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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: inherent troff faults
Message-ID: <7562@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 5 Jun 88 19:33:19 GMT
References: <1309@goanna.oz>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <1309@goanna.oz> isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin) writes:
! Consider my experience today. A simple
! .sh 2 "The $call$ function"
! 
! the $'s are my eqn delimiters.
! So what was the output?
! The 		came out in bold font as I would expect
! call		came out in CW font as I would expect
! function	came out in roman! font unexpectedly.
! 
! I expected bold, wouldn't you?

That depends. Certain antique versions of eqn save the font
*** at the beginning of the input line ***
and after meeting the closing delimiter, restore that font.


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