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Re: [Groff] Poor spacing in eqn terminal output
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Poor spacing in eqn terminal output |
Date: |
Sun, 25 May 2003 00:26:50 +0200 (CEST) |
> > The attached file, extracted from XFree86's gluPerspective(3x) man
> > page, formats very poorly with 'groff -e -Tascii'; the rows of the
> > matrix are far too widely spaced. I know very little about eqn,
> > though. Can anyone tell me whether eqn, troff, or the man page is
> > at fault?
>
> Isn't groff's eqn meant to cope poorly with ASCII output?
Right.
> If it helps decide, here's AIX 3.2.5's output, i.e. troff not groff.
>
> $ eqn <k | nroff | col -b | cat -S
> ( )
> | 0 0 |
> | ______ 0 0 |
> | aspect f 0 ____________ |
> | 0 0 __________ zNear-zFar |
> | 0 zNear-zFar 0 |
> | 0 0 -1 |
> ( )
Well, this isn't correct either since the top of each fraction is
missing. I strongly suggest that the author of gluPerspective(3x)
uses `.ie t \{...\} .el \{...\}' to provide a hand-tuned TTY version
of the matrix if it is essential to the man page.
Werner