Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!rusty From: rusty@sdcc3.UUCP (Rusty Wright) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: Ditroff troubles Message-ID: <2529@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 17:18:36 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2529 Posted: Fri Dec 7 17:18:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:41:21 EST References: <334@ut-sally.UUCP> <384@ut-sally.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 20 > > The main problem seems trivial but for certain applications simply can't be > > ignored: ditroff screws up square roots (as produced using the preprocessor > > deqn). Specifically, the horizontal bar which should appear over the > > expression to be sqrted is too low and is dashed rather than solid. It > > appears that the "root extender" character \(rn is somehow at fault. I've > > used rst2ch to browse around in the likely raster files, but I can't even > > find the \(rn character to check it. Any ideas where \(rn should be or how > > I could fix the problem? > > Apparently I'm not alone in having trouble with ditroff. Steve Hubert > (...ihnp4!uw-beaver!entropy!hubert) reports a similar problem, but with one > intriguing difference: his square roots are fine but the horizontal lines in > fractions (produced by deqn "over") are dashed! Does this suggest anything > to anyone? > > --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") > --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle could it be that the width table has an incorrect value for the width of these glyphs? try changing it to be somewhat smaller.