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From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag)
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Subject: Re: eqn on a Diablo 630: Yuk!
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Date: Mon, 26-May-86 12:17:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 26 12:17:46 1986
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In article <576@scirtp.UUCP>, dfh@scirtp.UUCP (David F. Hinnant) writes:
> I need to generate some sensible eqn output on a Diablo 630.  Can this 
> even be done?  I'm using "neqn"....

At our installation the only way we could get neqn to give the greek
(and other) symbols on a Diablo 630 was to use predefined strings,
e.g., instead of 

	.EQ
	alpha = delta epsilon + .....
	.EN

use

	.ds Ga <control code which creates alpha>
	.ds Gd <control code which creates delta>
	.ds Ge <control code which creates epsilon>
	...
	.EQ
	\*(Ga = \*(Gd \*(Ge + ...
	.EN

which was ugly and annoying but could be made to work.  There are no
doubt better ways of going about this.
----
"Plan for the worst imaginable.  That way your only
disappointment will be your feeble powers of imagination."

Jeff Brown the Scumbag
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