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From: kmw@usl (Kent Michael White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: eqn and pic
Message-ID: <311@usl>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 23:18:30 EST
Article-I.D.: usl.311
Posted: Wed Nov 18 23:18:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 09:16:01 EST
Reply-To: kmw%usl.csnet@csnet-relay (Kent Michael White)
Organization: CACS, Univ of SW La, Lafayette, LA
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Keywords: eqn and pic problem

I am trying to run a large pic file through eqn.
When my picture command file reaches about 44 lines long
I get a "line too long" error message when I run the file
through eqn.
  I am using the statement "delim $$" for my eqn commands
and an example of a line in my pic file is: 
line <- " $ v hat $ "
  It seems to me that pic places all of the pic commands
as a single string and then eqn can not handle this long
string when the command structure gets to be a certain length.
If anyone can tell me how to get around this problem I would
appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help.