn letter- words, and the output isn't very nice. (Yes, I know I can define GAMMA %"\f2Γ\fP"%, but I'm still curious.) Thanks. Greg
