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From: jenkins@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Xroff -- Request for Comments/Gripes
Message-ID: <1991May6.210103.8113@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 May 91 21:01:03 GMT
References: <1991May3.163405.23681@solbourne.com>
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In article <1991May3.163405.23681@solbourne.com> tsmith@solbourne.com (Terry Smith) writes:
>Any Xroff users out there?

When I was working on my dissertation in 1987, I had a hell of a time
with xroff on eqn expressions like 'roman Q dot'.  I finally figured
out that Image Network hadn't implemented the ct numeric register that
tells about character height and depth.  After I had spent some time
debugging and constructing a workaround, I called Image Network and
heard something to the effect of "oh, so *that's* why that doesn't
work".  They didn't think ct was used anyplace, so they didn't put the
information into the font files.

It may be a fine product now, so draw your own conclusions.  I use LaTeX :-).

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