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From: bono@BBN-CLXX.arpa (Girome Bono)
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Subject: Troff character set
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 13:58:27 EDT
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I am posting this for a friend who is not on info-unx. Please send
all replies directly to his mailing address which follows:

    I'm struggling with my thesis proposal and am unhappy with the troff
    character set.  (We run 4.2BSD though I doubt that this is relevant.)
    There are no logical quantifiers or connectives and some of the
    characters which are provided are truly ugly, e.g. set operators.
    eqn has a facility whereby you can define your own characters.  But
    before I spend a day (or two, or . . .) defining characters I thought
    I'd check USENET to see if anyone has done this already.
    
    My addresses are:	    {ihnp4|decvax}!brunix!fwy
    			    fwy@brown.csnet
    			    fwy%brown@csnet-relay.arpa