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From: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charles E. Towne)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Oblique Greek Letters in Ditroff
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.221651.10042@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Jan 91 22:16:51 GMT
Reply-To: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charles E. Towne)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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Several months ago, in article <706@agsm.unsw.oz>, bobm@agsm.unsw.oz 
(Robert Marks) posted an article showing how to use the \S slant 
operator to get oblique greek letters in ditroff.  In his post, he
included the following eqn definitions for the first four greek letters:

   define alpha    % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*a\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.2n'" %
   define beta     % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*b\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.2n'" %
   define gamma    % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*g\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.4n'" %
   define delta    % "\S'+15'\s-1\H'+1'\(*d\H'0'\s+1\S'0'\h'0.3n'" %

The \S'+15' results in letters printed at an oblique angle of 15 degrees.  
The other operations alter the aspect ratio (for aesthetic reasons) and 
add a slight space at the right of the character.

Has anyone developed definitions like these for all the greek letters?  
If so, could you email them to me, or post them?  (I tried email to 
Mr. Marks, but it bounced.)

Since the above definitions are all the same, except for the amount of  
space added at the right of the character, I could assume this is true
for the remaining letters, and experiment to get values for the \h values.
But if someone's already developed a set of definitions, I'd like to
try them.  Thanks in advance.

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Charlie Towne                        Email: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov  
MS 5-11                              Phone: (216) 433-5851
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, OH 44135