Re: [Groff] eqn and ms question

[Jon Snader]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:50:57AM -0500, Michael Hobgood wrote:
> 
> Question:
>       Earlier, I reported that the -ms package appeared
> not to work with the mark and lineup eqn commands.
> I never got a response, and just dropped it.  However,
> when doing chapter 9 of the UTP, it had the following
> example code:
> 
> .EQ I
> mu~mark =~lambda t
> .EN
> .EQ I
> lineup =~int from 0 to t lambda dz
> .EN
> 
> When processed using the utp macros via the command:
> groff -e -ms
> the output lines up.  However, if I take this snippet
> of code, and do not include the utp macros at the top,
> i.e
> .so utp.mac
> .utp
> then the equations don't line up under each other, but
> rather keep going across the page.
> 
> Anyone have some clues as to what is going on?
> 

Man, those utp macros are even more powerful than I thought. 8-)
Since the macros make no reference to eqn or its macros, I would
guess that it's a matter of getting -ms initialized before the
    .EQ
        ...
        .EN
stuff.

Jon Snader