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Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff
From: |
Keith MARSHALL |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:42:51 +0000 |
Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting Mike Bianchi:
>> Is anyone aware of a means by which floating point arithmetic and
>> formating can be computed either within groff or in a preprocessor
>> (ala eqn, tbl, etc.)?
>
> Not that I know of. Why do you need it? A longer time ago I've
> written routines to handle double-precision integers, this is, doing
> 60bit integer arithmetic (see below), to be used in a.
> Does this help?
Hasn't Ted previously posted some tips on using pic to perform floating
point calculations, for use within a groff document? For example, see
the discourse toward the end of this posting:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-10/msg00276.html
Regards,
Keith.